jgamman

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by jgamman 7y ago
oh for a one armed accountant...
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by jgamman 8y ago
it's a market - the operator will order dispatch to meet demand. they add up all the offers cheapest to most expensive and figure out who the last unit dispatched will be. if your price offer is over theirs you don't get to inje
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by jgamman 8y ago
i think you're confusing a haystack with a compressed straw bale - IIRC the fire resistance of a compressed straw bale is excellent. it singes on the outside but it's v difficult to burn through.
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by jgamman 8y ago
i don't see anyone saying the problem with OS is "developers have to eat" - i mean honestly, when did the concept of "a fair days pay for a fair days work" become anathema? Even wildly successful OS packages don&#x2
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The ggplot flipbook – building charts slowly(evamaerey.github.io)
146 points by jgamman 8y ago|27 comments
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by jgamman 8y ago
actual how-about-ism detected in the wild. more of a debating trick than a comment.
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by jgamman 8y ago
this will take off if and when the market lets it ie, banks need to have mortgages that have >2 people, standardised contracts and housing _designed_ for co-living. it's a big difference between sharing a nuclear-family-designed ho
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by jgamman 8y ago
I don't know - pricing options using Black-Scholes uses assumptions (i think normal bell curves) that aren't exactly true and LTCM for instance went under showing that. i think the big difference between economics and physics is
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by jgamman 8y ago
Netflix at $10 a month seems like a bargain. Binge watching dragons' edge isn't great but at least you know it's _just_ dragon's edge... fuGoogle.
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by jgamman 8y ago
change 'gardening' to 'nurturing' and you might get a sense of the fulfillment (contentedness?) of being able to enjoy your creation that took planning, effort and time. exponential if you get to enjoy your children enj
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by jgamman 8y ago
some people have kids in their 20s (gasp!)
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Editorial responses from quality journals on 58 misreported trials(trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com)
1 points by jgamman 8y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 8y ago
>>Google exists so you can learn new things and develop foundational knowledge I know this is a shorthand heuristic but Google helps you _find_ other people that can help you learn new things and develop foundational knowledge. The ma
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by jgamman 8y ago
sheesh - wandered around the site and found angela.txt, an ascii nude (which i now know was/is a thing and wish i didn't). and people wonder why other people think on-line culture is a cesspool.
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by jgamman 8y ago
this always seemed like the right kind of trade-off - the sponsored links are generated from the search terms, not the 'personalised' search_terms+surveilled_data blob. if this is _all_ that Google the search engine did, I probab
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by jgamman 8y ago
"A sodium metal anode is placed in an organic electrolyte" - no - you need metallic sodium. this takes energy. you get some of that energy back as electricity and 'stored' in the hydrogen by letting it turn back into an
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by jgamman 8y ago
>2 sentences? i don't even bother finishing the entire comment either.
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by jgamman 8y ago
aahhh, the ol' lump of labour fallacy fallacy
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by jgamman 8y ago
crazy powerful tools have different communities that use them. if you describe jupyter as a mash-up of word and excel, every non-IT pro that works at BigCo will have a pretty good idea of what it is and why it's a good idea for them.
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by jgamman 8y ago
Your impression is probably correct. For instance, The Economist magazine's editor is finally learning some science during his retirement[1]. Heaven knows what he thought of their tech quarterly supplement for 50+ years... I suspect
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by jgamman 8y ago
as does Mathematica. v useful for pattern matching as the hook for the function.
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by jgamman 8y ago
What's with the playboy bunnies as the team avatars on your homepage?
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Fundamentals of Data Visualization – online book(serialmentor.com)
3 points by jgamman 8y ago|0 comments
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Billiard ball bounces are digits of Pi (YouTube)(youtube.com)
40 points by jgamman 8y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 8y ago
One useful way to think of each year of chem/science study is to assume _it's the last year this student will take the subject_. From that perspective, the student will spend the rest of their life with _this_ mental model. When
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by jgamman 8y ago
IIRC this was a policy decision change only 20 odd years ago. (also, not a lawyer or USAan)
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by jgamman 8y ago
maybe the point is not to be overly functional but some sort of art trail that people hop on/hop off normal PT in between cafes and galleries etc. for a small town, even a few hundred tourists per month on weekends can make a huge dif
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by jgamman 8y ago
in Auckland, NZ killing 1 person.
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by jgamman 8y ago
this deserves a title change. another successful woman forced out of tech by trolls and on-line abuse.
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The Future Book is here but not what we expected(wired.com)
7 points by jgamman 8y ago|0 comments

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