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by wumpus 4y ago
You read the paper about calibrating the signals, that's a reasonable takeaway. There's a different paper about how the 4 independent algorithms were tested to make sure they did the right thing with simulated data: ring, crescent
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by wumpus 4y ago
> The algorithms they use to make the image of the black hole were never tested against a known celestial body to calibrate the algorithms. This is not true, as is much of the rest of your comment. Please read the papers, they say everyt
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by wumpus 5y ago
In support of this comment, as a radio astronomer I used to think I understood radar. Then I sat in a presentation by some smart people from MIT, and it turns out that I was really wrong, but the things actual radars do are built on top of
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by wumpus 5y ago
Most people don't really get what trademark defense is -- having Amazon label the trademark in some places as "Elasticsearch is a trademark of <whoever>" is enough to count. Even linking the elasticsearch software repo
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by wumpus 5y ago
One perhaps apocryphal story that's kicking around out there was that Draper Labs had a hard-real-time navigation system which... took too much time computing something when the moon was full.
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by wumpus 5y ago
My friends who hunt say that it really matters how terrified the animal is before you shoot it; the longer it lives, the worse the meat is.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Blast doesn't assemble anything, last I saw it.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Yes. And places where pot is legal have similar per-adult limits.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Fun that the homebrew limit is still 200 gallons. The more things change, ...
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by wumpus 5y ago
Well, given all the bridges he's burned at work -- I work there, btw -- it'll be interesting if he can successfully avoid being tainted.
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by wumpus 5y ago
I don't think this is for customers, they are using Google's network for customers. More likely it's for the Starlink building.
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by wumpus 5y ago
My motivation is that I'm a scientist (before and after a long Silicon Valley career) who is annoyed by writers who write a bunch of novels where the villains are scientists corrupted by their lust for grant money. It's a trite co
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by wumpus 5y ago
No. It makes your comment seem a non-sequitor. Perhaps you could have worded it more clearly.
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by wumpus 5y ago
The background of the critic matters, and that was what I was addressing.
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by wumpus 5y ago
His books all have a scientist doing evil because of their lust for grant money. "State of Fear" is a polemic against climate science. If all you read was the comment I responded to, then it's no surprise that you don't
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by wumpus 5y ago
Great choice of critic -- who has written many books about scientists commiting fraud because of their lust for grant money. Too bad his criticism comes from fantasy, instead of facts. And of course he's a climate change denier.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. I think you're misrepresenting the first group.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Most expensive, shared instruments give out observing time according to a scientifically-evaluated proposal. He's starting a project by raising money from wealthy UFO believers.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Scientific credibility is a combination of the quality of your current paper as evaluated by peer review and replication, and the same for your previous work. Notice the lack of "correct credentials" in my sentence. Just a few dec
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by wumpus 5y ago
... and a well-deserved "Best Film" Oscar in the Academy awards, the first subtitled "foreign" film so awarded.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Thanks! I rarely hear from users, great to hear from you!
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by wumpus 5y ago
No. You can add to the Wayback Machine at web.archive.org via their "save page now" interface... Common Crawl is attempting to be a sample of the web, and doesn't take url suggestions.
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by wumpus 5y ago
web.archive.org has a CDX index, similar to Common Crawl. Since I use both of these archives together, I wrote this code to iron out the differences between them: https://github.com/cocrawler/cdx_toolkit
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by wumpus 5y ago
The whole point of studying excess deaths is to figure out covid's contribution over and above the usual number of deaths due to these pretty common conditions (like high blood pressure.)
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by wumpus 5y ago
It can be a challenge working with in-house PR people, that's for sure. It's basically impossible to hire science communications people. A friend of mine has a science degree, is a best-selling NYT author for science-related humor
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by wumpus 5y ago
We haven't seen a photon ring yet, and when we do, there won't be that much information in them. Perhaps after technology has advanced another 1000X...
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by wumpus 5y ago
Doesn't the Y from Fremont already have the rear casting, as of January 2021?
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by wumpus 5y ago
I don't think the point was to score which language was best.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Apple users are richer, so Apple users' share of search ad revenues is a lot bigger than Apple's apparent 15% market share.
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by wumpus 5y ago
One of the fun parts of working in Silicon Valley is that there's... industrial stuff everywhere. At one office building, not only did we have the usual fire evacuation plan, but we had extra instructions because of one of our neighbor

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