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by vamin 1y ago
Because it comes in at a different frequency versus when it goes out. Light, including UV and visible light, hits the ground, then the ground gets warm and radiates in the IR, which can be blocked by clouds.
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by vamin 4y ago
They may be referring to the meningitis vaccine: https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o997
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by vamin 5y ago
Perovskites break down when exposed to moisture, so while I do think you could DIY a solar cell pretty easily, it wouldn't last long. There are ways around the moisture problem, but they're not so easily DIYable. "In particul
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by vamin 7y ago
Sorry for the paywall, but I was reminded of this article in the Economist about the popularity of the Toyota Prius in Mongolia. One reason is low prices, but another is that they will start in extreme cold when ICE engines can't: htt
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by vamin 8y ago
"By working with the police department in Chandler, AZ, for example, Waymo has been able to train its cars to yield, pull over, or stop when it hears or sees sirens." [1] [1] https://www.recode.net/2017/10&#x2
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by vamin 8y ago
They will pull over.
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by vamin 8y ago
I think you make a good point, but there's a big difference between the amount of waste produced and the amount of waste that makes it into the natural environment, as opposed to a recycling center or dedicated landfill. Just because d
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by vamin 8y ago
If your flight time is half, you can run twice as many flights per day with the same plane, which halves your amortized capital cost per flight. That doesn't get you all the way there, but it's a significant cost reduction, which
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by vamin 8y ago
Actually, we have some very advanced materials which I know from personal experience can hold concentrated sulphuric acid for years! Here is an example of a container made from this amazing material: https://www.restauro-online.c
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by vamin 8y ago
Do we know yet if CloudFlare has similar rate limits?
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by vamin 8y ago
SendGrid has a newsletter/marketing product called "Marketing Campaigns" that's worth a look, it satisfies those three requirements.
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by vamin 8y ago
I'm talking about the raw reads, which is important if you want to try a different alignment or base-calling method. You can debate how important it is to be able to do that, but I'm not trying to argue that the data should be kep
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by vamin 8y ago
It's not generally a significant effect, unsubscribe rates tend to be well under 1%. Most people just ignore emails they don't want.
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by vamin 8y ago
An RNA sequencing run generates on the order of 10GB of data, a typical study requires many runs (treatments, controls, replication of results, etc), and posting the raw data is required by most biology journals. I'm not surprised that
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by vamin 8y ago
The author is making a distinction between whether Uber was legally at fault (as stated in the article, likely not) versus whether the accident was avoidable. I agree with the author's position that the accident was likely avoidable.
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by vamin 8y ago
Not arguing that you shouldn't pay close attention to safety considerations, but many of those optimizations are necessary for Tesla because they have constraints that would be easy to relax in a DIY scenario: very low volume/high
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by vamin 9y ago
The woman cannot go from being "not in path" to "in path" instantaneously unless you believe in teleportation. Supposing the woman got about 1 foot into the path of the car before being struck, the car would have had a m
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by vamin 9y ago
I wonder if it's because Uber algorithms are trained using Uber driver data (taxi drivers tend to be very aggressive drivers).
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by vamin 9y ago
Lots of comments pointing out how obvious it is that the paper was not typeset with real LaTeX, but I think that's a little beside the point. Scott isn't arguing that it looks 100% as good as LaTeX. The article cites research that
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by vamin 9y ago
You’re setting up a bit of a false dichotomy, in my opinion. Treating something like a black box doesn’t mean you have to “throw up our hands and claim to know nothing whatsoever.” Rather, it means you have to change your approach to unders
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by vamin 9y ago
Anecdotally, I've found the opposite. People who are smart tend to be good at lots of things.
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by vamin 9y ago
I'll propose a theory: very loud, low frequency sounds actually create small vibrations in your eyes, and most brains have learned to pipe this sensory input to the auditory cortex. So, the shake in the GIF triggers a "sound"
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by vamin 9y ago
I know you're already getting a torrent of anecdotes right now, but I really think it's important not to sweep this under the rug. I have a co-worker who lives in a nice suburban neighborhood and had CPS called on him because his
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by vamin 9y ago
I had a slightly different issue (non-traditional major for the field I was trying to get into), but I found that it significantly improved my response rates to put my education section at the bottom, instead of the top, of my resume. It ma
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by vamin 9y ago
Not sure about the brain connectome project, but for the human genome project (and many other genome projects) whole genomes are available for browsing and download here: https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgGateway .
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by vamin 9y ago
If you want actionable, I highly recommend Jean-Luc Doumont's "Trees Maps and Theorems." It's like a way more practical, actionable version of Tufte's work. Probably my favorite book on communicating with data. He&#
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by vamin 9y ago
I disagree with the analogy to speech recognition. What makes speech recognition difficult is that it's highly dependent on context (sounds the same, but means something different depending on surrounding words, what the conversation i
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by vamin 9y ago
You might look into Secor: https://github.com/pinterest/secor
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by vamin 10y ago
I think "particle-wave duality" is a bit of an old-fashioned idea that needs to go away. It is true in the sense that we can choose to describe the behavior of elementary particles from both a quantum view point and a Newtonian vi
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by vamin 10y ago
Congresspeople? https://www.google.com/search?q=congresspeople&ie=utf-8&oe=u...

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