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This sounds like a modern version of the [Bible Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code ] in a different medium.

Airship design has advanced since the Hindenburg. Notably, they don't use hydrogen anymore.

It's not a problem of reflectivity, it's a problem of resolution. In order to detect something distinctly from other things (i.e. resolve that thing), you must be able to distingui…

In practice, the difference between pulsed radar and continuous wave radar is a continuum rather than a dichotomy. Historically, FMCW (frequency modulated continuous wave) had a hi…

This is true for some earlier lofi radars, but as driver assistance and self-driving have developed, so have the requirements and capabilities of the radar systems. Newer systems g…

I agree that you can't know what is "real" without looking at our universe from outside it, but that, in and of itself, doesn't imply that every model must be flawed, in the sense …

I find laying of blame to be the most egregious waste of time, for work as well as personal issues. People who insist on it are, by and large, not people you want to spend time or …

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I was confused by that terminology at first, too, but it appears their product has an "offer" phase where the meeting organizer suggests multiple times, and a "book" phase in which…

I can't decide whether I'm relieved or disappointed that you didn't take advantage of the fantastic rick-rolling opportunity.

Aliasing makes more sense (to me, anyway) if you think about the spectrum of complex signals, in which signals of real samples are modeled as the sum of positive and negative frequ…

From an information theoretic perspective (which is the perspective Nyquist was originally coming from, though it didn't yet have that name), you don't need to mix the signal down.…

I'm not necessarily arguing against you, but "problematic" is too generic a term to be useful. Genocide is "problematic". Having to run to the bathroom every 5 minutes to blow my r…

OP argues that branches aren’t “just refs”, they’re a sequence of commits. I’d argue that a ref _is_ a sequence of commits. (Or, to be pedantic, it uniquely identifies a sequence o…

So would it be fair to say that you're in the half that believes in the misleading?

Apologies if you consider this pedantic, but I prefer to phrase it in terms of the wavefunctions in position and momentum, rather than position and momentum, unadorned: At a quantu…

Another way to phrase my response to #1 above is that sinusoids are the natural modes of many systems. That is, you put a sinusoid in, and you get a sinusoid of the same frequency …

There are a couple of incorrect assertions near the beginning that should be addressed: 1. "That is, sound waves are not made out of sines as real-word phenomena." Sinusoids are th…

That expression leads to something that isn't a probability. Try 1-(1-p_tumor_cell)^(V_body/V_cell).

The issue is that many don't know they're donating to a charity, regardless of alignment. The popups make it sound like donations go to the running of Wikipedia as a web service, n…

Yes, this quantity is the relative phase of the harmonics, although the human ear is generally considered to be insensitive to phase.

This sounds like most of the aside conversations between author and reader in Douglas Adams' writing.

Google projects are like Rule 34: if you can think of it, someone at Google is working on it.

I hoped as much...so what are the repercussions, if any?