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by jeffwass 11y ago
That dark edge is an artefact of the delay in capturing the three monochrome pictures through the different RGB filters. The article says : "Combining three images taken about 30 seconds apart as the moon moves produces a slight but no
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by jeffwass 11y ago
I interpreted the comment as quantum ballistic conduction, similar to what has been observed in carbon nanotubes and some other systems. There's resistance, but it's effectively quantised (ie, there's an integer number of qua
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Do you remember what the odd questions were that he asked you while you were unicycling?
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Do any of the open source office spreadsheet equivalents have a sanely parsable file format that can be extended for this? Ie, this language would basically be a more verbose file format?
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by jeffwass 11y ago
You seem to be missing the fact that current density J is for a continuously-flowing current moving through some unit of area. In your example of a single charge moving at velocity v, which passes through the origin of your coordinate syste
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My dad's old typewriter also didn't have a number 1 key, so you had to use lower-case L (ie, l).
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Thanks for that. Saw it in high school many moons ago, just watched the whole thing again.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Hi Roger, some not so easy questions if I may? What does this mean, that the robo advisor is based off of decades of Nobel Prize winning research? Eg - Long Term Capital Management had Nobel Prize winning Laureates guiding its investment s
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Am I the only one who didn't like Speaker for the Dead? To me it felt like a big let down after Ender's Game.
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by jeffwass 11y ago
One more blurb from me : Check out PAIA Electronics http://www.paia.com They make DIY audio kits. I built their Fatman synthesiser years ago after graduating university. It sounds great and may give you ideas both on audio gene
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Kyzyl gave some great advice below. I'd only make a few extra comments : - besides components you'll want at least a breadboard, DC power supply, and multimeter. For tools you'll want needle-nose pliers, wire cutters and a wi
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Of course your opinion is welcome :-D As a counterpoint, I knew many hobbyists who were not in school for electronics use it to great effect. Eg, in the Boston artist scene. One girl designed and built a whole bunch of home-brew analog synt
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Getting Started in Electronics by Forrest Mims III is a good one for a gentle introduction. But the standard bible, which is also a great source for beginners, is the Art of Electronics by Horowitz & Hill (just came out with 3rd edition
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Having grown up with a small sprinkling of Yiddish words in my parents' vocabulary, I agree with Sasha Baron Cohen's character in The Dictator, where he says "I like Yiddish, the words sound like what they mean". I actua
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by jeffwass 11y ago
K&R "The C Programming Language" is a classic. If you're serious about learning C this book should definitely be in your collection. It's the book most C programmers have cut their teeth on over the past several deca
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Banana killer on the march fuels risk of fruit's next extinction(bloomberg.com)
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by jeffwass 11y ago
I had a quick skim of the Project Gutenberg link another poster gave. I wouldn't recommend this book if you are looking for a modern understanding(from within the past 50 years), as it only covers classical thermodynamics, and not stat
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by jeffwass 11y ago
For the proof of your PhD, doesn't an official transcript mailed from your school suffice? I've been at my job for the past 7 yrs, but has hiring changed so much in this time that most jobs DON'T ask for academic transcripts
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by jeffwass 11y ago
Read this related article, one of the most interesting I've read about Tesla I've seen. It talks specifically about this swap facility. Basically this one charging centre allows Tesla to claim hundreds of millions of dollars of e
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Thanks for the detailed response!
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by jeffwass 11y ago
On the stop-motion video with your kid - that's totally awesome!! I'd love to do something like that with my daughter. What software did you use to put it together?
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by jeffwass 11y ago
FYI - Deathmaze 5000 was released for the TRS-80 two years prior. http://www.trs-80.org/deathmaze-5000/
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At what age do kids tend to start with Scratch?
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by jeffwass 12y ago
I choose to make donations to charitable foundations instead of cash to street panhandlers. But when someone asks me for money on the street, I almost always respond to them by saying "Sorry" or similar. I've always felt it r
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by jeffwass 12y ago
How'd you source the training data from Blue Train? Ie, did you manually transcribe the solos, or if done automatically what software did you use?
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Here's a link to a Squankum, a Java applet I wrote that simulates single-qubit visualization and operations. It's 10 yrs old though. Any suggestions for the best way to modernize it? Eg, in JS or HTML5? I know little about curre
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by jeffwass 12y ago
The whole premise of the book is looking at some of Einstein's actions through the lens of his Jewish identity and heritage (and also as a philosopher). Which is quite different compared to the prism he's usually viewed through, n
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by jeffwass 12y ago
I'm a bit curious about a treadmill desk. How fast do you generally walk on the treadmill? You mention 5 miles easy in a day, which is 2.5 mph for 2 hrs. Do the treadmills auto-adjust speed as they detect you slowing or stopping? Do
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Out of curiosity, has anyone heard similar frustrations from the authors of major open source code bases? Eg, has Linus ever felt frustrated by all the millionaire tech company founders that built their product using Linux and/or Git,
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What subjects are your friends studying? I did my PhD in physics in the USA, and for all of my fellow physics grad students, we not only had free tuition but we were given jobs (they didn't pay much but it was enough to live on). Ie, s

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