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Which JXL supports, by the way. Tiling is mandatory for images bigger than 2048x2048, and you can construct images based on an 8x downscaled version, recursing that up to 4 times f…

By the "g as in graphics" logic for "gif", for "jpeg" we have "j as in joint", "p as in photographic", "e as in experts", and "g as in group", so "je-feck"?

Qalculate! has been my go-to calculator on my laptop for years, very happy to have it on my phone now too! And it definitely knows planet radii, try `planet("earth"; "radius")`. Sp…

The issue is not so much that it's cellulosic as that it's lignocellulosic; we have a pretty good grasp these days on cellulose (and hemicellulose, but we can handle that too so I'…

"next-generation sequencing" is a term of art in this case

Dane here. Yes, it's because of limited testing capacity (new machines arrived recently and they are ramping up to 1000 tests per day, additional capacity will among other things g…

Have you considered learning stenography? The Open Steno Project is very DIY, and I'm sure they'd be thrilled to help think up an even more mobile design for a steno writer (though…

I noticed that the paper mentions constructing a triangulation of a set of initial sample points, which would allow for the optimization domain to be any convex polytope. Is this s…

I think the point is that you can build a boat out of bricks, and you can build neural networks out of linear regression. But that doesn't make modern AI "just fancy linear regress…

The theoretical property those hacks were aiming at showing is called the transitive reduction. And you don't need any hacks to calculate it, graphviz comes with the `tred` tool to…

In some cases you can forget bad input, though, can't you? It's a rather wasteful example, but if (like you say, having established trust beforehand) every element of a grow-only s…

For the record, what you're smelling for is acetic acid (vinegar). When aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) hydrolyzes into salicylic acid, the other product of that reactions is acetic…

Just a small correction: the abbreviated form of mebibyte is MiB.

I read it as them saying "In practice, economics beats morality (so we'll have to change the economics of the situation if we want to fix this)".

I've heard such internalized beliefs described as "aliefs", indicating that they are, in a way, more fundamental. As an example, if you're walking in a dark forest at night, you mi…

That/said individual who is not any of us.

People keep saying this as if it were meant to be parsed "(avoid success) (at all costs)", but in fact it's supposed to be "avoid (success at all costs)", in other words "principle…

This reminds me of the story of how Target were able to quite precisely figure out whether their female customers were pregnant, and even when the due dates were: http://www.nytime…