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Yes. My PhD advisor had a research interest in axiom systems for probability that are weaker than the familiar Kolmogorov axioms, which are sometimes abbreviated "CMP" for "convent…

Not “me,” but yes, that’s the rate quoted in the document I linked about the instrument that captured the images in OP.

The piece ends with the observation that maybe the fact that 1/f noise is its own Fourier transform is a clue. Turns out this property is not unusual. There are many such pairs - t…

Yes, just 0.5nm of spectrum in the instrument used ( https://dkist.virtualsolar.org/vanNoortfastcam/ , see under “DataSetDescriptions.pdf”). If the pixels really are 20x20km, locat…

People were identifying gross features (like the convection cells in the first website I linked), and giving those features names. Like “sunspots”, “faculae”, “pores”, “granulation…

Sure thing. Remote sensing of the Sun is different from anything else, because you have so many photons. The idea of binning it down so fine (20x20km, 740Hz, a single nm of spectru…

This kind of observation is a big deal for solar physics. It's been believed for decades that these small-scale (~100km and below) turbulent features are critical to understanding …

On the other hand: Vidiots: https://vidiotsfoundation.org/history-mission/ Video Journeys: https://conorholt.medium.com/video-store-interview-video-jou... (Keanu Reeves, Laurence F…

Matlab license server goes down, for example

I also enjoy this classic meme. The full version is here: https://www.dourish.com/goodies/see-figure-1.html Some phrases have stuck with me, like “mandatory defaults“, “they told t…

Like the article hints at, some of the particular strengths of this new measurement: - frequent revisit, so can track even sub-monthly changes - the L-band radar is at a wavelength…

Just as a fun fact, here are some images of the extent of subsidence (due to groundwater pumping for agriculture) in the California Central Valley: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/lan…

I believe you are correct. The person who delivered this threat is a grandson of William Colby (ex-CIA director, ex-OSS, arch-Catholic). Elbridge Colby is also Catholic, and some o…

Can’t tell if missing /s, but the analogy is: Jewish/socialist physicists:atomic weapons::”foreign“ AI scientists:automated targeting I’m not looking forward to the loss of innocen…

Replying very late, but with an actual answer. It turns out that yes, better forecasts is a large part of what motivated the launch of this instrument. High-spectral-resolution IR …

They also feature that the IR hyperspectral measurement is new -- 1700 channels in IR for a telescope in GEO seems new to me, but I'm not sure what exists now in this space. They s…

Getting close to the "why Dropbox when you can rsync" mistake ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 ) @vicapow replied to keep the Dropbox parallel alive

I meant this more as a rueful acknowledgment of an academic truism - not all citations are read by those citing. But I have touched a nerve, so let me explain at least part of the …

Totally! If you haven't burrowed in the stacks as a grad student, you missed out. The real challenges there aren't the "biggies" above, though, it's the ones in obscure journals yo…

I was an area chair on the NeurIPS program committee in 1997. I just looked and it seems that we had 1280 submissions. At that time, we were ultimately capped by the book size that…

My son went to LA-area and LAUSD schools, and the echo of that same commitment from those years in California was still faintly detectable in the 2010s, highly attenuated by Prop 1…

On the other hand, right when you think you have her pegged as contemptuous, or boring, this beautiful essay on accidental wonders and catastrophes: https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws…

Katherine Carpenter Elementary, OP, KS for me, in the same era -- just a couple miles from your school. I share some of the same disappointment, especially going back and noticing …

Here's a nice animation tracking this (covers up to 2022, not sure about 2025): https://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/42/grace-and-grace-fo-t... The southern end of the central vall…