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by graycat 4y ago
As at times I got told: "Cruel. So cruel. How could you be SOOOO cruel?" Ah, come ON: You no doubt know more about pizza than she does! Moreover it seems that it is common here at Hacker News for people to know a LOT about pi
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by graycat 4y ago
Sure, I'd like to read Aaronson and tried. My difficulty with quantum mechanics is much earlier, that is, more elementary and basic than what Aaronson considers. I've watched MIT lectures, looked into books by experts, ..., and I
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by graycat 4y ago
100 years? First, how 'bout 100 years ago, i.e., back to 1923? Telephone: By 1915 in the US we had long distance telephone coast to coast. Cars: The cars of 1923 were not so bad -- had tops, doors, glass windows, electric lights, rubb
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by graycat 4y ago
I was a "programmer", and well paid at the time, but also had a good background in ugrad plus some in pure/applied math. The math helped, was enough help to be a crucial difference and put me way ahead of the pack, that is, e
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by graycat 4y ago
Ah, my guess, going back years, is that a large fraction of book and Internet recipes are more for reading than eating!
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by graycat 4y ago
> I'm worried that "just" mixing it with flour and water might've created pockets when dough is saltier and kill it or just be non-uniform I omitted some details on this point: Yes, adding the (active dry) yeast and t
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by graycat 4y ago
I'd like to try some yeast that gives more flavor than the Fleischmann's <i>active dry</i> yeast I use. But, I don't want to invest time or effort looking for a yeast with "more flavor"!! I've
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by graycat 4y ago
The mozzarella cheese I use is from Sam's Club. I just checked, and what I use is "Maker's Mark Part Skim Shredded Mozzarella Cheese (5 lbs.) $14.67 $2.93/lb" Soooo, a lot less than $10/pound! What if anything
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by graycat 4y ago
Arancini? Never heard of it! Via Google found https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/ara... WOW! They look good. Would be nice to take to the big family Christmas dinner -- we will have one i
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by graycat 4y ago
> gluten formation, rolling pin, or hand-stretch, food mixer. For my ingredients listed above: First, I put the yeast in the water to soak and get soft, sometimes for 1+ hours. Right before combining with the flour, add salt to the wat
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by graycat 4y ago
I don't have any "psrt" in any of that either. It's just that I like those things, a lot. I like music a LOT, and that Italian music is some of what I like the most. A lot of what I included is opera, and I can't
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by graycat 4y ago
Italian??? Thank you, thank you, thank you, yes, for pizza, Pecorino Romano , Chianti, ..., and also for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiSSz0snWzA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-TwMfgaDC8 https:&#x2F
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by graycat 4y ago
Ah, to heck with wisdom !! We are drowning in data while starving for information!!
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by graycat 4y ago
Pizza is one of my standard food items. E.g., I get bread and pizza flour in 25 pound bags from Sam's Club. Each batch of dough uses 650 ml water, 1 tablespoon of Fleischmann's active dry yeast, 1 tablespoon of salt, and 1 kilog
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by graycat 4y ago
Ah, maybe there is a point so far not mentioned: For a hint, the work was at the NIF, National Ignition Facility. Even to start a wood fire, need an ignition facility . Then the fire continues on its own putting out much more energy than
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by graycat 4y ago
> laser was a pop science laughing stock, more or less. Yup: In college English classes I took, they wanted the students to write term papers. Ah, sure, they expected some review of some case of belles lettres , maybe Medieval French r
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by graycat 4y ago
Hmm .... Mars has nearly no atmosphere, and, thus, nearly no bad weather, clouds, fog, rain, etc. That is, it's sunshine all the time! Sooo, for Mars, just put the solar panels near the equator and fairly densely all around the circu
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by graycat 4y ago
Looks like the long time CEO of the W3C resigned in November, 2022. Hmm ....
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by graycat 4y ago
I do a little with objects but not a lot. Doubt that I ever wanted to refactor some! Yes, some of my code editing, revisions involved code motion , but I don't recall that was a big problem. > KEdit sounds pretty scriptable
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by graycat 4y ago
> Does KEdit do symbol completion, show you documentation as you type, and perform automated refactoring? KEdit is not specific to software development but is for nearly all typing. E.g., I also use it for word processing, reading/
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by graycat 4y ago
> ... apparently, writing code on anything other than top-of-the-line machines is too much to ask for. You guys are way ahead of me, so I need to learn. E.g., I'm missing the need for "top of the line". For my Web site st
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by graycat 4y ago
> Can someone here ELI5 how they can be absolutely confident of these distances? In physics, it is common for the writing to say that some fact was "shown" or "proven". Maybe look at the "absolutely confident&qu
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by graycat 4y ago
A basic, simple point on Web page user interface design: (1) Easily 1+ billion computer users understand the HTML controls . (2) Initially maybe only the front end developer understands the novel controls they develop with JavaScript. L
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by graycat 4y ago
> I think what I implied (and others are trying to communicate across) is how do we know the galaxies are independent variables as you claim? Simple. I never claimed that the random variables were independent. Instead I just observed t
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by graycat 4y ago
There is no way on this planet or in this solar system or this universe I could have been more clear: I responded to > ... a frighteningly small sample to draw conclusions from? That's all I responded to. No way did I try to answer
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by graycat 4y ago
> But that's still an assumption Gee, I seem to remember writing: > Just make the usual assumption: The data consists of random variables that are independent and have the same distribution. Or "independent and identically d
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by graycat 4y ago
Take some independent random variables. Put them on a list, in a catalog, in a box, etc., and now they are still independent. That each random variable is about a galaxy and that they are all independent but now know that they are all vis
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by graycat 4y ago
> ... a frighteningly small sample to draw conclusions from? Just make the usual assumption: The data consists of random variables that are independent and have the same distribution . Or "independent and identically distribu
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by graycat 4y ago
The article mentions PSR -- precision scheduled railroading -- or some such as at the core of all this. Okay, it's a scheduling problem. It's an optimization problem. It's possibly to a significant extent an optimization un
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by graycat 4y ago
> the transition (sometimes called "neighbor") function is the most important part by far. And, indeed, in the 0-1 integer linear programming with Lagrangian relaxation I used there is nothing differentiable so should be cou

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