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TheGallopedHigh

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    Comment #27323809

    That doesn’t make sense. Every physicist is an engineer and vice versa

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    Comment #27254594

    Or wood. Or basically most things. Just depends on the level you’re comfortable with.

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    Comment #27214395

    So called fat tailed distributions are a random walk. It’s just that their sample distribution is a power law (no mean hence fat tail). Example of which is a Lévy flight: a random …

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    Comment #27214264

    Randomness in pixel values

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    Comment #27135865

    You can build earthquake proof buildings. See many nations in the pacific: notably Japan.

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    Comment #27051699

    Insuflation: the act of blowing on or breathing on

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    Comment #27010577

    I’m sure any skilled hunter would argue differently. Just watch Meat Eater on YouTube for use of animal sound mimicary ant it’s use in hunting.

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    Comment #26999485

    By the mere fact that the car wasn’t pitting as often. Car was likely inspected afterwards.

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    Comment #26421503

    Yep any size particle should. But gravity is described by classical physics through general relativity. When you have situations of very small quantum scales and large gravitationa…

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    Comment #26212821

    This company did a slight pivot to building autonomous collectors anchored in rivers which have the most plastic dumped into them leading to the ocean.

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    Comment #26183472

    Peer-review is free. Editing and Lay-out etc is done with the journal (not much though as they supply latex templates for your work). So there is some cost associated with this.

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    Comment #25935228

    The first time we discovered an exoplanet was in the late 90s orbiting I believe a binary pulsar system.

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    Comment #25865722

    That sounds very inefficient. Here’s something that gets good results quickly. Tie a string/top to a filled 2L bottle. Attach the other end of the rope to the center of a short woo…

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    Comment #25865678

    Holding back the sea pressure is implicitly holding the submarine at atmospheric pressure.

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    Comment #25865641

    Mark Felton did cover that as well on YouTube.

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    Comment #25865582

    There is so much on the plate of the academic that to learn yet another piece of software — like docker which can be trying at the best of times — is yet another straw that can bre…

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    Comment #25856357

    Forearms are quite difficult to do without equipment. Unless you include something that could be easily procured at home.

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    Comment #25853202

    You do realize that often artist don’t physically make a large portion of larger art pieces. Nor do they set them up in galleries it is often done by teams but the artist gets the …

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    Comment #25783780

    Because it could potentially lay waste to large portions of the ecosystem before that system again reaches equilibrium.

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    Comment #25728424

    Likely WhatsApp

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    Comment #25698487

    You’re saying the same thing as the parent comment.

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    Comment #25677875

    These type of models are done to death in traffic and other social models. Just look up “agent based modeling” and read to your heart’s content

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