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9,801karma·1,821submissions·April 12, 2011
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It might be worthwhile to shoot Gwern an email: https://www.gwern.net/Links#contact
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Correction: > In the case of a particle accelerator, that means doubling the amount of time. This should say: "means quadrupling the amount of time" [to double the S/N].
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> If there is new physics to study let us keep the experiment going as is to study that for a generation or two. If there is no new physics from the last experiment, why do we think that building …
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Don't forget "ski ballet"! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_ballet
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And pulsars spin rates slowly change over time do to energy losses. But I don't think these things would cripple a pulsar-based navigation system. Presumably any network of pulsars used for this …
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> There are lots of naturally occurring ones such as pulsars, enough to the point they could be used for 3D navigation, if you can find your distance to them. There's work towards this, from …
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> Nagging me about it isn't going to make me purchase anything. I wonder about this. I feel the same, but wonder if it's true for everyone? I kinda assume it must work some of the time, o…
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> This is going to be really unpopular but you could allow people to write their papers in Microsoft word . Many journals do allow Word submissions. Nature, for example[0] [0] "we strongly en…
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There was some good discussion about this kit two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23196177 …
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I've had a friend say he could tell it was me approaching, based on my gait (I hadn't seen him in several years and his eyesight was such that he couldn't see my facial features from th…
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> since we can't actually see how fast our arm is spinning. It's tougher, but we can. We know that the Sun has an orbital speed of approximately 220 km/s relative to the center of th…
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> I wonder at what point we can spot the SMBHs/supernovae that had given rise to our own solar system Likely never, if you mean an actual supernova remnant that released the enriched material …
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I've been using a similar setup for probably 8+ years now. It started out with an ownCloud instance on a Raspberry Pi B+ (but has since evolved to nextCloud and a VPS, which I also use to run oth…
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> Why would your collaborators have to install any software to use Jitsi? (It should work in a browser AFAIK) Honestly, I didn't know that there was in-browser capabilities. The last time I u…
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> I think the real reason is "it's just what everyone else was doing." I can't speak for others. But for me, using Zoom is really because it worked better than everything else I…