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by larrydag 14y ago
I couldn't agree more that is takes time to understand mathematics. Mathematics is akin to riding a bicycle. It looks very difficult at first to someone untrained and unpracticed. Yet the more and more repetition, and getting up after fa
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by larrydag 14y ago
Good fair analysis of both implementations. I really agree with the article writer that the best implementation is the one that is right for their business.
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by larrydag 14y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/sunday-review/big-datas-im... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/business/how-big-data-beca...
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by larrydag 14y ago
If you have never read any of Pressfield's work than you are in for a treat. Gates of Fire is one of my all time favorite books. He even knows how to craft words from a secondary language (Greek).
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by larrydag 14y ago
I have a feeling that the new stuff we get will blow this away. Even though I love this panorama already.
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by larrydag 14y ago
The fact that there were any images at all is a testament to the awesome engineering done on the MSL project. There was no guaranty that any images would be available from the Hazcams. The images were broadcast up to Opportunity orbiting
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by larrydag 14y ago
From the article... "Yes, he even got in trouble in his science class for reading articles on carbon nanotubes instead of doing his classwork." This just irks me about our (U.S.) education system. I understand doing classwork is important.
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by larrydag 14y ago
There are packages in R that use GLPK api calls so it would be made simpler. See Rglpk http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rglpk/index.html . But if one is originally coding in a particular langauge (in this case Haskell) then I would
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by larrydag 14y ago
glpk takes text input, csv input, and certain database inputs.
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by larrydag 14y ago
If others are interested in Linear Programming or more specifically the science of Operations Research you can look to Michael Trick's OR Blogroll. http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/1312140850587335682...
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by larrydag 14y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought this article is about pitching to an investor. I thought that once your gotten your idea in front of PG that you've already hammered our your product with customers. Do organizations pitch to PG that
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by larrydag 14y ago
Here is a big list of R links. Perhaps this gives a better idea of what R can do. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/2010-June/033791...
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by larrydag 14y ago
Here is an explanation of power and energy term confusion from wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt_hour#Confusion_of_kilo...
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by larrydag 14y ago
Bike generators are powered by people. People biking require time. What is the labor or opportunity cost of having all of these people sustaining 250W per hour or essentially a .25kW-hour? Just a thought but that doesn't sound cheap.
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by larrydag 14y ago
Some large scale projects that come to mind include Panama Canal, USA Highway system, Alaskan pipeline although you could argue they did destroy some things.
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by larrydag 14y ago
I like arottenqueue name as well. Also could be rottenstreaming.
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by larrydag 14y ago
http://hackershelf.com/browse/ http://www.hn-books.com/
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by larrydag 14y ago
I agree. That should have been the title of the article.
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by larrydag 14y ago
Great to see the musician/hacker community is alive and well. I would like to see an tablet app for Rakarrak myself. http://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/
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by larrydag 14y ago
"I knew it would be a long wait at this set of lights." As an odd hobby of mine I like to watch the clock when I get to a traffic light to see how long I actually wait. I don't record it but I am amazed how often I only wait about 1 minute
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by larrydag 14y ago
Does this mean the Winklevoss twins will sue the Lincoln estate as well?
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by larrydag 14y ago
Maybe not $10M but it has happened. http://www.pressherald.com/news/Secret-Santa-drops-100-bills...
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by larrydag 14y ago
I find it odd that the writer spent 99% of article refuting their own argument.
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by larrydag 14y ago
I agree that the single biggest improvement in airline boarding should be with the airplane and airport design. The fact that there is only one entrance/exit makes for an automatic bottleneck and limits options. Most planes are equipped w
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Tacocopter, the latest hoax(latimes.com)
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by larrydag 15y ago
I'm a Couch Potato investor as advised by Scott Burns. 50% Whole Market Index, 50% Inflation Protected Bonds Index. Rinse and repeat every year. http://assetbuilder.com/blogs/scott_burns/archive/1991/10/01...
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by larrydag 15y ago
One of my pet peeves is seeing other drivers tailgate. My hypothesis is that all congested would be alleviated if everyone followed the 2 second rule.
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by larrydag 15y ago
Sounds like a great idea. If anything it could be a really interesting augmented reality game.
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by larrydag 15y ago
Here is a DIY traffic wave experiement I read on this topic. http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html . Pretty interesting results. bump: sorry. the remaining links look broken
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by larrydag 15y ago
Notice how truckers work with highway congestion too. They tend to slow down to allow congestion in front of them to flow. This might look at first to allow braking space for the big trucks but I think it has a lot to do with the traffic

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