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by graycat 6y ago
Then the article is wrong, wildly, overwhelmingly, brain-dead wrong. For the "hours" story, that must be wrong. Cooking rice is EASY, over any heat source with just a covered pot, iron, stainless steel, aluminum -- just a pot. Y
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by graycat 6y ago
Deleted. Mod, fix this attack on me.
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by graycat 6y ago
I thought that k-D trees were good for that problem. With some backtracking in the tree and constructing cutting planes, can get actual nearest neighbor search.
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by graycat 6y ago
There's an explanation for that, good, bad, or otherwise. The claim is that they didn't want to dive into an angry, violent, dense mob to arrest people because that would be dangerous. For an arrest away from the action, all I saw
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by graycat 6y ago
For another view, can read the comments of Disqus user JLM at the blog https://continuations.com/post/624305968188145664/help-stop-... There the relevant law is quoted and explained. So, in short, the DHS has the
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by graycat 6y ago
Assume we are starting with, IIRC, ballpark 14 billion years since the big bang. Well, to get to life, we have to have chemical elements more than just the hydrogen, helium, and a little lithium that came directly from the big bang. So for
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by graycat 6y ago
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by graycat 6y ago
Yes. I considered saying something like your (3) but thought that in the interest of simplicity and brevity (a joke!) my (2) having the knowledge to attack it. would be enough.
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by graycat 6y ago
Hint, quiet, don't let this out, a Ph.D. is not really a knowledge degree but a research degree. From that degree on, in blunt terms, everyone knows that no one can carry the whole library around between their ears and so no longe
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by graycat 6y ago
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by graycat 6y ago
Their engines are a version of the General Electric J85 that dates from the 1950s. It's been very widely used in both military and commercial aircraft. One version was used in the Dassault DA-20 executive aircraft used at the start o
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by graycat 6y ago
The article has: > For trace failure, the probability of failure is linear in the size of the radiation dose that the chip is exposed to. No it's not. Impossible. Wrong. Does anyone not see why it's wrong?
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by graycat 6y ago
Ah, maybe the cup is half full, and with Covid there is one more source of good opportunities added to the others: Net, if you want a good job and can't find one, that is, can't find someone to create a good job for you, then crea
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by graycat 6y ago
Linear algebra, and more than one such book. IMHO long and still the best linear algebra book is Halmos, Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces (FDVS). It was written in 1942 when Halmos was an "assistant" to John von Neumann at the I
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by graycat 6y ago
Okay, here I saw no mention of the relevant points in "Executive Order on Safe Policing for Safe Communities" June 16, 2020 at https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or... So, in short, &qu
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by graycat 6y ago
> ... was a healthy debate about whether the typical CS curriculum helps a modern software engineer at all. Some thought the degree was stuck back in the 70's. Others thought there was value, but had trouble articulating it. I'
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by graycat 6y ago
Dad worked there 1948 to 1964 as the main education theory and organizing guy -- Educational Consultant to the Director of Training. We lived in Memphis. Starting in 1964 he was at the Pentagon for the rest of his career. So, by '
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by graycat 6y ago
Maybe from, say, 1950 to 1970 or so, some of that Navy training in electronics was in Millington, TN, in particular at the NATTC, Naval Aviation Technical Training Center, with about 40,000 students at a time?
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by graycat 6y ago
I did that yesterday, more than 100 of the videos. Eventually I saw a pattern, surprising since it was common in major cities all across the US and as if there were some single, central training materials. Apparently: (1) Police are taught
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by graycat 6y ago
Yup, from my experience at one of the organizations you mentioned, I have to "agree with you more than you agree with yourself". Well put.
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by graycat 6y ago
Being around big tech companies for years, for an explanation of what's going on it's easy to guess that maybe at Intel there is a status quo in practice solidly in charge that, in particular, believes that Moore's law is sic
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by graycat 6y ago
At least the one-on-one case of that battle is supposed to be a special case of differential games from R. Issacs and as in Avner Friedman, Differential Games, ISBN 0-471-28049-6.
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by graycat 6y ago
IIRC there is a remark in the first movie Indiana Jones "Americans always overdressing for the wrong occasion."!!! I did use the 1:3 ratio!! :-)!! For the garlic, and as for another response here, maybe just cut one clove and r
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by graycat 6y ago
Gads, with all the OP, no actual modern, actionable recipe for Vinaigrette! [Uh, safe to say that currently Vinaigrette is not a stew with all four stomachs of a cow!] Here's my current standard: In a bowl of 1+ quarts, combine all
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by graycat 6y ago
Sometimes ideas are easy to find. An idea? Okay: Setup a software as a service Web site to solve quickly all traveling salesman problems with fewer than, say, 1 million cities, and everything equivalent in computational complexity to t
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by graycat 6y ago
On my HP laptop with factory installed Windows 10 with the latest updates, opening or closing the CD/DVD device consistently causes the screen background to change from the Autumn scene to black. Hitting the keys Start-Tab shows small

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