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by b_emery 14y ago
Very cool! I could have really used this a week ago, when the wife and kids were out of town and I had some free time to catch up on movies I've missed from the last 3.5 yrs. What's the ranking criteria? Also, being able to exclude based on
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by b_emery 14y ago
"Americans drive a staggering number of miles — close to three trillion every year, according to the government. (That is half a light-year, or 120 million trips around the world.)" It's not often that you see light-years used as a unit ass
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by b_emery 14y ago
Yes, or folding and putting away laundry. The bane of modern existence! I'll take a hack for that if you've got one.
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Fatalities per capita vs miles driven(nytimes.com)
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by b_emery 14y ago
> a little fog-tornado machine Ah, That the one in the SFO united terminal? I love that thing! I make a fool of myself every time I'm there, being the only adult childish enough to play with it. Can't wait to show it to my kids some day
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by b_emery 14y ago
"It would be illegal under federal law (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974) for Occidental, Columbia or Harvard Law School to give any former student’s records to reporters or members of the public without that person’s s
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by b_emery 14y ago
>Trying to remember my reality distortion field skills from my entrepreneurial days I convinced her to let us on. I'd really like to know how he did that. Inspiring post (that I needed today!)
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Tenacious(steveblank.com)
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by b_emery 14y ago
I get several pages printed per day, some with other sites listed. Very happy to be enlightened about the source!
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by b_emery 14y ago
Wow, this works on my HP printer. That would explain the reams of pages I get that look like this: GET http://www.baidu.com/ HTTP/1.1 Host: www.baidu.com Accept: / Pragma: no-cache User-Agent:
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by b_emery 14y ago
I'd like the app to check prices for me at a number of nearby stores so I can buy the stuff I always buy, but at the lowest prices. I've got about 3-4 stores that I visit pretty regularly, and I'm always trying to optimize on prices. Do tha
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by b_emery 14y ago
But what about that elusive 7th continent? Here's one possible way to check that off your list. Find a research lab that is doing Antarctic Research and apply to join them as a volunteer. There are often positions for volunteers. As you can
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by b_emery 14y ago
I'll second the Strang recommendation. I've recently read the chapter in Linear Algebra and it's Applications about how the FFT algorithm is in part a matrix calculation! Fascinating (and baffling) stuff.
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by b_emery 14y ago
"World Domination Summit "? sounds like an interesting conference!
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by b_emery 14y ago
> One risk with technical writing is what I call the fog of knowledge. You know so much about a subject that it's hard to write for someone who isn't as knowledgeable. Never heard it described that way, but it brilliantly summarizes the
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by b_emery 14y ago
The Edge is pretty awesome. Eg: http://www.edge.org/q2011/q11_1.html#lakoff http://www.edge.org/q2011/q11_1.html#gardner http://www.edge.org/q2011/q11_2.html#schank http://www.edge.org/q2011/q11_2.html#carroll These are links I keep
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by b_emery 14y ago
Here's a personal favorite: http://calnewport.com/blog/ , which has been on HN before. The post interval (~2wks to a month) is perfect for to keep me thinking about deliberate practice, learning methods, and being 'too good to ignore'. It'
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by b_emery 14y ago
So what are you suggesting they go into? Math, physics, science train the mind, and I would argue, open opportunities like no other disciplines do. If you can do these, you can do anything, CS and programming included. The push for more sci
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by b_emery 14y ago
It becomes a spar buoy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spar_buoy
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by b_emery 14y ago
> doesn't seem like the kind of place where classified work would be done. They get a lot of money from the Office of Naval Research, and some of the projects are certainly classified. I dont know for sure, but it's quite possible that
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by b_emery 14y ago
Very cool! Would not have thought of that.
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by b_emery 14y ago
Sounds like an interesting business. The link in your profile seems to be invalid, fyi.
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by b_emery 14y ago
> The one who invented multiplication did not want to add numbers all life Reminds me of favorite fact from 'The Information'. The original use of logarithms was by human 'computers', literally, people paid to run the calculations to fi
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Caltech machine learning telecourse starts July 10(work.caltech.edu)
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by b_emery 14y ago
I predict that a few years from now we will not be seeing QR codes. I dislike them because they are ugly and their abuse seems to be widespread and growing, but I can see many reasons, some of which are posted here, why they would be useful
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by b_emery 14y ago
Slightly off topic, but I just completed the online learning from data course offered by Cal Tech (for free), and am pleased to say that 1) I understand this thread, and 2) have implemented an SVM starting with a quadratic programming pac
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by b_emery 14y ago
I can assure you that the wsj is correct! I've been transporting balloons a bit lately* and having fun watching them 'lean in' to turns, 'leaning back' while braking, and 'leaning forward' while accelerating. *transporting balloons correlat
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by b_emery 14y ago
> things that have a material effect on people's quality of life. As opposed to Facebook. As much as I dislike Facebook, there is some scientific evidence that increasing one's social ties produces measurable improvements to health, inc
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by b_emery 14y ago
As was the interview retrospective on fresh air this morning: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/08/152248901/fresh-air-remembers-...
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In depth discussion of Facebook IPO(onpoint.wbur.org)
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