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by yodon 2y ago
We aren't burning mountain ranges per year, but we have burned a mountain range total
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by yodon 2y ago
Running the math on scaling any proposed systems up to a rate where they can actually make a dent on the atmosphere is VERY depressing. It doesn't matter what sequestration process you want to use. The volume of material you end up wit
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> only one person figured out how to sign up for free trial... No. Only one person was willing to go through the hassle of creating an account and the risk of giving you a password just to try this. Launching a product is commonly much h
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by yodon 2y ago
Man, this looks really scammy, like it's pretending to be HN to harvest passwords. Don't make it look exactly like the HN banner and HN login page. And why are you forcing people to create an account and password for this?
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Perhaps because researchers in other disciplines secretly wish they were Physicists, since Physicists live in a world where this kind of equipment detail actually does matter?
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In an earlier life, I did a deep dive into academic publications on simulating camera lens blur computationally. Nearly every paper that mentioned the topic cited the same original work for the same numerical result. The result in question
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by yodon 2y ago
Tempest in a teapot. The SEM photos are likely taken by a specialist technician who is not an author but who is known to the authors of the paper. A grad student who is n-th author on the paper copied and pasted the instrument name from a p
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by yodon 2y ago
That is an example of knowing what your are selling
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>Did the "killer poke" reduce Commodore PET sales? Speaking as someone who owned a Commodore PET, knew others who owned them, occasionally worked at a sort of "pre-Internet Internet cafe" with dozens of PETs available
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by yodon 2y ago
Marketing developer tools is commonly much harder than developing them. The hard thing about adopting a product like yours is that as a potential customer you never know whether the thing you want to do is actually going to be easy or hard
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>Compilers are deterministic They seem that way, until you're tasked with getting a repeatable, idempotent build out of a non-trivial build system.
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Licenses are legal documents. They aren't supposed to make people happy. If they do, you're probably doing it wrong.
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No one should use packages with licensing of this sort. The way the project changes the license is by changing which library they use.
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How does this compare to other multi-agent systems, like AutoGen from Microsoft Research?
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Including some sample transcripts on the website would be a big help to folks trying to understand this project.
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Everyone is free to pick a proverbial hill to die on. Some focus on battles they are likely to win, others on battles they are bound to lose.
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All abstractions are leaky. Some are useful. You can always overthink a metaphor if you choose to.
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by yodon 2y ago
Looks amazing, and timely as my next task is to select a React data grid and add it to a project. Two concerns: (1) the docs talk about Pro versions but don't give any information on pricing. (2) the docs talk about "remove attrib
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by yodon 2y ago
The site creator might want to read this answer and try to put some of those words into the home page text. At present, it feels like the only key word of relevance on the home page is "platemap", which might be what this is, but
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by yodon 2y ago
Pretty sure the pilot can't get paid until after they get their commercial license. It's possible the company can however rent hours in the plane at below market costs (a friend did something like this years ago while getting his
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Welcome to the stock market. Gains happen slowly, crashes happen suddenly.
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People who report as aphantasia light up differently in an fMRI than those who do not report as aphantasia, and do so in consistent ways. They also have predictable differences in autobiographical memory and a number of other areas. Pretty
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I believe the work from this group suggests about 25 years, but that's probably still a preliminary number.
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There are about 20 major climate simulation models focused on ocean calculations at different research labs around the world. All of those models show the AMOC to be meta-stable (meaning it rapidly flips from on to off, as opposed to long g
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>Unfortunately that could be used to justify any conclusion. People buy and read the book because they want to know what Ray Dalio's conclusion is. The book answers that question. If you don't care what Ray Dalio thinks, you sh
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I can speak to this test a bit from experience: as a very young child, I was in a pilot study used to design a large longitudinal study, and my younger sibling was in that large longitudinal study. At about age 4, I ended up literally maxin
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Discussion pages like this one are constantly filled with people saying "Aphantasia doesn't exist, it's just differences in how people describe the same thing," when the science in this paper and others is clear. Yes, it
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>I truly believe some of this is just a misunderstanding...this has to be people simply not agreeing on the way to describe what they are experiencing The article makes clear there are significant differences in how multiple areas of the
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>How do we know that we don’t have the same experience vs we just describe our experience differently? The article makes clear there are significant differences in how multiple areas of the brain are activated in people at different ends
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I've been told by HR folks they are required by law to do so in some contexts in the US. I can't speak to the truth of that assertion but they definitely believed it was the case.

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