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by jeffwass 10y ago
So to save confusion over a mere factor of two, you're proposing devoting an entire new Greek letter to just double a constant, and requiring students to understand pi anyway to make sense of hundreds of years of mathematical and scien
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by jeffwass 10y ago
Backing up my response with a snippet from the BBC's referendum FAQ : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32810887 Could MPs block an EU exit if Britain votes for it? Michael, from East Sussex asks an intriguing
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by jeffwass 10y ago
I've heard yesterday that the referendum itself is non-binding, and that Parliament is still in charge of the final decision. Further Parliamentary lawmakers are supposedly mostly pro-Remain, so given the slim margin of victory it&#x27
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by jeffwass 10y ago
I've long felt that the utility of learning to code was less about vocational training but more about analytical thinking. Ie, figuring out how to solve problems by analysing a task and breaking it into small and discrete bite-size pie
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by jeffwass 10y ago
The HN title is quite a misleading alteration of the actual title. There's no mention that the startup "refused" the buyout, and it was unclear why the negotiations fell apart. The actual article is simply titled "Tesla
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by jeffwass 10y ago
Just to clarify your quote from the end, I believe its originally from Mel Brooks's "History of the World", the French Revolution chapter. Count De Monet - I have come on the most urgent of business. It is said that the peopl
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by jeffwass 10y ago
The click-baity title of that Fortune article you linked is misleading vs what he's actually saying. The title refers to cuts in positions in the UK , but these would actually move to continental Europe in the case of a Brexit. His ow
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by jeffwass 10y ago
What exactly do you mean by "regular physics"? Do you mean classical physics, optionally including classical field theory (ie, General Relativity)?
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by jeffwass 10y ago
Hey SideShow B, I responded in a different comment with my old page of QM simulations I made 12 yrs ago as Java applets : http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~javalab/ I'd be very interested in how you eventually decide to up
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by jeffwass 10y ago
SideShowB - since you implemented these as Java applets and as per your link want to learn more about QM, and specifically about improving learning and visualisation of QM, check out the below link. It's a bunch of QM applets I created
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by jeffwass 10y ago
Reminds me of the good ol' days, where televisions had rabbit-ears antennae. Sometimes on a channel with bad reception, just touching the antenna to adjust would improve the signal due to the human body acting as a weakly-coupled exten
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by jeffwass 10y ago
The Simpsons is already way ahead, with a similar scenario (lizards getting rid of the menacing pigeon population) : SKINNER Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend. LISA But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we&#x
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by jeffwass 10y ago
>I wonder how long it will take until academical papers are published with clickbait titles. Seriously. It's the exact opposite of an abstract, which is to give a quick TL;DR summary so you can know if it's worth your time read
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by jeffwass 10y ago
One of my favourite lines from the first book : "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
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by jeffwass 10y ago
It's also very hard to see patterns since they live sort each tick in time and are constantly swapping graphs around.
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by jeffwass 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what are your thoughts when YC personnel hype the latest batch of startups here on HN shortly before Demo Day?
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by jeffwass 10y ago
>"In that exercise fib-iter is recursive - it calls itself. That's the very definition of recursion." Yet SICP addresses exactly this point! The authors still mandate it's not truly recursive in that the required stat
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by jeffwass 10y ago
Great. Those formulae are derived from statistical representation of huge number of particles, eg electrons modelled as a nearly-free gas of fermions obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics. And so too would anything making use of PN junctions, band
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by jeffwass 10y ago
As an EE, how would you explain concepts like a PN junction or field effect transistor without using statistical mechanics? (Ie, expected behaviour for ensembles of huge numbers of particles).
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by jeffwass 10y ago
I do that too at times. Sometimes I'm more interested in the tech scene's opinion on an article than the actual article itself. Other times, if an article is excessively long, or is a video, I look for someone that summarised the
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by jeffwass 10y ago
For me, Thing Explainer was like a funny joke at first which got old VERY fast. To paraphrase an old Andrew Dice Clay quote : "It was like masturbating with a cheese grater. Slightly amusing, but mostly painful." I lost all inter
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by jeffwass 10y ago
You should check out Mapkin. Boston based startup with crowd-sourced GPS directions. http://www.mapkin.co
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by jeffwass 10y ago
That swap site was designed to arbitrage a loophole of California tax credits for EV's. http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-battery... Basically, if a battery swap facility exists and has don
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by jeffwass 11y ago
What universities are you talking about, being taken over by MBA's? In my experience, it's pretty much academic faculty with decent track records that move on to the uni Dean/President path.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
My running app estimates I burned a bit over 4000 calories in the marathon I ran last weekend! Though clearly this is an exceptional event, not something I could do even semi-regularly.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
On your comment about running while "under the weather" : I've heard that if you have symptoms from the neck up (sore throat, headache) it's usually okay to run if you're up for it. But symptoms below the neck (eg c
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Since they looked at the top 150 public companies, the revenues are most likely sourced by company's' annual or quarterly filings.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
That's a revamped version of what I had (newer case). Mine was an older version with the same parts.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Haha, I might have had the same kit as you. Mine from radio shack, and had besides the usual resistors and capacitors and BJT's also a JK flip flop and quad nand gate. I used to like wiring the IC's backwards briefly to make them
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Often people post to the Arxiv as well, clearly not formatted the same way as the journal publication. But in many cases the exact same text. I'm not sure if some journals like Nature prevent or discourage you from doing this.

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