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Scientists Discover Huge and Mysterious Jellyfish in Space(vice.com)
1 points by torrance 6y ago|1 comments
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by torrance 6y ago
There are examples of observed galaxies that have apparently separated from their associated dark matter halos - and which rotate like Newtonian gravity would predict. These class of galaxies have always been a thorn in MOND theories, and I
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by torrance 6y ago
God I had to read 12 paragraphs of nonsense before I found the phrase ‘equidistant azimuthal projection’. That’s all I wanted.
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by torrance 6y ago
I'm confused by the corrected diff in the README... isn't that cache recreated on each function call to fib(), making the cache pointless?
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by torrance 6y ago
Strict typing has been the one big feature missing from SQLite, that this presumably brings.
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by torrance 6y ago
Given that this is precisely what it’s spent the last 30 years coming to understand, it’s baffling that there is only a single paragraph in this article about Modern Monetary Theory. And one at that certainly doesn’t convey the nuance of th
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Modern Monetary Theory(abc.net.au)
3 points by torrance 6y ago|0 comments
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by torrance 6y ago
Electric fields do the work there. A charged particle in a magnetic field feels a force (Lorenz force) that act perpendicularly to its velocity. But work is only work if the force is applied in the direction of its velocity. Essentially it&
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by torrance 6y ago
These fields can create forces, but they can't do work unfortunately.
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by torrance 6y ago
The emission is the so-called ‘forbidden’ hyperfine transition of the spin state of Hydrogen’s one electron. It’s flips from spin up to spin down, and the energy difference is a photon at about 1420 MHz. It’s called forbidden because it’s e
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by torrance 6y ago
There are 128 grids of 4x4 antennas. There’s nothing special about the 128 figure, and very soon it will be doubled - but there were also talks of a smaller upgrade too. The 4x4 tile size is a compromise between sensitivity and field of vie
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by torrance 6y ago
The MWA has a direct fibre connection from site to a super computing facility in Perth. Although some processing (correlation and averaging) is usually done on site to reduce the data a little, there are some observation modes that send the
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by torrance 6y ago
A lot of people have been and continue to make this criticism that’s in the article, across a variety of the softer disciplines. (It’s like you’re not even familiar with this line of critique.) See, eg. a criticism of political science in t
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by torrance 6y ago
I would add to this list economics. Oxford Economist Kate Raeworth has made the exact same argument about her own discipline and the allure of the ‘hardness’ of maths and physics. The way early 20th century increasingly turned to Newtonian-
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by torrance 6y ago
It appears that the comment is only deleted when it’s made on videos. I made a comment on a YouTube “post” and it’s still there.
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by torrance 6y ago
Deleted for me too. Wow.
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Ask HN: What happened to Twitter's open social platform initiative?
2 points by torrance 6y ago|0 comments
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Overton Window(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by torrance 7y ago|0 comments
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by torrance 7y ago
In Julia, it is C = A + B too. (You don't need the elementwise operator ('.') if the operation is a well defined expression in linear algebra.)
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by torrance 7y ago
I think the issue with almonds is that by growing them in massive monoculture you create bee deserts for the majority of the year when the almonds aren't flowering. Once the flowers disappear, any remaining bees will starve until the n
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We might be alone in the universe(youtu.be)
3 points by torrance 7y ago|0 comments
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What if we replace politicans with randomly selected people?(ted.com)
1 points by torrance 7y ago|0 comments
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What if we replace politicans with randomly selected people?(ted.com)
6 points by torrance 7y ago|1 comments
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by torrance 8y ago
From reading the NYTimes article [1] it seems clear he’s anti Israel/occupation/bombing and not anti semitic. The pro Israel groups that sought to oppose him getting the job didn’t try to argue that he was anti semitic either, jus
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by torrance 8y ago
This. Evidence and studies like this should not be done by the company itself. The OxyContin claims about low addictiveness should be a timely reminder for independent clinical studies. Reading that set off alarm bells for me.
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by torrance 8y ago
GP is right. The point spread function will spread the flux of a point source (eg. a star) across multiple pixels. You can identify the location of the actual star with sub pixel accuracy if you have a good PSF model.
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by torrance 8y ago
My idea for Linux compatibility: the ‘community’ picks two or three laptops a year, and works in common to ensure they ‘just work’ on a range of (documented) Linux distros. Focusing our limited resources around so few hardware configuration
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by torrance 8y ago
You’ll have to note special dietary requirements beforehand, just like vegetarians have to do at most places today.
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Ask HN: Strict alternatives to SQLite?
3 points by torrance 8y ago|2 comments
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by torrance 8y ago
Thank you for writing this with such a pleasant an UI and written in a _native_ widget toolkit.

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