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The Third Industrial Revolution, and a Zero Marginal Cost Society(youtube.com)
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by b_emery 10y ago
Silicon Valley is, and will continue to be, to tech, what New York is to finance. Which means all these other startups will be like regional banks. Good businesses, yes, but not a 'threat' to the big Silicon Valley companies and t
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by b_emery 10y ago
And here it is on google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/qLSZxPZaATM2
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by b_emery 10y ago
Indeed. There is a reason for the inverted pyramid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid
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by b_emery 10y ago
Another guess: the article says the plasma actuators can create weak flows, so a small push of air toward the trailing edge of the wing would create enough of a vacuum to re-attached the flow.
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Panic at JFK(nytimes.com)
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by b_emery 10y ago
Perhaps passive investing in the US market is a bet on the overall health of the US market system. You wouldn't want to do the same in an alternative market judged to be less 'healthy' or 'functional'. The Japanese
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The Commonplace Book(en.wikipedia.org)
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by b_emery 10y ago
... and where do they get the data? From a company in the Netherlands! https://www.deltares.nl/en/contact/
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Will Data Help U.S. Sailing Get Back on the Olympic Podium?(fivethirtyeight.com)
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by b_emery 10y ago
Case in point: the floors of my 95 yr old house are douglas fir. The grain spacing is about 2 mm. Try finding douglas fir like that at home depot.
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by b_emery 10y ago
Any further comments on the need for nation-state sized budgets, based on your work?
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by b_emery 10y ago
I thought fooled by randomness was much better. Higher information density.
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by b_emery 10y ago
I dont doubt that it is a threat, but disagree that its the greatest threat. I think it will have costs and that the 1st world will be able to (reluctantly) afford these costs. Its the people who cannot afford the costs that will suffer,
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by b_emery 10y ago
We have have the equations [1], we don't have the computer power for a river. Observe the nuances of water moving around a square: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8zKWaxohng [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by b_emery 10y ago
We have the equations, its the computing power that is the limiting factor. You can do a full DNS (direct numerical simulation) of fluids on the order of a few cubic meters. That will simulate flow to the particle, and fully turbulent, with
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by b_emery 10y ago
GP's karma is in the 1500's now. Wow that's a great comment.
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Secure Quick Reliable Login(grc.com)
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by b_emery 10y ago
"default dead" [1] 1 http://paulgraham.com/aord.html
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by b_emery 10y ago
Rather, separate children based on what you perceive their needs to be.
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by b_emery 10y ago
Do it. My university has a path for this sort of thing. You usually have to pay the same tuition rate, but it's per unit, so it's less than a full time enrollment. I'm at UCSB, and it's called Extension here. I did this
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by b_emery 11y ago
On an etymological side note, I love the origin of the word ginormous: ginormous |jiˈnôrməs, jī-| adjective informal, humorous extremely large; enormous: ORIGIN 1940s (originally military slang): blend of gigantic and enormous .
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by b_emery 11y ago
2e6/(7x365) = 782 words per day every day . That is a Huge amount of writing.
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by b_emery 11y ago
> 29. (von Tiesenhausen's Law of Program Management) To get an accurate estimate of final program requirements, multiply the initial time estimates by pi, and slide the decimal point on the cost estimates one place to the right. I w
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Man Hunting, the Sport of Security Forces(medium.com)
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by b_emery 11y ago
> separation of pedestrian and vehicle traffic I have an anecdote to support this. The bike path to my place of work runs along a river, far from traffic. There is a wide area for pedestrians as well. The difference between riding on thi
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by b_emery 11y ago
I really enjoyed this one: https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html As stated in another comment, the basics haven't changed much. The libraries you will use have evolved though. My impression is that that is where the
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by b_emery 11y ago
Get a few lower division (first few years of undergraduate) textbooks and start reading. Work the problems at the end of each chapter. Ideally find books with solutions or at least the answers, so you can work these problems until you under
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by b_emery 11y ago
Here, try this instead. Some hilarious stuff. No adds, i'm pretty sure it's circa 1995: http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%2...
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by b_emery 11y ago
This jibes with my experience. You need a wide variety of inputs in order to connect the dots and come up with something unique. Time spent taking care of kids (for example) decreased my inputs, resulting in fewer outputs. Until I discovere

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