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by randcraw 5y ago
This the perfect opportunity to suggest a relevant book: "The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia" by Michael Booth. He's a Brit who married a Dane, relocated to Denmark, and was struck
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by randcraw 5y ago
Folks with a deep interest to investigate complex systems in their spare time are unusual -- curious, inventive, and driven. They seek epiphanies about how the world works and are and willing to dig deep to learn about it. People of this t
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by randcraw 5y ago
I think your initial approach is a brilliant way to interview a company to see it they're "your kind of people". If they have no interest in creative inventions or fresh ideas, run for the hills. You'll never be happy
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by randcraw 5y ago
Like IBM's Watson after Jeopardy.
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by randcraw 5y ago
How old is PG? Born in 1964, so age 56, according to Wiki. I'm from the same era. Being young and nerdy in the '60s and '70s was pretty isolating. Computers weren't available until the early '80s, and weren'
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by randcraw 5y ago
I blame the evolution of pizza cheese for killing my love of pizza. Until about 1990, Dominos Pizza was a taste to die for, partly due to a flavorful sauce that wasn't too sweet or acidic, but mostly due to a brilliant mix of cheeses
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by randcraw 5y ago
From the Nature article: "Peak antibody levels were 3.5 times higher in those who waited 12 weeks for their booster shot than were those in people who waited only 3 weeks. Peak T-cell response was lower in those with the extended inter
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by randcraw 5y ago
But not exactly keeping up with Moore's Law, is it? (Or Dennard scaling, if you're a righteous nerd). I remember when we yawned at any new CPU that wasn't at least 100% faster. Now 50% faster is "insanely great"?
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by randcraw 5y ago
I agree, a 4x or 16x downsampled version seems like the obvious way to quickly denature an image without bias. The algorithm is trivial to implement and will run insanely fast. And the smaller amount of data has the added bonus of loading
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by randcraw 5y ago
I start my bikes and cars inside a garage where there's limited RF signal due to no line of sight to towers. If this thing fails to initiate service correctly, the maker of this product will be in for a world of hurt after my heirs su
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by randcraw 5y ago
Computer Engineering departments and degrees emphasize the stuff you mention more than CS does. CE largely extends its focus on software up to networking and O/Ses and down to compilers and instruction sets. And on the hardware side,
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by randcraw 6y ago
Fundamentals is great. And the two Musimathics books neatly complement the DSP analysis of music, by approaching music generatively, as a product of math and physics: https://www.amazon.com/Musimathics-Mathematical-Foundat
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by randcraw 6y ago
There are good reasons why Houston stays cheap. (I lived there for a couple of years.) It's a huge metro area with no zoning. That dissuades people from building a castle when a toxic waste dump (or refinery) could go in upwind witho
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by randcraw 6y ago
Source please. I can see how increased demand for property in an area would increase inequality but not the reverse. When the cost of living rises but you're not invested in the parts of the market which gain from higher valuation, y
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by randcraw 6y ago
Part of the mismatch between your interests and the others mentioned here is that your interests are long term and flexible and theirs are short and inflexible. They need to pay this months bills, and at the same time, I suspect they see t
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by randcraw 6y ago
Rapid change is disruptive. No remedy will please locals who don't welcome those changes. Folks who lived in Austin 30 years ago (before the growth in Round Rock, Georgetown, and the Hill Country, and the invasion of high tech) chose
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by randcraw 6y ago
It's understandable that locals see no upside to this trend. These remote-work or second-home urban expats don't add new jobs locally except perhaps wait staff at restaurants or boutique shops. Real estate costs rise. Rents go
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by randcraw 6y ago
Replicability shows that your method leads to consistent results, not that your hypothesis correctly explains the cause of those results. Yes, your intervention did provoke the causal chain into action, but it may not necessarily have corr
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by randcraw 6y ago
There seems to be a trend toward students submitting ever more college applications. It's not uncommon for seniors to apply to a dozen schools or more, of which perhaps 1/3 are unlikely to accept. So my question is, what is the l
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by randcraw 6y ago
Two guys. I've seen a lot of confirmation from medical researchers that moderate rate walking (easy to converse meanwhile) does provide some aerobic benefit as well as improve strength and balance. Faster walking (difficult to conver
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by randcraw 6y ago
Only today on HN, TCE has been implicated as the likely cause in a large recent jump in the rate of Parkinson's: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26740336 The possibility of day-after-day exposure of Googlers to el
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by randcraw 6y ago
"The second world war over, von Neumann accepted a string of commercial consultancies. But he was increasingly drawn into the defence establishment. An earnest advocate of the development of the H-Bomb, he later described himself as &q
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by randcraw 6y ago
Well Martin Luther certainly qualifies, but I can't guess what war you have in mind that took place before 1517.
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by randcraw 6y ago
I don't see it as apathy. I suspect people are simply choosing to put their time into pursuits other than attending meetings with other people. In the past 20 years, there's been a large rise in the time the average person spends
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by randcraw 6y ago
A lot can change in a couple of centuries. Right now, Catholicism is still growing in South America and Africa. As people in those regions become better educated and affluent, they may indeed follow the evolutionary path of other more aff
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by randcraw 6y ago
Yeah, I suspect this news story (and poll) only scratches the surface as to identifying the multiple demographic trends afoot. Most notable to my eye was the 15% drop in church membership between GenX and Millenial. Of course, to do that
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by randcraw 6y ago
Your statement suggests there are infinitely many hypotheses that posit "a thing exists, but there is no evidence for it". Then you say others have failed to (properly) consider those hypotheses that you choose to believe. (Wh
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by randcraw 6y ago
Does that include war? Throughout history, religious leaders have very rarely opposed killing "the enemy". Likewise it's a rare soldier in a time of war who is insists on obeying, "Thou shalt not kill". Yet if this
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> And basing your world views on faith is fine because for the most part evidence based reasoning can’t really tell you how to... I can't agree with either point: 1) basing your view on faith is equally as good as non-faith, or 2) e
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I think fundamentalists care less about consistency than closure. They want to minimize mystery and unknowns by insisting that even some very implausible parts of the Bible are expressly and unquestionably true. Similarly, Catholicism see

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