carpdiem

8 ms·

31.
What Would Feynman Do? (2011)(ericlippert.com)
54 points by carpdiem 5y ago|13 comments
32.
by carpdiem 5y ago
Not really. Trees are actually somewhat hard to burn, so most wildfires start by catching dry underbrush on fire instead. So in this case, that would just be the alfalfa. Key to remember is that power lines can spark when they're damag
33.
by carpdiem 5y ago
Ankles can be tricky. Most "barefoot" style shoes have essentially zero ankle support. What ends up happening for most people is that if you ease into them, and use them regularly, you end up building up substantially more muscle
34.
by carpdiem 6y ago
Forests are not perpetual carbon sinks, as trees eventually die and then decompose, releasing their carbon back into the atmosphere. At best, a young and growing forest can be a temporary carbon sink, until it reaches maturity (and steady s
35.
Mary Meeker's Covid Report(bondcap.com)
2 points by carpdiem 6y ago|0 comments
36.
MIT 6.004 – Computation Structures Lectures(computationstructures.org)
4 points by carpdiem 7y ago|0 comments
37.
by carpdiem 7y ago
No discussion of back pain is complete without mention of Stuart McGill (see, for example, his book "Back Mechanic" - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FKSGJYC/ ). He's a professor emeritus
38.
by carpdiem 8y ago
This is very likely. There's also the chance they're taking advantage of some portion of the ground effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_(aerodynamics) ), thereby allowing themselves to increa
39.
by carpdiem 9y ago
Generally, UBI schemes advocate some sort of drop-off in payout as people earn money outside of the program (but structured in such a way as to ensure no sticking points of greater than 100% effective marginal tax). So in net you're no
40.
by carpdiem 11y ago
I notice that this list looks like it has a very long tail. Can we get the top 100 books as well? (since many of those would have very similar mention numbers as the end of the top-30)
41.
by carpdiem 11y ago
I think you've misunderstood the point. Terawatt-hours is ambiguous, without specifying a time period. In particular, Terawatt-hours can be converted to Joules. To say that humanity's energy usage is X Joules is meaningless withou
42.
by carpdiem 11y ago
Interestingly, having gone to Caltech, I suspect that its extreme focus on STEM research actually hurt it here. Mostly because that focus results in a very large portion of undergrads going on to grad school (much larger % than any other un
43.
CU-Boulder launches foreign founders program(colorado.edu)
7 points by carpdiem 12y ago|0 comments
44.
A Self-policing Homeless Community(usuallypragmatic.com)
2 points by carpdiem 12y ago|0 comments
45.
by carpdiem 12y ago
Agreed! I think it's super important to avoid getting burned out, but I really wanted to highlight the importance of getting to new rungs, though, before you stop for so long that you slip back down. Where do you personally find the op
46.
Slow and Steady is Bullshit(usuallypragmatic.com)
43 points by carpdiem 12y ago|36 comments
47.
Why Trying to Understand Life Completely is a Mistake(usuallypragmatic.com)
1 points by carpdiem 12y ago|0 comments
48.
by carpdiem 13y ago
I feel like this is not a good comparison. Boeing took fifty years to go from the company that built that plane, to the company that helped build the Saturn V. I'm all for long time horizons, but I don't think that most startup fo
49.
Koding (cloud-based dev environment startup) giving away 3GB accounts(koding.com)
1 points by carpdiem 13y ago|0 comments
50.
Australian-made high tech armour could reinvent Mixed Martial Arts(news.com.au)
41 points by carpdiem 13y ago|32 comments
51.
Review of the DSM-V as a piece of dystopian fiction(thenewinquiry.com)
148 points by carpdiem 13y ago|55 comments
52.
by carpdiem 15y ago
I think he's counting in Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia as distinct, largely self-governing regions.
53.
by carpdiem 15y ago
I don't know about MIT and Stanford, but I went to Caltech, and while there are first-year courses with names like 'Calculus', they are categorically nothing like the first-year courses at UCs or CSUs. To put things into perspective, there
54.
by carpdiem 15y ago
As someone who learned to read at a very early age, this is horrifying to me.
55.
by carpdiem 16y ago
Well, it's a combination of two things: 1) We wanted to keep the price / trebuchet low, so our margin after materials is slim. and 2) The laser cutter that we need to produce these is expensive. But such is life!
56.
Show HN: Kickstarter project for snap-together, desktop trebuchets(kickstarter.com)
10 points by carpdiem 16y ago|2 comments
57.
How our schools fail - a perspective on understanding science(intellectualpornography.com)
2 points by carpdiem 16y ago|0 comments
58.
by carpdiem 16y ago
Yes, but you have to consider very carefully what "poor grades" means here. Coming from a Caltech admissions offices, "poor grades" is anything less than about a 3.8 (unweighted), or anything less than straight As in math and science. Anyth
59.
by carpdiem 16y ago
I went to Caltech recently, and I feel I should weigh in on this. The author of the article spends an unfortunate amount of time talking about SAT and AP scores, as if that's all that Tech cares about. Having served on an institute committe
60.
by carpdiem 16y ago
I spent some time building numerical simulations as the theorist on an R&D team in Los Angeles, and Cython was a lifesaver. Iirc, I got ~150x performance increase (note, 150x, not 150%) out of it. That gave me all the great high-level b

More ›