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by lliiffee 18y ago
> And no, electric cars aren’t the answer either; the power to run them has to come from somewhere. The best case is that people will charge them off the grid at night. This will require power plants to be burning just as much additiona
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I like the idea, but I agree that the implementation isn't perfect. I would say the solution isn't to drop the [load more results] thing in favor of pagination, but to improve it. I can't explain exactly why it is annoying as currently imp
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Sure, commonly when you have a big project, it seems like it is just a few remaining details. That doesn't mean- as you seem to suggest- that small little problems don't exist!
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Ah, but just because you can't accurately predict events doesn't mean you can't convince people you can accurately predict events.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
This still vastly overestimates the impact of domestic drilling. We have a world oil market. Thus, if prices drop in the US, less overseas oil will come here. This means that the impact needs to be compared against world oil consumpt
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Problems like this need to be solved. That is, the real world demands that we estimate things that cannot be estimated reliably. To take a less controversial example than global warming, consider the risk of avian flu. Clearly, we cannot
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Ah, so the clause is specifically meant to exclude the case that a website buys RECs for less than they actually use? That's perfectly reasonable, but I have to admit when I read the bit above, I didn't interpret it that way. You might wa
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by lliiffee 18y ago
That's very interesting, and seems right, but I think you misread the original text. He was speaking about the impact on research funding . Regardless of the military consequences, the invention of nuclear weapons spurred much greater re
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by lliiffee 18y ago
> what is the source of these "unrealized capital gains" to which you refer? The craigslist folks could sell the company in the blink of an eye. The amount for which they could sell it is continually increasing.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I think you are on to something. For example, many people see research in the sciences as the progress of a few unbelievable geniuses, with 99% of people contributing nothing and wasting their time. So, for example, progress in Physics is
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by lliiffee 18y ago
http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_i...
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I think this is the crucial point. Probably the people who clean hotels do not usually buy Roombas. If a lawyer buys a Roomba, they are saving time that is worth 100/hour (or whatever). If a hotel buys a Roomba, they are saving time wort
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by lliiffee 18y ago
The possibility of it being accepted depends on the nature of the improvement. If your improvement, for example, takes it from 100n^3 to30 n^3 operations, your odds of being accepted are very low. If you go from 100n^3 to 100n^2 (or even
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I strongly recommend "All of Statistics", by Larry Wasserman. It lives up to its title pretty well. It is very concise in its explanations of various topics. I like this, but you might want a traditional book if some topic gives you tr
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Wow, given the line it was on, I had a rather different impression: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(statistics) Sorry, the parenthesis break the URL detecting, so you'd need to copy/paste. (Bug?)
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Actually, I'm not sure if this is true. I recently watched a lecture (that I can't find right now) on something like "How to write a good math paper". In it, the speaker made what I thought was a wonderful observation: Often, he sees new
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I couldn't get this from google books, but I was able to read it through JSTOR. I think my institution is providing this access, but perhaps someone else has it too... http://www.jstor.org/stable/202063
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by lliiffee 18y ago
> but as we all know, no progress has been made in this field since Lisp came out. Although I totally disagree with this, I think it would be a great question for McCarthy. Also, if I were to meet with McCarthy, I would ask him about