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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
Downvoting is a strange thing. If we're trying to understand the article, this is one of the better comments here.
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
That's not a terrible place to start. "Under most definitions the radii of isolated neutral atoms range between 30 and 300 pm (trillionths of a meter), or between 0.3 and 3 ångströms." https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
All the article says is that "empty" isn't enough information. If "empty" means "I can put electrons in there", then it takes more binding energy to pack more electrons into the same space. If you want to
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
I'm not making any excuses for EEs who thought they could design a good synth without involving anyone who understood sound design. My eyes roll at the very idea. (I.e. I've fooled around with it myself, and the results were borin
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
Sure. I think at most we're saying the same thing. Everybody in electronic music was influenced by Stockhausen. But Stockhausen never got a whole lot of air play. If you listen to his stuff I think it's obvious why.
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
>I am not sure how you "outline" a synthesizer unless you mean writing a schematic This feels a little extreme. Artists can obviously collaborate with engineers on musical instrument design. The contribution is real even if the
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
Still, using a modular synth well, which seems to be an extremely demanding art in its own right, is really not the same art as designing a synthesizer.
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
Maybe, but if they were screwing around with the inside of the equipment, that kinda is circuit bending tho.
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
Kraftwerk were great. But their greatness wasn't primarily in making novel sounds. Where they really stomped on the terra was in making good music using ideas that various useless and unlistenable academic electronic music "comp
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
I'm not sure this is fair. Nobody really knows to what extent psychopathy is inherited vs caused by upbringing. The problem isn't necessarily disbelief in biology, the problem is nobody actually knows the answer. Challenging somet
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
My most recent solution: At work, I work. After work ... I bought an iPad and started making little songs using Garageband. I have total creative control, and tinkering away with music is fun for me. Another generation used to build model
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
The terminology is fine. "Why haven't you already done X?" "We were doing Y, we thought it was more important." There is more than one way to refer to this familiar situation. I could say "opportunity cost,&quo
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
The importance of GPUs for performance is new this century. The other items, ok, no.
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
I think it's very difficult. You're looking at losing significant money 9 years out of 10. (Or 20 years out of 20, who knows? It's black swans baby.) So you can only do this with a very small amount of money. How much time ca
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
It's simple. But it's expensive and it's not necessarily foolproof in a serious crash.
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
It's very different. Dollar cost averaging (if you really follow it) has been very low risk for a very long time. What Taleb says he's doing (betting on events that everybody assumes will not happen) tends to produce (nearly) guar
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
Nice! I wonder if they ever had a winning year before. NOTE! I understand that a Black Swan Fund (a) may have very different goals from an ordinary fund, and (b) might be very successful and only ever have the one winning year.
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
Sure, BH uses some leverage. But much less than 5:1 unless things have changed a lot in the past few years. [Or unless I'm worse than I realize at figuring out balance sheets, which is certainly possible.]
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
" It's Not Fake News: Trump Did Actually Suggest That Injecting Bleach Could Be a Cure for COVID-19 "
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
Here's a quote from the article you linked. Can you specify what part of it is inaccurate? Or dig around, of course you don't have to use the quote I picked. (The quote below may be unsympathetic to the President, but I'm
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
I agree that the media should report on facts. If they delude us on purpose then they're helping wreck the country. Unfortunately that applies to the media on both deranged "sides" of the post-truth landscape. When they misre
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
I upvoted because I think rational disagreement is important. Let's just go through the facts we have. Below is some of the White House transcript, and a link to the rest. The President did not tell Americans to inject bleach. The Pre
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
In NYC the Neue gallery has a number of Schiele and Klimt pieces.
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by mcnamaratw 6y ago
To do f(10^8) the OP says his/her code would take the matrix and square it about 26 times (2^26 = 67 million and change), then do some more in other ways. That's where the speedup comes from. Are you also doing that? (The mechanis
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by mcnamaratw 7y ago
I feel more informed when I see an infection rate that's substantially higher than the rate of false positives from the test. So the NYC test of pregnant women at (13? 15%?) seems to be much higher than the 1% to 4% range of false posi
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by mcnamaratw 7y ago
Your calculus has no numbers in it.
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by mcnamaratw 7y ago
Do the bears really care which person bothers them? I've lost my nose for irony at this point.
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by mcnamaratw 7y ago
I never believed it for a millisecond, but is it dead? What killed it?
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by mcnamaratw 7y ago
I think you're crazy but downvotes seem unnecessary. I'm upvoting to cancel one out. And if only that dude would start making good movies again. He can do it, we know that.
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by mcnamaratw 7y ago
Telecom uses 40G.

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