graycat

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   by graycat 11y ago

   Looked at the text to be used, Durrett. There's more and with higher quality in any of M. Loeve, J. Neveu, K. Chung, and L. Breiman. For what Tao wrote on his page about determinism or whatever on that page -- just f'get about
2. 2522.▲
   by graycat 11y ago

   At least they are trying to do some real innovation -- powerful, valuable, important, useful, difficult to duplicate or equal, lots of intellectual property and trade secrets, etc. Much better than yet another social, local, mobile, shari
3. 2523.▲
   by graycat 11y ago

   Given a person who knows nothing about medicine, then might sell them on leech bleeding. Given a person who knows nothing about technical work, might sell them on the OP. Bet if take five interviewers and have each of them read the OP and
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   by graycat 11y ago

   > My background, btw, was DoE and NSF funded research. Mine was US national security, computing, applied math, and associated research around DC. When I saw commercial technology , I upchucked. As Betty Davis said, "What a dump.&
5. 2525.▲
   by graycat 11y ago

   US innovation? Okay, Intel is now at, what, 14, 10, 7 nm? Intel can put how many thousand cores in a single processor? There was the Human Genome Project and Craig Venter. The US did TCP/IP, IP and BGP routers, and the Internet. James
6. 2526.▲
   by graycat 11y ago

   Old research on loneliness: E. Fromm, The Art of Loving . To paraphrase: (1) For humans the fundamental problem in life is doing something effective about feeling alone. (2) The first recommended solution is a good romantic relationship.
7. 2527.▲
   by graycat 11y ago

   Interesting. That's much more detailed than covered in my eighth grade civics class! My brother did a lot in constitutional law, but I didn't, and I'm not a lawyer. So, maybe with some interpretations of jurisdiction stripp
8. 2528.▲
   by graycat 11y ago

   IMHO the usual explanation of why some US politicians talk about making abortion illegal is simple and obvious: Such politicians want publicity, votes, and then power in elected office. Then, one level deeper, the reason a politician suspe
9. 2529.▲
   by graycat 11y ago

   Interesting quote. I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that, really, there is nothing Congress can do about a SCOTUS decision such as Roe v Wade just by passing a law and getting the POTUS to sign it. And should a US state pass
10. 2530.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    In one word, the OP plays with the accusation that what Trump says isn't real . Okay, let's consider what in the OP is/is not real . Here I am not talking for/against abortion but about eighth grade civics on the S
11. 2531.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    I gave up: So many programming languages, I've done a lot of programming in at least eight, so much similar but not exactly the same syntax, mostly all the same semantics, so, I just gave up. Solution? For the syntax of a given pro
12. 2532.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    I looked at their full stack program: Apparently for my startup I've done most or all of that already! So, right, I've got up my Web site, with Web pages with HTML and CSS, and four server side servers. One of these is ju
13. 2533.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    From http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/programs/holographic_wor... it appears that what the physicists mean is just that two systems that start different will forever remain different. So, maybe the thought is, ot
14. 2534.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    Right. You saved me from making this outstanding correction. So, Knuth did TeX, METAFONT, Web, Weave, and Tangle for literate programming, and published the literate version of the code. Essentially just one guy.
15. 2535.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    We can't forget: "adding programmers to a late project makes it later" Right, Brooks. And his solution was the chief programmer team .
16. 2536.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    Thanks. Sounds like when the wave function of the electron is moving, likely it is following the local geometry of space-time but otherwise is essentially lost to the universe. Then whenever we do detect a field, gravity, electro-magnetic
17. 2537.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    Physicists, here is a related question: We have a gun that shoots electrons one at a time due north. A little ahead of the gun and in the path of the electrons we have a beam splitter , that is, a flat plate of material with horizontal n
18. 2538.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    It appears that quite broadly in the US, Asia, and more that single men can just get by and that there's no room for fathers, mothers, children, buying a house instead of renting, etc. E.g., for jobs in the US, fire the fathers and mo
19. 2539.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    All that time and effort wasted and even doing harm. Extracting defeat from the jaws of victory. Pre-school "academic" what ? I can't think of anything very significant and non-trivial in academics before, say, the ninth
20. 2540.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    > descriptions of just how cruel and violent some of the worst offenders can be. I agree. I hope and expect that such for such a criminal a good and honest conviction will be quite possible in our legal system. E.g., per capita, we hav
21. 2541.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    No, I'm recruiting more volunteers! Also, dirt bags beware -- if I'm on a jury, I'll work hard to support the Constitution. So, I'll set an example, that I hope will spread.
22. 2542.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    Total riot, and seriously correct.
23. 2543.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    For my > The police stopped the car because the driver failed to use a turn signal? I was too brief: If the police stop someone for a turn signal violation, okay, charge them with the turn signal violation. But if charge the person wit
24. 2544.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    Gee, I'd never make it past voir dire! I'd give the word of a police officer "special weight" -- assume he was bitterly, hatefully, fraudulently lying through his teeth, even if just for the fun of it.
25. 2545.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    Easy solution: Put me on the jury. A police officer testifies and right away I assume he's lying, because he can get away with it, because he likes the ego boost, because he has given up his personal integrity, because of the "
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    by graycat 11y ago

    Let's see: For their pH 8.2, they have "4 Average global surface ocean pH has already fallen from a pre-industrial value of 8.2 to 8.1, corresponding to an increase in acidity of about 30%." So, the 8.2 was "averag
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    by graycat 11y ago

    Okay, from your urging, I looked up ocean acidification and found http://www.whoi.edu/fileserver.do?id=165564&pt=2&p=150429 with Ocean Acidification . They have a lot of seemingly serious organizations with the
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    by graycat 11y ago

    Newsweek ? Gee, I remember Newsweek , 1975 and their prediction of horrible, destructive, massive, life killing, earth ruining, devastating, hideous, humongous, drum roll, please, "global cooling", with a scan of their cover st
29. 2549.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    We have a lot of really solid evidence of significant climate change going back at least 110 million years. There is also evidence back 65 million years, 600,000 years, and 500 years. For the last 2000 years there is Committee on Surface T
30. 2550.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    Sure, significant and massively destructive "ocean acidification" would be really bad.