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by Rod 18y ago
I am also a Ph.D. student and it's somewhat comforting to realize I am not the only one who has more questions than one lifetime would allow one to answer. It's also comforting to acknowledge I am not the only one who has printed that Ein
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by Rod 18y ago
Quoting mathematician Sylvain Cappell (NYU - Courant Inst.): "When you start on a new problem, you always feel stupid. You might spend a whole day on a single paper, an hour on a single line. And you still don’t understand it. When you get
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by Rod 18y ago
Blocking commercial GPS would make a lot of sense if there are palestinian forward observers watching the maneuvers of the IDF on the ground and communicating the coordinates of the IDF units so they could be shelled by (precise) mortar fir
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by Rod 18y ago
Those laser-guided JDAMs require the target to be "illuminated" by laser until it is hit, right? If so, LJDAMs are not "fire & forget" kind of bombs, which is OK, since the IAF owns the sky over Gaza anyways. Since the IAF wants to mini
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by Rod 18y ago
You're right, not all "smart" bombs require GPS. I assumed that the IAF is using JDAM smart bombs, which use IMU & GPS integration. I don't see why one should use infrared or laser-guided bombs when one can use JDAMs. The IDF could inte
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by Rod 18y ago
Smart bombs require GPS info to be precise. It would make no sense for the IDF to jam GPS signals, though it would make a lot of sense for Hamas.
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by Rod 18y ago
That is a good question. I suppose that the IDF is jamming the narrow band of the EM spectrum used by cellphones to transmit information. If such is the case, they would also prevent the enemy from using cellphones as detonators. The jammer
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by Rod 18y ago
You might find this book useful and interesting: A Computer Scientist's Guide to Cell Biology http://books.google.com/books?id=nAjhrOyBhIoC
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Introduction to the Principles of Music Synthesis(beausievers.com)
2 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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CVXOPT: A Python Package for Convex Optimization(abel.ee.ucla.edu)
4 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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The Joy of Grading(stanford.edu)
2 points by Rod 18y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
That is one scary article. I knew Denmark was pretty communist, but I had no idea it was perverted to this point. An eye-opener, for sure.
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by Rod 18y ago
A few years ago I spent a Summer in Copenhagen, so I know a tiny bit of Denmark. I remember talking to Danish friends on how ridiculously high the taxes were. Yes, I was amazed that you guys pay 180% tax on cars. On the necessity of wealt
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by Rod 18y ago
With all due respect, compared to 90% of the world's population, Danes are pretty prosperous IMHO.
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by Rod 18y ago
You made a very good point. I don't know what to answer. Defining what a "right" is and what it is not would lead to endless discussion. In any case, I would say that instead of discussing in rather vague terms whether more government is be
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by Rod 18y ago
You're right. Zed is confused. Libertarianism is NOT Anarcho-Capitalism. Libertarianism advocates that the government should be reduced to the minimum which is necessary to protect the citizens' rights. Anarcho-Capitalism advocates that cor
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by Rod 18y ago
Good point. I think the same. However, I suppose the word "accept" usually conveys the idea of doing nothing to change to situation. It's all about how the words are defined, which leads to pseudo-philosophical nonsense. Moreover, I assume
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by Rod 18y ago
Compared to Sweden, California's taxes are low ;-)
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by Rod 18y ago
And since (theoretically) there's no upper bound on the price of a stock, then (theoretically) there's no upper bound on the losses one can incur when engaging in short-selling practises either. Porsche is an evil genius of Finance. Their
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by Rod 18y ago
If we did accept everything just the way it is, then we would have to accept ourselves the way we are, too. Since we are motivated by the pursuit of material possessions, comfort, good food, desire and pleasure (among many other things), th
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by Rod 18y ago
I did not say there shouldn't be investment in public education and health care, did I? I am not advocating zero taxes, I am advocating tax policies that don't kill start-ups and entrepreneurs in general. I am European. I worked at two star
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by Rod 18y ago
The letter is a bit too melodramatic, but he has a point: over-taxation kills businesses. Quoting Sir Winston Churchill: "We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to l
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by Rod 18y ago
That article on Nature is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing :-)
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by Rod 18y ago
You can watch this talk's video at: http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/061011-ee3...
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New Architectures for a New Biology (by David E. Shaw)(stanford.edu)
10 points by Rod 18y ago|5 comments
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by Rod 18y ago
I am not a parent, and I do not advocate sending "parents to jail", of course. I realize now that I should have been more careful with the words I chose or, at least, indicate more clearly what I meant as a joke, and what I meant seriously.
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by Rod 18y ago
It was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but I am serious here. Please allow me to explain: I think it's great that parents care about their children's education, but a cramming school is potentially a soul-crushing experience. Instead of delegatin
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by Rod 18y ago
They are learning vocabulary and cramming other extremely "useful" stuff. In the process, they are wasting the best years of their youth, getting addicted to caffeine, and losing any creativity they might still have left. Their parents shou
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by Rod 18y ago
Some humorous episodes that illustrate the rivalry between Feynman and Gell-man (and other famous physicists): http://www.fotuva.org/online/frameload.htm?/online/seckel.ht...
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by Rod 18y ago
You are right and I stand corrected. I was somewhat puzzled that someone who has no technical background actually wanted to learn CS. That is unusual. Often people want to learn how to program and call it "CS", though CS has little to do wi

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