dstyrb

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by dstyrb 11y ago
Japan's surrender had absolutely nothing to do with the bomb. And why does everyone think that without Einstein we would somehow enter a 100 year long dark age?
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by dstyrb 11y ago
1.5% inherent * 187% from pills = 2.8% risk of autism. Risk of having started a course of antidepressants for absolutely no reason = ~0% Articles with headlines like these seem manufactured to lead the statistically ignorant into bad decisi
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by dstyrb 11y ago
I'm an experimental physicist who did an undergraduate before my PhD and had to fight tooth and nail for my grades and did all that petty nonsense like going to class and after school tutoring and such. I'm not a rockstar, but I&#
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by dstyrb 11y ago
Basically the entirety of paragraph 3... "set up only for those who wish to become theoretical physicists, not just ordinary ones" --- use of 'ordinary' instead of 'experimental' is intentionally condescending
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by dstyrb 11y ago
I find it strange that no one in this discussion seems to notice the dripping sarcasm...
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by dstyrb 11y ago
I wish there was a way to put the text in the middle of my screen.
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by dstyrb 11y ago
I think this really depends on your definition of appealing. Machines are already capable of _mimicking the aspects of songs which are currently popular_. I highly doubt that a machine could, say, invent a new genre of music that had widesp
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by dstyrb 11y ago
Silent Disco?
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by dstyrb 11y ago
I, for one, am glad they split that article into two pages; I was getting a bit intimidated by the length.
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by dstyrb 11y ago
How esoterically meta.
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by dstyrb 11y ago
It's a very interesting project and quite attractive. However as others mentioned it would be useful to see some sort of scale for the dots, scale for the colors, and specifics on those numbers. For example, I have no idea what "B
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by dstyrb 11y ago
https://www.google.com.hk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=we...
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by dstyrb 11y ago
It would fundamentally change the science case, not just slightly. You have E-ELT and GMT in the southern hemisphere. A major part of the TMT science case is its survey footprint in the north to augment these other 30-meter class projects.
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by dstyrb 11y ago
a brief history of helvetica and arial, posted here a couple of weeks ago: http://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/the-scourge-of-ari...
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by dstyrb 11y ago
You're right. I misspoke a bit; I mean all this type of work is Mauna Kea specific: http://www.tmt.org/documents Preliminary work on pipelines relating to the optics, PSFs, band throughputs, etc are simulated with Maun
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by dstyrb 11y ago
I don't understand. They haven't been denied a permit, they had the permit. Construction had begun. They were given the go ahead, handshook on a deal with the state of Hawaii-- giving way more than any telescope before. And now, t
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by dstyrb 11y ago
This site outlines the actions that tmt takes to improve Hawaii and science education in general... 300 jobs. 26 million per year in revenue. 1 million per year just in paying a lease, 800k of which is earmarked to pay for conservation of t
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by dstyrb 11y ago
At first I didn't notice that they actually have STEM classes here. The spiral does however have maths and sciences, the titles mislead me at first but it appears to go through calculus 1 and physics 2. Newtonian dynamics is covered, e
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by dstyrb 11y ago
As recently at 2000, major astronomical surveys (SDSS, York et al. 2000) would ship harddrives daily "via express courier" from the scopes to the processing computers. That's the most recent I can think of. Although some surv
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by dstyrb 11y ago
Some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10626123
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by dstyrb 11y ago
how can I generalize? edit: Oh I see that's what the whole discussion here is about -_-
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by dstyrb 11y ago
My solution was R=0 always. So if A is positive, always guess B < A. If A is negative, guess B > A. Does this not work? import numpy as np import random as rnd trials, correct = 100000000, 0 for i in range(trials):
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by dstyrb 11y ago
"Fletcher goes full kangaroo, drooping his head, hunching his shoulders, dangling his hands from his chest and zigzagging slowly forward." This is my new dance, the 'full kanga.'
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by dstyrb 11y ago
I have created a supplementary figure. http://imgur.com/NG5cWmJ
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by dstyrb 11y ago
This would be nicely accompanied by a photo-journal...
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by dstyrb 11y ago
That's interesting. To me an overconfident presentation / paper is a huge red flag and I start to look even more carefully for things that are elided or brushed under the rug. In the PhD we would have rip sessions, where we take n
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by dstyrb 11y ago
The media is basically to blame for the pervasive myth that there exists some magic science box you just crank long enough to pop out "correct universal truths." Scientists very rarely use the end-all-be-all language of the news r
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by dstyrb 11y ago
This is one of the things most scientists envy physicists for. I would estimate 95% of those papers are copyrighted, and yet, since we have had this structure for so long, no publisher tries to pursue us for sharing our work with the public
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by dstyrb 11y ago
Agree, it's about possible reduction of harm. A notice that cars crash is not going to stop people from using cars. A notice that foreign travel is not safe will deter some people.
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by dstyrb 11y ago
Great generalizations there.

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