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by mukara 2y ago
For each $1 of federal research funding, the university can take a cut of as much as $0.6 owing to the fact that researchers are using university facilities and admin staff. In fact, the money itself is not even managed by the recipient res
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by mukara 2y ago
This might be shocking to some, but when a researcher receiver a federal grant (for example), the university takes a significant cut which they refer to as Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs [1]. The F&A covers the so-called
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by mukara 2y ago
The story of Turia, with all sorts of terrible hardships she endured, is told in the second episode [1] of a BBC Radio 4 series [2] called "Being Roman" by the English classicist Mary Beard. The series wonderfully contextualizes t
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by mukara 3y ago
It is said that Franklin D. Roosevelt encouraged Chaplin to make the The Great Dictator. Indeed, around the time the film was made, the two men shared political views on a lot of things. When Churchill and FDR saw a pre-release private scre
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by mukara 3y ago
MetNet-3 is not open-source, and the announcement said it's already integrated into Google products/services needing weather info. So, I'd doubt there's anything like a colab example.
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by mukara 3y ago
DeepMind recently merged with the Brain team from Google Research to form `Google DeepMind`. It seems this was done to have Google DeepMind focused primarily (only?) on AI research, leaving Google Research to work on other things in more th
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by mukara 3y ago
>All common handset devices used in CONUS (every iphone, android phone, etc) will ignore BeiDou signals. This is correct for smartphones and the likes (all handsets??), though not entirely correct for all GNSS receivers. For example, I r
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by mukara 3y ago
Not sure about “technically” or what the legal situation is. In practice, I know consumer smartphones in the US use a combination of all 4 constellations for positioning. If you have Android, you can easily verify this using various apps. I
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by mukara 3y ago
Signals from Galileo, GLONASS, and BeiDou (and other semi-regional navigation satellite constellations) can be received in the US. Any decent GNSS receiver you can purchase in the US will be able to receive all 4 major global constellations
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by mukara 3y ago
There are some non-profits specializing in buying up medical debt and forgiving it (e.g. RIP Medical Debt [0]). These non-profits usually rely on individual donations, and $100 can relieve as much as $10,000 of medical debt. They also frequ
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by mukara 4y ago
You probably already know this, but Fitbit is now a Google product. One would imagine this Pixel Watch have more than a few things in common with some Fitbit products.
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by mukara 4y ago
For GPS, we use the government's recommendation of pi = 3.1415926535898 to compute satellite orbits...2 digits less than NASA's. Other constellations (Beidou, Galileo, etc.) follow GPS.