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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
It's just Maple in disguise. :-)
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
> But we don't know if the student actually understands the concepts, or if the student is using their wrong understanding and an algorithm that coincidentally gives the right answer. Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.or
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
> Airports used to be like Amtrak. I suspect our ideas about the efficiency and timeliness of Amtrak may differ.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
Matlab is not a computer algebra system.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
> All well and good with the standard little girl model "The software developer Maria Lächele from the 8-person developers team at the Max-Planck Institute is seen amongst others as a passenger of the robot."
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
And then, in by far the majority of cases, after much head scratching and scribbling, the "That's funny" turns into "Doh!" But in an extreme minority of cases, when the "That's funny" remains ...
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
Are post-9/11 security times really longer? Security screening actually seems pretty efficient (i.e. quick) to me. Even before 9/11 we had baggage x-ray and passenger metal detection. These measures were introduced in December
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
IIRC, 2002 was around a local minimum in VW reliability.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
The Cheese Board has reproduced... in the form of Arizmendi Bakery: "Forty years ago, Berkeley's now-famous cooperative, the Cheeseboard, opened its doors. In 1997, inspired by their own success, they helped open another bakery ba
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
FWIW, I am a professional coder, and find Eclipse bewildering.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
But the enforced brevity (in the form of a 140-character limit) is probably precisely why this works. Otherwise the same companies would be doing support over email.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
Furthermore, the design is terrible - it is skeuomorphism taken too far. Here we are with a ~$2000 calculating machine of enormous power equipped with a keyboard of perhaps 100 keys, and we are reduced to awkwardly clicking a visual repres
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
If security were really your "number one goal", then you would not create a site at all.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
Read even further down: Exempt if furnished for your convenience as a condition of employment . i.e. this seems to imply that optional lodging is taxable.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
"Feynman integrity" is not on that list. It appears that the ship is, in fact, still in port.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
I think "phased array radar" is the relevant search term.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
Well... The option is called "unsafe-math-optimizations".
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
> No traffic? Not for long, apparently.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
1. For ADS-B out, you, of course, need all the requisite sensors (GPS, etc). 2. The correctness of ADS-B data protects human life. Naturally there will be much stricter requirements (certification of reliability) on something that produces
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
It does sound like a situation where "excessive cleverness" is being applied to an engineering problem, where a simple/robust/passive/failsafe solution may be available.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
My favorite Berlin airport joke: "Did you hear about the new grammar reform? It includes a new tense, Futur III, to allow us to speak of the completion of Berlin/Brandenburg airport." http://www.der-postillon.com&
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
The trouble with that diagram is that it implies that everything after that initial boundary traversal is a completely new and original contribution to human knowledge. Sadly this is not the case.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
The referenced XKCD chart: http://xkcd.com/radiation/
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
I find it hard to believe that Airbnb is not profitable; they have a well-defined monetization and are wildly popular.
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
How many other ~$1000 devices are obsolete after four years?
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
The German Autobahn (equivalent to Interstate highways here) is entirely limited-access, high-speed (minimum speed limit 100 km/h; often no speed limit). The German Bundesstrasse (equivalent to U.S. or state highways?) does have highly
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
»I changed the business model of the site in January from a one-time signup fee to a recurring fee, but has this affected income? It doesn't feel like it. Possibly it has. I really need to look into it.«
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
You might be interested in his current kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-wor... Send Idle Words to Antarctica "I propose to visit Antarctica in February, 2016 and
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by hn9780470248775 11y ago
Reminds me of the old story of the onion in the varnish. As recounted by pg: >>In The Periodic Table, Primo Levi tells a story that happened when he was working in a varnish factory. He was a chemist, and he was fascinated by the fac

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