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How to win at Pooh sticks(bbc.com)
1 points by jeffwass 8y ago|0 comments
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by jeffwass 8y ago
Ian Stewart wrote about calculational train circuits like these in an article in Scientific American in 1994 : “A Subway Named Turing” Subscription-required link : https://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/
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by jeffwass 8y ago
Basically, yes. There are some pictures in the original PNAS article. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/08/13/1805062115
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by jeffwass 8y ago
These are carefully cherry picked. Your diesel misconceptions link only addresses soot particulates but not NOX or other toxins.
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by jeffwass 8y ago
First paper only covers CO2. Second paper only considers fine-size (<20 nm) particulates (and not larger sizes like 100nm+) of direct injection cars, and is a bit misleading by comparing six cars to a single carefully-selected diesel car
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by jeffwass 8y ago
Correlation of coughing fits with noticing an earlier exposure to walking through a NOx cloud. The NOx smell is unmistakable once you identify it. The tricky part is that there’s usually a delay of a few hours between exposure and cough att
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by jeffwass 8y ago
This doesn’t even touch on NOx emissions, which are way worse (at least for me). Though you appear to have some vested interest in the proliferation of Diesel engines.
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by jeffwass 8y ago
Please cut this diesel apologist Bullshit! Your defense of diesel entirely ignores exhaust and emissions. Sorry to be rude but this is a very personal and emotional topic to me and you’ve really pissed me off by saying “They are superior to
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by jeffwass 8y ago
You might like this video about the US Navy fire control computer. Mechanical yet also programmable. Eg with cam-based calculation modules like 1/x or differential gearings to perform addition : https://m.youtube.com/wa
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by jeffwass 8y ago
There’s more to it than that. You can build more houses just as easily as building more cars. Houses also appreciate in areas where undeveloped land is in abundance. The disparity comes from the lifespan and relative ongoing maintenance for
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by jeffwass 8y ago
As a pedestrian and driver in London (mostly pedestrian), it seems to me that many cyclists have a sense of entitlement. I’ve had cyclists plow through zebra crossings (crosswalks where stopping is mandatory) at full speed just inches away
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by jeffwass 8y ago
I’m not using JK Rowling as an example of persistence here. She’s my example of a novice author who started with nothing more than an idea, a story she wanted to tell , and wound up writing a game-changing series.
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by jeffwass 8y ago
Nice, congrats on finishing your draft! Yeah, I’m finding it very difficult to decide what to keep, what to rip out entirely, what to rewrite. I blew way past my 75k word target to about 98k words now, and still feel like there’s a bunch mo
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by jeffwass 8y ago
The article title is actually “No, you probably don’t have a book in you”. But the intended meaning of the article is more like “no, you probably don’t have a bestselling book in you.” Disclaimer - I’ve written a kids sci-fi novel in the
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by jeffwass 8y ago
Relevant convo between Sherlock Holmes and John Watson (My choice of Italics highlights). Below excerpt from A Study in Scarlet , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1887. —— My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was
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by jeffwass 8y ago
London doesn’t have the annual property taxes on held real estate that exist in the USA. There is a one-off stamp duty at purchase time. But if you buy a property, you can hold it without further taxes. *there is something called council ta
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by jeffwass 8y ago
Maybe the parent was performing a research project on Dropbox collaboration techniques and got scooped? But seriously, as an example, I know people that share sensitive personal information with their accountants at tax time using Dropbox.
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by jeffwass 8y ago
I think it was this one - “From Russia With Cash”. On Channel 4, not BBC. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/07/london-estat... Key quote about the motive for estate agents turning a blind eye
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by jeffwass 8y ago
It’s about time, this has been a serious issue in the UK. I think it was the BBC that did a program a few years ago with an undercover reporter pretending to be a corrupt Russian government official buying London real estate to launder thei
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by jeffwass 8y ago
My friend in college gave a similar analogy as the quote in the first paragraph. He said psychadelics can open the door but then you go thru the door. You don’t just keep re-opening the door.
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by jeffwass 8y ago
Not ideal, but in some cases manageable for several days. Eg, I remember doing 3 qualifiers on Mon, Wed, and Fri in one week, so a small nap and then back to studying for the next one. Not a fun week, that.
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by jeffwass 8y ago
This! I found in university, strangely through sheer accident, (during the first two years of my PhD program in physics) that I performed best on my final exams and written qualifiers with three hours of sleep. I would sleep 3 hours after l
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by jeffwass 8y ago
I was going to make a joke about tech ageism and Logan’s Run here, until seeing your comment that the rendering actually resembles it. Creepy.
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How Pan Am Flight 50 flew from pole to pole(edition.cnn.com)
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I was just about to say that the Barbican is probably one of the few Brutalist designs that is actually aesthetically appealing (to me). Most all other examples just feel like dystopian nightmares.
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by jeffwass 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what happens in the unfortunate case of a startup closing shop while still carrying a Brex balance? Ie, does Brex have some legal senior debt-holder claim against the company’s assets? And what happens to the personal cred
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by jeffwass 8y ago
No inclusion of the knock-on benefits of NHS savings from fewer cases of diesel exhaust complications.
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by jeffwass 8y ago
As a London pedestrian I am fully in favour of electric buses. The NoX fumes are horrible for pedestrians too. Especially when the buses are stacked one after another, idling. I seriously can’t believe the government refuses to act on the d
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by jeffwass 8y ago
As someone who hasn’t written assembly in 20+ yrs (some 68k back then, and bits of z80), I’m curious about some examples of how the assembly abstraction diverges from the underlying processor.
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Using tech to identify illegal fishing(bbc.com)
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