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Japan's surrender had absolutely nothing to do with the bomb. And why does everyone think that without Einstein we would somehow enter a 100 year long dark age?

1.5% inherent * 187% from pills = 2.8% risk of autism. Risk of having started a course of antidepressants for absolutely no reason = ~0% Articles with headlines like these seem man…

I'm an experimental physicist who did an undergraduate before my PhD and had to fight tooth and nail for my grades and did all that petty nonsense like going to class and after sch…

Basically the entirety of paragraph 3... "set up only for those who wish to become theoretical physicists, not just ordinary ones" --- use of 'ordinary' instead of 'experimental' i…

I find it strange that no one in this discussion seems to notice the dripping sarcasm...

I wish there was a way to put the text in the middle of my screen.

I think this really depends on your definition of appealing. Machines are already capable of _mimicking the aspects of songs which are currently popular_. I highly doubt that a mac…

Silent Disco?

I, for one, am glad they split that article into two pages; I was getting a bit intimidated by the length.

How esoterically meta.

It's a very interesting project and quite attractive. However as others mentioned it would be useful to see some sort of scale for the dots, scale for the colors, and specifics on …

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It would fundamentally change the science case, not just slightly. You have E-ELT and GMT in the southern hemisphere. A major part of the TMT science case is its survey footprint i…

a brief history of helvetica and arial, posted here a couple of weeks ago: http://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/the-scourge-of-ari...

You're right. I misspoke a bit; I mean all this type of work is Mauna Kea specific: http://www.tmt.org/documents Preliminary work on pipelines relating to the optics, PSFs, band th…

I don't understand. They haven't been denied a permit, they had the permit. Construction had begun. They were given the go ahead, handshook on a deal with the state of Hawaii-- giv…

This site outlines the actions that tmt takes to improve Hawaii and science education in general... 300 jobs. 26 million per year in revenue. 1 million per year just in paying a le…

At first I didn't notice that they actually have STEM classes here. The spiral does however have maths and sciences, the titles mislead me at first but it appears to go through cal…

As recently at 2000, major astronomical surveys (SDSS, York et al. 2000) would ship harddrives daily "via express courier" from the scopes to the processing computers. That's the m…

Some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10626123

how can I generalize? edit: Oh I see that's what the whole discussion here is about -_-

My solution was R=0 always. So if A is positive, always guess B A. Does this not work? import numpy as np import random as rnd trials, correct = 100000000, 0 for i in range(trials)…