DaniFong

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811.
by DaniFong 18y ago
Typically, incompressible flow is valid in gases for Mach numbers less than 0.3, so this is relevant for automotive aerodynamics and wind turbines, but not for turboprops, jet engines, compressors, gas turbines, and most airplanes. It may b
812.
by DaniFong 18y ago
What about borrowing the popular 'like' feature from Friendfeed? After a comment, it lists people that liked something, but it cuts it off at a certain point so it's not overwhelming. Perhaps one could sort the prominence of likes by how re
813.
by DaniFong 18y ago
It seems to me that for backup you'd want a file format with redundancy, or that could tolerate a few bit for sector error while remaining mostly readable. This seems to conflict with most compression schemes.
814.
by DaniFong 18y ago
Our business model couldn't be much simpler: build machines that save people and utilities energy and money, sell them at a profit. But it's still tough raising money.
815.
by DaniFong 18y ago
That might be true in the general population, but I'm hoping that at least in the scientist or the hacker population this effect is mitigated...
816.
by DaniFong 18y ago
Incidentally, have you seen http://www.housingmaps.com/ ?
817.
by DaniFong 18y ago
I don't know about 'they,' but if you build it I will come.
818.
by DaniFong 18y ago
Thanks!
819.
by DaniFong 18y ago
This drives everyone else crazy, except when I am doing it on the New York Times website, in which case it tries to define all these words for me, which drives me crazy...
820.
by DaniFong 18y ago
Instead of suggesting that they find ways to adapt marriage and family life for career oriented women, they suggest simply, on the basis of statistics, that those women with a shot and mind for independence simply be avoided. How's that for
821.
by DaniFong 18y ago
Yeah, actually; that cycle give a pretty nice boost. That would save a lot of energy for a home system. It also works in energy storage -- you usually store energy in the dead of night, when it's cooler, and expand mid-day. It's even possib
822.
by DaniFong 18y ago
I can't comment on their technical plan, but they're definitely on thin ice as a business. Six months is not a lot of runway, and the enthusiasm for funding luxury vehicles is not high right now: Tesla ran into this problem. Additionally, t
823.
by DaniFong 18y ago
These practices are not really inconsistent...
824.
by DaniFong 18y ago
Open source hardware, ie: RepRap, most likely.
825.
by DaniFong 18y ago
No one lives in a persistent fight. But for those that do experience conflict, I don't see how those who needn't sustain their identity in the face of adversity fare much worse than others.
826.
by DaniFong 18y ago
Well, certainly in the case of the devout religious, there is a firm set of rules and values to which one is supposed to adhere. It may demand effort from you, but not so much of introspection and self-examination, which is often frightenin
827.
by DaniFong 18y ago
One trouble with following this line of reasoning to its limits is simply that one doesn't have an endless supply of mental energy. It is not merely easier to mark something about yourself as known and solid, and move on; it also frees cycl
828.
by DaniFong 18y ago
Buddhist practitioners are human too, of course, but a central practice in Buddhism is to dissolve and refute concrete belief in a persistent self and consciousness.
829.
by DaniFong 18y ago
No, I don't think it's always been the case, though you're definitely right that we've advanced beyond the 1300s here. I think that, quite generally, there are periods in which the art, on it own merit, breaks through and speaks to a broade
830.
by DaniFong 18y ago
I suggest you read the book "What is Intelligence?" by James Flynn himself. It's a cautious and erudite work, and the theory they float does seem to resolve quite a few of the mysteries. Perhaps most importantly, the data do not bear out un
831.
by DaniFong 18y ago
"This also increases the drive towards universally-applicable themes [...], which is why you see them as being less challenging." I doubt this. The Sorrows of Young Werther is about unrequited love, after all. I think it is the emotional, m
832.
by DaniFong 18y ago
I know less about popular music of a century ago. But in literature, at least, the market for fiction has shrunk enormously, and most people no longer read anything so challenging as they used to. Worse, the market for challenging videogam
833.
by DaniFong 18y ago
I would say the programming aesthetics really do count for something. This has influenced Python, Mathematica, Arc, Fortress, and the list goes on. Yet it's fairly new.
834.
by DaniFong 18y ago
How is agreeing with some of the goals of an othodoxy the same as allying with it?
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by DaniFong 18y ago
There's part of that, sure. But they don't have to care that much. It means a lot that they still do.
836.
by DaniFong 18y ago
'sticking electrodes on people and trying to quantify creativity with statistical analysis.' Or taking excessively precise measurements of the shape of people's heads. ;-)
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by DaniFong 18y ago
I've seen that before twice: in both cases, it meant that it steps on someone's or some group's ego or politics, and then there's no small brigade of internet trolls sent out to deliver Amazon justice. I've never seen that in fiction, thoug
838.
by DaniFong 18y ago
This article reminded me of the story of Robert Oppenheimer. In that case, at least, I think the story of how we destroy our heroes rings true. If any of you enjoy biographies, stories of scientific and engineering heroism, and haven't read
839.
by DaniFong 18y ago
Those tiny terms matter when things go nonlinear! ;-)
840.
by DaniFong 18y ago
I consider the silence of the Copenhagen interpretation over what happens during measurement to be an actual difference of physics, not of interpretation. If some other theory were able to predict, say, the time it takes for a wave function

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