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by jeffwass 9y ago
2040. Why so late? This kind of law pisses me off. Not the intended result, but that it won't take effect for 23 more years! I live in London. I'm severely affected by all the diesel emissions. I've had Bronchitis and other r
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Haha, yeah, sci-fi. Luckily I'm not yet at the copy-editing stage ;-)
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by jeffwass 9y ago
I was about to post that in my opinion base-12 is superior to base-10. But someone beat me to it. In a six-fi novel I'm writing, an advanced alien civilisation uses base-12. As to your question specifically regarding base-16 instead of
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by jeffwass 9y ago
You skipped the juiciest part of one of my favorite scenes of that movie. [scared the bejeezus out of me when I was little, I didn't realise for some time it was pure satire and no adult would be expected to understand him]. So I feel
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by jeffwass 9y ago
For those that may not click on title alone, this essay is by E. B. White, author of Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and coauthor of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style.
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by jeffwass 9y ago
I did a six-day water fast and felt the same way. Water only for four days, water with some lemon squeezed in for two more days. Like you said, my hunger plateaued after 1-2 days. I just got weaker by the end. Interestingly, the last couple
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Thanks Sebastian for the interesting writeup. Glad you had many second or third dates. My impression from the article was that most were first-only dates. I mentioned this in a comment below - given your scientific approach and A/B tes
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by jeffwass 9y ago
I know what your saying, but unless I misinterpreted, the author was lamenting how most of his 150 first dates were a waste of his time. so that's where he has to decide. 150 dates with potentially little bite, or maybe 10 (or less?) d
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by jeffwass 9y ago
>"I became an online dating magician who knew how to optimize a profile — A/B testing pictures and message. If I changed my profile picture and got more “likes” as a result, that meant it was better. I was tracking data, which
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by jeffwass 9y ago
This is already the case. Every scientific journal article I've seen starts with an abstract, which is exactly the summary you desire.
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by jeffwass 9y ago
This bit is interesting : "I remember distinctly my first day, a full-time software engineer asked me to finish coding something that was to be pushed out in a firmware update later in the day. He rattled off a few instructions, told m
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Poster explicitly mentioned per screw
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by jeffwass 9y ago
"Eg I wouldn't even work on a light switch without a power drill because I don't want to make the literal 200 revolution over 5 minutes per screw" 200 revolutions, 5 minutes? What kind of screws are in your light switch
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Would you mind providing some reasons on how you find dplyr better than Python/pandas? I'm genuinely curious, because I just started using pandas in a new job a few weeks ago, and it seems robust enough so far. I glanced through y
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Would you pay a stranger to dump your partner for you?(bbc.co.uk)
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The woman with a strange 'second sight'(bbc.com)
45 points by jeffwass 10y ago|11 comments
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by jeffwass 10y ago
Author also contradicts himself. First the author laments only 8 novel prizes of the batch. Then in the next sentence goes on to praise Lisa Randall for revolutionising physics, and notes that for every Lisa Randall there are dozens that fa
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by jeffwass 10y ago
You can see the effect with a tennis racket. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_racket_theorem Basically the rotation of any 3D rigid object can be reduced to the rotation of an equivalent ellipsoid. The lengths of
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by jeffwass 10y ago
I saw something quite similar that that blew my mind on high dimensionality (eg, on order of 10^23 dimensions). At low dimensions, if you take a sphere of radius 1, and another sphere of radius 0.999999999999999 or so at the same origin, on
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by jeffwass 10y ago
They're not only putting themselves at risk. Strava cyclists have also killed innocent pedestrians by sprinting through red lights in their attempts at bragging rights. http://road.cc/content/news/89218-us-cyc
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by jeffwass 10y ago
The title is a bit misleading. The article discusses the notable increase of 2nd-stage seed rounds, as the bar for Series A funding is getting higher. In some sense, reminds me a bit of academia, where in the past couple decades it has beco
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by jeffwass 10y ago
Surprised the article didn't mention the movie "Yes Man" which was exactly this premise. Synopsis - man going through a hard time goes to motivational speaker/semi-cult meeting who's followers have to say 'Yes&
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by jeffwass 10y ago
Try Maplin, an electronics chain. It's like what Radio Shack used to be.
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by jeffwass 10y ago
Replying to your first paragraph. You're casually ignoring how it got to eigenstate a in the first place. The particle is in an eigenstate a because it was acted on by the A operator. If it was in an eigenstate b prior to this, o
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by jeffwass 10y ago
Sorry, I have no idea what you're trying to convey in the first two paragraphs.
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by jeffwass 10y ago
I don't follow your comment on imagining the measurements. Uncertainty Principle refers to the arbitrary precision of two operators. You can measure each operator individually to arbitrary precision. In theory, that is. If the two oper
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by jeffwass 10y ago
"Another article in the long, illustrious tradition of mis-explaining HUP as being due to measurement "disturbing" some property or the other." Disagree, it's a perfectly reasonable explanation of what's happen
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by jeffwass 10y ago
"I suspect Salt Lake City has a much lower amount of special needs students." Why do you suspect that? I'm not sure of your overall point, but are you implying it's bad to spend more on special needs students?
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by jeffwass 10y ago
Was the programming interface the same? Curious because I recall "Tandy" being a specific sound option at the time.
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by jeffwass 10y ago
Yeah, they really did put a lot of effort in supporting a variety of scattered audio and video options back in those days. Kings quest IV, as well as Hero's Quest I, both specifically supported my Casio keyboard. Multi-channel MIDI out

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