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by jbottoms 4y ago
Why call it "dynamic" if it is compiled?
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by jbottoms 5y ago
There is a free tool that implements Shelling's process. This work was a major contribution to his body of work for his Nobel prize. Website: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
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by jbottoms 5y ago
FOSS software is not necessarily "unowned". Any asset or resource must be assigned to some entity. Typically one has to dig for the fine print that leads to the osner.
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by jbottoms 7y ago
That is one of several reasons that innovation in the U.S. is mortally wounded.
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by jbottoms 7y ago
IIRC the earlier work on roll-overs made the point that all cars have a resonate roll-over frequency that plays a part when drivers over correct a swerve. I wonder if anyone is taking a new look at that isdue. Also, whdn a bunch of combusti
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by jbottoms 7y ago
It's in all professions. In school we studied a case in which a man hired every lawyer in his small town for his divorce. Then he quit them all except one. By ABA procedures, lawyers can't represent a party if they have work for
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by jbottoms 7y ago
So, October 1, 2020? We use "years" here. That will be $2.
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by jbottoms 7y ago
Illegal fish catches are transfered at night when transponders are turned off. So there is now monitoring by satellite, not drones, to identify the culprits. That is cheaper than keeping drones replenished, and its batteries charged, the oc
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by jbottoms 7y ago
VC's want to keep their risks low, they are more like investment bankers than true VC's. If someone approaches them with a seemingly good idea, they will want to unload it after a development period and realize a 10:1 return. So,
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by jbottoms 7y ago
Go To Jail, Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Pass Go. Do Not Collect $200B.
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by jbottoms 7y ago
Innovation in America is essentially dead. First VC's don't know a good product when they see one, and they won't do due diligence on new products. So, they look to the tech companies that control the markets. Second, the ser
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by jbottoms 7y ago
The paywall link should be disabled after 50 people unsuccessfully try to reach the site.
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by jbottoms 7y ago
It might be state money. Just seeing the transaction flow is gold. And once you have sold an exchange, you might never get an opportunity to buy it back.
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by jbottoms 7y ago
It looks interesting. What are you using for category names? Can I add my own private categories?
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by jbottoms 7y ago
The vendor is selling just the executable. But it appears tgat ghey have the source code, so why not provide a 64 bit version?
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by jbottoms 7y ago
The use of an approach based on Letters of Credit entail clasuses that compel arbitration. That means there must be "Principled Documents" available that will support a court case in the event the arbitration process fails. Furthe
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by jbottoms 7y ago
The news is that consumers are running out of money. That can be called a market warning if you like, but it is pretty damn obvious without a new economic analysis.
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by jbottoms 7y ago
It is not just companies. There are agencies of the government that make a practice of using consumer money first to accomplish things for the benefit of enterprises.
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by jbottoms 7y ago
"That's perfectly cromulent."
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by jbottoms 7y ago
"Brevity is the soul of wit." -WS
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by jbottoms 7y ago
The Orchid Bubble (Orchidelirium) was comparable to the tulip bubble. Bulldozers were just digging up tons of Amazon soil and orchid plants and dumping them into ship's holds. Then the ships would lumber home, and have their cargo sort
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by jbottoms 7y ago
And "King of the Wind".
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by jbottoms 7y ago
So is efficiency the new bias? Efficiency is also closely related to excellency in terms of evaluations. And we don't teach these things in school. I've noticed in practice people use cover-all expressions like "you will know
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by jbottoms 7y ago
Currently the approach is to use an ontology. There are free onto-editors such as Protege. "Onto" refers to everything. A common practice is to classify additions to knowledge either with a classifier or manually. The potentially
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by jbottoms 7y ago
Chalk and the chalk holder.
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by jbottoms 7y ago
Just yeah, I didn't let Ramunujan into my school, much too messy, over promised, couldn't do proofs right. Not really academic material. He refused to learn LaTex.
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by jbottoms 7y ago
Home spun was important. Now business has changed and companies are in a race to get up the learning curve quickly and capture new markets. It might be better if they partnered for foreign direct investment (FDI) in exchange to tech assista
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by jbottoms 7y ago
You omitted the first browser, Silversmith. From Wikipedia, "History of the Browser": "Another early browser, Silversmith, was created by John Bottoms in 1987.[9] The browser, based on SGML tags,[10] used a tag set from the
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by jbottoms 7y ago
Agreed, I wish professors were required to take a course in Basic Pedaegogy for Math, as soon as someone invents it.
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by jbottoms 7y ago
I agree the courts have issues. Courts have given me (Pro se) faslse information and refused to answer procedural questions. In what sense are you referring to outsourcing? Could you explain you outsourcing view

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