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jacknobody
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Suggestion for Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) Detection
To whomever is interested, I guess... I suggest that at night clear air turbulence might be detected using a telescope trained on an ahead star. I hypothesise that seeing (the term…
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Comment #40542411
If you also gave all that text, with its audio, to the putative AI, it might have enough training material to learn to read your handwriting.
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Comment #39664721
That's a good reply, although I can't conceive of "negative frequencies".
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Comment #39656965
Well, if Horowitz and Hill aren't doing it for you I'm not sure what can help, short of trade or professional training. What kinds of things do you want to be able to fix?
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Comment #38235293
It's time for me to prepare for internet outages with hard copies, not only of maps but all important reference material.
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Comment #38161180
I must admit, that is indeed succinct. Now, all you need is to define your point of focus, and you're set!
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Comment #38159837
Read heavy fiction. Try Jorge Luis Borges, or the Nobel winning J M Coetzee. Krishnamurti is worth a read.
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Comment #37947636
Probably a good game for those who like numbers (me!). Can you realise the puzzle as a physical model?
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Comment #37740174
I got "allergic" to computers but I still like algorithms and playing with mathematical/logical structures. I spent some time in the Australian outback with nothing but a pencil an…
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Comment #37670980
I think it's a matter of convention, and that all the maths I can think of survives the following definitions: If infinity were to be defined as immeasurably large, and zero as imm…
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Comment #37545581
There's also a lot of waste aluminium, which might be usable in furnaces.
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Comment #37533141
I really like the last one - " 22 The fastest way to get into a productive mindset is to feel a responsibility for living a life of service." I just think service is really cool.
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Comment #37348340
My progress bar froze?
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Comment #37347430
It looks to me that rich celebrities have to spend vast amounts on security. They can't go to the beach; can't go to the supermarket; can't in fact do anything normal. Some very ri…
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Comment #37347346
"If the fool would only persist in his folly, he would become wise" So said Solomon. In context, that means "Stick to one path until you discover its deficiencies."
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Comment #37347252
Not long ago, it was discovered through mitochondrial DNA studies that all modern humans have a common female ancestor, who was dubbed "Eve". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitoch…
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Comment #37345534
Would we know already if water was coming up from the lunar depths?
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Comment #37345506
Do you think that there might be hot springs on the Moon? Why not... our volcanoes on Earth bring water to the surface. That sounds like the kind of discovery that this mission is …
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Comment #37337072
Find interesting things? HN helps. Otherwise, there are no fundamentally uninteresting things in the world and everything a person can study will add to the depth of their knowledg…
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Comment #37319398
Anybody not a doctor who gives medical opinions online to anonymous questioners is probably not very good at thinking and can't be expected to give useful answers. Perhaps you coul…
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Comment #37306546
https://www.medhelp.org/forums/list
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Comment #37306426
Anywhere. Sorry, but people don't always understand and some die as a result. Maybe it should have been flagged for off-topic hopelessness.
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Comment #37306014
It's sad that the article offers no hope; some people will read it and come away very sad. I would like to say that there is hope. I come from Hell, which is also called utter negl…