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by dlnovell 16y ago
Just yesterday I received an email from a recruiter saying that she had come across my resume and I looked like a great fit for a position she's hiring for. She asked me if I'd give her a call to chat about my experience and so she could te
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by dlnovell 16y ago
> pretend we live in a democracy? This is why I don't vote. I am firmly convinced that America is not a democracy, it is a plutocracy that masquerades as a democracy. The interests of the hyper-rich and powerful are served at the expens
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Freeman Dyson's "Astrochicken"(en.wikipedia.org)
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by dlnovell 16y ago
The Genetic Algorithm. It totally blew my mind when I read about it's successful application to evolving satellite antennas for JPL, and the automated design of an analog->digital signal converter that relies on a component that isn't a
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by dlnovell 16y ago
Your calmness index is pretty low right now. I wonder how this will affect the market.
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by dlnovell 16y ago
I'm not sure how you don't qualify the internet as being as world-changing as the rest of the inventions you've listed. Perhaps that being a part of the revolution it's caused has blinded you to it's dramatic influence on the direction of h
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by dlnovell 16y ago
Just noticed her math is off a bit!!! haha. I guess she applied 2.54 the wrong way - ~1 foot instead of 7 feet. (I hope she doesn't do that to her patients!) I wonder if that changes her opinion much. I guess 13 inches is close enough a dis
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by dlnovell 16y ago
My mother in law is an optometrist and I sent her the link - she doesn't seem too impressed: "The immediate problem I see with this is that people can already see with their distance correction anything that is 33cm (83.82")(6.9 ') from the
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by dlnovell 16y ago
I don't know the exact equation, but accelerating any mass beyond that of a single particle or perhaps molecule to that large a fraction of the speed of light borders on impossible. The energy required to accelerate a mass increases exponen
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by dlnovell 16y ago
You must be delightful to work on a team with
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by dlnovell 16y ago
I think 24 hours would be long enough to get the point across. I expect 100% of the students at that university will find other access during the week, but if he kept it to a length that the ADD addled brains of college students could possi
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by dlnovell 16y ago
Outstanding! I'm going to use the hell out of this for any sports tickets I buy from now on. Well done!
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by dlnovell 16y ago
Hahaha, I can answer how to convert that to .NET! I worked for a while as a web developer at a PR company. My predecessor had apparently heard of the Storray engine and converted it to .NET. He stored all the product information for one of
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by dlnovell 16y ago
hahaha, that's hilarious. 1) It doesn't solve the problem at all as the drunks don't even notice the deterrent 2) If the drunks were aware enough to notice, they could simply pee at an angle to avoid backsplash - but I imagine they'd be too
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How XML Threatens Big Data (2009)(dataspora.com)
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Stock market model first to reproduce main properties of the real market(physorg.com)
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by dlnovell 16y ago
I'm building a machine learning system in .NET to attempt to predict the outcome of NBA games.
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by dlnovell 16y ago
It also reminded me of my favorite quote: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." -George Carlin
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by dlnovell 16y ago
From what this guy said, the maximum flow rate if the well fails is 150,000 barrels per day. If there are 2.5 billion barrels in the reservoir, then we'd be looking at a continuous leak at approximately three times it's present flow rate fo
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by dlnovell 16y ago
I'm 6 weeks into the exact same jump and I couldn't possibly be happier that I took it. My impressions thus far is that the industry is growing unimaginably quickly. I'm thrilled to get to be a part of it!
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by dlnovell 16y ago
Sorry if this has already been commented on - how in the hell can anyone insist that "no one will want to setup their own seed because it will be too difficult"? It hasn't been developed yet so how does anyone know what setup will be requir
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by dlnovell 16y ago
Actually, I should probably clarify: _our senior design team_ couldn't get the inertial navigation system working very well. I'm pretty sure they took what we worked on and fixed it as they finished somewhere in the middle of the pack. It w
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by dlnovell 16y ago
Awesome! I worked on the inertial navigation system for Insight Racing's entry into the 2nd DARPA Grand Challenge as my senior design project in college. We implemented a Kalman filter, but I'm not sure we got all the bugs out as it didn't
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by dlnovell 16y ago
The program my dad used was developed by Evelyn Wood. It's old school, and one of the main techniques is underlining each line of text with your finger or a pen, so it doesn't really work as well for reading on a computer. However, once you
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by dlnovell 16y ago
Sorry, but that is absolutely not true. Notice that every statement you use to back up your premise contains "I". You may not be an effective speed reader or haven't been able to properly train yourself, but your blanket statement that spee
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by dlnovell 16y ago
+1 for "radsauce"
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by dlnovell 16y ago
Maybe the diaspora guys can tackle this in the fall after they've knocked out their distributed fb
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by dlnovell 16y ago
I have been doing several of the items on this list for many years, but recently added regular exercise. I can't possibly express how much of a difference it has made in my life - physically and more importantly mentally. I've had seasonal
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Inside NASA's world-class supercomputer center(news.cnet.com)
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by dlnovell 16y ago
I went to school with Gray and he lives and breathes Apple... way beyond the point of sanity in many cases, but his loyalty is beyond reproach. Apple is lucky to have employees as devoted as he is, and hopefully they'll recognize it and let

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