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by graycat 2y ago
> US$400, .... $7,811 Ah, peanuts! Chump change! Somewhere recently saw a review of the Titanic, lots of pictures (taken BEFORE leaving England!) with the mention that the 1st class fare was $100,000. And that the ship cost $1.5 milli
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by graycat 2y ago
> get back some of that feeling? New Web site on the way: Free. No cookies, user IDs, logins, passwords, popups, overlays, or icons. Minimal JavaScript. Ads only in standard sized rectangles. Privacy: Any two users giving the same
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by graycat 2y ago
"The impact" of an engineer? How to measure that? Hmm. Let me think .... Think of a new company the customers will "love". Start the company and, being a good engineer, be the CTO and CEO. "Impact"? The va
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by graycat 2y ago
Physics research gets funded because of applications, existing or promising, for curiosity, fundamental science, the economy, medicine, and national security, etc. Since math can help physics research, that research is funded and motivated
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by graycat 2y ago
Right, there is also the issue of BGP, Border Gateway Protocol for the core of the Internet?
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by graycat 2y ago
At Google, refreshed my memory: Mike Cowlishaw - Hursley
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by graycat 2y ago
WOW! Looks good. Thanks!
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by graycat 2y ago
Thanks: On SQL Server, I do intend to convert to PostGreSQL or SQLite.
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by graycat 2y ago
Recall that early on in such chip making IBM skipped blue, UV, EUV and built a cyclotron to generate X-rays.
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by graycat 2y ago
Grim story. Apparently banks can be tough to work with for obscure reasons. Own little case: While in NYS (US, New York State), did personal banking with, false name, XYZ Bank. Somehow I was assigned to a particular branch office of XYZ in
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by graycat 2y ago
> What pushed me over the edge to Linux was Windows Defender sends files to Microsoft for analysis, but there's no audit trail for what those files are. Gads. I should look into that. Yup, one more item on my system management TOD
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by graycat 2y ago
> Why should a finite carbon brain be able to map out a coherent and finite model of something much, much bigger than itself. Have asked that and have a guess: Darwin-style selection rewarded getting some rational understanding of the m
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by graycat 2y ago
"going infinitely small" My personal guess at a first-cut resolution: An electron moves as a wave that satisfies Schrödinger's equation. Maybe that wave goes through a Young's double slit then hits a wall of detectors.
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by graycat 2y ago
Inside a black hole? Consider a neutron star with mass 1 gram less than needed for it to become a black hole. Since the neutron star is not (yet) a black hole, we can 'see' it. Send in the 1 gram and watch while the neutron sta
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by graycat 2y ago
"Wild"? I used to work at IBM!
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by graycat 2y ago
Perhaps: "Defender" is what I've noticed.
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by graycat 2y ago
I still get "security updates" for Windows 7 Professional and am unsure what the lack of "support" might mean for my business.
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by graycat 2y ago
Versions of Linux seem to have a lot of value and are real competition for all the versions of Windows. But I decided to concentrate on just one operating system and there picked Windows. Otherwise I want to concentrate on my needed softwa
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by graycat 2y ago
Yes, thanks. My understanding from a lot of Google/browsing is that my new HP has will a Windows Product Code in the BIOS (or UEFI) and, from that product code, will permit installing either of Windows 10 Home or Windows 11 Home. Rig
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by graycat 2y ago
Why Rexx? (A) Used it for decades. (B) The latest Object Oriented Rexx has some nice things, e.g., SysFileTree to get a nice file of all the names in a directory tree. (C) Yup, I agree that could use more tools and not have to roll my
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by graycat 2y ago
Been afraid of something like that: Mostly running Windows 7 Professional with latest patches from Microsoft. Had an HP Laptop with Windows 10 Home Edition where the hard disk failed. So, got another HP, with Windows 11 Home. I'm a
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by graycat 2y ago
With all that, might want some good automatic anomaly detection . While at IBM's Watson lab, I worked out something new, gave an invited talk on the work at the NASDAQ server farm, and published it. With a lot of monitoring someone m
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by graycat 2y ago
When I started with violin, since my academic major was math, looked into the 12th root of 2 and ratios of small whole numbers, dissonance from beats, etc. stuff. Then I learned (partly from a really good violinist): (1) On violin, can us
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by graycat 2y ago
Bradley Efron, {\it The Jackknife, the Bootstrap, and Other Resampling Plans,\/} ISBN 0-89871-179-7, SIAM, Philadelphia, 1982.\ \
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by graycat 2y ago
The Internet is able to transmit odors of rotting flesh???? Recently ordered an HP laptop for some light work (not my startup), and when placing the order said don't include McAfee, that "I don't trust them", all just f
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by graycat 2y ago
Sounds like Darwin will solve the problem!
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by graycat 2y ago
As I recall, Bell Labs had a license to print money -- they had a government permitted monopoly on the US voice telephone network. So, for one effort, they saw that for the electronic signal amplifiers they needed, vacuum tubes, amazing and
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by graycat 2y ago
> This is quite immature. For research math, it is "immature", incomplete, .... But I was aiming the remark at students plus/minus a few years of being a college freshman. For what theorems to prove: (1) "Alexander G
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by graycat 2y ago
Yes, mathematical maturity is a consideration, but working carefully through just one mid-college math book that is based on theorems and proofs is a reliable cure. The consideration is not really big since the main goal remains: Just p
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by graycat 2y ago
The track record of math teaching in Russia has been impressive, Kolmogorov, Dynkin, etc. Too much in the US, there is secret culture: Math teaching is to filter, and the students have to prove themselves against challenges presented and

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