uolmir

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by uolmir 17d ago
He managed to create the ultimate version of form over function. All hail Lorem Epsom.
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by uolmir 4mo ago
So elves in dwarf fortress.
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by uolmir 7mo ago
Seriously. I remember distinctly playing with this in 2004-5.
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Interference Pattern Formed in a Finger Gap Is Not Single Slit Diffraction(note.com)
95 points by uolmir 7mo ago|12 comments
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by uolmir 9mo ago
This is a great write up. It's also weirdly similar to a video I happened upon yesterday playing around with raw Hubble imagery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gBXSQCWdSI He take a few minutes to get to the punch lin
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by uolmir 9mo ago
I know what you mean by your comment, but you might want to give catch 22 another try sometime. I'd say that the start with the Texan is far from the best the book gets. Reading it, I think you'll find Yossarian more and more unde
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by uolmir 9mo ago
Several of the candidate variable objects are characterized in the results section of the paper. The model is also tested for effectiveness against synthetic data. It appears to be a useful method and the paper describes a plausible path fo
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by uolmir 9mo ago
Everywhere? This is a crazy thing to claim. I was also recently in Japan and I never took a car anywhere. I'm sure there are particular routes that are badly served but come on.
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Mick Jagger. Rolling Stone. Cultural icon. And cricket streaming pioneer(nytimes.com)
2 points by uolmir 10mo ago|0 comments
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by uolmir 11mo ago
> In fact up until a recent funding method change from the Trump Administration, most grant money was subject to "overhead"--a nebulous nonsensical accounting trick that allowed the university administration to get upwards of 6
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by uolmir 1y ago
Although that land would have already been under water.
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by uolmir 1y ago
Important context to be found in the reporting on this saga, e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/science/arseniclife-retra... . In short, the authors and NASA strongly disagree with the decision to r
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by uolmir 1y ago
One of the best! If memory serves there was a This American Life segment excerpted from it too ( https://www.thisamericanlife.org/195/transcript ).
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by uolmir 2y ago
From the article this seems much less bad than the headline might imply. This idea predates trump and it does not eliminate scientific review of proposals. That said, whether the cost savings itself is worth what might be a diminishment in
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by uolmir 2y ago
There have been several of these deep dives into manipulated speed runs and they seldom disappoint. Since we are on HN, I'll mention another mathy one that was summarized by Matt Parker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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Her Discovery Wasn't Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same(nytimes.com)
2 points by uolmir 2y ago|1 comments
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by uolmir 2y ago
Reflections on science in the internet age and a debate on the meaning and appropriate use of retraction.
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by uolmir 2y ago
That's good advice in that context and speaks to the difference in standards of evidence between normal expository or persuasive writing in school and scientific writing. In a scientific paper if you assert something it's importan
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by uolmir 2y ago
Very true (I imagine) and similar to the popularity of "roadside geology" books.
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by uolmir 2y ago
This is good stuff but I'll say that it isn't as comprehensive as all that. These studies and findings are almost entirely focused on simple recall knowledge (isolated facts, vocabulary). That's an important part of learning
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by uolmir 2y ago
This is gonna be me if or when my quite functional dumb LG from 2012 ever gives up the ghost. I just don't see the appeal of smart TVs when that functionality can be outsourced to a cheaper modular device.
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by uolmir 2y ago
I think the author probably exaggerates her point a bit (fair enough; she's an opinion writer), but I do find it appealing to imagine that OpenStreetMap would have broad buy-in and would lead to more innovation and diversity in the dig
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by uolmir 2y ago
Yeah. I think if I read Dream Machine first I would have enjoyed Wizards less. But some of the history was new to me which meant that I enjoyed Wizards for those aspects and then Dream Machine for the detailed look into why it happened.
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by uolmir 2y ago
It is one of my favorites. I actually came to it via "where wizards stay up late", which I would also recommend although it doesn't have the depth and insight of dream machine.
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by uolmir 2y ago
I don't know your circumstances but often you retain the right to distribute a "post print", ie the final text as published but absent journal formatting. A dissertation should fit that definition.
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by uolmir 2y ago
For example, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/03/car-tyre... https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/0...
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by uolmir 2y ago
This result reminds me of a paper I read last week via Andrew Gelman's blog [1]. It's a very thorough review of the, so called, bat and ball problem and is an up to date summary of something brought to many people's attention
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by uolmir 2y ago
You may enjoy this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidentiality As an English speaker myself it's astonishing the number and range of features that other languages have built in, so to speak. Years ago I took
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by uolmir 2y ago
Great article. As someone with a geology background working in an Earth and space science department, I've greatly appreciated everything I've learned from the planetary scientists and meteorite researchers. There's just so m
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by uolmir 2y ago
Ah yes, the famously objective field of economics.

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