As a family man, finding a topic that can involve the kids may fit into your life better. If you like making, optical telescopes can be rewarding. There's the optics, telescope manufacturing and sky trackers (robotics). Nowadays digital photography goes with telescopes.
If you really want to contribute peripherally, there are lots of open data sets. Contributing code is especially useful.
Build something with your hands. Travel. Trek. Try something you've never done before. Do something out of doors.
I didn't, I wish I had.
P.S. Graduate as soon as possible. You don't get more points for doing more work as a graduate student. Your post-doc record is way more important if you are trying for the academic track.
In span of time between missions, there is usually incredible progress in a few key parameters, detector noise, spacial resolution, and frequency range. While you can argue that a "refueled" IRAS could beat down the noise by observing for years and years, changing out detectors and telescopes is effectively launching a new mission. Also, as our knowledge of astrophysics grows, we design missions to answer the unanswered questions. 10 years of IRAS is not necessarily as interesting as a couple of years of a significantly more advanced mission.
This is a great article describing how difficult it is to control systematic errors with clocks in this kind of Time Of Flight experiment. An undergraduate level of understanding of relativity is all that's required and it makes you think. Also contains some snarkiness.
Trust and faith or belief are not the same thing. I can trust people but still verify or need to verify the veracity of their assertions. Scientists rely on the network of trust among themselves but if something doesn't work they will call each other out on it. With faith, there is no need to verify. In fact, with faith I don't need trust because I'm not relying on the words of a man but my belief in the divine. This is different from following a demagogue, which is not faith but obedience.
This is actually a carefully crafted plan to burn out the brains of knee-jerk anti-intellectuals as they rant in circles about protecting children while fighting terrorism. I patiently await seeing Glenn Beck self destruct on TV like the androids sabotaged by Spock on Star Trek.
Something that doesn't seem to be mentioned much in the 'something borrowed' department is the deathworld concept. Pandora was already dangerous and then became an adversary once the planetary consciousness decided to fight back. For me this elevated the story to more than Pocahontas-in-space since the indigenous people's wholistic view on the world wasn't just philosophy, it was real.
P.S. The 'anti-technology POV' complaints are completely off base. Recall that the scientists are allowed to stay.
There's no reason to hate to say it. Apple did accessibility very very well. We bought a 27" iMac for my Grandma with glaucoma and switched it to 800x600. The mac scales it all quite well to fill the giant screen.
Then when it's time for maintenance, I switch it to full resolution for me and then back to low resolution for her.
I wonder if credulous people exhibit a stronger placebo effect. I worry that the increase in the placebo effect is a measure of more credulous population.
How can you have spoilers for a Wheel of Time book? What with all the hair/skirt/whatever fiddling, height comparisons, and other stock text larding up the books plus the lack of plot, how could you not know what is going to happen?
it's an internet company buying a more conventional one. It's no more or less threatening than any other giant media empire. As for its threat to a free internet, there is more threat in AT&T quietly buying up every cable company in sight and then needing to be taken to court to allow other companies to access that bandwidth. What has Jon Katz to say on AT&T buying MediaOne?
The browser is advertised as lightweight and simple as opposed to the two leading contenders. A long running netscape will grow to tens of megabytes in memory and consume an ever growing amount of swap space.
Opera starts off lighter, 3 Mb vs. 6Mb as seen by top, but can grow to a comparable size after some browsing.
If they can keep it simple and get the bug count down, I'd buy it. I can't stand how available browsers consume all of a machine's resources when I'm just reading documentation while working.
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As a family man, finding a topic that can involve the kids may fit into your life better. If you like making, optical telescopes can be rewarding. There's the optics, telescope manufacturing and sky trackers (robotics). Nowadays digital photography goes with telescopes.
If you really want to contribute peripherally, there are lots of open data sets. Contributing code is especially useful.
If only there was a Protocol to Simply Transfer Messages.
Why is this called Steinhardt's paper? Anna Ijjas is first author and she's a post-doc at Harvard.
Build something with your hands. Travel. Trek. Try something you've never done before. Do something out of doors.
I didn't, I wish I had.
P.S. Graduate as soon as possible. You don't get more points for doing more work as a graduate student. Your post-doc record is way more important if you are trying for the academic track.
In span of time between missions, there is usually incredible progress in a few key parameters, detector noise, spacial resolution, and frequency range. While you can argue that a "refueled" IRAS could beat down the noise by observing for years and years, changing out detectors and telescopes is effectively launching a new mission. Also, as our knowledge of astrophysics grows, we design missions to answer the unanswered questions. 10 years of IRAS is not necessarily as interesting as a couple of years of a significantly more advanced mission.
Ray Bradbury,
Is that you?
This is a great article describing how difficult it is to control systematic errors with clocks in this kind of Time Of Flight experiment. An undergraduate level of understanding of relativity is all that's required and it makes you think. Also contains some snarkiness.
It's a product called "Kidzui". It consists of a bunch of whitelisted sites, videos and other content whitelisted by parents and teachers.
By paying for a service you can avoid it being brought to you by Fruity Pebbles, which is what "Google Kids" would be.
That top down central planning will get you every time.
Trust and faith or belief are not the same thing. I can trust people but still verify or need to verify the veracity of their assertions. Scientists rely on the network of trust among themselves but if something doesn't work they will call each other out on it. With faith, there is no need to verify. In fact, with faith I don't need trust because I'm not relying on the words of a man but my belief in the divine. This is different from following a demagogue, which is not faith but obedience.
Comparing Apple vs PC/Android to Protestant vs. Catholic makes me want to defenestrate somone...
PTSD...
Looking at the Cat vs. Dog picture, all I can say is, "What's wrong with dog people?"
Thinking of such things, I am reminded of walking past the Necco Wafer factory in Cambridge on a winter day when they are making the mint wafers...
This is actually a carefully crafted plan to burn out the brains of knee-jerk anti-intellectuals as they rant in circles about protecting children while fighting terrorism. I patiently await seeing Glenn Beck self destruct on TV like the androids sabotaged by Spock on Star Trek.
Something that doesn't seem to be mentioned much in the 'something borrowed' department is the deathworld concept. Pandora was already dangerous and then became an adversary once the planetary consciousness decided to fight back. For me this elevated the story to more than Pocahontas-in-space since the indigenous people's wholistic view on the world wasn't just philosophy, it was real.
P.S. The 'anti-technology POV' complaints are completely off base. Recall that the scientists are allowed to stay.
There's no reason to hate to say it. Apple did accessibility very very well. We bought a 27" iMac for my Grandma with glaucoma and switched it to 800x600. The mac scales it all quite well to fill the giant screen.
Then when it's time for maintenance, I switch it to full resolution for me and then back to low resolution for her.
Kinda how video games work.
I wonder if credulous people exhibit a stronger placebo effect. I worry that the increase in the placebo effect is a measure of more credulous population.
How can you have spoilers for a Wheel of Time book? What with all the hair/skirt/whatever fiddling, height comparisons, and other stock text larding up the books plus the lack of plot, how could you not know what is going to happen?
Somewhere out there is a darwin award for species behavior. Our award might be for inventing our own successor.
The power from a dipole antenna drops like 1/r^3.
DK-PHD
it's an internet company buying a more conventional one. It's no more or less threatening than any other giant media empire. As for its threat to a free internet, there is more threat in AT&T quietly buying up every cable company in sight and then needing to be taken to court to allow other companies to access that bandwidth. What has Jon Katz to say on AT&T buying MediaOne?
DK
The browser is advertised as lightweight and simple as opposed to the two leading contenders. A long running netscape will grow to tens of megabytes in memory and consume an ever growing amount of swap space.
Opera starts off lighter, 3 Mb vs. 6Mb as seen by top, but can grow to a comparable size after some browsing.
If they can keep it simple and get the bug count down, I'd buy it. I can't stand how available browsers consume all of a machine's resources when I'm just reading documentation while working.
DK
How else are you going to build your own Tivo?
If opera can demonstrate that slimness and
reliability are features people will pay for,
then more power to them.