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by quarterwave 12y ago
A discussion of the Third Law and the Nernst unattainability principle can be found in: http://benthamscience.com/open/totherj/articles/V006/1TOTHER...
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by quarterwave 12y ago
One interesting point is why is the far-field amplitude of light diffracted by the lens a spatial Fourier transform? The best explanation I know of is in Chapter 21 of the Feynman Lectures on Physics (vol 2), accessible online (thanks to Ca
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by quarterwave 12y ago
These are excellent lectures! I saw Chap 4, and it was very satisfying to watch the introduction to convergence, L2 norm, inner product etc. Technically, Fourier transform requires only the L1 norm (the 'Manhattan distance') to be
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by quarterwave 12y ago
Isn't the key point here about isotropy, similar to the velocities in the ideal gas?
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Another example of Dyson's ability to find mathematical connections: the link between the zeros of the Riemann zeta function and random matrices. http://www.ias.edu/about/publications/ias-letter/articles&
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by quarterwave 13y ago
For future reference: would there be benefit in hiring a reputed event management company, if so what would be the overhead? Reasoning is three fold. The event management companies: (i) know which places work, (ii) they give repeat business
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Start with different people talking all at once - some loudly, some softly. We can try and make out what someone is saying, but it's not easy. So we put each person on a different radio station & we then 'tune' our radio
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Does cathedral v. bazaar also apply to creativity? Cathedral creativity = "divine spark" of the individual. Bazaar = small/random steps shaped by the evolutionary processes of fork, commit, & pull.
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by quarterwave 13y ago
"Sandstorm makes it easy to run web apps on your own server." Could that server be one's mobile phone?
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by quarterwave 13y ago
A speculative thought: Apart from being distributed, the insidious power of DDoS appears to lie in "subscriber-calling-server". Why not go the other way around? At least only for specific subscription services, not general purpose
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Apart from salary, is any indication provided of the volume of matching jobs/locations?
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Reminds me of an incident (I forget where I read about it) where Dirac is giving a lecture in Europe, someone asks a question & Dirac has to start working it out on the board - and Ehrenfest turns around and yells: Kids, now we can see
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by quarterwave 13y ago
I've seen ATM's being serviced/refilled - one can usually spot a "tower" PC in there. When an ATM app crashes the underlying PC operating system GUI is visible - with the standard screen background. OTOH my <big
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Good point, I was wondering how the link was made to the content provider.
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by quarterwave 13y ago
I have only a feeble knowledge of American football, still I'll employ the metaphor to put forward a thesis: Good B2B sales people are like wide receivers, they can run like the Hades, provided there is a ball and it gets thrown to the
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Imagine how much money would have been spent if this had to go to court to achieve the same result: we'll let you go this time, but in future please pay more attention to product design/appearance.
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by quarterwave 13y ago
+1 for the Eloquent book. Has a very nice section on functional programming. Plus, in my opinion, some of the best typesetting I've seen in a technical book. I also learnt a good deal from Stoyan Stefanov's book "Objected-Ori
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by quarterwave 13y ago
A special mention must be made about the puns in the LaTeX book, like the letter sample written from Gnu York.
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by quarterwave 13y ago
I'm guessing it will take a bit of work to support multiple languages/frameworks/platforms. A simpler solution may be to allow an interviewer to spin up a machine with the image/environment of choice (AWS, DigitalOcean e
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Thanks.
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Any comment on a comparison with html5/js? Especially for early-stage start-ups that need to prototype quickly.
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Lenovo G series. i5-3230M + 8GB. No extra graphics. Bought it without any OS. Installed Ubuntu 13.04, everything worked without tweaking, including the Skype client for Linux. Great value for money.
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by quarterwave 13y ago
The inverted scenario got me thinking. I would prefer to hire the triple major with interest and training, putting interest ahead of training. And you're right - the hiring manager isn't a case of prisoner's dilemma. Thanks f
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by quarterwave 13y ago
One example i can speak to is analog chip design. In a more civilized age, an analog hiring manager chose students based on some mysterious Force, mentored them - and they worked in that company for a long time, often on several generations
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by quarterwave 13y ago
The person who went to a 'high reputation' college is more likely to have had better peers, and so more likely to have learned more by thermalization. Also, software jobs are unique - one can be effective in a software job without
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by quarterwave 13y ago
My theory - just made it up - a lightsaber is a hologram formed by phase conjugation of third-order non-linear vacuum polarization (chi-3). A fusion energy source emits gamma rays which form the hologram, and in turn the hologram shapes the
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by quarterwave 13y ago
GPA is useful when curated with the 'reputation' of a particular college or university. For example, "Person P scored 3.25 from XYZ college, which is more impressive than person Q who got 3.75 from ABC college". This rep
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by quarterwave 13y ago
How does the microscope cost compare with paying the technician who will do the diagnosis? Assuming even $1000 per tech - which is roughly the per capita GDP(nom) of many countries - in this case maybe it's just better to buy the scope
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by quarterwave 13y ago
"undertook" - ROFL.
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Are there any countries where this kind of prosecution would not even get past the court clerk?

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