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by alphydan 8y ago
for us colourblinds, North America, South America, Australia and Greenland are one group. But I assume they are not.
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by alphydan 8y ago
teacher here. Most smartboards are rubbish. The calibration fails constantly, it's really hard to draw on it ... and most "ready made" lessons for smartboards are usually boring. So I'm afraid it's a projector for
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by alphydan 8y ago
beware. the alleged BTC and ETH giveway in the twitter thread is a scam (from @kimBdotcom instead of @kimdotcom)
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by alphydan 8y ago
I think it's hard to imagine how smart some people can be. Einstein would hang out with people a lot more talented than him in mathematics (Poincare, Von Neumann, Goedel) ... so it's easy to see how he would be humbled. During my
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by alphydan 8y ago
Again. That's the whole point of science. Leaving interpretations out. Neither you nor anybody here can know if the author meant "There are around 600,000 stars" or "There are around 5,000 stars". Also, exactly who
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by alphydan 8y ago
Not sure the bible is a good source for astronomy. But your quote does not say anything about "uncountable stars". I don't know the context but it could simply be read as: > Your fields will produce lots of seeds, as many
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by alphydan 8y ago
Perhaps it's the contrast with the idea that the universe is vast. Looking up at the sky gives us a sense of awe. But why? Is it because we "see countless stars"? Apparently not. 9000 is a pretty small number compared with
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by alphydan 8y ago
Googling "toyota quality control issues" returns news about a recall of 1.75 million cars. So it seems the "reliable" brands have the same problems. Unless we can quantify it better, it's hard to compare.
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by alphydan 8y ago
In 2008, just emacs + pdflatex. Some of the bibliography pain is now easier with apps, but I didn't use any then.
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by alphydan 8y ago
Interesting. This is the single feature I hate most about gmail. It keept misclassifying important emails and I missed deadlines for taxes, payments, etc. I ended up having to read "All-mail" to avoid missing stuff.
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by alphydan 8y ago
> I once had an occasion to ask a very prominent AI researcher for early career tips. His advice was simple: write! I give the same advice to new PhDs. I wrote mini-overviews of stuff I was researching, doing and thinking for the first t
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A DIY turing machine(aturingmachine.com)
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by alphydan 8y ago
Here you go: https://www.vestas.com/~/media/vestas/about/sustainability/p... Money-shot on p66. About 8 months for EROEI (Energy returned on energy invested). I worked on some of these Life Cycle A
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by alphydan 8y ago
> how much is because of the breed The genetics of the "iberian black pig" are different in a surpsiging way. Studies have shown that their meet contains a lot more monounsaturated fats (The good oil, like olive oil) than other
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by alphydan 8y ago
Also, the reference at the bottom of the article is a classic introductory text in the field: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780262541855 Or the free textbook from Izhikevich: https://www.izhikevich.org&#x
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Teaching cyber security in middle school(steemit.com)
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by alphydan 8y ago
> what originally drove the lions share I think that is known to be false (although it is repeated ad nauseam on HN). The best estimate around 2011 / 2012, is from this study: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7139
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by alphydan 8y ago
Not from the poster above, but here's my original content on Steemit https://steemit.com/linux/@alphydan/teaching-cyber-security
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A Brief Totally Accurate History of Programming Languages(medium.com)
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by alphydan 9y ago
> just submit silence 433 by John Cage?
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by alphydan 9y ago
The thing you are missing is that many of us have friends all over the world. And international SMS quickly gets expensive. (Also, most people are not on signal / your-favorite-messaging-app) ...
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by alphydan 9y ago
But it is accessible to the primitive geometer... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-o3eB9sfls Or for more details, http://www.math.chalmers.se/~wastlund/Cosmic.pdf
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by alphydan 9y ago
Wouldn't that allow a 'denial-of-service' like attack? You keep sending illegal content over and over and the next block is never attained. Maybe I am misunderstanding the process.
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by alphydan 9y ago
I gave 6m/s and 8m/s as realistic numbers to show the dramatic increase with a little bit more speed. Further offshore you can have average annual speeds over 10m/s (This time, a roughly x4.5 increase in revenue compared to
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by alphydan 9y ago
That's not the critical factor. The critical factor is sea depth and wind speed. 1. Wind Power ~ v^3 (the power produced is proportional to the wind speed cubed. So a site with 8m/s average speed makes twice as much money as one
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by alphydan 9y ago
A sample size of 11 males? With over 14 choices? Actually codifying 15 different possible behaviours from which an "interactions" score is determined by researchers? not blind, let alone double blind? It reminds me of the chocol
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by alphydan 9y ago
Let me know if it works. I tried the "easy methods" from youtube several times and saw exactly zero particles.
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by alphydan 9y ago
Also, most languages have a wide diversity of accents. Spanish, for instance, has 18 dialects just in Spain (plus the latin american ones).
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by alphydan 9y ago
Not sure what the 'typical' HN person looks like. But I have lived in 8 countries, have had bank accounts in all of them, have had companies in 2 of them, projects in 3 (including countries in Africa where transfers are a nightmar
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by alphydan 9y ago
> 40 million subscribers to the service by 2025, amounting to $30 billion in revenue that year. $30,000/40/12 ≈ $63/mo For internet in a remote location of the world? Where do I sign up?

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