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by giardini 11y ago
I think the more usual form of that phrase is "Spreadsheets are dead, long live spreadsheets!". And that captures the truth of the situation better. Despite all the known weaknesses of spreadsheets, it is sheer hubris to believe t
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by giardini 11y ago
Neither is Amazon: http://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/031414/amazon-nev...
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by giardini 11y ago
"Why slowly exhale?" - So you don't increase the pressure in your lungs. "Why is hyperventilating first bad?" - Should you hyperventilate and then hold your breath and any pressure is put on your lungs, YOU WILL
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by giardini 11y ago
That would work if you have excellent breath-holding ability. But since you're exerting yourself by carrying an ~150-lb body, there is a risk you'll pass out because you're holding your breath. So you probably should take mul
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by giardini 11y ago
1. Pease has some good points to make about the use of fuzzy logic in control systems (e.g., difficult to prove robustness of nonlinear models) but it appears that he never stopped criticizing long enough to really find out what fuzzy logic
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by giardini 11y ago
Fuzzy logic is not a "bunch of if statements". Fuzzy logic differs from classical logic. In fuzzy logic one can model arbitrary (linear or nonlinear) functions. In particular, in fuzzy logic the law of the excluded middle does not
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by giardini 11y ago
You're right. I spoke too soon. I was thinking of _decoys_, which are typically cheap, light and inexpensive and provide, in the most optimistic of circumstances for the target, a multitude of other indistinguishable "targets.&qu
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by giardini 11y ago
"Jammers are a realy(sic) good target for anti-radiation missiles." Yes, but jammers are cheap and lightweight; missiles are expensive and bulky. And there are other types of jammers that mimic a target: they listen for a radar
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by giardini 11y ago
"I don't even understand what you're saying should have happened instead in New Orleans - should people have been shooting back? Surely the right answer is everyone being less trigger happy?" The police, federal office
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by giardini 11y ago
From the article "...it seems like an excellent time to gloss Jeff’s talk..." "gloss" a talk? WTF?
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by giardini 11y ago
Earthquake, flood, hurricane, severe blizzard, fire, riots, political unrest, lynching, epidemic disease, while all unlikely, happen with regularity in the USA. We are lucky we don't need to deal with famine here, but in the rest of th
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by giardini 11y ago
Hurricane Katrina's Danziger Bridge shootings remind us of the most unpredictable and dangerous of predators, humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danziger_Bridge_shootings BTW doesn't the UK have zoos, anim
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by giardini 11y ago
This excellent and amusing article by Gerd Gigerenzer discusses the history of p-values and their (mis)use: "Mindless Statistics" http://library.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/ft/gg/GG_Mindless_2004.pdf or http:&#x
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by giardini 11y ago
"He looked at me with a straight face and said: "There are no engineering applications of differential equations." This made me laugh; I think he wanted you to laugh too. Some DE courses could be better described as _historie
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by giardini 11y ago
"Would"? Hasn't Microsoft always backdoored their OS (if not also their other products)?
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by giardini 11y ago
This is no surprise whatsoever to anyone (e.g., diabetics) who uses glucose test strips. Small sample + cheap small battery-powered measuring device = high variation. Is it good science? The study had a mere 11 "donors"! I know R
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by giardini 11y ago
Argumentum de evolution: I find it intriguing but also somewhat self-satisfying that the natural response (to run), placed in our DNA by evolution, is confirmed by both mathematics and experiment. One wonders why one should have asked at al
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by giardini 11y ago
"...never give up rolling hose, never give up tools, ..." This certainly provides insight into the deaths of 27 wildland firefighters who died disregarding orders to drop their heavy tools (so they could outrun a wildfire): "
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by giardini 11y ago
David Letterman: "The lottery is the tax you pay for not paying attention in math class." Once one has taken algebra (and paid attention) to the point of studying compound interest, one should be sufficiently forewarned about loan
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by giardini 11y ago
Dave Ramsey has a dim opinion of college loans that should be broadcast further than it currently reaches. Many, if not most, college students and parents therof seem ignorant of Ramsey's sensible recommendations. As "Lie #4 about
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by giardini 11y ago
What about non-socialist systems? "Alexander Hamilton believed that a domestic debt, supported by federal taxes collected from all the states, would unify the country", a quote from "Why the Founding Fathers Loved the Nationa
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by giardini 11y ago
Really? "Alexander Hamilton believed that a domestic debt, supported by federal taxes collected from all the states, would unify the country", a quote from "Why the Founding Fathers Loved the National Debt" http:/&
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by giardini 11y ago
If he violated company policy by moving PII to his laptop, then the company may punish and/or prosecute him. But if there was no consistent policy then one must be formulated and all employees brought to heel without recriminations. If
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by giardini 11y ago
Apparently Schrodinger _guessed_ his equation. Not that it was an easy guess - a woman was involved. See p. 547 of "Quantum Foundations and Open Quantum Systems:Lecture Notes of the Advanced School" https://books.google
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by giardini 11y ago
I disagree with the author's premise that "Few understand that the SAT requires specific, school-independent training." I took both PSAT and SAT cold with no specific preparation and did very well. So did my friends. It was
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by giardini 11y ago
Unfettered capitalism has problems. Proponents like it's clean, easy models, but capitalism needs restraints. To blindly claim otherwise at this time in history is foolish and shows one is in a state of denial. They're just ski
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by giardini 11y ago
> do they deserve the sudden windfall cash that they received? Did the VCs who provided the capital deserve that windfall? Do the workers who actually created a lot of the value in question through their labor get compensated proportion
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by giardini 11y ago
>"But economic inequality per se is not bad." Nope, it's not bad until you need to buy something! (BTW is this PG post not some strange form of denial?) PG seems to forget about the infrastructure (bankers, financiers, v
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by giardini 11y ago
The two companies cultures are incompatible. Dupont has an "employee-first" attitude that permeates the corporation and dates from its early years when the manufacture of gunpowder proved to be so risky. The Dupont family owners r
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by giardini 11y ago
Please explain. Do you feel the same way when they buy a new car? Is this "keeping up with the Joneses"? Perhaps you should buy an assault rifle for yourself (and another for the wee wifie)!

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