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Parenting: buy less stuff for your kids, make them more creative(chicagotribune.com)
2 points by kghose 14y ago|0 comments
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Bill Nye on creationism(religion.blogs.cnn.com)
5 points by kghose 14y ago|0 comments
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Americans own less cars per captia than western europeans(theatlantic.com)
4 points by kghose 14y ago|9 comments
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by kghose 14y ago
I think the only thing I would add to this very sensible list is to have multiple, different classes of tasks that engage different skills. This way you can often work very long but not feel tired or bored.
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by kghose 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3346609
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Lie detector avatar on the southern border.(cnn.com)
1 points by kghose 14y ago|0 comments
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The US just passed pi*10^8 people(census.gov)
1 points by kghose 14y ago|0 comments
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Why does the X-51 do a roll and then roll back at rocket separation?(youtube.com)
3 points by kghose 14y ago|2 comments
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by kghose 14y ago
I couldn't see it on his site - does he do this intuitively, or does he have an algorithm to show him how to wind the thread? What is his method?
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Mars to Earth at an average of 29 kbits/s(mars.jpl.nasa.gov)
193 points by kghose 14y ago|85 comments
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by kghose 14y ago
Thanks for the pointer. This really brought home to me the 'baud rate' issue of interplanetary communication. Right now, I'm so used to streaming movies at home that I forget the challenges of communications across such vast distances . Per
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by kghose 14y ago
I really liked the article - it was very coherent and easy to follow. BTW, is there a full-res movie of the descent? I've only seen the 'thumbnails' stitched together of the heat-shield and the parachute.
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MRO snaps awesome pic of Curiousity's parachute phase(mars.jpl.nasa.gov)
3 points by kghose 14y ago|1 comments
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by kghose 14y ago
This is a great link, thanks. I'm watching it and I have a question about reentry (should apply to all capsules, like Apollo, SpaceX not only MSL): basically, how is this thing stable? I see the animation and how the capsule twists and turn
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by kghose 14y ago
Hmm, perhaps: there is a passage somewhere about how they set up a scheme where instead of the one person doing all the different computations they set up sequences where each person would only do one computation but for different problems
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by kghose 14y ago
Full circle. Remember that the original 'computers' were people who performed computations. If you recall Feynman's self indulgent book 'Surely you are joking' he has a chapter where he describes how they would write algorithms which were t
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by kghose 14y ago
This is very cool and interesting and HN worthy. I second all the notes here about vibrotactile displays. Please also read up about how people are developing devices that substitute somato sensation (touch) for vision for blind people http
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Pro Tips from social hackers(cnnmoneytech.tumblr.com)
2 points by kghose 14y ago|0 comments
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by kghose 14y ago
Yes it is and we need to train teachers to teach it better.
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by kghose 14y ago
I've never been in industry, but to me there are similarities between running a lab and running a business. First you have to convince some one (a funding agency, an investor) that your idea is interesting and will work. Then you have to ma
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by kghose 14y ago
I've read about killings before, I lived through 9/11, but for some reason these killings struck me really hard. Even more than school shootings. Perhaps because I think of the cinema as sanctuary - a place of make believe where we go to es
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by kghose 14y ago
A few people have voiced concern that this is a made up story. I have to admit that I belong to that bunch. I would imagine that if a store had a concern that this was an ... odd individual, carrying a video recording device, recording cust
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by kghose 14y ago
On my mac command+space switches the input mapping. Just sayin'
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8.5 years on, Opportunity still ticking. Now there's engineering for ye.(nasa.gov)
2 points by kghose 14y ago|0 comments
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by kghose 14y ago
http://tug.org/texlive/
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A software engineers approach to fiction(advancedfictionwriting.com)
1 points by kghose 14y ago|0 comments
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by kghose 14y ago
We were taught on the 8085. We had these cute little kits that were hinged wooden boxes that you opened up. They had all the circuitry exposed which was awesome, a 4 or 6 digit 8-segment LED display and a numeric keypad. Sometimes the kits
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by kghose 14y ago
I'm sorry, I read the whole article and could not understand it. perhaps I need more sleep. Are doors cheaper than desks? Why is this a cost saving measure? Did the desks double as doors? I guess there is some industry insider stuff that I
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by kghose 14y ago
Yes, but there is such a thing has ennui. It is better to dispel ennui by taking up projects voluntarily than doing only minimum work and then becoming listless and depressed. I understand that the article is trying to get us to think about
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by kghose 14y ago
One of the things that struck me while I was reading the article (besides the subliminal implication that go-getter graduate students all read Science!) is that while I new of all the discoveries mentioned, I didn't know any of the discover

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