mikhailfranco

9 ms·

91.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
Marie Curie won 2 Nobel Prizes, for physics and chemistry. She was the first woman to win a Prize, and the first person to win two. She died of radiation exposure from her experiments. Can't really argue with that.
92.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
Build a 3D scene of distinctly colored right circular cones with their apexes at the 2D planar vertices, and their axes perpendicular to the plane. Render a 2D orthographic view from 'above' the apexes. The z-buffer will preserve
93.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
You are describing GOFSI - Good Old Fashioned System Integration. I promise you Palantir does not use UML or Rhapsody, and would not recognize DOORS if they slammed in its face. GOFSI: "There are decades when nothing happens"
94.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
Palantir is the most distant point in the known tech universe from SAP.
95.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
It's not about well-rehearsed acting to bluff clients (like conventional management consultants). Impro is about improvisation: having a deep reservoir of experiences and reference points, but no pre-planned templates; empathizing with
96.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
Guessing https://www.runn.io/careers based on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40563325
97.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
By far the best summary of Palantir from the inside. Yes, Karp is clearly... hmmm eccentric. Yes, Shyam is the golden anchor of the engineering culture. He's a tremendously inspiring influence, often overlooked by outside commentator
98.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
A useful measure of the centralization of a state is the ratio of the size (population, economy) of the capital to the rest of the country. A large capital usually means workers and companies cluster around the government to get work and
99.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
The boundary between his North and South roughly follows the Roman Fosse Way from Lincoln to Exeter. The 'ditch' ( fosse ) and road marked the border of the initial phase of the Roman invasion after 43 AD. It was a military
100.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
No, Brexit was about returning such decisions from Brussels to Westminster. The UK may decide less immigration, or skill-weighted immigration, or lots more indiscriminate immigration - but the vote should be in the Mother of Parliaments, wh
101.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
No, individual assessment can fix that. Just change default NO to default YES, BUT..
102.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
If insurance and property taxes are proportional to property price, and property prices grow faster than incomes, then cost of ownership will eventually become unaffordable to existing residents. A similar argument works if insurance is j
103.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
Also see the Resnicks' water storage scheme for their almond/pistachio empire: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/lynda-stewar... The report has a graph showing their farms consume more
104.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
Not true, right-handed neutrinos are a dark matter candidate. They don't experience the weak force, so would only interact through gravity. See recent work by Neil Turok. This podcast is one of the best popular accounts of his work: T
105.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
Perhaps expecting at least an honorable mention for Kurosawa: from solo combat, through small group engagements (there were only 7 + a village :) up to the sweeping mass banner-men battles of Kagemusha and Ran.
106.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
He was a journalist for The Economist in his youth.
107.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
108.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
Almost all atomic spies were Jewish. For example 13/15 on this list (exceptions are Klaus Fuchs, Alan Nunn May): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_spies#Notable_spies Plus others, such as Ursula Kuczynski, Fuch
109.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
Particle physics experiments, such as the LHC, are simulated using an MC program call Geant ( Giant ). Various modules can be tweaked for new physics, and the signal/background statistics established for new decay signatures. https:
110.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
yellow very yellow
111.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
They do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-hopping_spread_spect... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr The really clever counterpart is how to transmit through your own spread-spectrum
112.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
Ward Carroll (former F-14 aviator) gives a complete description of the friendly-fire incident: Navy Cruiser Shot Down Super Hornet During Carrier Approach (and Nearly Hit Another One) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoYOsX
113.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
So Tesla is operating at 1 kilaHertz?
114.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
A funny false or convergent etymology - shire reeve not sharif. Here's another false trail from a real conversation: Q: What US state's name comes from the title of an Arabic ruler? A: Al Abama? Of course, the correc
115.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
The original paper, with video and diagrams: All objects and some questions - Lineweaver & Patel https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/91/10/819/2911822/All-... https://ar
116.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
... silk worm ... and in reverse from the Americas: the obvious potato, tobacco, chili, but also pineapple, rubber, ... and even agave for Vietnamese tequila (El Toro). The history of rubber has a lot of cloak-and-dagger intrigue to compare
117.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
Ulam Spiral (and see ref to Martin Gardner's famous SciAm article): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral Why do prime numbers make these spirals? | Dirichlet’s theorem and pi approximations - 3Blue1Brown
118.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
English weather depends on wind direction: south-west: mild, wet north-west: cool, wet north-east: cold, dry south-east: hot, dry If you also use a simple barometer, to get pressure level (say, 4 bands) and pressure change dire
119.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
I also had to upgrade a phone for a banking app and a gov pay-your-taxes app (in a certain non-US jurisdiction). Very hard to understand why that should be. Even the most scary conspiracy theorists would not claim that banks and govs try to
120.
by mikhailfranco 2y ago
I highly recommend the China National Silk Museum in Hangzhou, which was the center of the imperial silk industry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Silk_Museum https://web.archive.org/web&#x

More ›