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Re:Steve Albini has died on Thursday May 09, 2024 @11:13AM (#40309052)
An obituary from the US Forest Service for Frank Albini, for anyone interested (pdf): https://www.fs.usda.gov/rm/pubs_other/rmrs_2006_andrews_p001...

The father of film director David Lynch also worked for the US Forest service in Montana funnily enough: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/pressenterprise/name/do...

I wonder if they ever crossed paths.

Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? on Thursday September 07, 2023 @08:35PM (#37427723)
I would think newer scientific/technical words would be more likely to spread unchanged from their origin. Like "boson" or "quark".
Re:How Correlated Are You? on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @12:05PM (#37324161)
I wonder how many significant dimensions a principal components analysis would identify for that data set, and if one of them would correspond to male/female.