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by analog31 1y ago
Obligatory Onion reference, one of my all time favorites: https://theonion.com/ant-farm-teaches-children-about-toil-de...
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by analog31 1y ago
Interestingly, music wasn't hit-driven in 1920. A person could earn a decent but not lavish middle class living as a musician, through things like performance, teaching, theaters, and so forth. An example was that Miles Davis grew up i
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by analog31 1y ago
I've played with Berklee-trained musicians. It's a mixed bag. They won't turn you into a great musician against your will. This is true of any education. And you have to already be **** good when you apply in order to make fu
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by analog31 1y ago
Sorry for the late reply. I was being somewhat sarcastic, or maybe not. During the "dot com" era, investors were throwing money at anybody willing to take it, and a start-up was questioned about whether it was maintaining a suffic
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by analog31 1y ago
The vitality of music (and probably the rest of the arts), has always depended on a symbiosis between professional and amateur musicians. Some things still need professionals, such as fielding a top level symphony orchestra. And high calibe
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by analog31 1y ago
How does the copyright office enforce the law?
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by analog31 1y ago
Same way companies fell behind during the original "dot com" era: By not burning money quickly enough. Disclosure: I work for one of the companies that fell behind.
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by analog31 1y ago
There's an element of political correctness here. It's hard to look your friend in the eye and tell them that the stuff they're writing isn't worth reading. In a similar vein, when people find out that I ride a bicycle,
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by analog31 1y ago
For me what matters is how I ration my attention. Time spent reacting to the AI could be spent thinking or working. With that said, getting it to create boilerplate code is pretty useful, but not all that important a part of my job.
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by analog31 1y ago
Not the first time that urine has been used as a raw material at scale https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/arts-and-entertainm...
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by analog31 1y ago
One of my friends who graduated from there a few decades ago calls it Vippy Soo.
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by analog31 1y ago
I think a public trial serves as a form of oversight. Widespread plea bargaining means we'll never know how many of these people even committed crimes, much less how the justice system operates.
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by analog31 1y ago
Yup, I'm also a musician. My cords last for decades. But nobody outside of music and perhaps theater knows about taking care of cords.
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by analog31 1y ago
And especially when the person didn't criticize capitalism.
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by analog31 1y ago
A couple of my favorites: 15- and 25-foot power cables to eliminate outlet strips and extension cords in some installations. Outlet strips with super long cords -- especially useful for avoiding the need to chain outlet strips in settings w
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by analog31 1y ago
I actually do favor paying more attention to the public education system in general. Don't get me wrong, I love Harvard, but at the same time, our hybrid of quasi public / private higher education reminds me a lot of our health ca
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by analog31 1y ago
"Capitalism" wouldn't have occurred to me here. I live in the shadow of a Big Ten university that's a government institution. And this will reveal my ignorance about sports, but I don't know of any private universit
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by analog31 1y ago
Yes. Many of the principles are the same. And photilithography had uses before semiconductors.
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by analog31 1y ago
Are selectivity and academic standing beneficial to society overall? Maybe we'd be better off more broadly supporting higher education rather than turning it into a weird competition based on non-academically-related marketing.
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by analog31 1y ago
What's happened with Division-1 college revenue sports is that the word "students" has been mangled beyond recognition. Meanwhile the investment in the drama department is in perpetual decline. The question in my mind is if s
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by analog31 1y ago
Same here, especially when you consider that they bought Burr-Brown and National Semiconductor.
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by analog31 1y ago
I wonder if the theorem is another way of showing how hard control is without feedback. And I can't quite figure out if it addresses dynamic systems as opposed to static ones.
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by analog31 1y ago
What do you prefer about CCD? Note where I'm coming from, not a photographer but a user of scientific image sensors.
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by analog31 1y ago
My breathing is probably influenced by what song is going through my head at any given moment.
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by analog31 1y ago
Something to consider is that entropy has units of measure. Why would a purely philosophical concept be given units of Joules per Kelvin? I'm only reminded about this because, though I'm a physicist, I've been out of school f
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by analog31 1y ago
>>> Like many people I've become more reliant on LLM tools as time has passed... "Time has passed", indeed. Like 9 months. This just reminded me in a quaint way how we've gotten used to such rapid progress.
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by analog31 1y ago
I'm not an introvert by any means, but I still choose whichever system is likely to work better . At the supermarket, if I'm doing my monthly giant shopping trip and filling the car with non-perishables, I go through the attended
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by analog31 1y ago
It's useful to look at the units of measure. Voltage is energy per unit charge. As the charge carriers go across the resistors, their energy changes, and that energy has to go somewhere. It's not always lost as heat in all devices
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by analog31 1y ago
As I understand it, sequencing is the step that confirms the discovery, so it represents the culmination of the effort. Biology is one of those fields where accidental discoveries still have value. Whether they earn the same recognition as
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The GPA of 3.5 is their minimum for considering a candidate.

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