stochtastic

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by stochtastic 7mo ago
Why? It's an excellent recruiting tool. I used to read it as a kid (along with every other paper or digital encyclopedia I could get my hands on), and it certainly made me interested in the CIA.
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by stochtastic 1y ago
This is very cool, thanks for sharing. There are many industries and academic fields where Matlab has gone out of fashion (I work in one), and my experience has been that there's a lot of over the top negativity about Mathworks product
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Putin's nuclear files(danwatch.dk)
7 points by stochtastic 1y ago|1 comments
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by stochtastic 3y ago
This is a fun dataset. The paper leaves a slight misimpression about channel statistics: IIUC, they do not correct for sampling propensity to reweight when looking at subscriber counts (it should be weighted ~1/# of videos per channel
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by stochtastic 3y ago
It also includes the Apple One bundle. I wonder if the bundles complicate that breakdown — I certainly never use Apple Music or Arcade, and almost never TV+. Anecdotally, I cannot figure out how to cancel One without losing my iCloud photo
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by stochtastic 3y ago
I don't think they were pretending to look, they were just (rightly) remaining open to it being either rescue or recovery. From the article: > “While not definitive, this information was immediately shared with the Incident Command
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by stochtastic 3y ago
> and so must be hiding that they can do so I don't believe I said that. You can draw your own conclusion from the fact that it is within their capabilities to detect, localize, and to some extent classify a wide range of sources in
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by stochtastic 3y ago
Hydrophones don't need to be nearby or even at a similar depth. The SOFAR channel acts as a waveguide and will duct sources from other depths as long as the bottom is below the critical depth. As others have said, this part of the Nort
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by stochtastic 3y ago
> We've gone from: - Uncertainty exceeding signal in satellite data is "simply not the case" ... Not sure I can help someone who willfully misreads my comments! Give chapter 9 of the AR6 a read and then we can talk.
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by stochtastic 3y ago
The thread is at max depth, so I'll reply here: As you quoted from the paper: > The six main groups that provide satellite-altimetry-based GMSL estimates ... 1) You're restricting your attention to groups producing satellite-de
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by stochtastic 3y ago
Figure 1 from that paper didn't convince you that it was a minor issue? Their correction is about 7% of the 1993-2018 signal, and it resolves the discrepancy with respect to other estimates, including non-satellite ones. Nobody relies
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by stochtastic 3y ago
> Also that assumes the scientists are completely accurate and don't make any mistakes. As recently as 5 years ago they discovered that the measured rise for almost all of the 90s was wrong and revised it by 3mm/year +- 1.7mm&#
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by stochtastic 3y ago
Archimedes would like a word. There are some small effects due mostly to salinity differences, but sea ice isn't a major contributor because it is already floating and thus displacing an equivalent volume of water: https://e
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by stochtastic 3y ago
This article only briefly touches on what I think is the most interesting aspect of sea level rise: gravitational adjustment. Even though I never worked seriously on sea level research, it was by far my favorite course in graduate school. F
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by stochtastic 4y ago
I've been very impressed with sqlglot, and am looking forward to trying this feature. The only issue I've had with sqlglot is transpiling for use with a specific spark version: in my experience Spark is not great about surfacing o
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by stochtastic 4y ago
A cautionary tale from personal experience: My parents retired to a rural area and wanted to ensure that their area would remain a healthy old growth forest. They have been actively involved in a land trust that has successfully created lar
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by stochtastic 4y ago
I take it that you're looking only at the "All Infection" efficacy? While the original vaccines are clearly less effective at totally preventing infection with the latest variants, their efficacy against symptomatic infection
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by stochtastic 4y ago
I love ThermoKlein... but then they'd have needed to engineer it to IPX8 standards to avoid excessive warranty servicing from cranky oceanographers.
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by stochtastic 4y ago
Nitpick: gravity waves [1] pretty universally refer to waves in fluid media in which the restoring force is buoyancy. Ripples in spacetime are usually called _gravitational_ waves. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grav
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by stochtastic 4y ago
I'll refrain from picking a side, but Air Power Australia and the credibility of its proprietor Carlo Kopp are... controversial [1,2]. He has extensive knowledge of many of the relevant topics, but is viewed as having an axe to grind a
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by stochtastic 4y ago
Yay! For years I've been wanting some form of home-oriented fleet management tool for all of my stuff. I'm glad you've addressed maintenance reminders — I am so bad at keeping track of things like bike chain replacement and c
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by stochtastic 5y ago
There is an interesting relationship between frequency domain filtering and the distributional properties of a signal, which I believe the author encounters: So interestingly, the IDFT method makes noise that is gaussian distributed. Th
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by stochtastic 5y ago
These lectures look fantastic — thank you for making and sharing them! I've been looking for a good foundational treatment of optimization to digest over the holidays.
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by stochtastic 5y ago
That's an odd generalization to apply when we're talking about an individual whose significant academic record is easy to find [0,1]. Many department heads are more senior, taking on organizational responsibilities that would be m
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by stochtastic 5y ago
> However! I believe that the main benefit of central nuclear plants, is there ability to keep poisonous materials in a single location, so that it doesn't get lost. Off topic, but: I often feel that problems related to hard-to-mana
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by stochtastic 5y ago
I agree about the importance of actually living there and contributing (_not_ monetarily) to the community. Several of my roommates in college grew up in Bolinas, and for them it was clearly a magical and a formative experience. But this is
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by stochtastic 5y ago
Agreed, my experience is CA-specific (though it also appears to be true in some other metros like Boston). The thing I was surprised about is that it's pretty normal for specifics in leases to not be legally enforceable, if not outrigh
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by stochtastic 5y ago
FWIW, landlords often include unenforceable terms with respect to lease break fees [1]. This is a common pattern [2]. In my only experience with breaking a lease, my lawyer advised me to inform my landlord that I was aware of California sta
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by stochtastic 6y ago
If anyone from Starlink is reading this thread: Add a Lat/Lon option for addresses in the service address entry form. Many rural homes have mailing addresses that don't resolve correctly. For example, the input form forced me to u
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by stochtastic 6y ago
Sonofusion [0] was a neat idea, and some of the relevant experiments (at least the cavitation part) can be done on a bench top with a hobbyist level budget. Last I checked, the research had been somewhat tarnished by academic fraud. The phy

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