Trumpet6

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by Trumpet6 11y ago
Radio interference from man made sources is the biggest issue for radio telescopes in the traditional radio band. So it's not really the weather that decides, but the crappy radio skies of the UK.
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by Trumpet6 11y ago
Indeed, its an "Artist concept of Ganymede and Jupiter"[1], which only further highlights the pointlessness of having an collection of space images without any metadata. [1]: http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015&#x2F
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by Trumpet6 11y ago
Most of the examples of the brevity of the old style seem to be quite unconcerned with actual formatting. Honestly I just do simple print "Hello: " + a when I'm not too picky, and use .format when I actually want a nice outpu
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by Trumpet6 11y ago
Well no, the biggest risk is falls according to a CERN safety presentation from this year: https://indico.cern.ch/event/383674/contribution/6/material/... (page 42) (Handling is pretty vague though,
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by Trumpet6 11y ago
Early on the author states "the Fed is keeping them low. That’s true only in a very narrow sense." He then proceeds to stay in this narrow sense, while explaining the theoretical framework driving the Fed's decision. While it
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by Trumpet6 11y ago
The shield is completely OP, camp that and you'll win every match.
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by Trumpet6 11y ago
Piketty's big contribution is the creation of time series of top wealth distribution going back to the ~1850. In the linked paper, all the time series start at 1960 at the earliest, thus dismissing most of the new empirical data. So wh
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by Trumpet6 12y ago
With a discussion centered on ability, but no attempt to define this nebulous concept, it seems impossible for this argument to be "true" in any strong sense. To begin with, this discussion is almost totally void of even the menti
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by Trumpet6 12y ago
A survey (published in Science[1]) of ~1800 academics across 30 disciplines in the US saw a non-significant positive correlation between estimates of how selective a department is with graduate students and the female representation in that