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How Fast the Days Are Getting Longer
Here in the northern hemisphere the vernal equinox...
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Consciousness is not computation
Spend enough time in the tech world and...
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Understanding Stein's paradox
An intuitive explanation of the James-Stein estimator.
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My experience with the Librem 13 laptop
I’ve been using Purism’s Librem 13 laptop as...
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What is the expected value of a decisive vote?
Voting is an odd thing. We all in...
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When My Left Lung Collapsed
Sunday, February 10, 2019 began as a wonderful...
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Reflections on the Google AI Residency One Year On
About a year ago I finished up a...
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Multi-GPU training with Tensorflow Estimators
Tensorflow Estimators handle much of the boilerplate of...
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Building a standalone C++ Tensorflow program on Windows
In the last post we built a static...
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Building a static Tensorflow C++ library on Windows
Tensorflow was built first and foremost as a...
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Understanding the modes of mass transfer in binary stars
Suppose we have a pair of stars orbiting...
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What are the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae?
I discussed in a previous article one of...
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Don't end your talk with a thank you slide
There are many ways to give bad talks,...
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How much mass must an open cluster lose to become unbound?
Although there is strong evidence that nearly all...
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The discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe
Among the most important developments in cosmology was...
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The Ambartsumian distribution
In our look at Jeans’s 1919 paper in...
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Apples in a spacecraft
Scott Tremaine’s contribution to a retrospective series on...
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The thermal eccentricity distribution
One of the most beautiful results in dynamics...
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Why is uniform circular motion acceleration?
A common stumbling block for new physics students...
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What is a dex?
The term “dex” comes up rather frequently in...