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Autonomous Taxis Would Deliver Significant Environmental and Economic Benefits(newscenter.lbl.gov)
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Crayfis: The app that turns your phone into a cosmic ray detector(crayfis.io)
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by RK 11y ago
Here's another interesting "radiation enthusiast", who visits nuclear sites and collects radioactive memorabilia. He actually works as a nuclear engineer. http://carlwillis.wordpress.com/ Highlights include C
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by RK 12y ago
I don't know how we are in relation to Czechs, but one of things I hear as an American is that we are often too quick to talk about politics. Whereas, in many cultures, politics is considered almost taboo to talk about with all but the
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by RK 12y ago
As a grad student in the 2000's I was told by a professor that the department would take into consideration the expected attrition rate (typically ~50%) when admitting grad students. The idea being that they would have enough TA's
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by RK 12y ago
graduate school admissions were ridiculously competitive in 2003-05 This was true in my experience as well. I applied to grad school for 2004 and heard lots of crazy stories from programs about high applicant numbers and quality. I ended
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by RK 12y ago
If you're interested in the chemistry of Uranium, here's a do-it-yourself guide. The uranyl compounds are what fluoresce: https://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/uranium-chemistr...
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by RK 12y ago
Which country are you discussing?
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by RK 12y ago
The ANU Quantum Random Numbers Server: http://150.203.48.55/index.php
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by RK 12y ago
My advisor in grad school once gave the following advice algorithm for making a decision: 1. Flip a coin. 2. If the result of the coin flip makes you hesitate at all, you know that was the choice you didn't really like anyway. Go with
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by RK 12y ago
In theory the rule is that you're supposed to refer to people by what name they prefer (e.g. "Little people"). Here's what Wikipedia says: * The terms used to refer to Native Americans have been controversial. According
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by RK 12y ago
I visited Melbourne for about a month a couple of years ago and was excited to use the train to get around, but people there routinely said I was crazy for doing that. People often offered to give me a ride to the train station (usually a f
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by RK 12y ago
My best friend had one of these as a kid and we made epic backyard GI Joe movies. Incidentally he now works as a film editor.
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by RK 12y ago
No write-up, but people I know have left physics for: * Quantitative finance * Insurance (working on models that were beyond what the actuaries were trained to do) * Data science * Scientific equipment R&D * Scientific equipment sales *
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by RK 12y ago
I'm under the impression that it has only gotten worse. Anecdote: A super smart friend of mine from physics grad school finished in 2008 and went on to post-docs at Caltech and Harvard. He was unable to get a tenure track job, primaril
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by RK 12y ago
You could make a plot like Figure 1. Look for the turning point (do some calculus if you can, i.e. d(perf)/d(dim) = 0).
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by RK 12y ago
Los Alamos is in the middle of nowhere, but Sandia is smack in the middle of a metro area of ~1M people (Albuquerque).
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by RK 12y ago
I'd like some UI element that lets me know how long it's been since I read/used a tab. I tend to open lots of tabs and then browse them as is convenient later. Sometimes this means tabs get "lost" (i.e. become sta
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by RK 12y ago
Many Irish already had their names Anglicized by the English before they left Ireland.
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by RK 13y ago
I'm not that familiar with military aircraft development timelines, but this stuck out as my favorite part: A hypersonic plane does not have to be an expensive, distant possibility. In fact, an SR-72 could be operational by 2030.
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by RK 13y ago
Nice reference. 1.29 happened to be exactly what I was looking for: for subset in itertools.chain(*(itertools.combinations(a, n) for n in range(len(a) + 1))) I spent way too much time writing a function to come up with these combin
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by RK 13y ago
I just checked put my sites using elinks and fortunately they came out pretty well. One is based on bootstrap and one on skeleton. I just made some links that are icons (github, twitter, etc) visible in elinks by adding img tags with src=&q
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by RK 13y ago
On the other hand Mel Gibson was Aussie and became American. He's not claimed anymore. According to Wikipedia, Mel Gibson was born in the US to American parents and moved to Australia when he was 12. Somehow I remembered that factoid
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by RK 13y ago
For those wondering: Linaro is a not-for-profit engineering organization that works on consolidating and optimizing open-source software for the ARM architecture, including the GCC toolchain, the Linux kernel, ARM power management, graphic
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by RK 13y ago
I don't know that much about Jeopardy strategy, but it sounds like he's following Ken Jennings' suggestions.
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by RK 13y ago
Just FYI, there are a couple of initiatives in the medical imaging world to reduce over exposure: * http://www.imagewisely.org/ * http://www.imagegently.org/
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by RK 13y ago
Employee memberships could be an interesting option for companies that aren't set up to do on-site daycare and willing to have remote-ish people.
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by RK 13y ago
From page 151: is so unpredictable that "you cannot determine what his reaction would be in any particular set of circumstances." ____ stated that FEYNMAN was known at Los Alamos as a reactionary, because he was so conservative in
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by RK 13y ago
Not quite the same, but I used to receive junk mail addressed to "Jesus Christ" at an old address.
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by RK 13y ago
My limited experience is that the German perception of science degrees is that they prepare people for a very broad range of work, not limited to academic science. When I was in Germany studying physics I was always blown away by the large

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