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https://research.umn.edu/units/irb/how-submit/new-study , find the document that points to "determining that it's not human research", leads you to https://drive.google.com/file/d/…

Hmmmm. Let's assume that the baby has a perfect ordered ranking of blocks, 3 > 2 > 1, but that the experimenter doesn't know what it is. There's three scenarios for what the new, t…

The probability of developing a probe, it travelling to Venus and analysing the data from it within that timescale is worse than 50/50.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1910/1910.05224.pdf talks at length about it -- the result is known to be wildly invalid for gas giants, as they have the temperatures and pressu…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone w…

datapoint, to update to 2020: we can now map a third of a fly brain. https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/22/21076806/google-janelia-f...

I agree. In two dimensions, a vehicle moving North-South and a vehicle moving East-West have to cross into each other's path at some point, and 2.5D solutions (bridges and flyovers…

* What are the usecases where this [the Internet Computer and/or Motoko] shines? * Can you expand on Orthogonal Persistence -- is this a "per actor" persistence, or from the refere…

Once the decision has been made that Node 6 is no longer supported, it is then possible to refactor the code so that it uses appropriate modern idioms, such that the external behav…

That's passing fourteen times further away from the moon. It won't have any effect on satellite operations. For a sense of scale on satellites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Ea…

How do I finish drawing an obstacle?

Part of the recitation of names mentioned in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7ktaSAjGA&t=1950 Less musical than I expected...

There was a part of me hoping that this would be "forbidden" in the sense of "forbidden knowledge". I was, surprisingly, not disappointed.

So let's say fraud has a standard tarriff of ten years. And we agree that committing two frauds is twice as bad, so we add them together. Still makes sense. And someone defrauded a…

POP I believe is "point of presence"; I believe its meaning is "the point at which our network connects to the internet".

$ is the shell prompt; he's not typing it. "3 millilightseconds" is the distance light travels in 3 milliseconds, the time a "zero" timeout would take to actually timeout. (This co…

And this costs over $300 an hour. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/...

Strongly recommended watching, in my opinion: very clearly describes some quite complicated manipulations, the circumstances in which they work and how to move between those circum…

Thank you for the clarification.

An example where this matters -- a new Mario 64 trick on the Virtual Console version because summing round-towards-zero numbers over a sine wave cycle produces a small delta which …

Temple OS seems impossible, and yet exists.

I think it's more interesting what's missing: * any mention of funding * any mention of legal issues with controlled sharing And I think that's deliberate. I'm going to read this a…

If you need a more stateful version of requests: import requests session = requests.session() # now use session like you would requests session.get("http://httpbin.org/cookies/set/…

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The quote from the original HTML page is incorrect and dangerous misinformation. From the linked PDF: > KINETIC IMPACT WEAPONS > 8.5.4 Skip-firing off the ground causes an unaccept…