Rhapso

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by Rhapso 11y ago
I view people as Turing machines, which is just a really fast clock or engine. I don't think my clock can 'suffer'.
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by Rhapso 11y ago
yep! I missed that, infinitely many concentric rings.
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by Rhapso 11y ago
ok, so haversine distance is a thing on a sphere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_distance You are a bit over a mile from the south pole (how much a of bit requires math i don't feel like doing, but is v
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by Rhapso 11y ago
Well, you seem to have demonstrated the difference pretty clearly in your answer (which indicates we are quibbling over terms) From my perspective "communicating mastery" is exactly what you describe. I am limited to the context a
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by Rhapso 11y ago
If you are here from another country on student visa, your TA ship is what is keeping you here. Being a student is a condition of your visa and such a visa will not allow you to find general employment. If you lose funding you cannot afford
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by Rhapso 11y ago
No, the incentives are well designed, just not for the task we perceive as important. We want to produce competent and educated students. Colleges and Universities want to maximize throughput and income. _In the short term_, student reviews
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by Rhapso 11y ago
That is the hardest part of teaching for me. After a semester of working with students. I am looking at a spreadsheet assigning them semi-arbitrary values. Grades are not fair. I give a lot of sub-grades on assignments and projects in an at
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by Rhapso 11y ago
Teaching as a graduate student i'm seeing a pattern where my department is swamped with students and thus has a lot of grad students teaching (a lot of people here on student visas), then then evaluates all the teaching grad students b
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by Rhapso 11y ago
Interestingly this totally ignores the rather mature field of artificial ears.
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by Rhapso 11y ago
something resembling real information: https://github.com/namesystem/namesystem/wiki/FAQ
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by Rhapso 11y ago
I'm explicitly interesting in seeing how to convert a kibbutz to american legal and value system. Its a bit of a mess. The US tax code is not really built with that sort of thing in mind. Right now it looks like building a LLC to repre
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by Rhapso 11y ago
The cold hard reality is that in most US states 10%+ of people ages 18-30 cannot get a job doing anything. High skill jobs are inaccessible to many people without extensive training and low skill jobs are highly competitive and people with
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by Rhapso 12y ago
I'm still reading the paper, but I'm not seeing any discussion of a sybil or eclipse attack defense.
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by Rhapso 12y ago
| "I have seen people purchasing filet mignons and crab legs with their EBT cards," he said. "When I can't afford it on my pay, I don't want people on the taxpayer's dime to afford those kinds of foods either.
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by Rhapso 12y ago
maybe I am a bit odd, but a a lot of these seem really viable. Servitude-As-A-Service seems particularly viable. We are in an economic state where indentured servitude sounds like a decent deal.
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by Rhapso 12y ago
Certificate Transparency has one glaring issue. The Merkel tree proofs can only prove a certificate is present (not that it is absent). The current proposal does not require "examiners" of the Merkle tree to be provided with the e
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by Rhapso 12y ago
mirror: http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNRGTQjo6FGjD3JHZUrDsqwxucCz63Y...
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by Rhapso 12y ago
Bitcoin is not viable. A centralized fiat crypto currency, with the same mechanism as bitcoin except centrally authorized by government authority rather than mined is very viable for a government. All transactions become trackable and every
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by Rhapso 12y ago
this is the commonly used BLAST/alignment tool: http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?PAGE_TYPE=BlastSearc... for comparison.
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by Rhapso 12y ago
Thank you! I wish I had this years go.
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by Rhapso 12y ago
This, along with a life-long fascination with cellular automata, inspired me to get a tattoo of the glider sequence a few years ago. It is a tattoo that is occasionally difficult to explain to innocent bystanders but it constantly reminds m
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by Rhapso 12y ago
Churn is when members join and/or leave. This protocol requires a fixed set of participants to start and they must all participate for it to succeed. So If I join late, I have to wait a cycle. If I leave prematurely, the cycle fails. T
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by Rhapso 12y ago
Some paper reading shows that while interesting, the technique being used has issues with churn. This means small, reliable groups can use a tool like this. Anonymity is only provided within the group! You cannot hide your membership. In su
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by Rhapso 12y ago
As a researcher you have a cycle of motivation. You need to publish papers to journals (semi-public) to get grants. Grants lead both to more publications (again public) and patents (normally co-owned by you and your university). Patents are
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by Rhapso 12y ago
Domesticate Octopi
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by Rhapso 12y ago
http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nnano...
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by Rhapso 12y ago
this is the repo where most of my older academic stuff is. (blamestross is my personal account). It is a bit ironic because we do everything on university hosted private gitlab server now. https://github.com/BrendanBenshoof
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by Rhapso 12y ago
I got asked to interview for google due to python code on github, others I know have had similar invitations to interview as a result of python experience. They seem to be on a hiring push right now.
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by Rhapso 12y ago
I'm definitely approaching this from a hobbyist's point of view. My experience is limited to FIRST and a thrust vectoring bi-copter that was deemed too likely to maim or kill to be used in public spaces.
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by Rhapso 12y ago
Sensors/Awareness of environment is where the dream dies. Not just in that sensors give very limited input, but that limited input is far more than you can practically use effectively without a team of PhDs and a few years. You end up

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