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by wycx 9y ago
I suggest a key component of being able to "critique it creatively" is understanding the paper in the context of other work in the immediate sub-discipline, and the wider discipline. I suspect there are insufficient focused waking
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by wycx 9y ago
From where are you getting the 1% figure?
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by wycx 9y ago
Platinum and palladium from catalytic converters accumulates in roadside dust: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/07/15/the-stre...
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by wycx 9y ago
Never underestimate the power of combined industry and government incompetence and greed. Australia is the world's top natural gas exporter, but also has the developed world's highest electricity prices. Natural gas prices have in
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by wycx 9y ago
A non-stop flight means you only have to deal with CBP or TSA once, at the end of the flight. If you fly SYD-LAX-JFK or SYD-DFW-JFK you have to get off the plane at LAX or DFW, go through immigration and customs, go to the domestic terminal
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by wycx 9y ago
This is a good companion to read after Crystal Fire [1] that covers the discovery of the transistor and the backgrounds of Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley in a similar fashion. I had hoped that book would cover Noyce, but it did not, and thi
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by wycx 9y ago
Allwinner A10 and A20 pretty much just work, save for MALI. http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matrix
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by wycx 9y ago
The iridium content of marble is going to be in ppt or more likely ppq abundances. I see no decay chain leading to Radon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_iridium
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by wycx 9y ago
You should probably compare the U content of fly ash with the rocks around you for some context. The average U content of the upper continental crust is between 2 and 3 ppm. Individual rocks will range lower and higher than that. If fly ash
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by wycx 9y ago
Early volumes of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society [1] (starting from 1665) are surprisingly readable. [1] http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/by/year
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by wycx 9y ago
They get off them and then a crow swoops in and steals them. It was never a sure thing as to whether we would get our backyard chickens daily eggs or if the crow would.
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by wycx 9y ago
> The OP "yacht" is very strange to me as it looks like the guy put a keel and a sail on a buoy. The photos on this [1] page make me think of a keel welded to a sandblasting cabinet... [1] https://carrie-soltis.squar
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by wycx 9y ago
Wigglers and undulators.
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by wycx 9y ago
You can look at other statistics, such as the wage share of income, and the correlation between productivity and wages. In the case of Australia at least, the wage share has been declining for the past 20 years, and productivity growth deco
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by wycx 10y ago
I think it is reasonable to say that people with PhDs do not look fondly on those who pretend they do. It represents significant hubris to pretend you have completed the work to qualify for a PhD since it usually takes 4-6 years full time.
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by wycx 10y ago
Along with the other things they sold that don't seem so smart now. Like abandoning the low power x86 Geode processor in 2009. Interestingly, according to this article [1] they sold Adreno for only $65 million, less than IT is making f
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by wycx 10y ago
An infernal situation. There is no solidarity in a meritocracy, and no reward for merit with solidarity.
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by wycx 10y ago
AMD did, however, sell Adreno to Qualcomm when money was tight after the ATI purchase.
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by wycx 10y ago
Vocalise?
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by wycx 10y ago
and here is an example of exactly that sort of application: http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/ICALEPCS2013/papers/t...
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by wycx 10y ago
Where may I find low risk real 5% return after tax?
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by wycx 10y ago
Some is moving to Eastern Europe. Daimler make transmissions and other components in Romania.
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by wycx 10y ago
My LG front loader has a small hose behind a panel on the lower front where the drain pump filter is. When I am finished washing I take the plug out of the hose, drain all the water, then remove the drain pump filter and leave the door open
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by wycx 10y ago
Particularly if those casks contain HLW stabilised as Synroc[1]. Synroc, unlike glass wasteforms, consists of mineral phases, the bulk composition is carefully chosen such that the mineral assemblage provides each nuclide with an energetica
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by wycx 10y ago
If you think that is bad, wait until you discover the situation in Australia. In the US, you get a deduction for interest on your primary residence. In Australia, you cannot do that, but instead, you get to make a deduction of interest in a
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by wycx 10y ago
Unless you are a complete slob, you will clean your work area when you are done for the day, right? In my experience grinding and polishing samples for petrography, Because the grit etc was once wet, it gets caked-on to everything once it d
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by wycx 10y ago
https://www.huf-haus.com/en.html
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by wycx 10y ago
There are many types of science: gentleman scientist science, govt. funded competitive grant science, commercial R&D science, tobacco company science... They all have different incentives which influences how the science is conducted.
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by wycx 10y ago
I have found myself using TiddlyWiki for this. I have pages on topics in which I put links and notes. It supports tags also.
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by wycx 10y ago
It is more subtle than you think. It is not that you give no information about how to do things, you lay out all the steps that you took in your methods section. An example of keeping all tricks to yourself is that you do not tell others ab

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