jpmattia

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by jpmattia 9y ago
> When they run them through now and get 50% on the dollar, their securitization pools will be creamed. Amazing that mark-to-market is still not restored 10 years after its suspension.
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by jpmattia 9y ago
> it's actually a summary of replications and duplicate studies on some topic. ... they are specifically designed to detect potential publication bias and other effects that would imply non-reproducibility. Not quite right: Met
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by jpmattia 9y ago
> If you don't believe the research is solid, please post some convincing counter studies. It sounds like you don't understand the reproducibility crisis: It's not up to me to produce counter studies, it's up to y
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by jpmattia 9y ago
I'm surprised greater attention is not focused on the fact the "science" is in the midst of a reproducibility crisis. This is a big issue in the hard sciences; I can only imagine what it's like in the squishy science o
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by jpmattia 9y ago
> no - they're just not doing anything with it. "We're not taking it, we're just not giving it to you."
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by jpmattia 9y ago
> Nice ad for "sword" sportfood products, though. Not even. At the top of the sword page: > FORGET SUGARY SPORTS DRINKS The simple solution for hydration and fuel is here. Follow the link to find the ingredients: >
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by jpmattia 9y ago
> Why does anyone need to pay a whopper commission to some middle-man? Not just a whopper commission, but a commission that causes the buyer's broker to be absolutely incentivized against your interest as a buyer. What a throwback
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by jpmattia 9y ago
> A good club sound system doesn't actually need to be very loud I was at Whiskey a Go Go not too long ago. The speaker stack for something that is really just a big room was insane.
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by jpmattia 9y ago
> Doesn't the time-bandwidth reciprocity fall out of the same math as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? Only loosely. Bandwidth in a traditional cavity is related to the loss in the cavity. (Energy coming out of a laser cavity
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by jpmattia 9y ago
I haven't studied both the original link and your link in detail, but at a quick look: They are different things. Metamaterials usually are periodic combinations that exhibit interesting properties. So-called "photonic bandgap m
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by jpmattia 9y ago
If curious: This Feynman quote was more specifically about the spin-statistics theorem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%E2%80%93statistics_theore... And to be fair, it's pretty rough sledding even when you und
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by jpmattia 9y ago
> California was 50th. What a strange metric they must be using: Silicon valley erupted (and continues to erupt) in CA, land of high taxes and high regulatory environment. And it seems many areas are trying to figure out how to be th
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by jpmattia 9y ago
Back in the late 1990s during the telecom boom, the gov came out to the Holmdel Bell Labs bldg to proclaim the area be called "Photon Valley". The name didn't quite stick.
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by jpmattia 9y ago
> Emacs On the non-Pro iPads, keystrokes were intercepted and not passed properly to the remote vm. Is that bug fixed on the iPad Pro?
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by jpmattia 9y ago
Presumably: Blocking ads that are deceptively listed as being part of search results.
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by jpmattia 9y ago
> and sponsored content FB without an ad-blocker is simply unreadable.
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by jpmattia 9y ago
Something that should have been explicit on the vision topic: Disabling pinch-zoom guarantees some fraction of people with vision issues (of all ages) are just going to disengage.
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> it should seem surprising that borrowing money to put it into real estate will help the economy to recover Usually that's right. Since there were a ton of MBS (and CDO's etc) based on real estate, there was a lot of incen
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> couldn't we just put speed cameras everywhere and issue tickets automatically for people who are driving too fast? There are stretches in DC with exactly that strategy. As a consequence, people speed and then hit the brakes rig
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> but it seems to me that home owners like myself compete with each other to bid up the price of property That seems like a side effect of the global crash in interest rates: People buying homes with cash are currently competing with
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by jpmattia 10y ago
Note that "100G optical connections" is physically implemented as "4x25G optical connections". The 4 wavelengths are coarsely spaced, which allows cheaper optical components to be employed. (As opposed to long-haul opt
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> What would a post-ad-supported web looks like? Probably a lot like the pre-ad-supported web.
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> You can actually use X-ray litho Wouldn't that result in a threshold shift? (X-rays are well beyond Si02 bandgap, so you'd get electron-hole pairs in the oxide. The electrons are fairly mobile, but the holes get trapped i
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> and that the "bel" unit was devised as an afterthought to fit the SI prefix. It's named after Alexander Graham Bell, in 1928 at Bell Labs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel#History (Yes I work
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> I don't remember google stooping to such tricks ever before I kinda doubt that anyone has consciously tried to make the commercials louder than the content. It's a tough problem to get right: The television industry has bee
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> Since loudness is a psychophysical percept, it's also dirty pool to speak of loudness in this way. It's worth noting that there are standards for loudness as well. For example: The FCC broadcast spec for commercials uses IT
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by jpmattia 10y ago
You got me curious, and I wanted to put numbers around this. It's worth noting that the actual paper claims only this is a black hole candidate, and is not certain it's a black hole (despite the Science alert headline). The paper
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by jpmattia 10y ago
Fair enough. Edited to reflect that.
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> The Shatner reference is to one of the strangest Twilight Zone episodes, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, I don't know that earned a title for one of the strangest . There were lots of great episodes in the series, it would be hard t
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by jpmattia 10y ago
> with the Availability being five 9s or better (less than one failure in 10^6) Anyone know how exactly this is defined for them? (Time? Queries? Results?)

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