jgamman

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by jgamman 9y ago
That last sentence. Seriously?
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by jgamman 9y ago
Watch out for selection bias. The question is what are the odds you are going to pick the right fad?
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by jgamman 9y ago
i used to work on the trading desk of an energy company that had hydro resources. the bid for hydro to clear the stack was always something like $0.10 ie, essentially free. Note: the clearing price was _always_ set by the last generating
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by jgamman 9y ago
Selectorate theory (the rules for rulers) would imply the second type of CEO (hired) is there to distribute treasure to the major stakeholders and not primarily to grow/invest in the business aka financial strip mining.
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by jgamman 9y ago
it's certainly less mass-ive by a factor of a 1000 or so but then it's smeared across a volume, because quantum physics. in some sense, the concept of an atom and the electron 'space' are interchangeable if you think of
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by jgamman 10y ago
no #$@%^$ way - i have people i love more than life itself depending on me (which includes _being_ there). cleared my mortgage and can treat it as a sabbatical? sure, why not.
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by jgamman 10y ago
a thought/concept doesn't need to be original to a wider group and can still be profound for the individual. see "just about any subject".
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by jgamman 10y ago
isn't 'get better run unions' an option? Germany for instance has worker representation at the board level. I find it hard to believe that they tolerate members en masse dialing it in.
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by jgamman 10y ago
i think you have to go back to the 18th century for that. i'm thinking britain where science was something acceptable that gentlemen could do in their spare time (with smart+poor doing a lot of heavy lifting) and in particular Antoine
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by jgamman 10y ago
the only other thing i'd add is to not open your browser or your email and if possible, leave something straightforward on your to-do list that you know you can do so long as you start typing. once your momentum is up you're away
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by jgamman 10y ago
agree, my cutoff is midday regardless of when I wakeup
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by jgamman 10y ago
“We think there’s no reason why you can't think of a whole national grid of a country in the same way as you can the data centres." means that you haven't thought about it at all. A grid has all sorts of actors involved, a wh
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by jgamman 10y ago
love the orwellian way this is spun as to how it is letting doctors do another 4 hours on top of the current pathetic 20. no @%^@%#$ way i'd let myself be diagnosed by someone 23 hours into their shift, let alone do a procedure requir
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by jgamman 10y ago
My theory of bell curves. Academia accepts a much wider distribution so that it can get some few at the far right. Business hates the variation as it wreaks havoc on building your brand/growth etc and wants the average just to the righ
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by jgamman 10y ago
shouldn't that be 'SH' ?
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by jgamman 10y ago
ironically, linked article has no visuals...
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by jgamman 10y ago
Swagelok - literally everything in the catalogue.
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by jgamman 10y ago
wow, just jumped into google mail and found a personal reply from Alexis to an email i sent in 2006 about (now called?) downvoting ring behaviour. @#$@#$ i'm so old now. came to HN after being early user of Reddit. not a programmer,
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by jgamman 10y ago
i beg to differ. i believe it adds colour to the general grey-ness in various internet neighbourhoods. tl;dr whatever floats your boat.
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by jgamman 10y ago
remarkably good advice that i could have used last time I got laid off. the burn rate thing was critical - i am still amazed at what we were able to survive on while spending 6 months job hunting. the only thing i might add is an extensio
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by jgamman 10y ago
that seems a strange way to classify 'groundbreaking' - surely the result, even if preliminary and needing confirmation peer review replication etc, is what makes something potentially groundbreaking? typically, asking new questi
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Proof Without Words: Alternating Sums of Odd Numbers(maa.org)
2 points by jgamman 10y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 10y ago
"there is no world" - wasn't that what University was like before the 80s and still is in many other countries? minimal fees and some casual work and you can stay for as long as you can stand the conditions of the average stu
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by jgamman 10y ago
I thought zed Shaw did the * the hard way titles?
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by jgamman 10y ago
I know a lot of people at HN don't like mma for whatever reason but this can really help people like me who are learning to code in that we can side-step the syntax/magic word barrier.
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Wolfram Alpha automatically generate code from natural language question(blog.wolfram.com)
2 points by jgamman 10y ago|2 comments
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by jgamman 10y ago
3Blue1Brown youtube series 'essense of linear algebra' is a good way to build your intuition. skim watch to get some visuals, then dive into something like Strang and then go back and critically watch a vid on the topic.
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by jgamman 10y ago
Google for the fuel cell handbook from the DOE. Last I looked it was a clear intro. Wrt charge balances and driving force you need to remember this is a 3 phase system- h2 splits, ions migrate, charge balances by electron flow. Product is s
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by jgamman 10y ago
i don't think it's old as in not referenced anymore - i seem to recall the US Senate uses it as their rule book? or Heinlein sent me wrong...
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by jgamman 10y ago
This is why I walked away from my field of chemistry...

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