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by peter303 8y ago
We saw a Pinker-like optimism before- at the beginning of the 20th century. We had gone nearly a century since Waterloo without a major war. (Plenty of smaller conflicts however to create national republics out of monarchies or fragmented c
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by peter303 8y ago
I attended the Stanford Linear Accelerator computer meetup in 1976. A guy had programmed a surplus PDP-1 to play music by entering the code through the dip switches on the front panel. It created various pitch notesby timing loops. PS This
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by peter303 8y ago
Somewhere in an infinite number of multiverses there is a room with both you and an elephant.
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by peter303 8y ago
3807 confirmedplanets in todays catalog. You can do prettygood statistics with these.
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by peter303 8y ago
An important aspect in any research arrangement is PROTECT THE STUDENTS. Academic research is likely to have many student assistants. The students should be able to publish their results in a timely manner. Students will benefit from exposu
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by peter303 8y ago
President Bush promised a shuttle replacement by 2014 when he canceled the shuttle.
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by peter303 8y ago
I remember a service already available in the 1990s to compute and collect proper tax in every US zip code. Its not rocket science folks.
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by peter303 8y ago
MIT retains an explicit Materials Science department. It was one of the original 1860s departments called Mining Engineering and Metalurgy, but changed its name when geology was spun off as a science department in the 1940s.
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by peter303 8y ago
Not unlike 1950s/1960s movies using cheaper two-color films, compared to technic-color, have lost most their greens,
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by peter303 8y ago
The US is falling behind in allocating sufficient capital to develop technological advances. Thank God there are backups.
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by peter303 8y ago
Certain irony here. Much of education then is a Prison Experiment until students develop the critic thinking skills to evaluate their professor's teachings. Not that we have a binary evaluation here, i.e. the prof is totally right or t
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by peter303 8y ago
I wonder if graphical user interfaces will become less relevant as natural language, both voice and text, become more capable via A.I. No need then to learn icons.
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by peter303 8y ago
The BLS compiles six unemployment numbers, of which U-3 is routinely reported. U-6 covers the factors you mention and is approximately double U-3. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
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by peter303 8y ago
Trump called the labor non participition rate, about 38%, the true unemployment rate. That would include his wife and three of his five children ...
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by peter303 8y ago
Medical care, especially drugs, greatly increasing in price for old. 2/3rds of over 65 have at least one cintinuing prescription.
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by peter303 8y ago
Pretty much Orman's thesis the past 20 years, especially early books
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by peter303 8y ago
Not too long ago sex hormones were detectable in seawater. Apparently some women excrete of their birth control medications. Human drug use has far reaching side effects.
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by peter303 8y ago
Please dont comment by reading only one a singles article. https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/
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by peter303 8y ago
Its smaller than that if count just the 21K coding proteins, two copies from both parents. If perfectly mixed you start losing ancestor contributions as soon as 16 generations or 400 years. But meiosis- the halving of DNA during creation of
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by peter303 8y ago
Several genealogy books reiterate this fact. After about a thousand years, nearly everone is your descendant or no one is. I believe this has been both proved by simulation and checking genealogic records. Some of the most detailed genealog
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by peter303 8y ago
The other insidious part of social credit is that the score is partially based on the score of your network. That encouranges deeper segregation of the Haves against the Have-Nots. A high score group wont link to low score members,meven if
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by peter303 8y ago
Not significantly different from underbanked US people who cant obtain unsecured credit cards or a checking account by have a low FICA score or ban in CheckSystems.
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by peter303 8y ago
I could be wrong, but thought a motivation for Kotlin is to get Java-8 and Java-10 power into versions of Android that cant use those levels yet.
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by peter303 8y ago
Running crazes emerged several times in US history only to fade. One of the was in the 1880s too with cross-US races. The modern running boom started around 1968 with Dr Ken Cooper's book called Aerobics. He coined that term. Aerobic e
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by peter303 8y ago
Prolog was one of hot A.I. prospects of the 1980s. It could be a way to build an expert system. Japanese fifth generation computers were supposed to,run it fast. Then A.I. boom fizzled. Neither the first or last business cycle.
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by peter303 8y ago
Most special purpose machines failed because it took 2-5 years to engineer and produce each new generation of hardware. In the meantime generation purpose machines like Intel or Motorola CPUs came out every 6-12 months. An early 10x price&#
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by peter303 8y ago
I've seen the books of some professional societies and it really costs between $1000 and $3000 per article to publish. You need a skeletal secretarial staff and archival server. Most editors and reviewers work gratis in hopes others wi
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by peter303 8y ago
I was at one of the McDonalds last week with one of their updated computer ording kiosks. They place about 15 feet from the cash register. So if they is a line of 4 people or more, these kiosks are right in you face and tempt you to use the
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by peter303 9y ago
My MIT analog circuits course in 1973 used APL. I dont know what they use now.
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A lot of words in ancient Chinese are loaded with subtleties of meaning. Its hard to choose a single English word to translate it. In modern Chinese Dao mean path. Modern Chinese has a lot more multisyllable words than classical Chinese. Th

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