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   by mcshicks 9y ago

   A few years ago I saw a project to 3d print high end telescopes using smart phones to process the image at a maker faire. It was an open source design, I think this one http://www.openspaceagency.com/ultrascope/ For m
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   by mcshicks 9y ago

   For books I've read I use Zotero. Easy to tag (read, want to read, which library has them) as well as organize and you can add notes including annotated pdf's easily. I use org-mode to track things I want to learn (i.e. online c
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   by mcshicks 9y ago

   If you haven't read Jarod Laniers book, "Who Owns the future", you might find it an interesting. He refers to this problem as "Siren Servers" and thinks the problem is structural to web technology. https:/&#x
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   by mcshicks 9y ago

   I think they could probably do significantly faster than that since these would presumably be a relatively low volume, single customer application, and wouldn't need the extensive testing cycle required for mass production ASICs. Whic
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   by mcshicks 10y ago

   A current probe. You might need more then one probe for instance you might have one current probe that was accurate at a lower current but could not measure the higher current, and a second probe for the high current. Then process the data
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   by mcshicks 10y ago

   I agree, I watched his lectures when trying to teach myself real analysis. He also has a website with lots of useful info including links to the videos organized by lecture number/subject and some other interesting links http:/&
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   by mcshicks 10y ago

   For formal meetings I use pen and paper. For some specific activities I do where I can't take notes during the activity I use a voice recorder to take notes immediately afterwords. If I'm sitting at my computer (like on a phone
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   by mcshicks 10y ago

   I read the headlines of Google news. That way when someone invariably asks me if I heard about this or that I can say "yeah I read that in the headlines". Otherwise people sometimes tell you what they read which is worse than ac
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   by mcshicks 10y ago

   A lot of online engineering courses use Matlab, generally where there is more emphasis on learning the algorithm than the programming. Matlab a lot of different specialized toolboxes like DSP. I've taken several courses over the last
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    John Podesta was warned in 2008 to start encrypting sensitive emails(theintercept.com)

    2 points by mcshicks 10y ago|0 comments
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    Anecdotal data here. I'm a regular mediator for the past 10 years. I'm not currently working, but when I was I would one or two 1 week meditation retreats a year instead of a "normal" vacation. My experience was a one
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    I like this one. You don't have to do the whole thing just start taking pieces of his init file and adding them as you want to try things. http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    I think this highly dependent upon the field and what area in the field you want to work at. While I think there is a lot of value in a formal computer science education a lot of people are employed in the area without one, or with bachelo
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    Exactly, why not title the article "Why Do Millennials Hate to Cook".
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    maybe a street luge on a not so steep hill?
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    I really mostly use the agenda view, but if I really want reminders on the go (like I'm taking a trip) I use MobileOrg and the android client with dropbox. http://orgmode.org/manual/MobileOrg.html
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    There is a website (good judgement project) where you can compete with other players making probability predictions for actual events. They use something called a "brier score" to measure your predicative ability against others.
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    There are commercial test products that are "dumb" enumerators. I used to have some in the lab I worked at. You can script low level usb commands to them and see how the device responds. Here is an example that is pretty simple.
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    In California at least you can "security freeze" your credit reports so no one can apply for credit in your name. You have to temporarily "unfreeze" them (with a pin code) for someone to get a report. I was a victim of
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    Being a white supremacist is not a protected class in the US and it's illegal to discriminate on the basis of race in housing. The law seems perfectly clear to me. As made applicable by section 803 of this title and except as exempted
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    It's interesting the title of the article assumes that critical thinking is a "soft skill". However I don't that's necessarily a great assumption. I think of soft skills as more along the lines of people skills, l
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    I built one of these, it's really simple and quick to make. http://www.instructables.com/id/Bargain-Price-Book-Scanner-F... They still warp, but less than laying flat on the table and it's quicker if you do a
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    While I am sure landlords in California do discriminate on the basis of race and national origin, it's illegal, and has been so for a long time. I'm assuming the article is about housing in somewhere else, like the UK http:&#x2F
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    At least for digital asics, if you can control the temperature and core voltages one strategy to determine if the issue is hardware is to see if the problem changes (either stops or happens more frequently) at high temperature/low core
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    I saw a story on this in Tom's hardware today. I thought framing the debate as "security vs security" was a helpful analogy. I think if you are interested in what the US government will do in terms of encryption it's w
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    I like spray-mode in emacs. Not so much for reading faster, but I scan articles really fast, and sometimes after scanning a bit I decide I want to read and entire long (usually non-fiction) article. For me it's actually easier, and l
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    I took an early retirement a few years ago, this is good advice about cutting back work, but for many people it's hard to get there employer to agree to fewer hours. There are many reasons for this, not the least of which the way many
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    I will be very interesting to see what theses companies claim they expect to achieve in terms of the maximum human life span, instead of the mean. I for one don't think that we have made very much progress at all in that area, and I w
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    I took the AI for robots on Udacity, the Machine Learning at Coursera and the Control of mobile robots on Coursera. They are all very good in my opinion. Of those, I would start with the Machine Learning course. Not only is it an excelle
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    by mcshicks 10y ago

    I used have a blind colleague, I didn't work closely with him but did have a few interactions with him. This was maybe 20 years ago. So people have been doing this a long time. He was working on speech codecs when I worked with him.