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Why? It's an excellent recruiting tool. I used to read it as a kid (along with every other paper or digital encyclopedia I could get my hands on), and it certainly made me interest…

This is very cool, thanks for sharing. There are many industries and academic fields where Matlab has gone out of fashion (I work in one), and my experience has been that there's a…

This is a fun dataset. The paper leaves a slight misimpression about channel statistics: IIUC, they do not correct for sampling propensity to reweight when looking at subscriber co…

It also includes the Apple One bundle. I wonder if the bundles complicate that breakdown — I certainly never use Apple Music or Arcade, and almost never TV+. Anecdotally, I cannot …

I don't think they were pretending to look, they were just (rightly) remaining open to it being either rescue or recovery. From the article: > “While not definitive, this informati…

> and so must be hiding that they can do so I don't believe I said that. You can draw your own conclusion from the fact that it is within their capabilities to detect, localize, an…

Hydrophones don't need to be nearby or even at a similar depth. The SOFAR channel acts as a waveguide and will duct sources from other depths as long as the bottom is below the cri…

> We've gone from: - Uncertainty exceeding signal in satellite data is "simply not the case" ... Not sure I can help someone who willfully misreads my comments! Give chapter 9 of t…

The thread is at max depth, so I'll reply here: As you quoted from the paper: > The six main groups that provide satellite-altimetry-based GMSL estimates ... 1) You're restricting …

Figure 1 from that paper didn't convince you that it was a minor issue? Their correction is about 7% of the 1993-2018 signal, and it resolves the discrepancy with respect to other …

> Also that assumes the scientists are completely accurate and don't make any mistakes. As recently as 5 years ago they discovered that the measured rise for almost all of the 90s …

Archimedes would like a word. There are some small effects due mostly to salinity differences, but sea ice isn't a major contributor because it is already floating and thus displac…

This article only briefly touches on what I think is the most interesting aspect of sea level rise: gravitational adjustment. Even though I never worked seriously on sea level rese…

I've been very impressed with sqlglot, and am looking forward to trying this feature. The only issue I've had with sqlglot is transpiling for use with a specific spark version: in …

A cautionary tale from personal experience: My parents retired to a rural area and wanted to ensure that their area would remain a healthy old growth forest. They have been activel…

I take it that you're looking only at the "All Infection" efficacy? While the original vaccines are clearly less effective at totally preventing infection with the latest variants,…

I love ThermoKlein... but then they'd have needed to engineer it to IPX8 standards to avoid excessive warranty servicing from cranky oceanographers.

Nitpick: gravity waves [1] pretty universally refer to waves in fluid media in which the restoring force is buoyancy. Ripples in spacetime are usually called _gravitational_ waves.…

I'll refrain from picking a side, but Air Power Australia and the credibility of its proprietor Carlo Kopp are... controversial [1,2]. He has extensive knowledge of many of the rel…

Yay! For years I've been wanting some form of home-oriented fleet management tool for all of my stuff. I'm glad you've addressed maintenance reminders — I am so bad at keeping trac…

There is an interesting relationship between frequency domain filtering and the distributional properties of a signal, which I believe the author encounters: So interestingly, the …

These lectures look fantastic — thank you for making and sharing them! I've been looking for a good foundational treatment of optimization to digest over the holidays.

That's an odd generalization to apply when we're talking about an individual whose significant academic record is easy to find [0,1]. Many department heads are more senior, taking …

> However! I believe that the main benefit of central nuclear plants, is there ability to keep poisonous materials in a single location, so that it doesn't get lost. Off topic, but…