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by analog31 4mo ago
I'm a cyclist, and I sympathize with you. Also, my mom is stone deaf, and I've observed her experiences on paths that are shared with cyclists. My town is one of the few places where cyclists are allowed on the sidewalks, but I do
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by analog31 4mo ago
>>> CAD systems did not replace engineers. It did replace draftsmen and designers, and changed the work that the engineers do. It's now more efficient to let engineers be their own draftsmen and designers. And design work has
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by analog31 4mo ago
Not a bad idea, just a cog track that the robot grabs onto. I'd install one.
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While on the topic of weird theories of water, there's always Polywater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywater
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by analog31 4mo ago
Consumer electronics can be designed to extremely tight budgets for cost and power consumption. Designers will choose a chip based on a chip having precisely the features needed, zero current wasted on features they don't need, and see
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Indeed, and it also gives students a way to budget their time between the demands of multiple classes. I studied enough for each course to put me in good enough stead for the exams, then moved on to the next course. I got it right most of t
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by analog31 4mo ago
Yeah, many of my physics exams were take-home open-book. One that I particularly remember: "Here's your exam. There's one problem. It's due when you come back from spring break."
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I've heard 'possums too.
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A translation is by necessity a work of both the author and the translator. There have been some amazing pairings such as Kafka translated by Edwin and Willa Muir. I don't think a translation necessarily diminishes the original work or
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As an amusing aside, Stradivarius could not have known how his fiddles would sound today. Most of them have been modernized, with new necks and bass bar, and some other tweaks. Most are played with metal or synthetic strings, and modern bow
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by analog31 4mo ago
I want to see yellow squiggles under logic errors. That will keep the programmers busy for a while.
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by analog31 4mo ago
But to be fair, mass shootings get no policy changes.
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Indeed, I was lucky that my PC is old enough to use DDR3 sticks, when I decided to upgrade a couple months ago. I think it's still cheaper to max out your RAM than to buy a new PC.
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C = Competitiveness. I met an HR manager who had worked for a local but well known company with a reputation for caring about things like GPA and SAT scores. She told me that remembering your SAT scores after college was a sign of a competi
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This is a general tip that goes beyond pitch and intervals: Learn to sing things that you play and hear. This is good for a lot of things. It's a way of developing your ear without the mechanics of your instrument getting in the way wh
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Another option is to do work you care about, in a way that doesn't attract the attention of people who might thwart it. I think plenty of socially or personally redeeming work can be done this way, for instance within very large compan
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My family has one. I'm not sure we'd get one if we didn't already have it. With that said, I've repaired clothing, backpacks, and a fairly expensive musical instrument case. For the latter repairs, I broke a few needles,
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There is probably a glut of leather.
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>>>> Any definitive claim to know what are the right things kids should learn in a moment of rapid technological shift is probably garbage and just a projection of our own biases. I'd say this is the case in times of techno
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One thing is that the A's are watching how you treat the C's. They might not have a good gauge of the culture from their own experience because they take care of themselves.
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Oddly enough, I never was able to learn things from textbooks, except in the context of a traditional classroom lecture course. I've also met maybe one or two people in my life who were able to learn the subjects of my college majors -
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by analog31 4mo ago
That's a good question, and I'd also add the Manhattan Project, the NIH, the NSF, NOAA, Fermilab, NIST, NCAR, and academic research including the state "land grant" universities. Every complex system has failure modes, b
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by analog31 4mo ago
What's a better way, that's not the Chinese way? What I mean is more centralized oversight over research priorities, metric-driven rewards, and preference for political favorites?
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I would say it slightly differently: The average rate of growth comes from the average of the successful and unsuccessful innovators and non-innovators.
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Employment of physicists has had its ups and downs. Academic physics research was impacted by funding, including a draw-down of defense related funding after the Soviet Union collapsed. Also, during my time as a student, mandatory retiremen
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This is reminiscent of my field, physics. As I was finishing my degree in the early 90s, I joined the American Physical Society, and received their magazine, Physics Today . Every month there was an article along the same lines: The physic
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It's not just a dependence on the intelligence of the models, but also their intentions , as programmed by their owners . A friend of mine asked me if I was optimistic about AI. I told him, it depends on who owns it. If the people ow
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It's possible to tell from one note. The reason is that the unisons will be out of tune with one another and change the tone quality.
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I love history and biography. Robert Caro' biography of LBJ. I also loved Don Quixote. The Iliad.
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Indeed, likely the most widespread teaching method today is the Suzuki method, and it doesn't introduce reading until after at least the first couple of years. There are books, but they're more for the parents to follow along than

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