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by crux_ 17y ago
Anecdote: I've applied twice with NASA's SBIR program and been denied twice. It has the advantage of being 'free money', besides your time required to apply (the first time I took about two months of weekends and evenings to put together an
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I included the second part of the thought experiment specifically to prevent creating that impression. Guess it didn't work.
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I don't agree with your premise that any opposition is always a net benefit. Do you really believe that the intelligent design movement is making the science of evolution stronger or better? (Please don't misread this: I do believe that cli
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I'm not sure where means/ends comes from. My point was that politicization alone accounts for the tone and content of the internal correspondence on display, regardless of the soundness of the actual science.
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The issue would be that the intelligent design people are playing the game of politics while evolutionary biologists are playing the game of science. (This should be mostly uncontroversial, I hope ...) This may or may not be the exact same
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I can only report my own reaction; I can't read your mind nor determine your intent. As to "why racist," a big part of my impression came from the way you chose to present your experience as excruciatingly unpleasant, rather than an obstacl
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On the one hand, I agree that finding a BBC Presenter Voice is the most professional for this sort of thing. On the other hand, your post struck me as loaded with racist and sexist overtones. If you don't want to come across that way, you s
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Thought experiment: What would internal correspondence look like in evolutionary biology circles if the intelligent design movement had the resources of those who seek to refute the man-made climate change hypothesis? For a taste of what th
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Evolution-related political activism, for example. Hardly "objective." Edit to add another pertinent example: Choosing research subjects specifically to debunk their critics.
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Is this true of evolutionary biologists? After all, they too have had to behave in a highly non-objective manner due to attacks from external enemies...
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Yet people doing climate science have enemies, and not imagined ones. This is not just group-think conjuring an imaginary "them." This is true regardless of whether you believe in their integrity or not, and as a result they can no longer
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Have you seen google squared? It sounds like a step in the direction you're after, although it's far from perfect.
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Addenda & thoughts since I do a lot of work along similar lines: It's probably not a bad idea to have the option of a spatial index at the leaves of a geohash, as the geohash is necessarily of limited precision and will behave badly if
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ESRI ArcObjects under the hood: if (random()) { crash(); } else return UndefinedError; Tongue in cheek, of course, and they've gotten noticeably better since 4 years ago. (I've been working with ArcObjects since their 8.3 release
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Besides the performance difference, the main issue is the ideal of a perfect shuffle: each of the N! sorts ought to be equally likely. (N.b.: this post ended up being mostly the same point as fhars, only phrased differently.) However, this
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I meant for perfect shuffling, not 'nth'. :) This is for you, since I've already had three today & the brainos in your nth implementation are a strong indication for its prescription: http://www.espressoguide.net/resources/images/artic
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It's not O(n): both 'nth' and 'butnth' are themselves O(n), and get called 'n' times. I'm fairly certain you'll end up with O(n^2) unless you introduce mutation. I'm also fairly certain there is no purely functional O(n) algorithm. ;)
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Won't that explode somewhat performance-wise once you have more than a handful of cards? It looks like something along the lines of O(n^2)...
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Free app idea that I don't have the time to write... coupon-o-matic. 1) scan coupon barcodes, ideally using video (1-2 seconds per full page of coupons in one of those mailers?), beeping only for those you ought to keep based on what you bu
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No, not really. You seem to be assuming that a greater understanding of probability would lead to decision-making that takes only probabilities into account and not, say, one's morality. But that's a ridiculous thing to assume.
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Dare I point out the staleness of imagery in your first sentence ("mired in academia") or the passive phasing of your second? ;) Seriously, though: good bookmarks.
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Good as well: Politics & The English Language. ( http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm )
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I usually simple butterfly coil w/ wrap finish around my index + ring ringers. There's a bunch of different approaches people use; the general ideas of not introducing twists (not a big deal for short cables) and finishing with a wrap are m
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The knots I use all the time: Figure 8 (climbing, mostly), clove hitch (pretty much anything), truckers' hitch. (Pretty much anything as well.) Also helpful in everyday life are coiling / stacking skills you pick up when working with rope.
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I worked on another boom-era company with the same idea: actbig.com. And just recently here on HN someone posted http://groupon.com which is part of this most recent round o' startup frenzy.
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I don't think it's a strawman; it's a response to the frequent argument that artists ought to be compensated for their art via copyright mechanisms... as she stated in the very first sentence, as a matter of fact. If that argument was never
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The cynical answer, not necessarily because I believe it fully but because nobody seems to ever bring it up: Because the people working in companies are part of efforts that have actual an old-fashioned good or service attached. (Edit to ad
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A late to the party comment: I (just now!) finished a submission for an SBIR grant. Even though I understand why the SBIR submission is the way that it is, the simplicity of this application form makes me jealous. :( I've been doing 6am-2am
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I'm most alert in the late morning or late evening. However, for me, alertness is almost negatively correlated with actually getting things done --- unless I'm working on the "1% inspiration" parts, I have major trouble staying on task. For
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Coincidentally, the Ludum Dare contest just finished (I didn't enter this time.) Here's a crapton of games, all written in less than 48 hours, and all themed around caverns! : http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-15/?action=preview

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