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by graycat 13y ago
> My first briefing when I got on the ground in 2004 was that we were past a simple insurgency and now in a small scale civil war that we were trying to stop from becoming a full scale humanitarian crisis. That's what I thought, and I w
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by graycat 13y ago
> Clearly you haven't read much history about Islam and can only see the world from what the US media feeds you. It's not about me. It's about current US foreign policy with respect to the current Afghanistan and some other Islamic cou
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by graycat 13y ago
> From the research I have done, the majority of Afghans want peace to the point where they would accept a Taliban strict rule of law over the continued war. Its confusing, but it just shows the war really needs to end. As I looked at
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by graycat 13y ago
Spoken like a true statistician! Yes, the statisticians keep assuming Gaussian, fitting distributions to data, etc., and you have a way out: Of course it's wrong, but it's still useful! Wow! > If you have a paper to suggest that gene
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by graycat 13y ago
For why the low average returns, here's my guess: (1) The golden rule is, he who has the gold makes the rules. Well, the people with the gold are the limited partners, heavily pension funds and university endowments. At these limited part
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by graycat 13y ago
It's easy to sympathize with the OP. It would be better to quote some actual data on VC returns, So, recently we have seen: (1) As in Fred Wilson's post of Feb 21, 2013 Venture Capital Returns at his http://www.avc.co
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by graycat 13y ago
Sorry, guys. After advanced study of probability, writing a Ph.D. dissertation in applied probability, and doing applications of probability in US national security and business, here's my take on the OP: (1) Sure, given a random variable
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by graycat 13y ago
The article said that the whey was "toxic" because if put it in a lake or stream it will consume the oxygen and kill the fish. That's mostly just FUD, hype, and nonsense: The water treatment industry is very aware of 'biologic oxygen dema
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by graycat 13y ago
> waste disposal In my case, it's easy: All the 'stuff' from the kitchen or bathrooms flows through big, white plastic pipes to a concrete tank buried in my back yard. Out of the tank are some tube, tile, rock or whatever ways for the
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by graycat 13y ago
> It's simply distributing the source of the pollution. "The solution to pollution is dilution."!
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by graycat 13y ago
Okay, opinions of experts wanted! So, apparently part of ASP.NET hangs is the use of SQL Server database to handle the data needed to support 'session state'. Somehow, in my gut, for no very good, definite reason, I didn't want to involve S
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by graycat 13y ago
Yes, but since Intel does seem to be still standing, they would pass a prostrate screening. However, they might want a prostate screening. Indeed, as I recall, Andy Grove did.
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by graycat 13y ago
All praise is welcome! For now I'm anonymous at Hacker News. Sorry.
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by graycat 14y ago
For where computing will be based, currently there are big cultural issues: With one paper I published, in a computer science journal for a problem in computer science but basically some applied math, I had to discover that, really, it was
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by graycat 14y ago
Scientists, blowing things up, losing fingers, eyes? Does it happen? I mean with serious scientists, I mean the most serious? Hmm????? Try http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf From chemistry lab, remember the Buns
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by graycat 14y ago
> All of this is done at Google - there's extensive monitoring for all production systems, with alerts firing once parameters move outside of their statistical "normal" range. In practice the range tends to get set more by "How tight ca
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by graycat 14y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5717481 in this thread.
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by graycat 14y ago
Expert systems for monitoring and management of large server farms and networks? Been there. Done that. Got the T-shirt. Wrote papers. Gave one at an AAAI IAAI conference at Stanford. Shipped two commercial products. First problem: Need
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by graycat 14y ago
In the OP, the > The "bug" here was not a software bug, or even a bad configuration: it was the unexpected interaction between two very different (and independently-maintained) software systems leading to a new mode of resource exhausti
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by graycat 14y ago
What "buzzwords"? You need to read again. What's there is great stuff, far beyond what you described, that I largely borrowed from the past 100 years of engineering and technology history. The bottom line points are: Getting through step
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by graycat 14y ago
Fine. I just don't think that additional background on PoF has much to do with my use of PoF as an example. Now that you mention the claim of a 10 hour work week, I believe I did read that, but I didn't remember it or pay much attention t
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by graycat 14y ago
I just read the article on 'Scalability' or some such. There the founder went into a lot of detail on system administration for his relational database. At no time did I conclude that his project was either "overnight success" or "zero ef
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by graycat 14y ago
Well, apparently Plenty of Fish did it! So, for a first answer to your question, have to 'plan', that is, think of a Web site that can attract that much traffic, at least from publicity, viral effects, other network effects, happy users, et
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by graycat 14y ago
In the US, just pick a town, any town, tiny to huge, and walk down its Main Street. There you will see just what you are asking for except mostly the businesses are not in information technology, Web 2.0, mobile apps, etc. Instead the bus
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by graycat 14y ago
The article throws out the baby with the bathwater. Let's focus on the consumer market for US grades 7-12 and vocational education, especially computing. For fine arts such as singing, piano, violin, other instruments in a symphony orchestr
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by graycat 14y ago
There are two good parts in the PDF: First there is: We must ask: why are you seeking venture funding? o The business seems capable of bootstrapping to success. o You claim to have a successful
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by graycat 14y ago
The first reason is, people who build tools mostly don't think that the tools will or should be used as components of other tools for more in 'automation'. The result is that it's tough to build on such tools. The second, and more specific
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by graycat 14y ago
Cute. And there are other issues with what I wrote. For a more careful analysis, would have to do, say, a 'probabilistic' analysis, e.g., where in principle can walk back to the beginning and start over but actually, e.g., with some common
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by graycat 14y ago
So, suppose we want to know what 'bark' sounded like in the common language 15,000 years ago. Call that common language X. Well, take languages A and B now where 'bark' is shared as a cognate. Now, start with language A now and realize t
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by graycat 14y ago
> I don't believe that University courses are the way to go. Well, there are pros and cons here. I'd say that the main issue is quality. If you are getting material directly from a famous, tenured, chaired, full professor at a top res

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