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by eesmith 1y ago
I lead with the example of my accountant using a calculator to show it has a different domain than a slide rule, or simple mental techniques.
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by eesmith 1y ago
Feel free to check some print dictionaries. New Merriam-Webster dictionary, 1989, def. 4 "an indefinite small number" - https://archive.org/details/newmerriamwebste00spri/page/180/... Pocket Ox
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by eesmith 1y ago
Yes ... Isn't that my point? I meant it as an example of how neither "basic mental maths and ... sanity checks" nor is a calculator with a 0.5% error rate are appropriate.
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by eesmith 1y ago
If society no longer needs my job, society should help. What's your solution to the miners of West Virginia? https://www.wvva.com/2025/06/25/coal-miners-face-layoffs-fed... "As West Virginians face
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by eesmith 1y ago
"A couple" does not always mean two. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/couple - "(informal) a small number" FWIW, "Maximum accuracy for standard linear slide rules is about three decimal significa
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by eesmith 1y ago
The number of bank tellers did not drop after ATMs starting in use. https://conversableeconomist.com/2015/03/03/atms-and-a-risin... That said, yes, what about them? These are people with real skin the the gam
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by eesmith 1y ago
Pardon? I said I use GPS. I'm also aware of the failure modes with GPS complacency, including its incomplete knowledge of the variables that I find important. And that's with something that makes mistakes far less often than LLMs
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by eesmith 1y ago
I've seen my accountant's fingers flawlessly fly using a calculator to track expenses down to the penny. Few people have those mental skills even in the days before calculators - either mechanical or digital. Slide rule are good f
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by eesmith 1y ago
Rarely. I feel lost when I use GPS to get places. Alec Watson of Technology Connections points out that GPS routing defaults to minimizing time, even when that may not the most logical way to get somewhere. His commentary, which starts at
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by eesmith 1y ago
Let's see if I get this math right. Mauna Loa is about 95,000 km3 in volume says https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-kea/science/geology-and... . Density of TNT is 1.6g/cm3: 95000 km3 * (1000m&
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by eesmith 1y ago
Biology is fundamentally based on evolution, so when viewed through a biological lens, a classification based on evolution is appropriate. We know of course that taxonomy is only one way to group organisms. People use plenty of others, incl
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by eesmith 1y ago
Yes, that was my error - thanks!
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by eesmith 1y ago
My mistaken use of m/s instead of km/s, in a squared term, indeed gives a HUGE difference. Thanks!
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by eesmith 1y ago
Where did my math go wrong? I got about 50,000 megatons. Assuming the high-end of 22km and a rocky/metallic density of 5000 kg/cubic meter (and assuming it's a cube): kinetic energy = 1/2 m v**2 = 1/2 * size * d
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by eesmith 1y ago
This object is near the solar system's orbital plane - far closer than Halley's comet, for example. People have searched off the orbital plane for a long time, if only to find new comets. This object was found by ATLAS, the Astero
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by eesmith 1y ago
Yes, I had tests in the 1980s which were 'select all that apply'.
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by eesmith 1y ago
It sure looks like they are wearing life jackets in the video. Where does it say they didn't have GPS or satellite phones with them, nor maps?
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by eesmith 1y ago
We are agreed that the first is meant more negative, and the second more positive, yes? Is this researcher more like the first case or the second case? The Norse used their ships for trade and pirating, and to travel places where alternativ
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by eesmith 1y ago
That's not Heyerdahl's diffusion model. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl > The expedition was supposed to demonstrate that the legendary sun-worshiping red-haired, bearded, and white-skinn
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by eesmith 1y ago
No, I didn't say "play" was dismissive. I said that describing the researcher's work as "play Viking", done as a way to monetize one's PhD, is dismissive. The more so as the researcher was partially self-f
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by eesmith 1y ago
Where do you see me dismissing play? What does "play Viking" mean to you, in the context of what this researcher is doing? Don't overlook that snowwrestler coupled playing Viking to monetizing one's PhD. Do you do histor
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by eesmith 1y ago
The article doesn't mention when he started this goal. How do you know it was in childhood and not, for example, as an undergraduate student? Is it a sustainable career? He only recently got his PhD. As a kid I dreamed about being a pr
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by eesmith 1y ago
Sure. In my 20s I remember telling my boss that I had so much fun programming that I would do it even if I wasn't paid. (That was probably a mistake, but at least it was a state job with salary guidelines.) But having fun and playing a
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by eesmith 1y ago
I think the author is more interested in showing how to implement a certain problem using a GPU approach than to test a GPU approach vs. a CPU one. As mentioned, the topic comes from an end-of-chapter problem set on prefix sums, at https:&
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by eesmith 1y ago
Going even further back in time, Kon-Tiki back in 1947 demonstrated it was indeed possible to travel on a balsa wood raft to get from South America to Polynesia, settling that part of the debate. Of course, Heyerdahl's diffusion model
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by eesmith 1y ago
> Using the power of GPUs we are able to calculate F99999999 in only 17 milliseconds on my Consumer GPU FWIW, on my 2020 era laptop, the following: #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { int a = 1, b = 1, c, n = 99999999;
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by eesmith 1y ago
My complaint is that the article makes no mention of these details. Is it a moral right which cannot be transferred? Is there a time limit? Does it expire upon death? If not, who inherits the right? Or is it more like an economic right, whi
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by eesmith 1y ago
You must distinguish between copyright and trademark. Andy Warhol drew images of Campbell's soup cans in paint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_Soup_Cans He controlled the copyright to that painting. Th
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by eesmith 1y ago
Is this the sort of copyright where ownership can be sold or transferred? The article didn't explain how this works.
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by eesmith 1y ago
The author and her husband need marriage counseling.

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