oldbuzzard

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by oldbuzzard 10y ago
>The first, basic, most core is collaboration. Particularly ironic since the 2 authors previous book was "Einstein Never Used Flash Cards"... and Einstein managed to publish brownian motion, photo electric effect, and special r
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by oldbuzzard 10y ago
Sort of a more high stakes version of the Grothendieck "prime"... makes you wonder how many more folks haven't made it through the gauntlet.
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Square's IPO: the beginning of the end of the unicorn-driven tech bubble?(theguardian.com)
1 points by oldbuzzard 11y ago|0 comments
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by oldbuzzard 11y ago
Jurassic Park with that weird 3-d graphical tree file system and the girl geek exclaiming roughly "Cool, its Unix!" gets my vote.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng
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by oldbuzzard 11y ago
Before the Snowden stuff... mmm probably yes. I'd bet that quote comes from an old issue of "Mondo 2000" and is contempory with the Clipper Chip battles about mandated NSA backdoors in all telecoms circa '93/94.
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Modafinil is world's first safe 'smart drug'(theguardian.com)
18 points by oldbuzzard 11y ago|2 comments
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by oldbuzzard 11y ago
The 240/320gb iPod Classics were insanely popular with DJs and other music folks until Apple cancelled them and still have a strong resale market. While that may not constitute a viable commercial niche, it does suggest a use case amon
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by oldbuzzard 11y ago
I've seen BCG described as cave man immuno-therapy for bladder cancer and other apps... it will be interesting to see how it works for diabetes and MS. Presumably someone has looked at rates of those types of diseases in Eastern Europe
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MGH launches phase II trial of [100yo] BCG vaccine to reverse type 1 diabetes(eurekalert.org)
1 points by oldbuzzard 11y ago|1 comments
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by oldbuzzard 11y ago
Feynman Lectures on Physics http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
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by oldbuzzard 11y ago
Circa 2008, lots of areas around Greenwood didn't have curbs or sidewalks... everything north of 85th got annexed by Seattle in the 50's and none of it had sidewalks or curbs or storm drains. I bet most of the other sidewalk-less
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by oldbuzzard 11y ago
DS8 and I have recently been enjoying Christopher Zeeman's[1] Royal Institution Christmas Lectures[2]. The first one on linking and knotting has the same flavor as the article and could be a good intro for parents doing this at home. [
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
The site doesn't fail gracefully... if it can't populate fields it just keeps the previous entries. I'm in Minneapolis and if I look at a brewery and then look at Dangerous Man, it can't find the beer list so it just kee
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
Kevin Dunn's "Caveman Chemistry"[1] is a fun book. Instructions for tinkerers "for making bronze from metal ores; glass from sand, ashes, and limestone; paper from grass or straw; soap from fat; alcohol from honey; photo
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
Alexander Zvonkin's book is worthwhile both for math pedagogy and Soviet insight... the OP doesn't link the full book... either http://www.ams.org/bookstore-getitem/item=MCL-5 or http://www.amazon.
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
As to income viability... The large government run National Household Education Survery which is the best data available shows little difference in homeschool and public income demographics. Over the last 4 surveys('99,'03,'0
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
The problem is that some "interactive stuff", like Farmville and Candy Crush and to some degree Angry Birds, is more similar to a Skinner Box than any true interactive environment. Books and puzzle are much less likely to push tho
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
This is offensively pedantic. If you can't see the difference between donating medals for war relief and selling them personal gain then nothing I can say will help. Bohr and Kroghs actions are inspiring. Gunter Blobel donating his ent
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
On the other hand if you like wordy, I would quite recommend "Compared to What"[1] by Rawlins... [1] http://www.amazon.com/Compared-What-Introduction-Algorithms-...
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
OK. So Cormen's "Intro to Algorithms"[1] or Knuth[2].., but be prepared to be gobsmacked and have a graduate level math background... [1] http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Edition-Thomas... [2] h
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
I found the article rambling and mostly pointless... However, if you have a weak background in math and want to get up to speed before going into calculus and beyond, I have 2 suggestions. 1) Lial's Basic College Math[1] is adequate an
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
As a bike commuter on dual-use paths I use it to mean "I am overtaking on the left, do not veer into my path". Moving to the right if easy would be courteous but not necessary. I use it in this way when passing both pedestrians an
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
The critiques are all valid but browser tabs can be a decent digital instantiation of the hipster pda[1]. If this minimalist workflow management works for you, then browser tabs are great. Searchability, ranking etc, etc can be a plus or mi
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
Here's the actual site http://learning.xprize.org/ not a press summary
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
Perhaps this should be "Big Bang Gravitational Wave Signal" could all be dust. From the headline, I was expecting something more shocking about cosmic microwave background radiation[1] generally. That would be THE Big Bang signal
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
Sounds like an opportunity for some students to do some cool RFID hacking and pool their IDs to obfuscate the logs... What a great EE/CS project ;)
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
It is interesting that there is no non-fiction in the top 100. Godel Escher Bach Plagues and People by McNeil Something by Jared Diamond Braudel's Capitalism series The Worldly Philosophers by Heilbronner etc etc Maybe nonfiction is mo
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
If I was going to pick one Frances Fitzgerald book it would be "Cities on a Hill"[1] not "Fire in the Lake". One explains why our foreign policy fails and the other explains who we believe ourselves to be and how that s
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
Yeah... I've seen all the other posts equating CL with US Worst. You are missing the thread on this. Rackspace offers its' own revenue stream that makes an acquisition worthwhile and it has sever traffic that nearly perfectly
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by oldbuzzard 12y ago
I remember reading an article about dominoes being the next big thing >5years ago. It was supposed to draw in the hispanic market. I think ESPN even televised a few matches. It never caught on. Poker has that tough guy, wild west, mafia

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