jgamman

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NZ finally explains how comments should work(stuff.co.nz)
1 points by jgamman 10y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 10y ago
not me but someone i know got down to the last two and the company would have been happy with either - they went with the other top candidate. turns out when they are in that position, they choose the least represented demographic/gen
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Children exploitation via YouTube(thespinoff.co.nz)
30 points by jgamman 10y ago|23 comments
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by jgamman 10y ago
yep. but it is a polite way of describing just how @#$@#$@# far NZ is from anywhere
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by jgamman 10y ago
quite the reverse actually. most houses in akl sell by auction and not a quoted price (gotta let the market decide). the numbers you see referenced are almost certainly the average of actual selling prices.
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by jgamman 10y ago
I agree yet I've found over the last couple years that my use scenario has become 'unplug from this week's laptop spot and work/watch/surf until battery is empty - be slightly annoyed until i remember that this is t
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by jgamman 10y ago
Nobody ever asked for my grades. There are plenty of (quality) PhD programmes out there that aren't that competitive to get into. Or did you just mean a top-10 US Ivy League school, because those PhD's are the only ones that cou
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Ask HN: How would autonomous vehicles handle emergency services right of way?
3 points by jgamman 10y ago|1 comments
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by jgamman 10y ago
this link seems quality and you're right - seems like the excel team took it seriously in... 2010. that's still pretty bad! http://www.practicalstats.com/xlsstats/excelstats.html
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by jgamman 10y ago
NZ does a lot of geothermal so i know a little more about it than most but i'm no geologist. couple points - first, don't confuse depleting the ground water with depleting the heat. a lot of geothermal taps the heated groundwate
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by jgamman 10y ago
i was reading a paper about how Excel gets some standard statistical tests wrong too - the US Stats Association i think did a compare/contrast with a range of packages. some of these bugs have been there since 2002 or so. i lived in
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by jgamman 10y ago
Is there a gini co-efficient type thing useful in here somewhere? Churning out more cash with fewer workers might not be the best metric - France could reasonably respond with "work allows people to build a better life - we promote a
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by jgamman 10y ago
yeah agree - and i'd have said the same about Auckland until about 2-3 years ago. i guess the wider point is that it is weird that so much time/effort/treasure is being devoted to eliminating an entry level job and not inves
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by jgamman 10y ago
i read stories about Uber/Lyft and i'm convinced that the authors just don't even consider bicycles - is this a US-Valley blind spot or something? i mean seriously - the problem of getting 3-4 km without a car? quelle horror
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by jgamman 10y ago
We love it but TBH with a young 'un we skip to the GW scene described and I try to skip the boat ride. Seriously, beheading a chicken in a children's film is a dark dark choice...
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by jgamman 10y ago
or you know, the Manna alternative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)
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by jgamman 10y ago
i'm not commenting on the validity of what you say, just that it reminds me of the story of max plank and his photon 'hack' for getting round the ultraviolet catastrophe - he thought it was a mathematical tick/curiosity
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Syllabus of Science Class: Everything Is Fucked(hardsci.wordpress.com)
41 points by jgamman 10y ago|3 comments
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by jgamman 10y ago
find and hire an expert who you get on with to guide your self-study.
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by jgamman 10y ago
when you call it Autopilot and not SuperiorCruiseControl you've set expectations. It's no use trying to re-define the term more accurately after the fact. They'll survive but the halo got dented.
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by jgamman 10y ago
software is gardening, not sculpture.
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NZ Rent Rage: comics as commentary(thewireless.co.nz)
1 points by jgamman 10y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 10y ago
working my way through Herb Grossman's Calculus Revisited on MITs OCW. He is constantly approaching the same result from a different angle in much the same way. Best calc teacher i ever had and he passed away years ago...
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by jgamman 10y ago
i did a lot of chemistry at uni - your question made me think. it's a little like programming - the field is so vast and fundamental that you may as well start with a topic you're interested in and then dig deep every time you fi
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by jgamman 10y ago
$250 for home use or free in browser via the learning lab
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Social media and the finest court transcript you will ever read(thespinoff.co.nz)
1 points by jgamman 11y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 11y ago
caveat: it's hard to get back into academia _and get paid_. if you are sufficiently motivated you can join a research group gratis and just pitch in and do research - most PIs i've met don't mind other people generating resu
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Ask HN: When to watch classic movies with kids?
2 points by jgamman 11y ago|2 comments
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Giant Squid filmed in Japanese harbour(google.co.nz)
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by jgamman 11y ago
perhaps more acurately, it would motivate the budget holders... engineers work with the resources their company allocates. a large tax/fine would certainly help incentivise the right kind of response. although, the fine should be larg

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