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by b_emery 14y ago
> a very thin film of water on a wet billiard ball You're right. The average depth of the ocean is about 4km, while the earth's radius is about 6371km.
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by b_emery 15y ago
more Earth ejecta must end up in interstellar space than all the other planets combined Coolest thing I've read all week. Sort of suggests that 1) there are earth rocks on Mars, we just need to be very lucky to find them, and 2) if we'r
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by b_emery 15y ago
Maybe these? http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/07/aerospace-giants-design... This has a small image of a test vehicle: http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/sonic_booms.html
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by b_emery 15y ago
As an employee of the University of California, I'm compelled to take annual sexual harassment training, that is, how to identify situations and behaviors that constitute sexual harassment as it has been legally defined. A lot of what was m
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by b_emery 15y ago
Very interesting. Assumes that there is some significant interaction between the old YC members and the new. Not sure that this assumption is valid. Also, it seems like broadway productions would require huge teams where this sort of thing
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by b_emery 15y ago
Thanks for the link. Here's the full quote (see page 4): "Thus the "people not projects" principle was the other cornerstone of ARPA/PARC’s success. Because of the normal distribution of talents and drive in the world, a depressingly large
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by b_emery 15y ago
Inspirational quote of the week: "Middle-aged people are arguably the pinnacle of human evolution: they can do more, earn more and, in short, they run the world."
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by b_emery 15y ago
Thanks! I believe that there are some companies that do just that (the container tracking bit that is).
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by b_emery 15y ago
This makes me want to buy a bunch of AIS receivers and take a week or two off to travel to far flung locations to setup remote receiving locations. We've been putting them at our HF radar sites to log ship data, so that we can use the shi
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by b_emery 15y ago
I'm actually serving data to marinetraffic.com from a receiver near Point Conception, California. The AIS broadcasts in the VHF band so it's basically line of site, plus a bit more because of various scattering effects. We have a receiver o
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Hack the system with The Sex Scandal Technique(scotthyoung.com)
3 points by b_emery 15y ago|1 comments
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by b_emery 15y ago
bit late but ... you can also see this from the santa barbara harbor. I used to surf there in the early morning and the sun would be rising behind the waves. Not a lot of places on the west coast that that happens!
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by b_emery 15y ago
> I have found that if I work for four continuous hours, I can deliver not just 4 times but 8 to 16 times that amount of work. I'd be interesting in hearing how he measures productivity. Volume is not necessarily equal to quality.
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by b_emery 15y ago
I'm also a huge fan of that blog. This post is a favorite: http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/11/25/case-study-how-i-got-t... It redefined for me what it means to understand math.
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by b_emery 15y ago
about any old sand box will also do (the real kind).
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NASA Builds Six-Foot Crossbow to Harpoon Comets(wired.com)
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by b_emery 15y ago
Please do elaborate. I can only guess that you're talking about massive investment in CS departments in universities (US and abroad). I suspect that the only way to decrease salaries is to increase the pool of skilled labor. My personal pre
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by b_emery 15y ago
There is a great list here: http://blog.hiremebecauseimsmart.com/post/2860511335/design-... Note, scroll way down to see the content, the formatting is screwy. Note 2, I'm not a quant but the math I do overlaps tremendously. edit: previou
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by b_emery 15y ago
I've often wanted to google the location of items within Home Depot for example. That would be way easier than asking someone, who often doesnt know the answer!
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by b_emery 15y ago
That would be a very interesting outcome. It seems rare that things that grow exponentially just level off at some point (I'm thinking of economic bubbles), or even slowly decline. I'd be happy with anything but a massive collapse.
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by b_emery 15y ago
It appears that the AI is, as they say, 'baked in': "systems built with these chips won’t be programmed the same way traditional computers are today. Rather, cognitive computers are expected to learn through experiences, find correlations,
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by b_emery 15y ago
He includes a link to get a Google+ invite for the first 150 people that click. As of about 5 minutes ago, it was still working (I'm in)
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by b_emery 15y ago
here's the talk on the ted website: http://www.ted.com/talks/geoffrey_west_the_surprising_math_o...
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by b_emery 15y ago
I'll second this. IMO it has raised the bar so high for a personal wiki that I'm reluctant to look into others.
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by b_emery 15y ago
Research for the US Military was/is an important source of funding. To be clear, it's not like the government is getting nothing in return. Gifts from successful alums are also a big source now: http://facts.stanford.edu/finances.html
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by b_emery 15y ago
> The top 10% of this class would be ideal candidates for Google/MSFT/etc I really wonder if this is true. I've looked at the text and it seems pretty intro-level. What would the certificate of completion look like on a resume?
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by b_emery 15y ago
For those who have read it, I'd be interested in knowing what it is that you feel you got out of it, ie how did it make you a better programmer? Better understanding of what's going on at a low level?
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by b_emery 15y ago
Im in my 40s and still learning plenty of math. I think it's more a function of focused practice than age. I've also seen several profs doing good work well into their 80's so I dont know what your profs are talking about!
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by b_emery 15y ago
> 1800 surplus Physics PhD's Do you have better data than this?: "The physics PhD classes of 2007 and 2008 consisted of 1,460 and 1,499 PhDs, respectively. We received post-degree information on 54% of these degree recipients." ... resu
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by b_emery 15y ago
This is basically what my family and friends have going on right now, so I know it will work. We're constantly shipping boxes of cloths around to each other. Great idea.

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