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by aoki 4y ago
Dale & Krueger and its descendants are based on a college cohort from 1976. It reflects the college goers of the 70s (not only male-heavy but white-heavy) and economic history as it applied to the Boomer generation. My personal expecta
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by aoki 4y ago
It's a joke, sinusoids are sums of exponentials when you're talking about complex functions [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_formula#Relationship...
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by aoki 4y ago
This was in 1952. Soviet pilots started flying over Korea in 1951, posing as Chinese or Korean pilots [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_and_the_Korean_Wa...
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by aoki 4y ago
Sounds like EE263 at Stanford. Stephen Boyd’s lectures are on YouTube and so are most of the slides and psets. https://ee263.stanford.edu/archive/
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by aoki 4y ago
> For awhile this Google dev was putting up extremely detailed amazon reviews for USBC cables https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_Leung
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by aoki 4y ago
> statistics aside, which does require calculus but not of the pointless-algebra-tricks kind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_integral
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by aoki 4y ago
The previous CS major declaration standard was roughly the median grade (B+) over three intro courses. The intro courses have standard "grade bins" to prevent sections from turning into the Hunger Games. In recent years, far more
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by aoki 4y ago
> You need to test into the major before you even enter campus? As an EECS major of roughly the same period...yes? The Cal engineering majors have been direct admit for ages, precisely because demand is always higher than capacity. In ou
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by aoki 4y ago
I took the "numbered theses" format as being a deliberate reference to the Central European writing tradition to which you allude, e.g., Benjamin's theses on history, or Marx' theses on Feuerbach. Writing in the "me
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by aoki 4y ago
More charitably, there was a pretty good probability that the manager was asking a variant of that question. So the reasonable and respectful response is to invite them to say more about what they are thinking.
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by aoki 4y ago
Beast Academy. The books, not just the practice website. Most kids love stories and characters and corny jokes and detailed Waldo-esque cartoons and cultural references. For some, that makes the “productive struggle” of learning problem sol
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by aoki 4y ago
One lesson of the Ukraine war so far is that the defender needs a very strong SEAD story, because if you let the invader fight a ground war (under an intact air defense umbrella) it becomes an artillery battle in which your civilians, infr
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by aoki 4y ago
Not knowing anything about vape internals and with him referring to them as “lithium” instead of LiPo or LiIon, I thought on first reading that he was recommending recharging primary lithium batteries. Which would already be a kind of stoch
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by aoki 5y ago
AoPS and Beast Academy.
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by aoki 5y ago
are you thinking of mike ubell? (paula's mike.)
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by aoki 5y ago
this discussion is about UC -- he's talking about the fact that the admission rate for many campuses and majors is actually higher for california CC transfers, with some UC campuses still offering guaranteed admission (TAG) under certa
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by aoki 5y ago
“Worse” was Bell Labs: portable C/Unix. As opposed to MIT: codesigned Lisp/LispMs. The Unix workstation was the triumph of COTS micros over LSI or custom VLSI hardware.
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by aoki 6y ago
The author built the NUKEMAP site [0], which is very popular around here. [0] https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
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Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States(blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
2 points by aoki 6y ago|1 comments
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by aoki 6y ago
I have no idea what happened in this case, but that doesn't follow - MIT is one of those schools that routinely promote to associate without necessarily giving tenure [0]. [0] https://thetech.com/2010/06/11&#x
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NOAA Kicks Off Transition Exclusively to Electronic Navigation Charts(gcaptain.com)
2 points by aoki 6y ago|0 comments
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by aoki 6y ago
I wonder how this affects the American Institute of Mathematics (which was started with John Fry’s money).
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by aoki 6y ago
IANAL but my understanding is that commercial access to terrestrial mobile service spectrum from space ought to require legal action (e.g., FCC rulemaking) in essentially all countries. It’s not a use for which that spectrum is allocated by
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by aoki 6y ago
Think about the many hard problems to be solved. They had cost-effective high-endurance stratospheric balloons - decades of military projects never really got there. They had very detailed stratospheric wind models - decades of atmospheric
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by aoki 6y ago
Realistically, wide area coverage dictates elevated antennas (towers or the equivalent) and a nontrivial amount of power. The point of Loon would have been to be able to restore some mobile capacity without ground logistics. Apparently that
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by aoki 6y ago
No, Loon would have provided LTE service in terrestrial mobile spectrum. The big LEO constellations all use fixed satellite service spectrum.
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by aoki 6y ago
For anyone else who was confused: this is an ARM design aimed at supercomputers, and it is used in a recent system that topped TOP500.
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by aoki 6y ago
A recent(ish) famous example is the discovery of the importance of trace contaminants in the manufacture of FOGBANK [0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK
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Here are 50 Different Written Languages. Can You Tell Which Are Fake?(core77.com)
1 points by aoki 6y ago|0 comments
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by aoki 6y ago
I believe you are correct. I had to shorten the title, and removed “observable” because the word “medieval” already refers to the science class meme that the viscous flow is at human history timescale (as opposed to ~1 nm/10^7 years).

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