jgamman

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Harvard QCD Professor vibe codes quality research paper(anthropic.com)
4 points by jgamman 6mo ago|1 comments
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by jgamman 1y ago
Orange Guy is the official mascot for NZ elections.
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Wikenigma – an Encyclopedia of Unknowns(wikenigma.org.uk)
193 points by jgamman 2y ago|43 comments
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Enigma machine explained with animation [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jgamman 2y ago|0 comments
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How the UK became the first G7 country to phase out coal power(interactive.carbonbrief.org)
7 points by jgamman 2y ago|4 comments
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by jgamman 2y ago
IIRC Wolfram had a blog post about how everything is developing a data/computational angle - he called it Computational X a few years ago now. Fitting they would call this Computational Astronomy.
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by jgamman 3y ago
weird - can't find anything from an australian source about this
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by jgamman 3y ago
niels bohr dissolved the nobel prize medals of colleagues in it and left it on his office shelf during wwII - the committee recast them after the war https://www.aip.org/history-programs/news/invisible-prize
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by jgamman 3y ago
Awesome - this is the website of the Te Awamutu space centre. "The Space Centre is a privately-funded project run by Dave Owen (Space Dave) and his family." Te Awamutu is a town with ~13,000 people. Live your best life Dave! kia
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Cliodynamics and Society Failure(josephnoelwalker.com)
5 points by jgamman 3y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 3y ago
it's a nice human scale unit - a bit like some countries still cling to inches as a length measure.
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by jgamman 3y ago
yes - i'm not a programmer but i need to translate business rules for my contractors to build. it helps us 'meet in the middle' when discussing abstract things.
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by jgamman 3y ago
moreon chem: https://www.understanding-cement.com/zero-carbon-cement.html
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by jgamman 3y ago
currently use a lot of rare metals like platinum. inc vol of fuel cells will drive up price of fairly inelastic supply of rare metals. or require step change in anode/cathode catalysts to cheaper metals
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by jgamman 4y ago
silica dessicant. chemists use it in their dessicators to keep things dry - pink is dry, blue is 'full' (i think, it's been 25 years...). i think it's a low level cobalt doping and as the silica matrix swells with wat
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by jgamman 4y ago
you want to turn coal into gasoline? i think most people consider use of FT fuels as an approx. neutral carbon emissions assuming clean energy source. >>The process involves the hydroliquefication of brown coal, also known as lignite,
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by jgamman 4y ago
made me smile: 95% of 5% == 5% of 95% - so no change in absolute numbers right?
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by jgamman 4y ago
MIT's Herbert Gross Calculus - done with a chalkboard and a camera. classic. https://www.openculture.com/2011/01/vintage_mit_calculus_les...
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The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene(propublica.org)
9 points by jgamman 4y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 4y ago
I don't see the problem - food gardens are banned in NZ: https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/18-06-2016/new-zealands-absur...
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Codebreaking Sexts in the 1800s(vice.com)
4 points by jgamman 4y ago|0 comments
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MecanoChemistry: H2 Gas Storage in Solids(newatlas.com)
2 points by jgamman 4y ago|0 comments
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Interview with John Cook: mathematical consultant(sinews.siam.org)
179 points by jgamman 4y ago|25 comments
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by jgamman 4y ago
ha! nz's fluf mentioned. reviewed here: https://thespinoff.co.nz/irl/16-02-2022/inside-the-exclusive...
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by jgamman 5y ago
i read your comment as 'conflate our way out' and thought hhmmm sounds about right
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Man survives desert by making motorbike from broken car(nydailynews.com)
2 points by jgamman 5y ago|0 comments
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Learning from grad student chem death (2008)(cen.acs.org)
2 points by jgamman 5y ago|0 comments
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Teaching Machines: A History(insidehighered.com)
12 points by jgamman 5y ago|1 comments
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Amputated fingertips sometimes grow back (2013)(npr.org)
140 points by jgamman 5y ago|67 comments
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by jgamman 5y ago
perhaps "IT dept" still conflates infrastructure with application. if you are entirely cloud with a SLA for support, then "application" just means allowing depts to develop the tech they need to solve problems -> as

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