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Here's an article mentioning the data transmission rates in SKA, up to 20 terabits per second: https://www.skao.int/en/explore/big-data

For context, Diamond argues that the collapse occurred around 1600, much earlier than the 19th century slaving raids you mention. The first European contact occurred around 1720, w…

Actually, genetic studies found that Al-Andalus did leave a sizable admixture behind. Lots of references here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_history_of_the_Iberian...

It is mentioned in the linked article.

The library is not forcing you to use plt as a shorthand. Nothing is stopping you from calling from matplotlib import pyplot pyplot.plot([0,1,2], [0,2,4])

It's funny that lots of folks complain about the game being oversexualized while me and my partner - 120 hours in, in Act 3 now - somehow managed to completely fail triggering any …

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1294/

Yes, Nárdil (or Nárndil?) could've been a Tolkien name meaning fire friend in Quenya.

> I thought it was well accepted I was in a museum in Sardinia (was part of Carthage) sometime ago and saw some of the tophets mentioned in the article. The argument from the linke…

A dam on the same river was blown up by retreating Soviet troops in WW2: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/02/second-world-w...

If a woman bears many children throughout her life, you can still have a situation where the first pregnancy occurs much earlier than today's average yet the overall conception ave…

There was little support for joining NATO before Crimea was annexed. Ukraine wanted to join NATO precisely because it realized that it will be devoured piece by piece by its imperi…

Zoomed-in part in the center, "1400 light-years across the centre of the Galaxy." as a linked paper indicates. Milky Way is long, 105700 light years in diameter.

They could be aligned with the magnetic field lines around the Galactic Center: https://media.springernature.com/original/springer-static/im...

The cost of Ariane 5 rocket is below $200m, which is a rather small fraction of the overall budget of $5-10b. If the main reason for the huge cost is to make it so lightweight, why…

Around 5e-14 per year, assuming random impact location, small (i.e. not town-sized) projectiles, and head impact cross-section the size an A4 paper. You can sleep safely. Waiting f…

A more interesting bit of the paper: > It is worth speculating that a remarkable catastrophe, such as the destruction of Tall el-Hammam by a cosmic object, may have generated an or…

You can try it yourself with the chrome translate feature.

Good suggestion, but the data is semi-private and I have no ownership of it. May be worth a shot though, thanks!

I was playing around with MegaDetector and it's wonderful. Works surprisingly well, although it does have a tendency to classify tree stumps as animals. Wish it would come with som…

I, for one, would be uncomfortable with AI removing my accent. I understand it's for other people to understand me better - and I am fine with AI-generated subtitles - but altering…

That is true, but the prize was awarded to Genzel for “for the __discovery__ of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy” (emphasis mine), not for the (impressive …

Back in the day they each led research to detect irrefutable evidence of it. This isn't anything new and groundbreaking.

We smile on the outside yet cry on the inside.

It's easy to miss that the article is published under the same username as the one described as an "anonymous source", in, for example "... Wirecard desperately wanted to know who …