amadsen

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by amadsen 3y ago
Sigh. This is a guy who is clearly passionate about his hobby and was excited to share it with us. Leave it to hn to shit all over it. Some people fly to Africa and shoot elephants for fun - as far as hobbies go, this is fairly benign. If y
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by amadsen 3y ago
Just to clarify: ArXiv is a pre-print server. By definition anything uploaded there has not (yet) undergone peer review. Posting papers there before they're published in a journal (which can take many months) is standard practice, not
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by amadsen 3y ago
Let me paint you a picture: You have data coming off the detectors at a rate of a couple of hundreds of GB/s (after pre-filters implemented in FPGAs etc) that needs to be processed and filtered in real time with output written to disk
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by amadsen 3y ago
Root is absolutely, mind-blowingly, amazing. It gets a bad rap because it forces you to use primitives that were designed back in the early nineties. If you're "just" trying to analyze some data, your experience will indeed b
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by amadsen 3y ago
It doesn't really "generate" a field. The EM field is always there, permeating the universe. An acceleting electron will _disturb_ the EM field (depositing some energy and momentum into it), and this disturbance will propagat
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by amadsen 3y ago
If you are looking for quality I suggest you look at the IPCC reports. Each word is carefully chosen, every claim backed by mountains of evidence. They're written to be read and understood by non-experts. They exist to inform decision
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by amadsen 4y ago
Behind a paywall.
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by amadsen 5y ago
Yeah this is spaced repetition. In this case the purpose is to memorize facts. But the asterisk method asks if you understand a concept. The purpose of revisiting asterisks is not to aid memorization via spaced repetition but to check if
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by amadsen 5y ago
Is it not more worrying that it has happened twice in three years?
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by amadsen 5y ago
The NZZ, for what it is worth, is probably the most highly regarded newspaper in Switzerland when it comes to journalistic integrity. It has a clear political bias to the right, but very high credibility.
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by amadsen 5y ago
I remember getting a Lindows installation cd with a computer magazine, a linux magazine I think.
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by amadsen 5y ago
It's true though: "common modern Yoga poses", as popularly practiced in the west and in India, are derived as much from Western gymnastics as they are from classical Hatha yoga, as the GP said. I don't think that that
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by amadsen 5y ago
Perhaps not as different as you think! Most of the "known matter" is indeed H and He drifting in otherwise "empty space". Stars, while very dense, are few and far between on cosmic scales. In terms of mass, the ratio is
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by amadsen 5y ago
The LHC is in Switzerland (not the UK) and in fact I'm still here. I was a data scientist for while. These days I'm back in research, but in a different field. There is a huge demand for CS skills of all kinds. CERN has one of the
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by amadsen 5y ago
3 sigma is termed "evidence" in particle physcis (while "discovery" is reserved for 5 sigma) and is often enough to get people interested. Keep in mind that these are just numbers and must be interpreted in context. Ther
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by amadsen 5y ago
I'm a physicist who spent seven years working at the LHC and I've never heard of a "purposeful" move away from the term beauty quark. It just fell out of favor but some, including myself, still like to use that name on o
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by amadsen 6y ago
My vision is good and I also don't know if the word you quoted was supposed to be in English, French of Irish? The point being, a screen reader has no more or less information than a human reader. It might be better then to invest effo
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by amadsen 7y ago
> the fundemental approach to statistical analysis is flawed This is a very strong assertion. What changes do you think are needed? > With enough data, good enough filters, and a wide selection of adjustments for background processes,
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by amadsen 7y ago
The whole thing is just a big straw man argument. Well, actually the piece is pretty incoherent and I found it hard to find a red thread through the musings on such diverse topics as WIMPs, pentaquarks and the functioning of drift chambers.
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by amadsen 7y ago
> the sloppy way with which science attribute importance to whatever is statistically significant. But we don't. Just because an effect is statistically significant doesn't mean it could not also be explained by some systematic
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by amadsen 7y ago
Here you go, buddy: (WHO) Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health (DPAS): - Not more than 30% of the total calories should come from fats. - Eat at least 400 grams of fruits and vegetables per day IN ADDITION to grains, pota
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by amadsen 7y ago
A high carb, low fat diet is excellent for health. Especially when paired with other simple recommendations such as an active lifestyle. This is established since well over a century, supported by high quality research and recognized by the
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by amadsen 10y ago
'In a draft paper published last week, Shane Greenstein and his colleagues Feng Zhu and Yuan Gu found that over the years, individuals who edit political articles on Wikipedia seem to grow less biased — their contributions start to con
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by amadsen 10y ago
https://root.cern.ch/ has tab completion and syntax highlighting. Also scripting support and built in reflection. It integrates with Python and R too, and you can move objects between the languages.