stargazer-3

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by stargazer-3 8mo ago
Here's an article mentioning the data transmission rates in SKA, up to 20 terabits per second: https://www.skao.int/en/explore/big-data
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by stargazer-3 2y ago
For context, Diamond argues that the collapse occurred around 1600, much earlier than the 19th century slaving raids you mention. The first European contact occurred around 1720, with a 1770 Spanish estimate of 3000 people living on Easter
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by stargazer-3 2y ago
Actually, genetic studies found that Al-Andalus did leave a sizable admixture behind. Lots of references here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_history_of_the_Iberian...
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by stargazer-3 3y ago
It is mentioned in the linked article.
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by stargazer-3 3y ago
The library is not forcing you to use plt as a shorthand. Nothing is stopping you from calling from matplotlib import pyplot pyplot.plot([0,1,2], [0,2,4])
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by stargazer-3 3y ago
It's funny that lots of folks complain about the game being oversexualized while me and my partner - 120 hours in, in Act 3 now - somehow managed to completely fail triggering any romance subplots despite actually trying to raise app
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by stargazer-3 3y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1294/
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by stargazer-3 3y ago
Yes, Nárdil (or Nárndil?) could've been a Tolkien name meaning fire friend in Quenya.
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by stargazer-3 3y ago
> I thought it was well accepted I was in a museum in Sardinia (was part of Carthage) sometime ago and saw some of the tophets mentioned in the article. The argument from the linked article was repeated on one of the info boards - that t
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by stargazer-3 3y ago
A dam on the same river was blown up by retreating Soviet troops in WW2: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/02/second-world-w...
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by stargazer-3 4y ago
If a woman bears many children throughout her life, you can still have a situation where the first pregnancy occurs much earlier than today's average yet the overall conception average is roughly same as nowadays.
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by stargazer-3 5y ago
There was little support for joining NATO before Crimea was annexed. Ukraine wanted to join NATO precisely because it realized that it will be devoured piece by piece by its imperialist neighbor unless it does.
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by stargazer-3 5y ago
Zoomed-in part in the center, "1400 light-years across the centre of the Galaxy." as a linked paper indicates. Milky Way is long, 105700 light years in diameter.
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by stargazer-3 5y ago
They could be aligned with the magnetic field lines around the Galactic Center: https://media.springernature.com/original/springer-static/im...
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by stargazer-3 5y ago
The cost of Ariane 5 rocket is below $200m, which is a rather small fraction of the overall budget of $5-10b. If the main reason for the huge cost is to make it so lightweight, why didn't they go with more capable heavy-lift rockets to
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by stargazer-3 5y ago
Around 5e-14 per year, assuming random impact location, small (i.e. not town-sized) projectiles, and head impact cross-section the size an A4 paper. You can sleep safely. Waiting for 10^14 years will take a while - by that time, no new star
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by stargazer-3 5y ago
A more interesting bit of the paper: > It is worth speculating that a remarkable catastrophe, such as the destruction of Tall el-Hammam by a cosmic object, may have generated an oral tradition that, after being passed down through many g
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by stargazer-3 5y ago
You can try it yourself with the chrome translate feature.
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by stargazer-3 6y ago
Good suggestion, but the data is semi-private and I have no ownership of it. May be worth a shot though, thanks!
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by stargazer-3 6y ago
I was playing around with MegaDetector and it's wonderful. Works surprisingly well, although it does have a tendency to classify tree stumps as animals. Wish it would come with some kind of sequence aware background removal feature.
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by stargazer-3 6y ago
I, for one, would be uncomfortable with AI removing my accent. I understand it's for other people to understand me better - and I am fine with AI-generated subtitles - but altering the way I speak would reduce the amount of "me&qu
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by stargazer-3 6y ago
That is true, but the prize was awarded to Genzel for “for the __discovery__ of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy” (emphasis mine), not for the (impressive no doubt) follow-up work, so my comment was done in that con
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by stargazer-3 6y ago
Back in the day they each led research to detect irrefutable evidence of it. This isn't anything new and groundbreaking.
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by stargazer-3 6y ago
We smile on the outside yet cry on the inside.
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by stargazer-3 6y ago
It's easy to miss that the article is published under the same username as the one described as an "anonymous source", in, for example "... Wirecard desperately wanted to know who this memyselfandi007 was to sue the shxx
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by stargazer-3 6y ago
No, herd immunity means "enough people are resistant so the vulnerable ones don't get infection spread to them at all". There's a big difference there.
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by stargazer-3 7y ago
>> wildly misrepresented the role of women in Russian society during those times Women were better represented in USSR's STEM fields that in the US. For example, Between 1962 and 1964, women were awarded 40 percent of the chemist
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by stargazer-3 7y ago
>> Also I'd be interested to read how they got around scintallation of the Interstellar Medium. One of the reasons they've imaged M87* rather than a black hole in our own galaxy was to avoid dealing with ISM scattering - we
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by stargazer-3 7y ago
The collecting time is important, but mainly to 1) sample the rotation of the Earth in the Fourier space for better angular resolution and 2) for raising your overall signal-to-noise ratio is the image (but the one released is already prett
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by stargazer-3 7y ago
One thing missing from @petschge's reply: adding more telescopes! This will not improve the imaging the smallest possible features, but will make features larger (disk and / or jet components) more prominent. The more telescope pa

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