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by graycat 6y ago
Technology, useful for the US military and also useful later for US civilians? Are there any examples? (1) US Research Universities. For nearly all the US research universities, a huge fraction of their annual budgets comes from Federally
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by graycat 6y ago
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by graycat 6y ago
Gee, what the OP has is a LOT of advanced Windows software but, still, gives results not what I prefer!! I don't want to change the sizes of the windows and but just move them so that I can easily make use of all of them and for that g
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by graycat 6y ago
Broadly one problem with education in advanced, industrialized countries is the ratio of number of teachers to number of children. E.g., if waste enough time on YouTube, can find some videos of, say, cooking in some 2nd and 3rd world coun
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by graycat 6y ago
The CITI event was a real disaster, likely enough for the importance of UI design to be taken more seriously around the world. IMHO, there are some quite good contributions in this thread with several excellent ones. I will chip in my 2 ce
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by graycat 6y ago
A small point: Congress, the House, and the Senate, are not courts or form a court. The Members of Congress are not necessarily lawyers. Strictly and literally, then, lawyers are not needed for the arguments when Congress does an impeac
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by graycat 6y ago
Maybe for some readers: Likely GC abbreviates garbage collection . Going way back, some programming languages have permitted dynamic storage allocation , that is, a programmer using that language could during execution of the program ask
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by graycat 6y ago
My wife got a high end Ph.D. in sociology: E.g., two of her profs were President, American Sociological Society. Well, high end sociology tries to be a science of groups of people. Well, the theory of that field can start with a statem
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by graycat 6y ago
Your example appears to be similar to my example of the tap water: In a case of a threat but without proof, we may make a decision that will help us be safe. Otherwise, in a case without threat, we are reluctant to devote the resources to
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by graycat 6y ago
For a statement such as Putin is a thief. my standard approach is to follow the old, standard "The burden of proof is on the proposer." Or, it is not up to me to try to debunk such a claim. And I'm not obligated either to de
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by graycat 6y ago
> Your right to spread misinformation cannot be justified on the grounds of free speech. My response has long been that from the media, etc., I want solid information, up to, say, at least common high school term paper writing standards
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by graycat 6y ago
There is more to Section 230 than commonly mentioned. There is IMHO a nice tutorial at https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
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by graycat 6y ago
For control theory from a mathematician, Fleming, long at the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, there is: Wendell H. Fleming and Raymond W. Rishel, Deterministic and Stochastic Optimal Control , ISBN 0-387-90155-8, Spr
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by graycat 6y ago
> penalize??? Due to bad content, I flatly refuse to go to Web sites of ABC, ..., WaPo. E.g., if there is a post at Hacker News from the NYT, ===>> NO WAY <<=== will I go there. Same for The Guardian, the BBC, etc. Fool
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by graycat 6y ago
When I went to grad school, I just got admitted to the grad school and not specifically a Master's program, a terminal Master's program , or a Ph.D. program . After enough courses, and maybe a paper (I wrote a paper, later pub
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by graycat 6y ago
How much? Depends. In some contexts essentially nothing. In other contexts up to and including some of the most advanced known so far with advances wanted. First, Military During the Cold War, around DC a large fraction of the interest i
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by graycat 6y ago
For your group (.,R), what is the inverse element of 0?
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by graycat 6y ago
> I just think it would be misleading to imply that this is a path that most people can take. Yes, but if focus just on computing , in that field, there is, long amazing to me, evidence that "most people can" and, in a signif
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by graycat 6y ago
Mod: In trying to be a good contributor to this HN thread, I've been attacked by the trolls and lost 8 points of karma. I will give the thread to the trolls. Please delete all my posts to this thread.
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by graycat 6y ago
You are attacking me personally and contributing nothing rational about the issues. So, you look like a troll. There was E. Bernays and his idea of a narrative as the basis of a propaganda campaign. Well, the mainstream media (MSM), e.g
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by graycat 6y ago
On > "Nobody loves the Bible more than I do" okay at https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/02/23/trump_cru... is "You know, when you hold up a Bible, and nobody loves the Bible m
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by graycat 6y ago
Wow! Good to see that that is what you had in mind!!! I count such statements as personality characteristics, unpolished, maybe gauche behavior, not welcome in country club society unless are worth > $5 billion! I'm really sensit
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by graycat 6y ago
For "The POTUS is lying on an hourly basis (many of those lies just brazenly, ridiculously false), " I've paid fairly close attention to Trump's statements since 2015 or so, and I have not seen any such, certainly not o
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by graycat 6y ago
The OP has: "Yesterday was the safe harbor deadline for the U.S. Presidential election and enough states have certified their election results to determine a President-elect. Given that, we will start removing any piece of content uplo
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by graycat 6y ago
PG had lots of terms, e.g., independent minded , and lots of proposed connections among them. Okay, for some approaches to science , the next step is to define numerical measures of the terms and then to state the proposed connections mat
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by graycat 6y ago
Here is a simplifying view: In the US there are some people, less than 1% of the voting population, who have a lot of power and control of a lot of money and are looking to the political system to make more money. This less than 1% do disa
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by graycat 6y ago
You are correct about the fire bombing. But the "effects" of the atomic bombs were fantastic -- ended the war in about a week when the fire bombing didn't. So, what happened? One answer is that the atomic bombs were dramat
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by graycat 6y ago
Yup: When I was looking for VC funding, lots of VC Web sites claimed to like innovation . Eventually I concluded much the same as in Phil's essay. The nutshell description I formulated was the VCs want a startup with a product/
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by graycat 6y ago
Yup, for the past two days, for the first time I thought about the problem! Yup, quickly it gets to the role of prime numbers or a product of primes and some number of factors of 2. Heck, obviously can draw a directed graph with an arc fr
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by graycat 6y ago
Fran and I were on the same floor at IBM's Watson lab. I was in an AI project doing applied math, e.g., some optimization, and mathematical statistics (for the AI work we were doing, system monitoring, i.e., anomaly detection, better

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