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by oostevo 16y ago
That wasn't true when I competed. I actually picked up a complimentary membership because I competed, if I remember correctly. My institution was ACM-affiliated, but I'm not sure that matters either.
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by oostevo 16y ago
Along the lines of blown out knees in gymnastics is the incredibly inspiring story of Shun Fujimoto, who injured himself during a gymnastics routine in the Olympics, and then kept competing.[1] Per the Wikipedia article on the guy, "One doc
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by oostevo 16y ago
I think your mistake is in assuming that he meant a standard, FDIC-insured savings account by "in the bank." It's not terribly hard to find ~5% dividend yields in the stock market, particularly if you look outside the United States. Further
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by oostevo 16y ago
> We can build new software to do anything we want ... I'm being really pedantic here, but you actually can't. There are actually uncountably which are impossible to solve with an algorithm. There's a (by necessity) incomplete list of e
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by oostevo 16y ago
I'm really struggling to think of a strength training scenario where your heart rate wouldn't be elevated (thus increasing blood flow). Consider a max. back squat, where all your muscles are contracting to the maximum degree that they can f
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by oostevo 16y ago
They don't have the adjustability of the app, because they're just tinted glass or plastic, but ChromaGen already makes contact lenses that do essentially what the app does.[1] I'm mildly colorblind myself, but I haven't tried them to see h
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by oostevo 16y ago
Ah. Well that's embarrassing. I could have sworn that comment wasn't there when I posted that ...
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by oostevo 16y ago
This is sort of off-topic because it's not using Mathematica, but this[1] is another really neat intruder detection system that I've found that's surprisingly accurate. It's based on a technology[2] created by the guy who made Palm. And her
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by oostevo 16y ago
The reason that I don't experience that might have something to do with my latent hyperactive tendencies. With my standing desk, I'm able to pace around the office, walk to the whiteboard, and then return to the keyboard. I think that helps
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by oostevo 16y ago
I don't; it was just a thought experiment. However, I did have someone with a Ph.D. in kinesiology (I think?) tell me that there's essentially no evidence of knee, hip, or back dysfunction in developing countries where people don't sit all
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by oostevo 16y ago
I'm really not trying to be mean, but imagine your ancestors for a second. You know, the guys who ran down and killed animals that weighed several tons. Imagine how befuddled they'd be, sweating and bloodied from defeating the mastodon that
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by oostevo 16y ago
I'm paraphrasing Jay Leno who was being interviewed on a car show, so take this with the appropriate number of grains of salt, but ... I'd like to see cars go the way of the horse. Horses used to be used for transportation, everybody had on
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by oostevo 16y ago
[Somewhat off-topic from bicycles in cities; my apologies.] Do you not get sweaty on motorcycles? Even with a fully mesh jacket, I arrive everywhere _drenched_. In the height of the summer, I put on an athletic shirt and keep my real shirt
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by oostevo 16y ago
_The Princeton Companion to Mathematics_ is the closest thing to what you're looking for that I know of. I have a copy, and it's wonderful for looking up common topics in mathematics. The problem is that math is so enormous as a field that
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by oostevo 16y ago
Can you be more specific? I'm really quite a layman in this area, but I've heard the overselling argument quite a lot, and I'd be interested in hearing why it might not be a valid one.
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by oostevo 16y ago
" Treat me like a human. Have a zillion power ports. Have free wifi. Have desks to sit at. Spare computers ala libraries. Have restaurants with food that isn't so horrible. How about couches or rocking chairs? How about a library? ..." Most
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by oostevo 16y ago
(Somewhat offtopic; sorry) Holy crap -- I went to college with that guy. I always knew he was really, really into Starcraft, but I had no idea he had legions of internet followers. Somehow, even with doing all that, he had time to do some r
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by oostevo 16y ago
His thesis seems to be that he didn't like language classes very much, and that some colleges don't require language knowledge anymore, so we should do away with them. Why 'waste time' with languages? I can rattle off a few reasons: the goa
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by oostevo 16y ago
Sketerpot's pretty much right. I'm no actual PE historian (somehow I doubt such a thing exists), but I've heard several times that what the article describes is how it was supposed to work. It probably never did work that way, though. I'm r
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by oostevo 16y ago
"Del Percio argues, is that the brains of athletes are more efficient, so they produce the desired result with the help of fewer neurons. Del Percio’s research suggests that the more efficient a brain, the better job it does in sports. ...
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by oostevo 16y ago
This was an excellent article. I've dabbled in this field in my job, but I don't have any real training, so I've had to teach myself. The classic text in this field is _The Design of Everyday Things_, by Donald Norman.[1] Also very useful i
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by oostevo 17y ago
This isn't entirely related, and it's for a totally different reason, but analog watches in advertisements almost always read the same thing, too: 10:10.[1] Supposedly it's because the watch hands form a 'smile', and this is supposed to evo
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by oostevo 17y ago
I have an Apple store right next to my house, so I stopped by today to play with an iPad. He's right about the smudgey screen -- though supposedly both the iPad and iPhone have oleophobic screens, the iPad was noticeably worse than the iPho
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by oostevo 17y ago
Yup, the correct signal might not get through if you don't have perfect shielding. And a speck of dust on a CD could theoretically ruin a whole song. That's why CDs (and cellphones, modems, and countless other digital devices) use channel e
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by oostevo 17y ago
It turns out that the gains from only computing the paths of a subset of the rays are offset by the cost of recovering the compressively sensed data. I could be wrong, though -- I only did this back-of-the-envelope a few months ago. I never
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by oostevo 17y ago
Well, you cited music performance, but so did the guy who did the research everyone who talks about "10,000 hours" is referencing: "Even in music there is evidence for improved skill. When Tchaikovsky asked two of the greatest violinists of
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by oostevo 17y ago
I think he's missing the point. So many people (Gladwell, Cohen, and apparently the Brazen Careerist person) have referenced this 10,000 hours claim, but no one has cited the actual research paper that came up with this notion. The paper ac
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by oostevo 17y ago
That's not true of T-Mobile, Google's provider of choice: The plans that subsidize their phones start from $60 a month for unlimited, and the unlimited plans that don't subsidize phones start from $50 a month. This may, of course, vary from
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by oostevo 17y ago
The Economist has an established editorial slant and actively practices advocacy journalism. You're looking for The Christian Science Monitor. Their whole reason for being is avoiding sensationalist reporting (biased reporting, I'd argue, i
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by oostevo 17y ago
I completely understand how you feel. I've been there. I think a key takeaway from that article, that the author didn't get around to stating explicitly, is that for a 'sociopath', _everything_ is a negotiation. Everything. In fact, all of

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