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by peter303 6y ago
Amusing to see those 20-somethings (including H1Bs) arrive with their laptop and spreadsheets. Then interview experienced workers twice their age as how their duties are redundant. Life changing consequences for the workers.
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by peter303 6y ago
Very old debate. Famous 1959 essay by Brit CP Snow about the two cultures of STEM and humanities leading to misunderstandings between the two. UK colleges pretty much tracked you into one of the two cultures with little exposure to the othe
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by peter303 6y ago
Boom boxes have made a comeback. Some phones are pretty loud. You can buy a lightweight sound amplifier to add to a phone. People use these hiking, running, biking, at picnics, etc.
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by peter303 6y ago
That part of Alaska is not serious wilderness by Alaskan standards. It is near vacation homes and hunting lodges a major roads.
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by peter303 6y ago
Didnt Mitt Romney shield a fortune from taxes by wrapping Bain Inc deals inside IRAs? Sounds kind of similar.
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by peter303 6y ago
Anyone dream about a Zoom meeting yet? Since I have seen a hundred zooms since the lockdown, I recall seeing one while dreaming.
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by peter303 6y ago
Conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan was separated from New York Magazine. He quickly found a platform in other magazine. While I disagree with Andrew a lot, I dont think he should have been censored.
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by peter303 6y ago
Especially in Hong Kong.
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by peter303 6y ago
Sounds like a new weapon for the next Star Trek or James Bond movie.
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by peter303 6y ago
Other references say parts of Falcon9 and Dragon a version of Unix calLed VxWorks from Charles River. It is realtime (not virtual) and predates Linux. NASA uses it in a lot of its space probes because its been debugged for 33 years. That do
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by peter303 6y ago
A considerable portion of any modern engineering project is computing, whether its rocketry, automobiles or genomics. And they can leverage Moores Law which has continued for six decades.
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by peter303 6y ago
I wonder how many US colleges will go under if many students dont return after the covid vaccine appears. Many were already hurting from a small GenZ cohort, competition from well-paying non-degree opportunities (now dubious), and current a
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by peter303 6y ago
Online colleges like the University of Phoenix have been around since the public internet (and by mail before). They went after working people and veterans who didnt care for the 'dorm experience'.
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by peter303 6y ago
Thats why I will regret not attending an in-person SIGGRAPH in person this year. You could see amazing demos of frontier technology not yet commercialized. Ditto watching the NVDIA keynote recently. They were bragging about how good their A
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by peter303 6y ago
Similar claims were made in the early 1960s when high level language compilers arrived: "Computers will practically program themselves." "There will be little need for programmers anymore." Every new software technology
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by peter303 6y ago
Perhaps there is slightly slightly different ground energy state of the two different chiralities and Nature selected the slightly lower one. I have not seen evidence supporting this hypothesis. A similar mystery is why DNA chose a base64 n
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by peter303 6y ago
Genomics suggests Ainu related to northeast Siberians. https://www.genetics.org/content/202/1/261
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by peter303 6y ago
Is Structured Water like polywater? Another New Age topic from Russia. Some say these go back to the Orthodox Church belief that holy water is physically different from regular water.
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by peter303 6y ago
Basic monetary explanation: The current 'rescue' has pumped $6 trillion via CARES and Fed asset purchase. Some of it is competing for the only thing going up- not goods, not wages, not bonds, but stocks.
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by peter303 6y ago
SIGGRAPH 2020 in July is all online because Washington DC is keeping their convention center as a makeshift hospital through the summer. I have not seen revised registration fees for this conference yet and hope they are reduced. I attend a
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by peter303 6y ago
I wonder if this applicable to Chinese. In Chinese one to four characters comprise a word. In post-revolutionary Chinese all the characters in a sentence are run together and you have to mentally parse the words in your mind. (Its worse in
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by peter303 6y ago
Various parts of Disneyland exhibit versions of retrofuturism. First is the original tomorrowland, a future of rocketships, futuristic cars. Next came EPCOT of the 1970s on the heels of Earth Day and environmental sensibilities. Then both t
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by peter303 6y ago
A little dated David Grinspoons "Venus Revealed" (1998). David is a leading US expert plus science journalist. Plus Carl Sagan was a family friend. David is a frustrated Venus expert because no Venus probe has been approved in the
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by peter303 6y ago
T-cubed Tremendous Trump Telescope
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by peter303 7y ago
Niantic Pokeman Go is one of the few hits so far in AR.
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by peter303 7y ago
Saves you $2000 a month rent on a Bloomberg terminal. Though I think they have additional functionallity.
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by peter303 7y ago
Another aspect of conferences is their carbon budget. I attended a conference last year in SF that had a large section on climate change. It was estimated the 35,000 attendees traveled a cumulative 35,000,000 miles and emitted about 17,000
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by peter303 7y ago
Game of Life was the first computer program I wrote exactly 50 years while in high school. It was in Dartmouth BASIC on a teletype to PDP 8(?) at some local college.
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by peter303 7y ago
I compute 35M sesterces = US$140M. A solidus of gold weighs 8 grams and was worth 100 sesterces. A gram of gold $52 today. A sesterces would be about $4.
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by peter303 7y ago
The 2018 Trump tax reform authorized selling 30% of the reserve in order to shrink the federal deficit. They only sold off 10% before halting, due to a glut depressing US energy industry. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet&#x

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