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I am reading a student's outline of their approach to computing the diffuse neutrino flux expected from a class of galaxies over the lifetime of the Universe. It's part of a study we are doi…
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The documentation for Racket[0] is great. Detailed, comprehensive, readable, and a local copy comes with the installation. [0] https://docs.racket-lang.org/ …
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> I am using a Stream Deck for that. Something like the DuckyPad[0,1] might work for that as well. I haven't tried using mine for APL or anything like that, but it's been great for use as…
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The page linked by the HN post title ( https://docs.stepci.com/guides/co2-testing.html ) says: > The calculation algorithm is provided by Sustainable Web Design And links to: h…
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Perhaps you're thinking of the Mendeley reference organization software? Elsevier purchased it in 2013. https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/mendeley https://en.wik…
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> Each year some of the most brilliant people in the world sacrifice on the altar of latex, that could instead be spent on more productive research. Perhaps. But I'd wager that more time is lo…
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> Has anyone been able to get their hands on a decomissioned Google server? Depending on what specifically you're after, there's a number of them on ebay: https://www.ebay.com…
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> JWST is just making all their data immediately available to all researchers who want to dig into it This is not generally true; it only applies to a narrow, specific class of programs. The "…
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> There's debate though if far-infrared was worth it though. I don't think there's debate about whether the far-infrared is valuable. The far-infrared has unique diagnostic power for…
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> Not sure what you call near IR but JWST has a range from 600nm to 28micrometers. Typicaly people start talking about mid-air from 2 micrometers. So I would say JWST definitely covers beyond near …
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Thanks for digging up and pasting the quote. I think that's consistent with what my impression is, though. "we have the same viewpoint of the world and where it's going, different appro…
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> This act seems like a change of attitude for Yvon in some sense, based on what I recall from that film. From everything I've read, Chouinard has been passionate about activism for a long tim…
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As @greenthrow notes, Modified Newtonian Dynamics has been around since the early 80s, first proposed by Milgrom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics …
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> Nobody knew at the time that Hubble was literally a KH-11 class telescope, but one pointed the other way. The mirror size and the ability to be carried in the shuttle was probably to get some syn…