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by quarterwave 13y ago
Branded pads retail range Rupees 10-25 per pad - some variation in capacity. So the contemporary ratio ranges from 4:1 to 10:1. So 16:2.5 is good estimate even for contemporary comparison! @pja you are hereby awarded 1 Fermi (see recent lin
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Years ago I was an engineering post-doc in the US, and happened to meet this science post-doc (you can guess at which institute) at an airport. I was amazed to learn this person was spending 2X my hours in the lab at 0.5X my salary.
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Many moons ago I've been exactly where you describe, so listen to uncle. You are already incubating a start-up - it's your child. Your sole task is to keep the cash register chiming bimonthly. Focus on the job that pays you, if yo
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Say $2M in Valley is 10X of cost-to-company (CTC) per person. If CTC in India is say $30K then the India valuation with the same 10X should be at least $300K. If the 10X somehow ends up at 3X, then at that point the expected payoff for a fo
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by quarterwave 13y ago
A significant element of scientific research is being the first to find something. It's the ego thing, all the way to standing up there in fancy dress some day to receive one's gong. Publishing is a time stamping service for the e
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by quarterwave 13y ago
So, it's not an investment bubble because the new start-up's don't burn as much cash as dotcoms did? Is that the conclusion? What about all the people holding value stock at P/E's of 50-100, and more?
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by quarterwave 13y ago
What's really great about Helvetica is that it's idiot-proof on a wide variety of browsers, and given my limited web-design experience that puts Helvetica in the "Swiss" category of robust design. I personally prefer a m
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by quarterwave 13y ago
One problem where i believed the result only after writing up some Python code to simulate N trials is the Monty Hall problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
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by quarterwave 13y ago
The article doesn't explicitly say whether it is bulk Gallium Arsenide, or a quantum-well structure based on a sandwich of Gallium Arsenide and its crystalline alloys. Bizarre excitonic behavior in a quantum-well doesn't surprise
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Whatever you do, please don't design your own chip.
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by quarterwave 13y ago
1. The section on matrices should start (not end) with the orthogonal length preserving co-ordinate transformation. It's the easiest geometry/trig connection, the elements can be worked out by hand, demonstrates unitary property,
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by quarterwave 13y ago
I would humbly add Victor Weisskopf to the list, in particular his article "Of Atoms, Mountains, and Stars: A Study in Qualitative Physics."
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How wolves can alter the course of rivers(blog.ted.com)
6 points by quarterwave 13y ago|0 comments
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Human muscle also stores energy in the form of glycogen, so it's got batteries included. The approx 25% energy efficiency of the human muscle is limited mostly by the 40% efficiency of burning glucose into ATP molecules. The article me
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Does 'do no evil' include canonical net-neutrality, or will it end up like Animal Farm: but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Consider John Wayne's advice in 'The Shootist': It's not always about being fast or accurate, it's about being willing. Add another quote (from Feynman): you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to
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by quarterwave 13y ago
The Universe is a simulation, so what programming language/galactic cloud does it run on? Haskell for typing and correctness, Erlang for 'just fail', Ruby for POLA (God's, that is)...
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by quarterwave 13y ago
One does not simply walk into Mordor. As mentioned in the article, at the spec level it makes perfect sense. Examples include hot-swap processor and memory boards. But to actually go about designing large processor chips - that's not e
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Show HN: Statistical analysis of India General Elections 2014(273seats.com)
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Hawala is closer to traditional banking than is made out to be. Despite the hash code entries there must be a form of eventual resettlement. There must also be a distributed enforcement apparatus that charges its own fees. Also, in many cou
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by quarterwave 13y ago
Any recommendations for resources to improve one's Javascript code running on the back-end, for example node.js/V8 or vert.x/JVM. Specifically: (i) how to leverage Javascript to write better networking code (e,g; cluster, web