TriinT

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by TriinT 17y ago
Please note that you defined "climate" in terms of "weather", and "weather" in terms of "climate". "in terms of temperature, rainfall, winds, storms" Temperature and precipitation can be measured. Windspeed can also be measured. One can't
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by TriinT 17y ago
English is not my native language and I don't claim to have perfect command over it. In my native language, "climate" and "weather" are denoted by the same word, and the context makes it clear which one is which. Moreover, I am a physicist,
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by TriinT 17y ago
The climate is described by the laws of Physics and Chemistry. And also Biology. These have NOT changed. The phenomena have not changed. The dynamics haven't changed. What may have changed are the inputs: more CO2 emissions, more CO2 and me
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by TriinT 17y ago
Because Krugman is intellectually dishonest and because he's a public figure. His opinions shape the thoughts of the population. Nobody reads my opinions. Thank goodness I am no public figure. If you're going to address the public, you shou
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by TriinT 17y ago
Suppose the weather is indeed changing. It does not matter whether this is caused by man or not. And one does not need to wait to have irrefutable evidence to start acting. People build computer models to simulate the weather. The physics i
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by TriinT 17y ago
Funny, but the data I had told a rather different story. Gonna look for the URLs to back it up and I will be right back. "None of it sways you" -> please spare me of your attacks. They don't add anything to the discussion and they onl
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by TriinT 17y ago
"I'd be interested to know if someone who believes that global warming is something that requires our immediate attention can explain why arguing against it so dangerous." Because the global warming hysteria is an ideology, not Science. Y
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by TriinT 17y ago
Krugman is a dismal scientist (a.k.a. economist), not a real scientist. His pedantry and demagogy are too much to bear. He can't even predict the effects of economic policy and now he's trying to predict the weather? What next? Contrary
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by TriinT 17y ago
You might want to try to make your point in a more succinct manner next time...
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Evolutionary Dynamics(athome.harvard.edu)
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by TriinT 17y ago
No. I am more interested in the mathematical description of the system than in actually implementing. To be honest, I don't think this problem is ripe for implementation yet.
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by TriinT 17y ago
Well, Voyager 1 has already left the solar system, hasn't it? ;-)
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An Introduction to Conway's Games and Numbers(arxiv.org)
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by TriinT 17y ago
You're right. Please note that both articles were submitted by me ;-) I have been interested in reputation systems for a few years, and now I am interested in combining debt and trust. It's a very difficult problem.
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Mining for cheap flights (2007)(technologyreview.com)
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by TriinT 17y ago
Maddof was supposed to be an investment manager. Ponzi too. Ripple is just a way of transferring IOUs. Investment and protocol design are entirely different beasts.
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by TriinT 17y ago
This article was already posted and discussed a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=578345
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by TriinT 17y ago
"This seems like it would have a serious early-adopter problem, in that it needs a pretty large network of people that somewhat know each other in order for things to work." It's a classic, textbook example of the network effect: the more
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by TriinT 17y ago
More on Feynman Vs. Gell-Mann: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=578345
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Ripple - P2P can cut banks out of the picture(masternewmedia.org)
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by TriinT 17y ago
I agree with everyting you wrote. And I keep thinking the U.S. should first rebuild itself before going to Mars. It depends on what kind of time horizon we're talking here. Each shuttle launch cost over 1 billion USD. Hence, killing the shu
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by TriinT 17y ago
"The old world hadn't run out of resources when the American Industrial Revolution hit full stride." I don't understand what point you're trying to make. American Industrial Revolution?!? Let us look at Europe. In the early 15th Century,
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by TriinT 17y ago
"Humans living on Mars are in a much better position to access the resources of the Solar System than humans living on Earth." Has the Earth run out of resources already? What is the rationale here: the Chinese seize the resources on Eart
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by TriinT 17y ago
Two questions: 1) why isn't the URL linking to the article on Popular Mechanics? (which is a lot better than this article) http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4322647.ht... 2) would someone care to explain what the point in
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Software that spots hidden social networks(economist.com)
1 points by TriinT 17y ago|1 comments
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Nikola Tesla: master of lightning(youtube.com)
2 points by TriinT 17y ago|0 comments
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by TriinT 17y ago
Fair enough. You have a point. But then, only in a fantasy world do people not appeal to authority. Someone who has a track record is always more reliable than someone who lacks it. And, to be honest, this is a good thing.
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Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion(en.wikipedia.org)
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Time Series Data Library(www-personal.buseco.monash.edu.au)
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by TriinT 17y ago
It does not matter that the number of skeptics is swelling. It would not matter either if the number of warmists were swelling. Science is about observation, experimentation. Science is not about consensus. The truth does not care about wha

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