CurtMonash

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by CurtMonash 9y ago
Well up above the tropostrata There is a region stark and stellar Where, on a streak of anti-matter Lived Dr. Edward Anti-Teller. Remote from Fusion’s origin, He lived unguessed and unawares With all his antikith and kin, And kept macassars
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
I guess it would be tough to keep these around in any substantial quantity.
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
I use ridiculous numbers of tabs, and Firefox has been less stable for me the past months than ever before.
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
Also, it was a big deal when I visited Tokyo in 1979.
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
The earliest mention of this problem I can recall is in the 1948 movie Mr. Blanding Builds His Dream House. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Blandings_Builds_His_Dream... Admittedly, that wasn't the extreme form.
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
My recommendation: Find another job. Dishonesty is ESSENTIAL to IBM Watson marketing. Specifically, IBM has taken a whole lot of different technologies and rebranded them as "Watson", so as to pretend that the Jeopardy-playing sy
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
VPOTUS Mike Pence takes the same approach. This makes it tough for him to give important jobs to women, at least ones who would have to work closely with him. That is not a good thing.
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
Pistachio flavored lokum -- i.e. Turkish Delight -- made with chestnut honey is good stuff. That said, after I had fun bargaining for some in the Spice Bazaar in Istanbul, I ate little of what I brought home. I still like chocolate better.
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
My first week of grad school at Harvard, Ted Slaman was freaking out a bit, wondering whether he (or any of us) was good enough to succeed at math. I replied (more or less in these words): "Look. You're brilliant. I'm brillia
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
Roman difficulties advancing into the Germanic areas are covered in https://www.volksliederarchiv.de/als-die-roemer-frech-geword... An abbreviated version may be found in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
The zombie problem is solved by reaping children? I guess Craster was right after all. :)
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
Same here.
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
The politics of privacy are odd. The issue described in the article was decided along strict party lines. Surely not coincidentally, the bill favored the big telecom companies at the expense of the newer parts of the tech industry. On the o
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
Good advice. But I didn't see much there that should surprise anybody other than several versions of "Don't panic", including: "Don't panic -- everybody else looks imperfect too." and "Don't pani
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
I thought this would be about web or email tracking.
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
Sometimes, the other department really isn't a bottleneck; the first department just incorrectly thinks it is. For example, decades ago I had a consulting gig to help an enterprise pick an app dev tool. This was during the period in th
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
The 6 million number was a best-efforts estimate at the time. It is not guaranteed to be precisely correct. (This is one of the very few talking points used by antisemitic asses that might actually be valid.)
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
See my other comment.
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
The actual Occam's Razor is useless unless adapted. How does one count "assumptions" -- if we take Wikipedia's word for what it states -- or "entities" -- if we take the version I first learned? Most versions t
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
Because all usable standards are fuzzy, including the one you favor. And the judgment as to whether a particular fuzzy match is good enough is, in essence, an aesthetic one.
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by CurtMonash 9y ago
I wish more people had read that book. Anybody with some education in philosophy figures out that utter, logical-proof certainty can't be had. So what does one do for epistemology instead? There are two main alternatives: -- Religious-
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by CurtMonash 10y ago
Fortunately, what's written there is not true in all places at all times. For example, I got my PhD in math at Harvard in the 1970s. My PhD adviser, Andy Gleason, was a terrifically nice guy, yet seemed oddly unsympathetic to the stres
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by CurtMonash 10y ago
The classic(al) example I recall from college is that there were a lot of details and general quality in the statues atop the Parthenon that could not possibly have been visible from the ground.
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by CurtMonash 10y ago
On the autobahns around Berlin, under the American occupation, signs said that one shouldn't speed, because death was so permanent. But the chaplains or some other religious folks objected, and so the signs were taken back down. (Sourc
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by CurtMonash 10y ago
I actually edited one of the SEO sections. THAT gave me sudden status in the SEO world ...
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by CurtMonash 10y ago
The project was on the old side when I joined and wrote about it 10 years ago. http://www.texttechnologies.com/2007/02/06/a-hobbit-writes-f...
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by CurtMonash 10y ago
I was proud that my PhD thesis was about 1/3 as long as one in the humanities might be, counting by pages. Then I realized that it probably would take just as long to read out loud. :) Mathematics is dense. Period.
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by CurtMonash 10y ago
I was a #1-ranked stock analyst. And I indeed outperformed the market on my and my parents' accounts. I also know a small hedge fund manager who I believe could consistently outperform the market. But in each case the strategy was to k
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by CurtMonash 10y ago
A "waldo" is a remote manipulator. I think the term comes from 1940s Robert Heinlein SF.
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by CurtMonash 10y ago
People consistently ignore the middle course, which is to allow a market for differentiated quality of service, zero-rating, whatever -- but to regulate that market as to what can be offered in it. The point would be that large companies co

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