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by cshimmin 12y ago
Cool idea, not sure I like how the web app hijacks Command+N keys though (I use these often to switch between browser tabs). Lately I've been using a similar ~5 categories, and just emailing things to myself. I put the "tag"
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by cshimmin 12y ago
Honestly. For a moment I thought this was another [1] viral in-universe ad for that HBO show Silicon Valley. Then I realized they are serious... [1] http://www.piedpiper.com/
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by cshimmin 12y ago
Great, they can add this testimonial to their vacuous landing page. And I still won't believe anything till I see it.
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by cshimmin 12y ago
Evidently it's not derelict anymore... the University of Arizon has owned it since 2011. Lookin' pretty cool! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
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by cshimmin 12y ago
All they're asking for is name, number, meatspace and email addresses. Presumably, it's so some guy named "John Smith" doesn't prevent them from collecting information on the thousands of other J.S.'s out there
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by cshimmin 12y ago
Yeah, it's a very well-written article, but here is where I disagree with the analysis. > The problem, though, is that Surface’s sales numbers show that device quality is not the primary sales driver for Microsoft customers. Here&#x
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by cshimmin 12y ago
Apparently user gottebp did just that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7753993
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by cshimmin 12y ago
Do we have people who study all three?
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by cshimmin 12y ago
I'm not saying this is a good or a bad thing, but: intro physics courses are not designed to teach physics, really. They're designed to give intuition about mechanics . In practice, physicists don't really think much about
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by cshimmin 12y ago
As a physicist, I am still skeptical. And it's not just NewScientist, AAAS's (supposedly reputable) online magazine broke the same story a day earlier [1]. There is literally no news content in this story. The story is "some
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by cshimmin 12y ago
Very interesting; of course I expect there are many refinements to be made. As a physicist my first reaction is always to mash numbers together based on dimension. If I can get within one or two orders of magnitude in a problem I know nothi
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by cshimmin 12y ago
Naively, it sounds about right just on dimensional grounds. CPU clock: ~ 2GHz, so that means (2 GHz) / (4 GB / s) = 0.5 instructions per byte For a 64 bit processor, you might imagine the best you can do is, say, 2 instru
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by cshimmin 12y ago
"Why don't they make the whole damn plane out of the black box?"
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by cshimmin 12y ago
The server is called "redis"
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by cshimmin 13y ago
I have been wondering if Chromebooks could be useful for this purpose...
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by cshimmin 13y ago
For stuff I need all the time (wiki's, forms for work, code repositories), I simply use bookmarks. For ideas / notes, I email myself with "idea: <...>" or "note: <...>" in the subject and have gmail
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by cshimmin 13y ago
That's an interesting approach; it would cause comments that are really good to float to the top no matter when they are posted. In terms of Bayes' theorem: P(upvote | good post) = P(good post | upvote) * P(upvote) / P(
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by cshimmin 13y ago
Agreed... often these sorts of headlines are the first time I've ever heard of "x" or "y". And in many cases, it's probably the biggest publicity hit these companies have ever received. Except perhaps in the ca
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by cshimmin 13y ago
Anyone know how much a scrubbed launch costs? Obviously much less than a failed launch, but just curious...
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by cshimmin 13y ago
Honestly, my facebook feed has trained me to simply never click on any article that begins with a number.
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by cshimmin 13y ago
All he did was take an average of the pinging interval... I'm pretty sure the analysts actually working on this didn't need to crowdsource that.
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by cshimmin 13y ago
Ask a doc if ADD meds are right for you? (Serious suggestion, just too late here for me to write it up more enthusiastically.)
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by cshimmin 13y ago
I guess Betteridge's law of headlines could have saved me from reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
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by cshimmin 13y ago
Honestly. This reminds me of the old educational software disks my folks would check out for me at the library back in the late 90's. And I mean that the best way possible!
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by cshimmin 13y ago
See also Feynman's Restaurant Problem: http://www.feynmanlectures.info/exercises/Feynmans_restauran...
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by cshimmin 13y ago
Wait is this where the original idea for git came from?
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by cshimmin 13y ago
I did just that. Although I bought a pre-owned console.
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by cshimmin 13y ago
Agreed, would be interesting to see how many of those searches ended in "!g"...
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by cshimmin 13y ago
I suppose with FOBO we can add: 'buyer robs seller of smartphone' and 'seller robs buyer of smartphone' to the list ;)
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Computing for the [physics] Energy Frontier: Snowmass Study 2013(arxiv.org)
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