onhn

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by onhn 5y ago
Unless I misread it, if a project is deemed to have an "FBA" then the project leader is an "FN", in the author's opinion. And yes, some such projects have been explicitly called out.
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by onhn 5y ago
>Really Bad Acronyms, or FBAs, are spawned by FNPLs (Nerdy Project Leaders) when naming new systems Nothing like personal attacks to get your point across. Well done author.
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by onhn 5y ago
The standard and most effective form of curation in science is the reference list at the end of a paper. But usually you just read everything that is relevant to your research interests from the daily arxiv posting.
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by onhn 5y ago
"You can upload your research and publish it on the open web. Members of the community will be able to vote on your research to raise its visibility." Oh dear.
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The Photos app gets worse with every single update(reddit.com)
30 points by onhn 5y ago|6 comments
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by onhn 5y ago
Are you sure it was peer reviewed at all? It looks like a conference proceedings.
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by onhn 5y ago
I think the article misses the point of what physics is. It is not a collection of "sparse" models and principles, rather, it is a scientific discipline from which such models have emerged. You will notice the article conflates th
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by onhn 5y ago
The author is talking about how a given physics model appears simple when they are presented with it, e.g. a particular quantum field theory. This is the kind of limited perspective about research that an undergraduate physicist may develop
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by onhn 5y ago
"The counterfactuals that matter to science and physics, and that have so far been neglected, are facts about what could or could not be made to happen to physical systems; about what is possible or impossible." On the contrary, i
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by onhn 5y ago
Note that if f(x) = x^2 then the second derivative f''(x) = 2, so it looks like you're off by a factor of 2 (as well as the accuracy issue).
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by onhn 5y ago
Knowledge of complex numbers are required to solve quadratics too (when the discriminant is negative).
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by onhn 5y ago
If you liked Primer, the film "Timecrimes" does an excellent job at the physical consistency of time travel.
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by onhn 5y ago
It is interesting that they chose to use a first person shooter as an example screenshot since gameplay would be broken by visual changes in occlusion.
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I fought Apple in court after it billed me for a ‘free’ app(thetimes.co.uk)
2 points by onhn 6y ago|0 comments
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Man offers Newport council £50m if it helps find bitcoins in landfill(theguardian.com)
2 points by onhn 6y ago|0 comments
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by onhn 6y ago
I think we need more clever people making more predictions (and especially from people quoted in the article like Gross, Witten, Rattazzi etc), and fewer blog articles like this designed to discourage them. The last time a huge, costly, ded
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by onhn 6y ago
IANAL but I expect not. I would imagine the rental company would then just bill or sue the driver for the loss and inconvenience (or otherwise claim it on insurance).
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by onhn 6y ago
On a similar note, I would like to think a rental car company would suffer consequences if a drunk person waddled up to the rental desk and they were handed a set of keys.
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by onhn 6y ago
> astronomers use supernovae to measure distances, which is important for cosmologists to study, for instance, the expansion of the universe and dark energy. AFAIK supernovae datasets are usually obtained as a survey, resulting in a stat
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Quantum computers may be heading underground to shield from cosmic rays(physicsworld.com)
3 points by onhn 6y ago|0 comments
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by onhn 6y ago
I think this would be great, yes. The store has no reason to hide the markup if its fair, reflecting the convenience they added.
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by onhn 6y ago
I think only in the same way that 'soccer' is not a good name for football, as a reference to domestic violence
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by onhn 6y ago
In that case, hypothetically what about a separate app that only sells game currency, like vbucks?
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by onhn 6y ago
There is a fundamental reason not to publish scientific code. If someone is trying to reproduce someone else's results, the data and methods are the only ingredients they need. If you add code into this mix, all you do is introduce new
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by onhn 6y ago
As a theoretical physicist your results should be reproducible based on the content of your papers, where you should detail/state the methods you use. I would make the argument that releasing code in your position has the potential to
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by onhn 6y ago
For me its also the quality of the ads which is a problem. Over and over I get Grammerly adverts even though I always flag them as repetitive, inappropriate or irrelevant (always signed in). They have nothing to do with my interests or view
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by onhn 7y ago
It may appear higher resolution but I don’t enjoy looking at the extra details knowing that they are probably fictitious.
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by onhn 7y ago
I was referring to, and should have written explicitly: "anthropogenic climate change" -- this was the context of the parent's comment. I don't think your examples are immediately obvious as evidence for it.
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by onhn 7y ago
Not sure about ordering people like this, but to your underlying point: I would say that the evidence for Earth not being flat is directly and immediately observable in everyday life. Climate change evidence on the other hand, one has to ei
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by onhn 7y ago
The article would have been a lot better if there was at least one example of where a coding ligature was a problem, rather than talking about feet and inches For instance it mentions the pairing => but provides no examples. After readin

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