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> While I get it that we can't always be persnicketty about the definition of (thermodynamic) temperature I find these alternate, phenomenological temperatures often do more harm than good. It…
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Not likely, since the intervening material probably lets most of the radio emission through. So the radiative coupling between the synchrotron emission and that material is too weak to raise the tempe…
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> That's hotter than the Hagedorn temperature, there could be some very interesting stuff going on. Unfortunately it's not made clear in the article, but the temperature they quote is no…
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Please note that this is not a temperature measurement in the sense of a thermodynamic temperature. It's not made clear in the article, but the ten trillion degrees is a "brightness temperat…
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Hakyll is another: https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/
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> Rel="me" sounds bizzarely narrow, at the same time wildcard-ish and borderline narcissistic. Something like Rel="about:author" or Rel="author:blog" seems better to m…
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The ugrads I've seen have been wearing them around the waist, but now that you mention it, I do recall seeing older folks (older than ugrads, I mean) wearing them over the shoulder.
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> It's time to bring fanny packs back, but please don't turn them into power banks. They're already on their way back. Several friends in Colorado have told me they've been thin…
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Okay, thanks for the clarification. I suspected you'd meant the ecosystem wasn't there (yet), but wanted to make sure. I had seen this Racket data science repo, but am not yet proficient eno…
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> All in all I’d prefer to do data things in Racket or another lisp Do you have any suggestions/resources specific to this? I almost exclusively work with python but am starting to learn Racke…
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I don't have more than a cursory knowledge of the solution, but the Three-body problem wikipedia page should have enough info to get you set in the right direction: https://en.wikipedi…
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There is a series solution to the 3-body problem, which can in principle be computed to an arbitrary level of precision. So while there's no closed-form solution (as the wikipedia article notes),…
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> I could throw something on my roof or out my window that could somehow be part of a global network to watch things and making findings as a community. In addition to the other items people have m…
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Definitely did, it was a great summer program.
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Unrelated to the meat of your post, but neat that you worked with Stefi Baum and Chris O'Dea at ASTRON! I worked with them as an undergraduate, after they had moved to Rochester, NY. I did the AS…
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It's the html header <title></title> entry.
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This is a bit more oriented towards social relationships, but it might also work for your use case: https://www.monicahq.com/ …
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The page is now giving a 404 error (maybe was removed after the traffic spike?). But here's the most recent archive.org mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20180430071524…
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