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I switched from Chrome! And do DDG too. Baby steps

part1of2on The Life of Einstein's First Wife

It’s not as simple as that. They tried to award it just to her husband before splitting it in half and awarding both. Marie Curie’s Wikipedia page says:

“At first the committee had intended to honour only Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, but a committee member and advocate for women scientists, Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler, alerted Pierre to the situation, and after his complaint, Marie's name was added to the nomination.[45] Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize.[24”

part1of2on As a former social media analyst, I'm quitting Twitter

I was just thinking about that too this AM while working on my car. No one is on twitter to have a conversation, it’s a room full of screaming people. I wouldn’t walk into that room physically, so why am I walking into virtually? It’s time to quit

part1of2on An Earth-sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way

The comment came off stronger than intended. It sounded like lazy journalism that made a claim, but then used a different conclusion. Thank you fr pointing me to the NASA site.

> that were able to escape the influence of that star.

What's the mechanism here? Is it something with greater mass that pulled it into an escape?

part1of2on An Earth-sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way

> However, theories of planet formation and evolution predict the existence of free-floating (rogue) planets, gravitationally unattached to any star.

What's the theory that predicted this? After billions of years, I would expect all planets be attached (gravitationally) to a star, shouldn't they?

> Indeed, a few years ago, Polish astronomers from the OGLE team from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw provided the first evidence for the existence of such planets in the Milky Way.

Wait. Evidence is not the theory. Did they predict this or discover it?

part1of2on Public Apology to Jeremy Howard

So the Code of Conduct Committee violated their own Code of Conduct, but they won't take action against themselves.

https://numfocus.org/code-of-conduct

part1of2on Public Apology to Jeremy Howard

There's overlap with the people on that Committee and the Board of Directors, so the transparency isn't exactly their intention

part1of2on Google Sunsets Google Cloud Print

What do you use to host nextcloud?

part1of2on What gravitational-wave events reveal about the Universe

> usually created by the merging of two black holes — have dramatically increased their sensitivity since the first identification was made in 2015. The growing data set is helping astronomy

That graph looks like a hockey stick. Is it really accelerating or are we just getting better at detecting it (this makes more sense)?

One question for me is how do they know which collision is BH+BH, BH+star, Or star+star? That sounds incredibly interesting detail

part1of2on VPN by Google One

> It doesn't increase Google's ability to spy on you

You're going to have to prove that. Your Android device doesn't send ALL your traffic to Google today. Using this would send ALL your traffic to Google. that 100% means it increases Google's ability to spy on you.

part1of2on Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums

> Even with personal blogs, "fragile" as they are, you are able to use the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive to back up your blog.

With that level of expectation, I'd expect you to encourage people to donate to the Wayback Machine / Archive

part1of2on Amazon Argues Users Don't Own Purchased Prime Video Content

Wouldn’t the better option be to have regulation that prevent Both the rights seller (Hollywood) & the seller From revoking the sale/license, and guaranteeing it in the company’s perpetuity?

Essentially, require that Buy be Buy, and that the rights licensee can’t screw over the third party (consumers)

Not sure how to handle it I’d say VEVO declared bankruptcy tho

part1of2on I Violated a Code of Conduct

Didn’t the conference leaders violate their own CoC by being “unkind” to the speaker, and laughing at him?

part1of2on I Violated a Code of Conduct

Another multiplier is that Facebook and others have data scientists and psychology PHDs that are working to maximize the addictiveness of these apps to suck more of our eyeballs attention

part1of2on I Violated a Code of Conduct

I’m reading about critical thinking right now. If we’re not challenging assumptions, then you’re just blindly accepting something that could be wrong. Should I accept what I read in the news as truth, or should I say “this sounds wrong and here’s why”?

You’re right that this is madness. This PC nonsense needs to end. Not everyone can simultaneously be correct

part1of2on Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data breach

I would prefer to make it more personal, like "Im worried my (or my family's) healthcare information would be used against me, that's why we need strong privacy" or "We can all agree that you wouldnt want your child's counselor's notes on the Internet"

part1of2on Windsor Castle: Changing hundreds of royal clocks

Yup. The way I read it was “every job has pros and cons” and this one is particularly a joy

part1of2on Yann LeCun on GPT-3

Is that only for GPT-3? Or for everything they produce?

part1of2on Yann LeCun on GPT-3

Um, as an outside observer, what is Open about this OpenAI GPT-3 then if they’re selling exclusive rights?

part1of2on CBP Refuses to Tell Congress How It Is Tracking Americans Without a Warrant

Can you name a country that doesn’t have borders, customs, and immigration policies (besides maybe Somalia)? The Schengen zone still has it too

part1of2on CBP Refuses to Tell Congress How It Is Tracking Americans Without a Warrant

I think OP means they can defund the director’s salary

part1of2on CBP Refuses to Tell Congress How It Is Tracking Americans Without a Warrant

I’m going to assume you’re being sarcastic because there is zero evidence that’s a good idea

part1of2on 25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to my computer

Is this just normal phone Siri or HomePod Siri?

part1of2on NASA’s Sofia Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon

> SOFIA’s publication rate is now starting to creep up, and last year it was 33 papers. The ultimate goal is 75 to 100 papers per year, says James Jackson, associate director for research at the Universities Space Research Association, the Maryland-based group that manages SOFIA. “More than 150 was a stretch goal,” he says.

I don't think a number is the right target here. Discoveries or theories might be a better goal, not just the number of papers published

part1of2on NASA’s Sofia Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon

> concentrations of 100 to 412 parts per million – roughly equivalent to a 12-ounce bottle of water – trapped in a cubic meter of soil spread across the lunar surface

This is incredible. Is there speculation that there could be a resevoir of ice underneath the soil? As in, could they dig a well and attempt to melt it (somehow) for collection?

part1of2on Why is Drone Photography so Expensive?

Comparing drone photography to ride hailing is odd. Comparing it to photography would make more sense, apples-to-apple

part1of2on Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F

I bet prices just go up store-wide to cover, and even higher on items where the cost is more asymmetric (prescriptions)

part1of2on Ledger Breach (crypto wallet)

> please download the latest version of Ledger Live and follow the instructions

If the servers are infected with malware, whose to say that the software isn’t infected to?

> technically impossible to conclusively assess the severity and the scope of the data breach.

They don’t know either

part1of2on Electoral College Decision Tree

Where would one get started with building a graph like this? I’m trying to wrap my head around the code. Is there a simpler d3 example with less permutations that I can build upon?