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   by graycat 13y ago

   I don't know. Or maybe after all the topical I used, enough was absorbed that in effect I had internal medication. Or, I used enough topical to kill all the fungus in my shoes, socks, etc. so that the next time the nail grew out
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   by graycat 13y ago

   > In some cases the fungal treatment is longer than usual eg: Nail infection, ... I believe I got that and roughly beat it! It only took a few years! Doing some rough carpentry, I dropped a 2 x 4 on my left big toe. No big pain. But l
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   by graycat 13y ago

   Here we have been suggesting that part of the problem, for both individuals and our society more generally, is poor people having kids they can't afford to support well, i.e., in the sense of good parenting . But from some poor coun
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   by graycat 13y ago

   Nicely done.
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   by graycat 13y ago

   Thanks. I had not seen Jefferson's remarks. Bright guy. And now apparently to cover up the flaws of "honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of th
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   by graycat 13y ago

   Yup! But reading it again I believe it should he "Peck, peck, peck, talk a lot, peck a little more." That movie is awash in insight into cultural manipulation in US society. Besides, the piano teacher-librarian is just gorgeo
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   by graycat 13y ago

   I suspect that the politicians in Congress are still of the same mind they were when they passed the Patriot Act, etc. to begin with: They want to be seen as doing something so that when there is another attack, e.g., the Boston bomber,
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   by graycat 13y ago

   From a secure, undisclosed location from some secret intercepts via advanced technological means from an interview in a secure vault inside a Faraday cage with multi-sensor shielding in bedrock deep under the Senate chamber: Interviewer: C
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   by graycat 13y ago

   "Confused" is not the worst I've been called, and at times it's, i.e., "confused", been correct! Thanks for the feedback. For the link to MSDN, checking my collection of such Web pages, I downloaded that page o
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    by graycat 13y ago

    Sure, given a real valued random variable, it has a cumulative distribution. If that distribution is differentiable, then the random variable also has a density (distribution). Fine. Alas, that doesn't mean that in practice we shoul
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    by graycat 13y ago

    Thanks, I needed that! I've done a lot of programming, some quite advanced, and likely for longer than 99% of the HN audience. But this is my first effort with a Web site, HTML, CSS, etc. So, I believe I can write good code and think
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    by graycat 13y ago

    Terrific. I first read that Feynman piece long ago, but it was good to read it again. That piece is a great illustration of just how messed up education can be. Not all of US K-12 public education is so messed up, but a lot of it is signi
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    by graycat 13y ago

    > no child left behind How about instead calling it -- teach everyone the same; teach to the bottom of the class, even if they still aren't learning anything; and no child is permitted to get ahead ? But now finally, at last, we ha
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    by graycat 13y ago

    Help! Most of this discussion I understand. One point is, it all involves lots of work with browser cookies stored on the user's computer. My approach so far is to send the user the character string version of a GUID (globally unique
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    by graycat 13y ago

    If Obamacare really is better for US health care and patients, both soon and long term, and not wildly more expensive, then fine with me. I don't know how much Obama's for Obamacare: He has made lots of supportive comments, but
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    by graycat 13y ago

    Have fun: E.g., there is Enders A. Robinson, 'Multichannel Time Series Analysis with Digital Computer Programs', Holden-Day, San Francisco. So, the main application here is finding oil! So, go "boom" and send a sound wa
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    by graycat 13y ago

    Reagan? Now I remember some of what he pushed with his political capital : He called the Soviet Union an "evil empire" and stood at the wall in Germany and said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.". Then he pushed &#x
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    by graycat 13y ago

    It is different, very different. Obama avoids blame. He's terrific at avoiding blame. E.g., at Harvard Law, he was editor of the Law Review but didn't write anything so never got criticized for writing anything. In the Illino
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    by graycat 13y ago

    > Yeah, for instance the biggest overhaul of the healthcare system (Obamacare) happened without really trying. I was watching during the selling before the voting for Obamacare , and I concluded that Obama did next to nothing. What did
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    by graycat 13y ago

    Once my (bright, Valedictorian, PBK, 'Summa Cum Laude', Woodrow Wilson, NSF, Ph.D.) wife gave me a question: We were running a little consulting company, and one of our clients was from a wealthy family. My wife asked me about t
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    by graycat 13y ago

    For computer science course notes available on the Internet, these seem to be relatively well written. It looks like there needs to be a lot of thanks to at least D. Knuth's TeX and some graphics packages and maybe also LaTeX. Cute:
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    by graycat 13y ago

    Sounds like I will need to program a big red button for my server farm: I see a knock at the door with an FBI badge and then push the big red button. Boom -- my Web site starts putting up circulating arrows indicating an over busy conditi
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    by graycat 13y ago

    IANAL, so help! So, as in the OP, suppose I'm in business, and the FBI knocks at my door and says that they want all the data in my server farm. I say, "Just a minute while I contact my lawyer". Then I turn to the FBI and sa
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    by graycat 13y ago

    Common problem. E.g., how to "aggregate" data in astronomy? For a simple first cut answer, work hard, get a lot more data, work hard, have some good ideas, get a lot more data, work hard, etc. So, for astronomy, use spectroscop
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    by graycat 13y ago

    Due to the too frequent economic crises, during my education I considered getting a Ph.D. in economics. I got some famous texts on economics, read some chapters, talked to a famous economics professor, did a big upchuck, concluded that the
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    by graycat 13y ago

    The article is just awash in good points. Some of the points will really hit hard: "This is still America. Cash!" (from the movie 'Seabiscuit'). Long ago Google was getting more revenue from outside the US than inside;
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    by graycat 13y ago

    This thread does a lot on asking what is a start up and what about taking equity funding, e.g., from a venture capital firm, versus remaining a company 100% owned by the founder(s). The discussion keeps trying to find simplistic patterns
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    by graycat 13y ago

    If the course professor can have a flourishing, productive group in optimization in Australia, then good for him, his group, and the good judgment of his customers. In the US, optimization was a field with lots of effort back at least to D
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    by graycat 13y ago

    It's not about me, not at all. It's about the course and optimization as a field, especially in business. So, I contributed. Since I've been there, done that, got the T-shirt, I'm able to make some contributions few othe
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    by graycat 13y ago

    The Indiana Jones take off is fine. Mentioning the knapsack problem is less good because it's not so important in practice. Saying that the knapsack problem is difficult to solve, e.g., encounters exponential algorithms because techn