agjacobson

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by agjacobson 8y ago
Escape at Dannemora
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by agjacobson 9y ago
Funding, or a startup enterprise, is certainly needed to administer the peer review process. I'm willing to bet it would be less than $10 per paper in universal use. No money is needed to pay reviewers. In fact the savings would be
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by agjacobson 9y ago
(1) Someone else in this context refers to anyone other than the author-researcher. The point I am attempting to make is that researchers, as long as they are on an academic grant and salary, and with the prospects of generating millions o
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by agjacobson 9y ago
I couldn’t resist because everyone’s thinking of cat-guacamole. Also Labsix. https://mashable.com/2017/11/02/mit-researchers-fool-google-...
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by agjacobson 9y ago
Exactly. And if you understand what you’re doing, you can avoid referencing the angle explicitly. Because macro arc length is rarely needed.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
The trick with sin and cos is to never use atan (or atan2).
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by agjacobson 9y ago
I found, at least for myself that there was a large opportunity for reversal, when adopting a more active lifestyle in retirement.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
Let’s see what he can do with a $10 lunch business model.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
Optical physicists and chemists need a laser with a knob on it to tune the laser to an exact desired color. In the 70s and 80s, the preferred method was the use of liquid dyes as the laser medium, typically dissolved in alcohol. The dye w
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by agjacobson 9y ago
Price point is everything. Good luck.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
I was under the impression that Chrome for IOS was a shell on Safari relying on calls to Safari code. Am I wrong?
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by agjacobson 9y ago
"...Tumblr is the home of some of the most creative online personas..." Funny. I thought it was a porn site.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
Out your piss.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
“I don’t envision AT&T and Verizon tearing down huge amounts of copper in towns immediately.“ That’s not the point. When failures occur, they stop fixing the wires and send you a letter telling YOU what your new mode of service is, or
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by agjacobson 9y ago
This is silly. You’re the one being evaluated here. Can you code, or are you just a “sophisticated” smartass? The trick is to find out all these answers WITHOUT asking the interviewer.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
1. Frats select for lower overall academic ability. Few physics, biochem, ee majors. This bleeds over into their easier major. 2. Frats select for larger physical stature and attractiveness. This deselects for academic performance and st
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by agjacobson 9y ago
For the first time ever, CCleaner 5.33.1612 is offered to immediately update, without begging you to upgrade, or trying to show you a video, or anything. The new version is 5.34.6207. The claim is that only the 32-bit version was affected
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by agjacobson 9y ago
The copyright law is absurd in the context of scientific publication. Here's why. The private property associated with the publication is created at the moment of publication, and is the association with the author's name. It i
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by agjacobson 9y ago
I
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by agjacobson 9y ago
Many people lack a gut level understanding of this concept: a vendor who deep discounts or sells at cost can generate almost arbitrarily large revenues. For a while.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
One of the happiest days of my life was when a Symantec support person, very courteously, helped me remove every Symantec product from my computer.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
It's not rational trigonometry. The angles are irrational. In fact, it's useless, and was probably a decorative demonstration of Pythagorean triples.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
Why do you think the 74LS189 was being counterfeited? It was the touch tone chip being counterfeited, and disguised as a 74LS189. The buyer knew the ruse.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
Grade school. 6th grade. PS241 Brooklyn nyah!
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by agjacobson 9y ago
If there's a shortage, or some other performance problem, they do, and they will.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
1. Sell bug on the open market for whatever price the market will bear. Advantage: paid concomitant to your talents. 2. Wait n days. n could be zero. Don't have a theory for n. 3. Slip the bug to Apple anonymously.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
Exactly.
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by agjacobson 9y ago
Coding is a very complex skill. The success probability in going from zero coding experience to being a self-starting coder is a bet I wouldn't take except out of pure friendship or charity. There are two problems. If you substitute
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by agjacobson 9y ago
No attempt was made to measure the number of productive dropouts. I.e. authors bias was "count people with a degree." Hypothesis, gedanken experiment. Award all hackers who are able to support themselves, not necessarily as devel
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by agjacobson 9y ago
This is a little crazy. Because of too much surface traffic, let's bore tunnels and develop sleds. The problem is: inefficient use of the existing infrastructure, 1 person per car, and the like. This wii be improved by the sharing o

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