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by jpmattia 11y ago
And a pile of resonant modes, ensuring a non-flat response. But how is a small room causing non-linearity?
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> According to Billy Anderson, the recording engineer, the guitar tracks were recorded three separate times to thicken the sound, using custom-built amps so powerful that it wasn’t possible to stand in the same room with them. Each amp
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by jpmattia 11y ago
Having had a front row seat to the popping bubble in 2000: I can't think of a single instance where wash-outs (which is really what is being described in the article) led to a wonderful outcome for employees. Any other old-timers arou
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> If i could get a linux VM on this somehow, Hell, I'd even take sensible keyboard behavior so I could ssh and use emacs. I don't know why apple has torpedoed the emacs+ipad combination so hard.
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> and the options are exposed as worthless at many of these companies, it's going to be much harder for startups to recruit employees with equity compensation, which will only make it more difficult to control burn rates. As someo
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> it’s just shuffling assets around. That's kinda what I'm saying, since the money supply is fixed. The act of selling the chair puts a greater percentage of the money supply in the hands of the woodworker, since the value o
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by jpmattia 11y ago
Great essay. I was struck by this though: > A woodworker creates wealth. There's an odd can of worms in that simple statement, which is roughly reduced to: How do you measure wealth? Part of the controversy is that wealth is oft
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by jpmattia 11y ago
The baby-boomer generation basically invented ageism when they were young in the 70's Earlier than that. The original "Never trust anyone over 30" was already a saying by the mid-sixties as a consequence of FSM: https:&#
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by jpmattia 11y ago
One resource I would add to your list: http://www.uptodate.com/ Since few MDs can actually stay on top of the latest developments for all the different items that cross their desks, UpToDate serves as a curated summary of
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> What disappoints me the most here is now that I feel like it's all on me to determine what my real risk levels are and what's appropriate to treat this. A convoluted set of circumstances led me to a quick detour in grad sch
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by jpmattia 11y ago
The title of the paper is: GOOD JOBS ARE BACK: 2015 College Graduates Are First in Line and the first listed funding source is the Lumina Foundation, whose first line on the about page says: > Lumina Foundation is an indepen
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> but most vendors don't have it. Is there any financial incentive for them to do the work on installing and maintaining yet another payment method?
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by jpmattia 11y ago
Some detail about the Lincoln Experimental Satellites here: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-4217/ch8.htm
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Mapping Student Debt(mappingstudentdebt.org)
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by jpmattia 11y ago
Like I said: Those terms will need refining, and all you've done is add "grammatical" and "semantic" to differentiate the cases.
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> "Singular they" still normally pairs with plural forms of other words I'd point out those "plural forms" are now "singular forms" as well, so it looks like those terms will need refining.
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> I think jpmattia was joking. Guilty as charged, your honor. > But it's fascinating how, when someone mistakenly thinks that it's a new proposed rule and tries to apply it, they frequently come up with an awkward overcor
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> or did I just read too fast? I must have read too fast as well. The author would have done well to include several examples, and they doesn't include any examples. Almost makes me feel like they is pranking me, to be frank.
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> Despite often repeating the mantra “First, do no harm,” doctors have difficulty with doing less — even nothing. We find it hard to refrain from trying another drug, blood test, imaging study or surgery. It's disappointing that t
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> as if their observations about themselves must be true of the general population. Worth noting that such attitude extends far beyond just food.
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by jpmattia 11y ago
Being told that I have the reaction time of an 18 year old at age 52 means that I believe this website dispenses the gods'-honest truth. I'm even inclined to ignore that the steering wheel is where none of the gods wanted it.
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> The std. dev. of a binomial is sqrt(n p (1-p)). So for 19 coin flips that's ~2.2, or 11%, not 23%. You are correct. The usual way in which std dev is applied is ± sigma accounts for about 68% of the trials, which is 2 std devi
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by jpmattia 11y ago
75 subjects divided into 4 groups, so about 19 people per group. Suppose the study was studying the effect of coin tosses per group. The standard deviation is sqrt(19)/19 or about 23%. And that is only one sigma. So we might also con
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by jpmattia 11y ago
Kudos tk. I worked on the Symbolics machines as well as the old CADRs as a mere undergrad on the 7th floor, and totally took for granted that I was working on machines ahead of their time. Pretty much spoiled me rotten, and had to seriousl
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> In short, trust none of them To amplify: I don't think it's any accident that the 2005 housing fiasco happened in this industry. Terrible pricing information (gaps + timeliness), as well as terrible conflicts of interest
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> This is all a great idea - but state laws wouldn't permit it (I work in the industry). Uber, AirBnB redux. Provide a service that people want more than one built on cronyism-type relations between entrenched industry and gov&#
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> For starters, I don't think there's any conceivable risk of boxes on supermarket shelves being stuffed to the brim with cocaine. Then again, it might be worth remembering the origin of the brand name Coke.
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> The only benefit is that a decent amount of vinyl releases do not have the same mastering as the CD, due to the perception that many of the vinyl purchasers are audiophiles and want the higher dynamic range master Wait: There are tw
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> Are quantum fields actual elements of reality Yes. Just as Schroedinger/Heisenberg quantum theory describes the behavior ("reality") for particles on a small scale, quantum-field theory describes the behavior of field
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by jpmattia 11y ago
> I was at Williams Pinball Maybe way OT, but was that gig as fun as it sounds?

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