I couldn't figure out whether you wrote "Gilded" as "Guilded" as a deliberate pun, or whether it was just a misspelling... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A real gamma ray wouldn't do much, and would just pass through, unless it pair converted to electron and positron. But cosmic rays (charged particles) would be more likely to interact.
It's a bit over-simplyfying things to refer to presbyopia as far-sightedness. Presbyopia is the loss, with age, of the ability to accommodate or change focus. The net result may be the loss of ability to focus on nearby objects, but simple far-sightedness would be "hyperopia"
A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car or train car, and in Australia a billy cart) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way
Except that it's not a train with exclusive use of the tracks, it's a tram "contending with bikes, prams and cars which sometimes haphazardly crossed its path"
"lunar", "solar" etc. are used as adjectives. But, in professional publications, the bodies are called by their regular English names (although with the initial letter capitalized).
The designation of our Moon is, therefore, the Moon, with a capital M and used as a name (a proper noun). The same applies to the designation of our planet — the Earth
The Sailbuoy competed in the “unmanned” class, which allows operators to change its course along the way. There’s a separate “autonomous” class that prohibits any such communication.
At the government lab where I work natural light is a status symbol.
The civil servants above a certain rank all get their own offices with windows, whereas "contractors", of no matter what status and how many years of working at the lab., have shared windowless offices.
For me (using kindle app. on an iPad mini) it's the ability to effectively carry large number of books when I travel, at very little weight. In addition, I'm learning French and it's very convenient to be able to look up words simply by highlighting them.
I raise issue with calling it a "double-blind study" since clearly those that got meth instead of sugar figured it out on the first dose. There are some thing you cant play make believe about. You may be able to trick someone into thinking they got it when they didnt, but there is no way to do the opposite.
Yeah, I have too; seeing it in Esperanto, in America was more amusing though knowing that 99.9% of the people who saw the t-shirt would have no idea of what it said.
I presume anybody who has any exposure to a romance language (e.g. Spanish) would know, which is a lot of people. It's pretty clear to me with my limited knowledge of French.
A lot of the western European countries (e.g. Spain, France) should abandon Central European Time (CET) of any type. It doesn't make any sense since since they're in western and not central Europe. That's one reason people eat so late in Spain, as they're to the west of England.
Instead they should use WET (Western European Time), i.e. essentially follow the UK....
Article says it is "cyclosporine A" which is designed to prevent your body from attacking transplanted organs. That is a pretty serious drug, suppressing your immune system to the point that it mostly ignores giant blobs of foreign meat in your body.
From the article:
But because of its side effects, CsA was unsuitable as a baldness treatment.
The team went on to look for another agent that targeted SFRP1 and found that WAY-316606 was even better at suppressing the protein.
Also, perhaps it's applied topically rather than ingested?
That's actually true, it is the way statistics work.
Well, not really for practical purposes. i.e. to demonstrate that the automatic system is safer than human driving you "only" need to drive a sufficient number of miles without a death, but in which there would be e.g. a 99.99... (select your significance)% that a death would have occurred.
Now, to measure the actual death rate you do indeed have to kill a statistically significant number of people. But practically, you only really care about obtaining an upper limit that's significantly below the human driver death rate.
It's like testing a treatment for a deadly disease. You don't need to have people in the treatment group die, just to have enough die in the placebo group to demonstrate a statistically significant difference.
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Would be hard in my apartment building - there's only street parking, and I live on the 4th floor!
Only old people use fossil fuel vehicles anymore.
Or people who live in apartments with no place to charge their cars overnight.
Try to find me one other profession where you can milk the exploits of someone you probably never even met because he died long before you were born.
Being royalty or a member of the aristocracy?
(Using "profession" rather loosely...)
I couldn't figure out whether you wrote "Gilded" as "Guilded" as a deliberate pun, or whether it was just a misspelling...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So yeah, the system worked exactly as designed, and is fail safe. All in all a successful failure.
Well, not exactly as designed since it ended up in the ocean...
A real gamma ray wouldn't do much, and would just pass through, unless it pair converted to electron and positron.
But cosmic rays (charged particles) would be more likely to interact.
one for presbyopia (far-sightedness)
It's a bit over-simplyfying things to refer to presbyopia as far-sightedness.
Presbyopia is the loss, with age, of the ability to accommodate or change focus.
The net result may be the loss of ability to focus on nearby objects, but simple far-sightedness would be "hyperopia"
They show a pic of the so-called 'autonomous tram', and it's on a track. Must be a German thing to call it a 'tram'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car or train car, and in Australia a billy cart) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way
Most (all?) inter-terminal airport trams I've seen don't have anything else that can occupy their tracks.
Except that it's not a train with exclusive use of the tracks, it's a tram
"contending with bikes, prams and cars which sometimes haphazardly crossed its path"
"lunar", "solar" etc. are used as adjectives.
But, in professional publications, the bodies are called by their regular English names (although with the initial letter capitalized).
See this from the IAU (International Astronomical Union):
https://www.iau.org/public/the...
The designation of our Moon is, therefore, the Moon, with a capital M and used as a name (a proper noun). The same applies to the designation of our planet — the Earth
e.g. there's a refereed journal specifically called: "Earth, Moon, and Planets".
https://link.springer.com/jour...
The only place I've seen "Sol", "Luna", and "Terra" used is in science fiction!
Although I mainly work on objects beyond the Solar System, I am a professional astronomer.
Luna, Terra, Sol?
I suppose you mean the Moon, the Earth, and the Sun, as we scientists call them?
And also appears to be climate change denier....
(at least for some of his Register articles.)
Followed later by Cory Doctorow
http://bestsciencefictionstori...
For the first time an autonomous sailing robot...
From the linked article:
https://www.apnews.com/f6d0e2a...
The Sailbuoy competed in the “unmanned” class, which allows operators to change its course along the way. There’s a separate “autonomous” class that prohibits any such communication.
At the government lab where I work natural light is a status symbol.
The civil servants above a certain rank all get their own offices with windows, whereas "contractors",
of no matter what status and how many years of working at the lab., have shared windowless offices.
(Me, bitter? Maybe only slightly...)
For me (using kindle app. on an iPad mini) it's the ability to effectively carry large number of books when I travel,
at very little weight. In addition, I'm learning French and it's very convenient to be able to look up words simply by
highlighting them.
Perhaps you don't get out much. Many POS systems have contact payments already built-in. .
That's contact-less
So far I've found the place that contactless payments works best is Spain (at least compared
to USA, Japan, France,and Italy).
I raise issue with calling it a "double-blind study" since clearly those that got meth instead of sugar figured it out on the first dose. There are some thing you cant play make believe about. You may be able to trick someone into thinking they got it when they didnt, but there is no way to do the opposite.
Which, of course, calls for the relevant XKCD comic...
https://xkcd.com/1462/
Yeah, I have too; seeing it in Esperanto, in America was more amusing though knowing that 99.9% of the people who saw the t-shirt would have no idea of what it said.
I presume anybody who has any exposure to a romance language (e.g. Spanish) would know, which is a lot of people.
It's pretty clear to me with my limited knowledge of French.
A lot of the western European countries (e.g. Spain, France) should abandon Central European Time (CET) of any type.
It doesn't make any sense since since they're in western and not central Europe.
That's one reason people eat so late in Spain, as they're to the west of England.
Instead they should use WET (Western European Time), i.e. essentially follow the UK....
Article says it is "cyclosporine A" which is designed to prevent your body from attacking transplanted organs. That is a pretty serious drug, suppressing your immune system to the point that it mostly ignores giant blobs of foreign meat in your body.
From the article:
But because of its side effects, CsA was unsuitable as a baldness treatment.
The team went on to look for another agent that targeted SFRP1 and found that WAY-316606 was even better at suppressing the protein.
Also, perhaps it's applied topically rather than ingested?
So, when we make first contact with aliens, the lenses will turn dark?
Or am I misreading the heading...?
That's actually true, it is the way statistics work.
Well, not really for practical purposes.
i.e. to demonstrate that the automatic system is safer than human driving you
"only" need to drive a sufficient number of miles without a death, but in which
there would be e.g. a 99.99... (select your significance)% that a death would
have occurred.
Now, to measure the actual death rate you do indeed have to kill a statistically
significant number of people. But practically, you only really care about obtaining an
upper limit that's significantly below the human driver death rate.
It's like testing a treatment for a deadly disease. You don't need to have people
in the treatment group die, just to have enough die in the placebo group to
demonstrate a statistically significant difference.
I find it faster to use siri (or google) to set an alarm when I'm cooking, or to check the weather quickly.
But beyond that, not so much typically...