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by dkural 10y ago
I had a similar problem with hiring product designers. How do you get & measure great design? What I ultimately decided was, the only way to get great design, is by hiring great designers, and only other great designers recognize who
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Would appreciate a link showing this.
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by dkural 10y ago
I don't think it's just a publication issue. As far as I'm aware GE / none of the companies you cited actually did measurements on a variety of designs for plasma confinement. It was great to see the German Wendelstein 7
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by dkural 10y ago
Agreed! I already said it's distorted in my post! However you got the direction of the distortion wrong: It's distorted in favor of fossil fuels. Fossil Fuels (incl. Coal & Oil) receive a bigger comparative subsidy than clear
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by dkural 10y ago
I think scientific research should be funded at higher levels than they are currently being funded, as a grant-applying scientist myself. He is proposing replacing all carbon-outputting power with fusion. That impose draconian costs on soci
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by dkural 10y ago
Those costs are born by real people, who have other needs such as education, healthcare, sanitation, nutrition etc. If you truly believe "whatever the cost", start by donating most of your salary. After all, you could live somewhe
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by dkural 10y ago
Hmm, ok that's a good point.
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by dkural 10y ago
He is providing minimum viable evidence that article is not particularly well written. I found his comment helpful.
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by dkural 10y ago
The biggest bottleneck to realizing this vision, unbelievably, is lack of funding to do large-scale, high quality whole genome cancer sequencing + high-quality treatment, family, phenotypic etc. data to go along with it. As nice as Foundati
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by dkural 10y ago
This needs more work on the math side to be helpful. As it points out itself, the ecological example does not (in substance) correspond to the Lotka Volterra model. Furthermore, there is no way for a species to go extinct from what I saw in
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by dkural 10y ago
Matter fields are indeed a real thing. a Google Books search will reveal hundreds of books etc. They're also called fermionic field. Here's the full range of elementary particles, all 19 of them, in the Standard Model: Fermions: -
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by dkural 10y ago
And yet, that was precisely one of the stated goals of LHC. Observing things is not a bad way to find new physics: Radiation was observed before there was a theory for it. Electrons were also generated as a "ray" before people had
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by dkural 10y ago
Just to give a bit more context: * These are not elementary particles. * It was predicted for a long time that these composite particles should exist. So it is not "new" in the sense that it was unexpected, but we finally have the
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by dkural 10y ago
The physics community does not consider finding the Higgs new physics. Not finding Higgs would've been more exciting, or a more massive / lighter Higgs, etc. The Higgs showed up exactly as predicted with the predicted mass, so we
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by dkural 10y ago
People don't have great ideas on what they'd do with new monies that would come a 10xManhattan size project. Tesla, VW, Toyota, Dept of Energy, DARPA, NSF, Energy Companies, Industrial Conglomerates like GE, Panasonic, etc. all wo
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by dkural 10y ago
My pizza joint does not prevent or block open source development either. Apple has open source projects that they've made available. Many people use Visual Studio and Azure for open source projects, or software development in general.
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by dkural 10y ago
Github itself is not open source. The irony.
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by dkural 10y ago
The documentation site, including the rendering of the page, the accordion menu on the left, and the diagram renderings look a bit buggy and jumbled to me. Would be awesome to use a better solution for documentation. The accordion navigat
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by dkural 10y ago
Looks like he won't fund you if billionaires find your company before he does, and he can't get the cheap equity he'd like. Makes sense for him, but you're also better off not raising from him in that particular scenario
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by dkural 10y ago
How do you draw boundaries of what's political? Everything is political - rules for how and where Cars can drive, rules for who can host whom in their house, gender equality and the job market, drones, and accountability abroad, encryp
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by dkural 10y ago
I want it to be a $1K/m so they can stay in business and build a sustainable thing I won't have to replace. That's still way cheaper than spending 1/4th of an engineers time per year on an open source dashboard.
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by dkural 10y ago
I mean it from the founders perspective as well, as a founder myself.
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by dkural 10y ago
This guy clearly does not understand investing or what it means to be a founder. There are three things that matter, the rest is noise: 1) Is there a big market? 2) Is the founding team GREAT? 3) Don't invest too late. That's it.
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by dkural 10y ago
I believe the person you are replying to did not literally mean it's a joke. "Tongue-in-cheek".
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by dkural 10y ago
What kind of genomic data out of curiosity?
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by dkural 10y ago
The author of the github repo doesn't seem to be an author on the ArXiv pre-print. Anyone knows why?
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Regulators have not approved it.
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The Soviet invasion was not "opportunistic" at all, if you mean by that eating a meal someone else has prepared. The USSR had a far bigger role in defeating Nazism than the Allies sans Soviets.
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A large portion of the world has no access to basics - food, clean water, basic healthcare (i.e. essential medication, antibiotics, etc.), electricity, being able to read&write. The resources and technology we have are unevenly distribu
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by dkural 10y ago
Gross Domestic Happiness is enhanced by caring about things beyond human flourishing for many people. Many people care about the environment. GDH was in fact invented precisely to capture dimensions beyond that of human material improveme

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