jgamman

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by jgamman 12y ago
here in NZ (no subsidies in our electricity market) we are about 70% renewable via hydro and geothermal. we run a parallel 'reserves' market (everyone does, it's there to take up the slack of a plant tripping out). typicall
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by jgamman 12y ago
that's disingenuous - electricity from fossil fuels, along with agriculture and transport are the 3 biggies. it makes more sense to say "yes, but don't forget transport and food". cheap solar and electric transport are
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by jgamman 12y ago
please, please more of this. silicon valley seems determined to produce more things that fall in my bucket of "stuff my mum used to do for me" - uber = mum used to drive me places, disruptive laundry, shopping for food, buying cl
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by jgamman 12y ago
i doubt this is worth much but i've been in a similar situation and this is how i dealt with it: 1. try thinking about your life in 5 yr chunks - a steady paycheck to pay off my mortgage really fast (secure future) and manageable/
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by jgamman 12y ago
of interest purely because i don't see it anywhere in my local news. it's on their front page and i think that's pretty cool. IANA crypto expert but it seems like pretty good advice.
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Advice for whistleblowers on how to contact Spiegel(spiegel.de)
2 points by jgamman 12y ago|1 comments
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by jgamman 12y ago
but the converse isn't necessarily true ie, i can pass a test with memorised factoids without any understanding. i suspect that the mass delusion regarding 'tests' is conflating this assumption with the alternative which is
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by jgamman 12y ago
that's the whole point. dodgy researchers can pad their CV for gullible (and not-so-gullible but time pressed) clients. these journals, and the people that use them, are parasites on the real system. the fact that they look the same
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by jgamman 12y ago
i suggest you read one of tufte's books - the classic is the visual display of quantitative data. he dissects 'common' charts etc and then strips away the baggage - that's pretty much what it means. what you call &#x27
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by jgamman 12y ago
classes start at 0710!? what on earth do you do all day?
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by jgamman 12y ago
it's a 'strike price' R&D programme. work on expensive stuff _now_ on the assumption that it will be cheap/mainstream in x years. if you waited for it to be cheap enough before you start, you'll be outgunned b
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by jgamman 12y ago
why isn't this a start-up already? if this crowd can't point you toward 25 variations on the theme, maybe you've asked a good question...
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by jgamman 12y ago
seriously!? no, real science is going to take more than a windfall win on the kickstarter roulette wheel. it takes years/decades to build the knowledge needed to make a meaningful contribution - this is only going to happen with a gro
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by jgamman 12y ago
i independently developed that rule! ;-) works well in most multi-discipline team based development projects
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by jgamman 12y ago
i read this as a break from writing a functional spec. And i've already read Thinking Fast and Slow. And I know that I'm going to be wrong. And I know that no matter what i say to the client, they will say 'OK' and th
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by jgamman 12y ago
always reference a properly written report. try and make the presentation as unintelligible as possible if you are looking at it for the first time - i try and just put pictures or charts in if possible. that way you are encouraging (forc
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Outstanding marble machine(youtube.com)
3 points by jgamman 12y ago|0 comments
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AT&T Archives: the Unix operating system(youtube.com)
2 points by jgamman 12y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 12y ago
this is data vis now? repeating what the @#@#$ graph is already showing you?
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by jgamman 12y ago
my sincere advice (as an ex-chemist) is - don't. i suspect you'll want to do something 'fun' and 'fun chemistry' can go very bad, very quick. go fast and break things has never, never been a motto in a chemis
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by jgamman 12y ago
microwaves are at the wavelength that 'excites' / 'wobbles' / 'resonates' (pick your analogy of ball and spring physics) the O-H bond. H2O is entirely O-H bonds (give or take) and hence microwaves he
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by jgamman 12y ago
am i the only one who read that to the tune of 'what to do with a girl like maria?' or whatever that sound of music tune was...
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by jgamman 12y ago
i think you're over-estimating the 'situational awareness' of many grads (myself included back in the day). while it's great that lots of first timers are entering the tertiary system and gaining degrees, they don'
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by jgamman 12y ago
they're a bit rough on vi hart and numberphile as being 'math lite' and all about pictures whereas they are all about the rigour by animating their proof. the obvious counter-argument is that vi and numberphile are working o
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by jgamman 12y ago
wish I'd known, mine was by exam... ;-)
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by jgamman 12y ago
that would be post-CS degree right?
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by jgamman 12y ago
thinking fast and slow is the book for you. nobel prize winner gives the skinny... and yeah, there's actual experiments that show merely familiarity breeds positive responses. NB there's a bit of commentary going on at the moment
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by jgamman 12y ago
Not stated explicitly but it looks like the article is referring to average age which is heavily skewed by infant death rates - which have been decreasing drastically over the last few decades (yay for that ;-). the real question when talk
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by jgamman 12y ago
no connection error
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by jgamman 12y ago
no-one 'advises' 18 students... this professor has a successful small business producing publications with their name on them - this is both sufficient, and increasingly all, that is required of them in academia. if their reputat

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