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by smartscience 4mo ago
I work there, and when we give tours and people raise the issue, I like to point out that we had the name first and so we're not changing it. Though we did once get an official reminder that, to avoid ambiguity, we had to always say &#
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by smartscience 5mo ago
Are there any clever tricks for the data processing involved here, given that the delay is a shift in the time domain and the Doppler effect is a shift in the frequency domain? Maybe involving fractional Fourier transforms, or wavelets?
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by smartscience 1y ago
Good point. I wasn't sure from the given examples that overuse of classes in this way was all that harmful, e.g. the performance penalty hopefully shouldn't be all that significant. But then I remembered all the Python code I&#x27
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by smartscience 1y ago
For a real-world use case, maybe cruise ships? Internet service on the ships is expensive if it works at all, but that's not necessarily what people need - they just need to be able to exchange whatsapp style messages with people alrea
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by smartscience 2y ago
The McGurk effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k8fHR9jKVM is another example, which might be described as people learning to lip read without them being aware that they have done so.
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by smartscience 2y ago
Searle, is that you?
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by smartscience 3y ago
I always knew my experience with RISC OS wouldn't go to waste!
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by smartscience 3y ago
Any way? There are left-leaning social positions that would be entirely expected from a modern tech-focused VC company. I support those causes and positions to various extents (if not always their approach to advocacy and addressing other
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by smartscience 4y ago
+1 for also looking for a tool like this (online or otherwise) before, and being disappointed with what I found previously. Two projects immediately spring to mind: firstly, we have a theodolite to align some lab equipment, which I'd l
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by smartscience 4y ago
I've heard this can happen where money laundering is suspected. Apparently the banks aren't allowed to tip off the account owner that they're being investigated, with the result that the account owner's subsequent intera
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by smartscience 4y ago
The drug in the article is roflumilast, which seems to share some structure with the nootropic ampakine CX-546. I've never consumed that, but I've had some experience with IDRA-21 doing something like what the article describes, s
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by smartscience 4y ago
Unauthorised third-party modifications and add-ons may end up being part of the solution here. It's already established that this can be a viable business model with e.g. car accessories, games consoles and printer inks. I can see a ma
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by smartscience 4y ago
I never thought I'd see the issue of pulse selection in spallation neutron sources referred to on HN, let alone linked to music theory. In practice, most systems that select a subset of these pulses will select 1 pulse in every 2^n pul
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by smartscience 4y ago
There's imechanica.org, I followed it more closely in my time at university but not sure what it's like more recently.
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by smartscience 4y ago
Incidentally this is why I see no problem with phrases like 'PIN number', despite others apparently being very bothered by them. English does not use a macro preprocessor to expand acronyms.
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by smartscience 4y ago
"To Avoid Criticism, Say Nothing, Do Nothing, Be Nothing"... https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/01/09/say-nothing/
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by smartscience 4y ago
If you want to go digging on Usenet, check out Albert Silvermann (I think it was) on rec.music.theory.
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by smartscience 5y ago
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/125/
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by smartscience 5y ago
If a flawed mathematical paper were used as the basis for what then became a flawed cryptography algorithm, I can see that having impact if the bad guys noticed the flaw first. But yes, I expect examples like that would be comparatively rar
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by smartscience 5y ago
While opinion is split on this, these days I don't think you can appeal to strictness alone to justify 'data' being plural, given the way usage has already gone. People (like me) who say 'data is...' are simply usin
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by smartscience 5y ago
They claim it's ultimately related to the latin debitum, but the b was lost before being reinserted by prescriptivists later. Not as bad as the s is island, which appears to be based on a false understanding of the etymology https:&#x
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by smartscience 5y ago
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/ https://statisticsbyjim.com/
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by smartscience 5y ago
That's still more than a bit of a stretch considering the drawbacks, such as making that vault or bulkhead material radioactive even after the neutron beam has been shut off. In practice the duraction of the induced radioactivity varie
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by smartscience 5y ago
As a species I feel we need a means to overcome this problem within organizations, and demonstrate convincingly to others that we have done so. Chernobyl and Fukushima were also both created by a culture of deference to higher-ups. The anti
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by smartscience 5y ago
To demonstrate this more fully, consider the case of having the wheel flanges on the outside, with the conicity of the wheels pointing the other way. Gravity would still tend to centre this arrangement, but I'm told that if you build s
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by smartscience 6y ago
I'd be willing to have a crack at this if I thought it could help (my background is in nuclear methods for materials characterisation). But I've a feeling that the difference in uptake between cancerous and normal tissue might not
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by smartscience 6y ago
Did you have a Multiface? Not all that cheap, but probably ended up teaching me more about low-level programming than anything else, short of writing a Spectrum 128 emulator for Risc OS :)
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by smartscience 6y ago
Perhaps I'm a bit biased against 95 as I was happily using Risc OS at the time :) My memory of Microsoft from back then was that the Office apps could be quite capable, but the underlying OS was just something you had to put up with.
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by smartscience 6y ago
Windows operating systems may themselves represent the 'pivot points' that wenc talks about. Every so often, a version of Windows seems to come along that gives you a genuine improvement over what came before - in my view Windows
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by smartscience 6y ago
Is there any kind of standard file format describing lens internals, or database of different lens designs or actual commercially available lenses? I'm interested in this kind of simulation for some machine vision applications that may

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