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by larrydag 14y ago
From a psychological point of view I think they should be profiling naval submarine crews. They are in confined spaces for a few months at a time. Granted a little bigger space but not that much.
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by larrydag 14y ago
Pictures of the docking are on the SpaceX website. http://www.spacex.com/webcast/
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by larrydag 14y ago
Dragon is now in active control and out of free drift. Tweet from Musk. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/005/status.html
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by larrydag 14y ago
It sounds like they're going to have to manually put it in orbit. Probably something happened to the software that auto initiates the thrusters to put it in the right trajectory. I'm just guessing as I'm no Rocket Scientist.
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by larrydag 14y ago
What I find interesting about that obsessive 10% is that's how they socialize. It's the thrill of the challenge. See http://www.kaggle.com for more communal socializing challenges.
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by larrydag 14y ago
I think most of the cost in quadcopters are in the sensors. I looked for cheap arduino copters and found this http://code.google.com/p/quaduino-ng/wiki/ShoppingList
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by larrydag 14y ago
If it increases Operating Expenses then it would have an impact on Net Income. The actually money to invest in the assets may be in a different place on the balance sheet though.
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by larrydag 14y ago
In these sort of parables I tend to agree with W Edwards Deming in that the root of most problems is the managers. The goal should be to reduce variability in the process. Not being able to see any data I would guess that most of the vari
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by larrydag 14y ago
Even simpler. Couch Potato Investing. http://assetbuilder.com/couch_potato/couch_potato_cookbook
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by larrydag 14y ago
At the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi you can sit in the cone of this engine. They have a couple of the Saturn and Space Shuttle engines on display in front of the museum. The Stennis Space Center was considered the life blood of the
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by larrydag 14y ago
IBM had to evolve away from hardware into technology services. Intel would be wise to do the same.
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Year later SOPA/PIPA supporters still ignore public(techdirt.com)
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by larrydag 14y ago
https://code.google.com/p/ryacas/ to name one. It's not native but yet so aren't a lot of libraries in other languages.
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by larrydag 14y ago
I'm not sure what you can do in Mathematica that you couldn't do in R http://www.r-project.org
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by larrydag 14y ago
Also looking at the Texas startup scene to name a few. TechWildcatters http://techwildcatters.com/ Texas Entrepreneur Network http://texasenetworks.com/ BarCamp Dallas http://barcamp.org/w/page/400642/BarCampDallas
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by larrydag 14y ago
I can't wait to see the LEGO hacks after this is released to the public.
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by larrydag 14y ago
One of the "new" ways that Burke (data creator) et al are using with this type of data is finding the Expected Points Added for each plays. The EPA allows one to determine how valuable players are to a team's performance. http://www.advan
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by larrydag 14y ago
The Right Stuff http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086197/
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by larrydag 14y ago
Cheaper By the Dozen http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042327/ , The Aviator http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338751/
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by larrydag 14y ago
> essentially shuffling expenses around I think that's a good start. I'm willing to bet low-level disruption could be realized using the existing infrastructure. A one cost, low-monthly rate for ISP and VoIP such as Sonic.net?
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by larrydag 14y ago
I see you're point with govt regulated utilities but some governments have de-regulated such as Texas with electricity. I'm thinking there might be a good hybrid solution.
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by larrydag 14y ago
I've always wondered how one would disrupt the ISP market. Can you only enter this market with huge capital expenditures to build out a network? Are there ancillary networks/pipelines/bandwidth that could be utilized that are not explored
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by larrydag 14y ago
Oldie paper but still a goodie. Some other algorithms to consider... Random Forests, Gradient Boosted Machines (similar to AdaBoost), Logistic Regression, Neurel Networks.
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by larrydag 14y ago
Here's the press release from JPL. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAct...
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by larrydag 14y ago
I've followed a similar background becoming an Engineer. I did the co-operative education while an undergrad and got valuable mentoring and working experience in the marketplace. Now I'm an organizer for a local R users group which meets
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by larrydag 14y ago
The cannon idea is really interesting. Musk's initiatives are all about reducing the cost of long term operation in order to disrupt the market. Most of the operational cost of air transportation is (I believe) in the take-off. If you el
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by larrydag 14y ago
The big picture for Musk and SpaceX is Mars. The more profitability yields more R&D. The more R&D yields more capable rockets. The more capable rockets yields a better pathway to Mars. It's pretty much spelled out at the SpaceX
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by larrydag 14y ago
While I agree the state can provide financing it is the private sector that is going to innovate. When you look at the astonishing transportation and exploration break-throughs of humanity it was mostly the private individual (Columbus, Ho
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Agreed. It should be rank ordered by losses then wins.
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I've heard good things about the package Rserve. It's a good way to combine a lot of server side R requests with your online app of choice. http://www.rforge.net/Rserve/doc.html

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