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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Did you hear of the Edison board? Sank like a stone. And like many things Intel lost interest. Intel is culturally incapable of doing long-attention-span products. They only succeed with fire-and-forget products. Sustained effort over the l
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
It was the tradition of New England churches to keep pretty good birth, death, and marriage records. Plus, the Mayflower gang and other early arrivals have been fairly extensively documented. Once you can hook your limb of the tree into t
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Congratulations! Your post made me do something that almost never happens -- I went and read an article that I otherwise had no intention of reading :) So here is a data point, it is only one, but it is mine: I am eagerly awaiting the arri
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
All day doing presentations? That isn't what we are talking about here. Starting the day with 30 minutes of "open mic" to introduce yourself and tell us about something cool that you did is an outright invitation to start th
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Perfect filter! I would rather not hire someone who doesn’t want to explain their projects and finds it onerous. Win-win.
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
We have people do a 30 minute presentation on anything they think we might find relevant. It is a really great way to start off a day of interviews with a candidate. It is a great self-introduction and a great stimulus for meaningful interv
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Wow. Best new interviewing idea I have heard in a long time!
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Details here: https://archive.org/details/73-magazine-1988-04/page/n43/mod... 73 Magazine, April 1988, page 43. Article says the switches are essentially ASCII, but with the bits shuffled so that lower
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
What? No. as I recall he had 7 switches and just chorded ASCII
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I will add: Anything Stephane Grappelli. A traditionalist might tell you to learn the head and chord changes to the 100 most recorded jazz standards as a core basis for listening/learning. Along that line consider creating play lists
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I have also seen some work on doing collision checking for robot arm kinematics -- which is a rather nasty problem when done the traditional way. [edit to add] Also all the classic RF transmission line problems that one would normally solve
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
A few months back I did a few experiments with this package. It allows GA-ish notation in a Python script by providing GA types and operators. It this didn't exists, you would want to write it yourself, and probably do is far less we
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A few months back I made an effort to learn GA. I did get some traction, but eventually shelved the effort. The thing that put me off is that no one could explain how to do units analysis in GA. I am mainly interested in physics and engi
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The difference is which generation the rhetoric triggers.
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The war on terror was not about containing communism. It could not be labeled and dismissed as “anti-communist hysteria”
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True, but this is the ancient rhetoric almost word-for-word. The words are triggering for those of certain generations.
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That argument is a lot harder to sell since the Korea and Viet Nam wars. Not that I disagree with you. China does need to be reigned in, and we should have started years ago. But the leadership of the USA was mostly of draftable age during
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
So perhaps you were downvoted for being vague. But certainly things like the supreme court recently refusing to hear an important case on qualified immunity have me concerned that USA-ians are whistling past the graveyard right now.
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Exactly right on rain being the determining factor. In NE Iowa and SE Minnesota, where I am from, it is one of the most drought-resistant areas of farm land in the nation. No one would waste dollar-one on an irrigation system. (Getting 4 ra
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Danes and Swedes collaborating? I am thinking the big motivation here is the tax-free booze on the ferry ride to meetings.
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No local uni with math PhD students?
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Why do you think that takes a lot of effort? I suspect it would not be hard to find a tutor at readonable rates. (Speaking as a former home-schooling dad. We used math toturs for 1:1 instruction at various times. )
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Kind of an interesting take. Same for me, the solution to vexing problems often come in off-hours. My solution for creating boundaries is not to banish wrong-think at wrong times, but to simply prioritize "my time" versus "c
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
I was pretty terse about my definition of instinct in my original post, because I thought the post had gone on long enough. But the idea I that am trying to get at is grounded in the concept that emotion and gut feel drive more decisions t
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
After working in robotics for a few years, I came to the realization that people (applies especially to managers) don't recognize when they are bringing the wrong instincts to a problem. If you come up through software, you develop
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by dbcurtis 6y ago
Not the OP, but of all the places in Europe where I have been, Norway just feels the most comfortable to me. My city would be Bergen.
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Yust a little lefse vill go a long vay.
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> Is there a general one for any job-seeker? Use your network. Make sure your friends know you are looking. Especially friends that are also looking. I've had conversations like this with old friends: "Hey, I'm looking
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Dude, I live in the heart of Silicon Valley and have dealt with AT&T and two different offices and my home. And I can tell you that AT&T are both utterly clueless and shameless liars when it comes to FTTH and FTTN installations. Y
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... and designed to let enough sunlight through that the plants underneath continue to flourish, preventing soil erosion

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