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by evo 12y ago
It's probably just referring to the separation of heavy water from normal water, which is then electrolyzed to produce the deuterium.
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by evo 12y ago
My contention with the idea of everyone-as-a-producer is the same forces that enable companies to produce without employees also increasingly drives winner-takes-all behavior that leaves little room for being second-best. While the disrupti
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by evo 14y ago
While it's commonly bandied about that it's easy to build a nuclear weapon, and I don't dispute that, I think those sorts of claims are contingent on having a pretty wide range in the amount of fissile material you have at your disposal. "S
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by evo 14y ago
I've been hacking on an intercept driver layer to retrofit existing games for this platform. http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=138&t=15086 It'll be great to actually get some hardware to play with.
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by evo 15y ago
I assume this just undoes the effects of an unsteady camera during exposure--all the information is present in the image, just smeared along a predictable path, and can be reversed by something akin to a deconvolution (but more complicated
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by evo 15y ago
I'm curious--if the ball rolling down an incline were instead a photon falling through an event horizon, would the time-reversal involve breaking various physical laws? (Does it fall into the "physics doesn't apply inside of a black hole" d
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by evo 15y ago
This was fun, I wish I could've stayed longer--though I'm wondering if my voice would've taken the abuse if I had. Looking forward to next time!
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by evo 15y ago
The author told a story-like version of this in a This American Life episode: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/385/p... (the first section after the prologue)
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by evo 15y ago
I'd consider a single program that is "large" to be a failure already, if we define "large" to mean "too big to easily fit in a single programmer's head." The skill of a decent programmer is to decompose a large problem space into orthogona
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by evo 16y ago
I gave it my best shot in SketchUp, and in the process discovered why I am not a 3d artist: http://imgur.com/EMUJL I think if you look closely you can see the barest edge of a bucket behind the central part of the structure, where they'd
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by evo 16y ago
Another neat way to look at it--the probability of any given element is the probability of it being swapped in times the probability it isn't swapped out in each successive item. For A[p]: (1/p) ((p)/(p+1)) ((p+1)/(p+2)) ... ((n-1)/n)) e.g.
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by evo 16y ago
> "Given an infinitely long linked list which you can only traverse once select a random item with O(1) storage." This question seems ill-defined. Assuming you interpret "random" as "have an equal probability of returning any given elem
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by evo 16y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Starbucks' actual coffee size naming scheme seeks to benefit from this effect while dodging the flak. Changing the normal offered beverages from "Short", "Tall", and "Grande" to "Tall", "Grande", and "Venti" obtai
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by evo 16y ago
I would imagine that there is no exponential form that would take up less space in all cases than the original offset itself. You could think of the "exponential form" as a sort of compression algorithm with the same pitfalls as the latter,
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by evo 17y ago
The truth of the statement does not derive from being an inverse, converse, or contrapositive of the statement before it. Rather, it is inferred from what we defined "NPR" to mean. Since "NPR" is defined as true if what follows it is never