TheEzEzz

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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
Hell, I'm getting by on $15,000 a year right now, and could make do with a lot less if I was living some place cheap. I eat well, sleep well, and live well. I don't fly first class, but it's not exactly killing me.
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
From the article, "But if we do run out altogether, we will have to recover helium from the air and it will cost 10,000 times what it does today." Assuming he's correct, and assuming we are set to run out of helium in the next 50 years, a 3
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
Good point. I've been thinking about lazy registration a lot. I'm considering implementing a service where the user will be prompted at some point to enter their email to be remembered, but making a password optional. The service would be w
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
Only tangentially related: The other day I was trying to log on to a service I rarely use, and couldn't remember my password. So I started chugging through all the different passwords I use. Then I realized what a horrible idea that is . I
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
>You can't go from genome => organism without a WHOOOOOLE lot of Ceteris Paribus to fill in the gaps. Of course not. Likewise, if all you had was the binary of a Linux distro, and you didn't have a computer or any other associated h
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
Absolutely. I read up on a lot of science, and even chug through text books. As robryan says above though, reading a book on chemistry or functional analysis is long way from being ready to do research in the field. One of the reasons I cho
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
I think stretchwithme meant sell it off wholesale to private distributors, rather than selling off directly to consumers.
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
Yes. When I was a kid I wanted to get a PhD in math and physics and comp sci and etc etc etc. I was really disappointed when I got older and realized I would only have time for one. So I chose math because I wanted to study mathematical log
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
I'm about to graduate with my PhD in math and I don't have any idea what that research summary means.
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
Here I was, excited to post a bunch of reasons why this paper doesn't really support its conclusion, only to find all the comments on HN already well informed and adequately skeptical.
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
I do computational fluid dynamics for a living. I assure you, we model non-equilibrium systems all the time.
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
Yes, but what I'm pointing out is that what you are complaining computers fail to have, other physical systems also fail to have! Even a second bucket of water can't predict the first bucket of water! Thus, the fact that a computer can't ei
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
What has irreversibility got to do with it? There are cellular automata that are irreversible but obviously deterministic.
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
I didn't mean to suggest that quantum effects were the only source of uncertainty. If I've got a cubic meter of pure water, I can slosh it around and observe all sorts of interesting effects. I can then model that cubic meter of water wit
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
I fail to see the connection. No, a computer simulation can never predict exactly what a physical system will do, even in the case of a single particle, due to quantum uncertainty. But so what? If I took out one of your neurons and replac
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
Novel, yes. Good for a startup? Probably not. Being in a foreign country is taxing even when it's rewarding. I get much less work done here in Brazil than when I'm back in the States. The 40k is definitely a nice perk though.
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
Enough not to starve?! I'm living in Santa Barbara, California, which is very expensive by the average American standard, and two people can get by here fairly comfortably with $2K. What's the price of living like in Santiago? More importan
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
Actually the concept of Hamiltonian cycles is decidedly easier and less mathy than even basic algebra. At Kansas University the lowest level math class was called Topics, and one of the areas covered was graph theory, including Hamiltonian
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
Front end looks nice and poppy actually. I'm confused as to what to do with it as well though.
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
The difference in education level between poor Brazilians and poor Americans is very large. Retraining requires a base to start with, and most poor Brazilians simply don't have that base. I'm skeptical to some degree about the potential for
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
I'm 'work-vacationing' in Brazil right now, and for some reason this is very much on my mind. Labor is very cheap here. Restaurants are heavily overstaffed by American standards, as are grocery stores and even hair parlors. I can't help but
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
The have-nots of today might as well be kings to those living 1000 years ago. Still, having a strong middle class is good for everyone, regardless of moral imperatives to help others.
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
http://www.visilibity.org/ Used for computing visibility regions in polygonal domains.
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
My two cents (take with salt, as I'm a math Phd student, not CS): A grad program absolutely CAN motivate you, IF you are motivated by failure and feelings of inadequacy. In math there is a real divide between being book smart and being able
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
I've heard it said that a good notation is worth 10 good theorems.
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by TheEzEzz 16y ago
Getting tenure at a top university is orders of magnitude more difficult than simply getting a PhD.