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by gpsx 10y ago
I think it is great they are studying UBI, but I agree with you in that giving people work is the way to go. I believe it goes by the term "workfare" (as opposed to welfare). There is always more work to do, the problem is people
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by gpsx 10y ago
I don't know why you are being down voted. I think you are right on. I grew up in West Virginia and escaped to Silicon Valley. I know people there who spend some time not working and then eventually lose the ability to hold a job at al
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by gpsx 10y ago
I recall a very good article that said there are many problems with healthcare in the US which causes it to be as expensive as it is, rather than a single big problem. I would list them if I remembered a good number of them. One of my favor
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by gpsx 10y ago
This might come down to being a goal oriented person versus a process oriented person. I got a PhD in theoretical physics. By the end of graduate school I was really unmotivated. I decided to leave physics and do something else, as yet to b
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by gpsx 10y ago
Yes, sort of. But I think he says a lot of unnecessary things not getting at the root of the issue. I left out some detail I should have said, like what is so special about a gaussian that makes the math easy. So I will say it. A measuremen
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by gpsx 10y ago
For minimizing the square of the errors I think the good reason is because, assuming your data has gaussian probability distribution, minimizing the square error corresponds to maximizing the likelihood of the measurement, as you and others
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by gpsx 10y ago
Example apps are great, but you could just use it for real software. That makes the best examples.
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by gpsx 10y ago
There is no way it should have recognized my potato.
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by gpsx 10y ago
It is called workfare, as opposed to welfare. I think we should be doing this now. In the past people had to do things like dig ditches or build the hoover dam. Today it doesn't have to be physical labor. People can do work on a comput
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by gpsx 10y ago
With new bluetooth, as in with beacons, you don't have the pairing nightmares you did before. Of course here devices that host their own server would not be simple beacons, but they could be found the same way.
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by gpsx 10y ago
I think it is a great idea for devices to be web servers to allow remote devices to serve as their user interface. I lean towards using bluetooth as a discovery mechanism rather than wifi. Google's "Physical Web" I think does
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by gpsx 10y ago
I had a hard time understanding how people were comparing meyers briggs to astrology and I think the problem is that they don't know the full idea behind the meyers briggs classification. I thought I should give a brief description of
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by gpsx 10y ago
In the long term, I think housing should appreciate like inflation, otherwise people are quickly priced out of owning a home. Granted, this is what we are somewhat seeing in Palo Alto, but this is probably a step function due to changing co
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by gpsx 10y ago
I think the general assumption is that QFT is true, it is just whether you can call the physics it creates as being particles. At least that is how I interpret it. QFT is QM, but it just has a lot more degrees of freedom (infinite) than wha
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by gpsx 10y ago
From the paper, at the top of page 10 of the PDF, at the end of section A: "Some authors conclude, incorrectly, that the countability of quanta implies a particle interpretation of the quantized system. Discreteness is a necessary but
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by gpsx 10y ago
I agree that many people who are not experts often misunderstand quantum mechanics. It is a very difficult field to learn. It takes a long time. I disagree about physicists not talking about philosophy. At least some people do in theoretic
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by gpsx 10y ago
Oops, there is an important omission in my above comment. I spent a lot of time talking about what a particle is and didn't say what a field is. Whereas particles are related to energy eigenstates, the field is related to eigenstates o
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by gpsx 10y ago
Maybe I shouldn't comment because I only read the abstract. My reaction was, "This isn't anything new. This is exactly how fields are interpreted." I appreciate the comment here because this is just a matter of semantics
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by gpsx 10y ago
They are very conservative with writing software in aerospace. One of my first jobs out of school was working as a controls engineer for satellites, where I tested the controls and data handling subsystems. For a new satellite, my departmen
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by gpsx 10y ago
I appreciate you saying the external legs can be thought of as physical particles, since they are not technically physical particles. The renormalization groups tells us that those look like physical particles. Internally to the interaction
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by gpsx 10y ago
I was looking for an explanation of why the lines of a Feynman diagram are called virtual particles when they are really particles in the unperterbed (or free) model. So why do you think of this as creation of a particle for a short amount
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by gpsx 10y ago
Maybe someone reading this can enlighten me on the utility of thinking about virtual particles in the vacuum. This is not related that directly to the article, but it is mentioned in it. Feynman diagrams are a perturbation theory expanding
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by gpsx 10y ago
It's funny the guy who named his company micro-soft is interested in condoms. I looked into the contest and it previously ran for a short time and is not really set up for people who want to make money of the product.
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by gpsx 10y ago
Yes, my discussion of it was my attempt to say it was not a factor in my point, as I didn't want some people to get caught up in it.
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by gpsx 10y ago
I don't know enough to know if the range you specify is right, but I agree that it is silly to say 10^-22 is a ridiculously small number. For one thing, when talking about the size of probabilities, we should talk about the size of the
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by gpsx 10y ago
I wish I could play the game. I have the same java applet problem. Hopefully I'll be able to play later. A few words on quantum mechanics - it is very tricky. Someone doesn't understand quantum mechanics by taking a class in it or
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by gpsx 10y ago
That looks like it fared pretty well, though not perfectly. I think it could have non-manual labor opportunities can be added via computer.
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by gpsx 10y ago
I think it is great to study basic income. While many people think it will work, many others are worried people will become unmotiviated and this will have bad consequences. An alternative thing to also study is a workfare program that give
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by gpsx 11y ago
I did not realize cap and trade systems were backed by actual carbon storage. That makes more sense then. Thanks for the link.
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by gpsx 11y ago
I am not an expert on this but I assume the total amount of carbon on the earth is essentially constant. I am guessing for the most part it exists on earth as (1) plants and other life forms (2) fossil fuels and (3) other non-living stored

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