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by jeffwass 11y ago
FYI, Shreve's "Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus" book is available : http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4684-0302-2
812.
by jeffwass 11y ago
One nitpick - metal vapour deposition, when done in-situ through a moveable shadow mask, certainly is 3D printing. One can dynamically "draw" out structures having controlled variable-height profiles inside the vacuum chamber duri
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Of course the right constant historically should have been 6.28... And not 3.14... Nobody's disputing that (or at least I'm not). The question is whether you improve things by abandoning a universal standard with hundreds of year
814.
by jeffwass 11y ago
Every argument on radians you presented applies equally well to Tau as Pi. My original point is that IMHO, mainstream radian educational materials should NOT use the lesser-known and niche 'tau' in lieu of the globally understood
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Ok, we're far away from my original point which was only on using tau in one website. My actual only personal argument against Tao as Hartl proposed it is the use of a standard Greek letter. Really would have preferred he picked someth
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by jeffwass 11y ago
When someone says 90 degree angle, does that confuse you?
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Out of curiosity do you get confused when people talk about 360 degrees, or 90 degree angles, or turning around 180 degrees, etc? Most people I know intuitively understand degrees and could easily understand radians the same. Why should Be
818.
by jeffwass 11y ago
I think Bill Gates is not saying people can't improve their programming chops, but instead that innate talent cannot be taught or learned. From a different perspective - all pro-level athletes got to where they are today with a lot of
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by jeffwass 11y ago
But in what situation would you actually need an arbitrary precision library for general statistics? Ie, in what situations would any reasonable approximations not suffice for reasonable real-world precision? Eg, Stirlings approximation fo
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by jeffwass 11y ago
You should take a look at King Henry's Mound in Richmond Park, which is maybe 10 miles away from St Pauls cathedral, but with a protected view. You can clearly see the dome through carefully designed passages of trees and lack of build
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Interesting comment, but does sample size of 1 mean times have changed? I remember reading a tech trade rag back in the late 90's where some consulting company or other was talking about their business. They were getting tons of reques
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Why do you say the title sucks?
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Quote from the article below. I'm curious - is this type of behaviour the YC-encouraged way? Skirting laws and regulations to grow revenue? IIRC PG has mentioned preferring founders who are willing to break the rules. Or are startup
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Thanks a lot for the detailed response Jemaclus! Would like to talk more. Don't see your email address in your profile, but found your webpage (but no contact info that I saw?) and tried connecting with you in LinkedIn.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Hi Jemaclus, I have a child with hearing loss. Mind if I ask you a question? How have you found your partners reactions on dates regarding your hearing loss? I'm assuming you don't wear hearing aids, as per your uncertainty of wh
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by jeffwass 11y ago
My HS computer class teacher was fond of bad puns, and would say "Was George Boole true to his wife, or not". I tried to one-up him and came up with my own geeky version of Hamlet's famous monologue: Hamlet : 2B + !2B. That i
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Cool. I really like the inline quizzes on that page, where you can hit the button to toggle solutions.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Why does impact require a mind? If the life forms were about to achieve interstellar transport and colonise another star system, clearly there's an impact on the resultant state of that star system.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Depends, did the life forms living in that obscure galaxy not observe it because the explosion eradicated them faster than their sensory observations could tell the explosion was happening? Ie, even if the explosion occurred on a much faste
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Does your local laundromat have a wash&fold service cheaper than this? It's more of a hassle to schlep the clothes to & fro, but may be better value to you.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Try starting by looking up "PID loops" (Proportional Integral Derivative).
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by jeffwass 11y ago
In 'The Illusionist', the magician Eisenheim did a similar trick to Crown Prince Leopold, except it was King Arthur's sword in the stone.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
The 311 phone service was actually pioneered by Baltimore, not NYC, starting back in 1996.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
It's the acquisition of the gun that's comparable, not the crime committed with it. Since someone can physically go and mill a gun, should that be the reason not to enact gun control? Seems like a ridiculous reason to me, but a
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by jeffwass 11y ago
??? Seems you missed my point entirely. Parent claims guns shouldn't be restricted since someone can make one on a lathe if they cannot buy one at a store. Meanwhile parent almost certainly locks their house doors despite a thief with
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by jeffwass 11y ago
This is the problem right here. History has shown repeatedly that humans are prone to emotional responses. And people that were otherwise law abiding right until a moment of anger now have easy hip-level access to a 'thing' to ac
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Do you lock the doors of your house when you leave? Those locks are useless to a thief with a crowbar. So if you do lock your house doors when you go out, you're implicitly agreeing that you do this to make it more difficult for someo
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by jeffwass 11y ago
I was actually involved with the experimental setup at SNO, however tiny in the grand scheme. Btw, my contribution was in the front end particle detectors, when I was an undergraduate student. This was 20 yrs ago so a bit fuzzy on he detail
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by jeffwass 11y ago
The grandparents comment about 'green ones' is from an American m&ms commercial from 1985. http://youtu.be/ap6pAUBsl30
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/627/

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