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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
I've looked into that a bit, and it wouldn't work precisely because the transactional nature and reprocessing of the tree we'd need to do in order to make it worthwhile. We do get an idea of the tree structure because each stream correlates
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
I develop software almost similar to this, we even call it Pipeline. It's mainly a dispatcher/supervisor for computing grids and heterogeneous batch systems. For us, a task is a predefined set of processes. An instance of a task is a stream
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
A phase/state is usually tied to structure and/or energy of matter. Dark matter is the blanket term we give to particles that interact (observably) through gravitational forces. In general, cosmology is concerned with the quantification and
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Dark matter doesn't belong on that list.
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Why would you not like exchange? Do you like to wait a few before you get your emails or something?
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Huh? You could argue the netbook had as much impact on wifi as the iPhone did in 2007/2008. Both the netbook and the iPhone went from a very small number of sales in 2007 to nearly 11 billion for 2008.
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Ahh, a fellow highlighter. I noticed too.
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Unless you've got a ridiculous RAID array, there's plenty of times where processing anything over 100GB without a cluster is going to suck. Sequentially reading 1TB of data is going to take a few hours even with a RAID array, or be very exp
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A 100ft diamond meteor hits the earth traveling close to the speed of light...(what-if.xkcd.com)
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
The margin of error of a poll is the margin of error at the 95% confidence level (two sigma). The standard "margin of error" when you are talking about polls. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_of_error#Different_confi... In reality, you
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Do you accept that black people are two and a half times more likely to live poverty? From that, wouldn't if follow that a black person is two and a half more times likely to reap some sort of benefit from affirmative action, even if it was
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
You're right. But for 3,000,000 votes cast, the margin of error is about 6 hundredths of one percent. At the 99% confidence level, it's .074% variance.
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
To really be able to do this with a lot of success, you need to be able to do intraday trades, which would make you a day trader under SEC rules, which also requires $25,000 in your brokerage account.
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
You are making a fundamental error by assuming classical kinetics. At .9c, your first interactions would be electronic (ionization), then nuclear and radiative. The complete and initial ionization of all the atoms of 10mg of, say carbon, wo
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
I went to a reddit meetup a few years ago after moving to the bay area on the suggestion from someone at HN. I knew what reddit was at the time, what I didn't know was tl;dr. While I was telling a story, someone told me "tl;dr" I had to ask
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
No, Gasoline is highly refined compared to oil. Diesel isn't as much. So "Turning fuel into energy" is really "Turning Oil into Fuel using chemicals and energy which in turn can be turned into energy" You still need a refinery and a very la
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Near infrared is effectively just light, and there's not a whole lot of it. It's not infrared from heat, like you are assuming. Near IR is generally up to 1400nm wavelength, where the infrared from heat isn't really a factor til you hit 400
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
A $4000 placebo effect is often worth it.
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
It's not a silly question at all. You can completely parameterize the answer in terms of bus volume and golf ball size, or define a "best guess" by explicitly defining your assumptions on the size of a golf ball or a bus in the question. Fi
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
CERN has a variety of techniques to access, store, and backup their data. I know from experience some experiments, or at least some parts of experiments, use layers and layers of abstraction, like scalla/xrootd which operates on clusters of
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Why are you lumping IBM in with MS? The reality is that IBM is no longer consumer facing, and neither is their research. MS still is and has to be (and losing), but IBM just abandoned being a household name a while ago, except with things l
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
I'm sure it's been done. Anisotropic studies of UHECRs is a very popular thing to do for UHECR experiments, almost as popular as looking for neutrinos. I worked at such an experiment for 4 years.
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Yes, there are some critical algorithms which will be always be faster in C. In practice it's significantly more difficult to optimize all your code based on deep knowledge of architectures, compilers, and even compiler versions than it is
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
1. Who said it was 10 years out? I've never heard that. Sometimes milestones are 10 years out and the public tends to confuse milestones with the finished product. 2. Ideas for parallel implementations of nuclear fusion have expanded, and a
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Overall, this is such a non-problem compared to things most people in SF have to deal with (i.e. street sweeping/parking) If you can remember to scan when you get on (which doesn't fit the "normal" behavior of a paper ticket either) then yo
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
This is such a stupid assumption. Apple's maps will never reach Google's. Why? Because Google's business model is so heavily dependent on highly accurate maps at so many levels. There's been posts on HN regarding Google's usage of Streetvie
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
You can get elevation data for North America from USGS: http://ned.usgs.gov/
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Stanford, I work on software for big physics experiments.
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
I started looking at jobs two weeks ago after Neil Armstrong died out of curiosity. I have a job at a place I love doing astrophysics, and I can't complain much about that, but I need to update my resume anyway.
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
It's statements like this that have made me seriously consider applying for a job at SpaceX.

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