maxbRuns

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by maxbRuns 15y ago
It's true- no technology can change people's tendency to act in their own self-interest and vote for what benefits them. Individuals can't be expected to take into account the needs of the whole society. That's the the job of the voting sys
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by maxbRuns 16y ago
more like a high ratio of one person's preferred signal to other signals
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by maxbRuns 16y ago
I don't see it as a joke. Why not strive for the conceptually cleanest possible conventions? It's pretty plain to me that tau is more deserving of the status of 'conceptual entity' than pi is. It's the number of radians in a cycle. Practica
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by maxbRuns 16y ago
Awesome. I think the eject icon could be made out of unicode symbols. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters#Geom...
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by maxbRuns 16y ago
in an infinite region of coffee...
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by maxbRuns 16y ago
Yeah, that's interesting. I always do it the same way as you, but I decided to do a quick analytical calculation. I wrote it up here: http://maxbrunsfeld.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/on-the-mixing-o... my result agrees with your intuition.
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by maxbRuns 16y ago
I think he was saying that although physicists generally understand the principles involved, a chemist might have a better sense of the relative magnitudes of the different effects that come into play in cooling a solution, since chemists h
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by maxbRuns 16y ago
Computer-use should not replace the nitty-gritty mechanics; it should change the way students learn the nitty-gritty mechanics. Instead of a homework assignment like this: 1. compute this integral. 2. compute this integral. 3. compute thi
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by maxbRuns 16y ago
"Tenure is the one big incentive academia has going for it." I'd have to disagree. I think people pursue careers in academia for a lot of reasons besides job security. As you point out, there's such an overwhelming surplus of workers in aca
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by maxbRuns 16y ago
I agree. In my mind, one of the cultural changes that we need is for universities to abandon the tenure system. I think if that happened, there'd be more hiring of new professors, so there would be more of an incentive for academics to main
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by maxbRuns 16y ago
Yeah, because the electromagnetic field contains energy, which can be converted into other forms. A system's temperature is 'how readily it gives off energy'. It need not have anything to do with particles or speed.