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by Merrill 4y ago
Older people have the advantage that if they do discard something, they later won't remember that they had it.
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by Merrill 4y ago
The mind application is terminated, and the autonomic OS continues until the mind is restarted from memory. It's like a good night's sleep. Why is this so complicated?
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by Merrill 4y ago
Before air conditioning, there was the rise of central heating. Is the total energy used for the combination of heating and cooling greater in a warm climate or a cold climate, given the same floor space and appropriate insulation and const
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by Merrill 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex But the roof leaked. I also worked here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Rochester
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by Merrill 5y ago
I took vector calculus from professors in the institute of technology and in the school of liberal arts. You got a BS or a BA in Math depending on which was your home. The professors from the institute of technology used diagrams and relate
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by Merrill 5y ago
Reimagining calculus has changed several schools’ success rates. Here’s how.
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To Keep Students in Stem Fields, Let’s Weed Out the Weed-Out Math Classes(scientificamerican.com)
8 points by Merrill 5y ago|5 comments
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by Merrill 5y ago
A "Center" was managed by a third level manager titled "Director" with "Department Heads" and group "Supervisors" reporting to them. An alternative organizational name was the "Laboratory",
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by Merrill 5y ago
Drinking alone may be bad for your health and lead to alcoholism, but you are less likely to kill yourself in traffic, break some law, or damage your reputation and prospects. So it's much better than drinking with the wrong people. Th
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by Merrill 5y ago
In the US, 220 Volts is standard for applications requiring high power, such as heat pumps, whole house air conditioners, cook stoves, hot water heaters, clothes dryers, electric car chargers, etc. 110 Volts is standard for lighting, ordina
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by Merrill 5y ago
A child inherits half of the mother's DNA and half of the father's DNA. This is because in somatic cells chromosomes come in pairs, but when sperm and eggs are produced, the pairs divide and each sperm or egg contains only one chr
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by Merrill 5y ago
First cousins share 1/8 of their DNA, which is sort of meaningful. Second cousins share 1/32 of their DNA or about 3%, which is really marginal in terms of their being any resemblance or affinity due to DNA. By the time you get to
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by Merrill 5y ago
"Retina" LCDs and high quality earbuds have turned the internet into a "hot" medium, which causes recipients to believe the messages they are receiving. This puts society in a different position than previously when broa
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by Merrill 5y ago
But suppose some nation decided that they could devote more software development resources to designing efficient software, and that they could limit processing intensive applications (like online gaming?). Conceivably they could run the ec
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by Merrill 5y ago
Maybe the US and Canada have too much retail space per person. The US has 23.5 square feet per person, Canada had 16.8, Australia has 11.2 and the rest of the world has less than 5 square feet per person. https://www.statista.com
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by Merrill 5y ago
Were it not for an explicitly European political event, the British colonies might have been walled off from the Mississippi Valley by the Appalachians, and separate countries might have occupied the territory. The Seven Years War (1756–176
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by Merrill 5y ago
At the time when digital cellular was first designed, the main objective was to design sufficiently strong authentication to stem the rampant theft of service then occurring on the analog cellular systems. In the US this was estimated at ro
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by Merrill 5y ago
‘Arm Waving’ Response to Hackers Makes Oil Industry Easy Prey Everyone from the facility managers to the private equity owners assumed that the plant’s computer network was “air-gapped” -- a term referring to computers that aren’t connected
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by Merrill 5y ago
The problem is that politicians, being lawyers, believe that cybercrime can be controlled by after the fact detection, apprehension, and punishment. This does not work for cybercrime. Cyber systems must be designed so that crime cannot happ
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by Merrill 5y ago
Any IP packet that is valid on the Internet would be invalid and dropped on the critical infrastructure network. The only packets that could pass between the Internet and the critical infrastructure network would be those that are intention
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by Merrill 5y ago
Why don't critical infrastructure networks use a different CRC-32 polynomial for their IP packets?
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by Merrill 5y ago
Driverless cars? They should test them in Boston in the Spring, after all the lane markings are gone, at night in the rain. Testing in cities with grid street systems and visible lane markings during fair weather in the daytime is not infor
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by Merrill 6y ago
"Roll your own crypto" may not be entirely bad either. Suppose that you encrypt your message using "my own crypto". The result is ciphertext that looks like a random bit sring. Then encrypt the ciphertext using a standar
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by Merrill 6y ago
The disassociation of how you make your living and where you live will have interesting long-term social consequences. Until recently, most people have had to live where they made their living. Farmers lived on farms. Workers lived near min
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by Merrill 6y ago
I've heard that its your manager's manager that is important to your career. Your manager can't actually promote you, except by recommending you as their replacement if promoted or transferred. Your manager's manager can
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by Merrill 6y ago
Lucky they found a use for the toxic waste from oil refineries by mixing it with sand and gravel and rolling it down on roads. On the other hand, as vehicles go electric, there won't be any new asphalt to make roads for them to run on.
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by Merrill 6y ago
Subsequent to '56, the prior transistor patents were royalty free, as were all Bell System patents prior to '56. Patents subsequent to '56 had to be licensed on a "reasonable" and "non-discriminatory" basi
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by Merrill 6y ago
The operating companies were charged a 1% fee on revenues as a patent royalty and this funded Bell Labs Research, Systems Engineering, and part of Advanced Development of devices and systems. A similar amount was provided by Western Electri
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by Merrill 6y ago
The Bell System, IBM and Xerox, which all had corporate research labs were all monopolies in effect - the Bell System by regulation and the '56 Consent Decree, IBM by overwhelming market dominance, and Xerox by patent protections. This
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by Merrill 6y ago
I would stop communicating. No more read/reply for emails or messages. No phone calls. No writing or reading of memos or other documents. No creating presentations, diagrams, or drawings. On the other hand, it is really hard to stop th

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