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by graycat 9y ago
To read the original post (OP), I had to look up the meaning of the acronym PPL -- "push, pull legs". I never did see what "the 'gram" meant. Uh, we have the Roman alphabet, the English language we can write using
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by graycat 9y ago
What I saw in my own romantic relationships and those of others was a simple, blunt point: Do both of the people actually want to follow the first part of the standard marriage ceremony? "We gather together to join this man and this w
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by graycat 9y ago
By "worker bee" I meant someone not in management. No one knows everything: (1) Designing, growing, and managing the LAN for AWS? Well, if haven't been specializing in that for the last 10 years, then call Cisco, some netw
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by graycat 9y ago
> Are you saying even today you're unemployable? Likely. Maybe Wal-Mart would hire me to stock shelves. In computing, essentially unemployable and have been since 1994. Long time. Ah, along the way, I heard of a guy and several o
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by graycat 9y ago
> What happened? I sent resume copies, formatted beautifully with TeX, simply as just text in e-mail, with lots of detail, medium detail, very little detail, etc. with backspin, topspin, overhand, side arm, etc., and nearly never heard b
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by graycat 9y ago
I'm semi-retired now, but 20+ years ago I was caught in a big internal political fight in IBM's Watson lab. Some long time managers were demoted out of management. A lot of people left. I was walked out the door. My work was in
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by graycat 9y ago
Good but old stuff. E.g.: "If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers" http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/News/Item/7c334037d1a9437d9fa650... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7819413 T
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Jensen's Inequality Proved, Explained(continuations.com)
1 points by graycat 9y ago|0 comments
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by graycat 9y ago
My own! Should I ask HN to help with the beta test?
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by graycat 9y ago
This is all very old stuff. One earlier version was for AI expert systems. Then there was object request broker architecture. Such considerations were ubiquitous for the biggie operations research (OR) with optimization, simulation, etc. O
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Ask HN: How to leave Linkedin?
2 points by graycat 9y ago|2 comments
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by graycat 9y ago
> Do you on your side have anything concrete for why so many climate researchers today are sacrificing their integrity? The video clip I gave answered that in very clear terms from some fully credible people. The answer is that those peo
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by graycat 9y ago
Your skepticism about the ice core data is correct. But, it was the ice core data that was nearly all the data in Al Gore's movie that did a lot to get the global warming scare going. So, in a sense, just take that data, see the 800
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by graycat 9y ago
> Defining "applied math" as mathematics that has found applications is disingenuous, IMO; what is and isn't applied can change rapidly in the course of a few years. Not "disingenuous" at all: I want to apply ma
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by graycat 9y ago
The reasoning in my post is nearly self contained. For more, mostly all you need are just two boxes of common data: First, you need the historical data, especially the ice core data. No doubt you can find that data via many sources on the
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by graycat 9y ago
First, you found nothing factually wrong with what I wrote. Your "pre-modern" maybe be relevant in, say, English literature but says nothing wrong with what I wrote. Besides, the 1780s knew next to nothing about the ice core dat
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by graycat 9y ago
You seriously misread my post. A lot of "pursuits have value outside of money"; e.g., for some years I pursued violin. But if a person is being paid to do research in mathematics, then usually in some sense commonly the people pay
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by graycat 9y ago
I was giving my opinion for myself and not "deciding" for anyone else. > Who gets to decide what is and isn't useful? There is a recipe for rabbit stew that starts out "First catch a rabbit". Well my own recipe
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by graycat 9y ago
I was not really running down pure math. Indeed, see my post below where I explained that some pure math is crucial to my startup. I was saying that I, personally, find foundations as in the OP down in the basement, dark and too far from
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by graycat 9y ago
One way and another, starting in my senior year in college, I spent a year or so in that dark basement. The most intense time was in a course in axiomatic set theory in an NSF summer math program at Vanderbilt. The next fall, I was in a cou
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by graycat 9y ago
Ah, foundations of math, start with applied math for making money, descend to applied math that doesn't make money, descend to pure math, descend to foundations, and, there, down in the dark basement try to make some sense. I've b
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by graycat 9y ago
Let's see, water vapor, CO2, and methane are greenhouse gasses which means that they absorb Planck black body infrared radiation from the surface of the earth. Since we can't see those gasses, they don't absorb visible ligh
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by graycat 9y ago
> He further showed that this statistical tendency to dissipate energy might foster self-replication. (As he explained it in 2014, “A great way of dissipating more is to make more copies of yourself.”) Then the atoms will become happy
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by graycat 9y ago
At one time, I was in that object, relational, etc. stuff. Some people wanted all that stuff combined into some one, unified thingy. My conclusion: The whole was a mess. Better just to leave the separate pieces separate. One of the piec
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by graycat 9y ago
I'm torqued at the economists, but from what I saw in the OP I should be torqued at that, also. The article seemed to say that econometrics or some such was not within their criticism and that, instead, they were criticizing the -- p
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by graycat 9y ago
You definitely win the free bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's! From what I've heard, some of that stuff had heroin and cocaine.
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by graycat 9y ago
> Counter-intuitively, their success was pg's essays plus HN, which stuffed their funnel with high quality applicants. Yup, but there's at least one more: YC took applicants from anywhere provided that they could get to the YC
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by graycat 9y ago
> AI companies - the most valuable companies in the future To me that's like going to a state fair 150 years ago, seeing the vendors of snake oil, and concluding that the most valuable companies in the future will be selling bottles
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by graycat 9y ago
Because for random variable X, sometimes need to care about X^2, and when X is normally distributed X^2 is chi-square distributed and not normally distributed. Because under mild assumptions, for arrivals, say, of visitors to a Web site, g
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by graycat 9y ago
In the last few years, for early stage, information technology venture capital, the situation has been changing radically: A blunt fact is, that the VCs very much need big wins, commonly, say, 30% ownership in a company with exit value $1+

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