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by rrmm 10y ago
Played this last weekend with a group that included two young kids. It was a pretty fun diversion with a few simple mechanics, and the kids enjoyed the cards. Munchkin is slightly more complex but worked as well. I also think Zombie Dice i
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by rrmm 10y ago
I still like referring to it as triple-x from when it was http://xxx.lanl.gov
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For me I think the threshold I'd suggest is learning enough different languages (from multiple paradigms and domains) and familiarity with enough frameworks to have confidence that when you require a language in a particular domain, yo
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by rrmm 10y ago
I can think of a great many buses I'd like to see Elsevier under. Perhaps Google can do some sort of self-driving bus to automatically do it. Elsevier is a leech on academia and actively work against open access to papers. They run s
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by rrmm 10y ago
If I'm remembering the details of the case correctly, it turns out he did overreact and that did cause the tail to fail: Certainly the tail did fail, and the pilot's input caused it. The important part and the part that has been
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by rrmm 10y ago
I believe once they are commissioned they are given a number (eg current ones are GOES-13, GOES-14, GOES-15). They are also given a designation as GOES-EAST or GOES-WEST depending on where they are being used. So GOES-13 was GOES-EAST unt
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by rrmm 10y ago
Yeah who would have thought that the "wrong person" would ever get their hands on the drone program and huge domestic spying program. It's inconceivable! /s This is what all the civil liberties peoples feared: you make
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by rrmm 10y ago
The bigger issue in my mind is revocation and separation of identities. I only have one set of fingerprints. What's more, I may not want my biological identity connected to online identities. It would be like having to give every we
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by rrmm 10y ago
I guess I like the trade-offs of something-you-have/something-you-know even if the cost of faking them is actually lower. I am probably in a minority.
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I certainly agree that a fingerprint is a much greater claim to an identity than a username. 'Casually' of course fingerprints work fine for auth, but fingerprints can and have been reproduced. Technology may alleviate that issu
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by rrmm 10y ago
I agree. But my thinking is that touch id just shows who the person claims to be (like a username), but it doesn't actually authenticate they are that person. I know that in practice apple does use it to auth.
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by rrmm 10y ago
Shouldn't touch ID be the userid and not the password?
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I wonder if that noise is going to be a major ptsd trigger for people involved in an accident afterwards. (Of course probably any loud noise would be). It will be interesting to see any data they can collect out of this on the benefit in p
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by rrmm 10y ago
Yeah, I just meant QM as meaning the semi-classical version. Making QM work with SR requires moving to QFT/"second quantization". You can presumably create particle-like quanta with a creation operator that creates particles
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by rrmm 10y ago
(Not a physics person, but) As I read it, he is just arguing against the implication that Countability implies Particles. So he is saying that adding a quantum that is monochromatic has an effect across all space (which is clearly a non-pa
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by rrmm 10y ago
It doesn't sound like he believes it one way or another. He's just saying it's time to hedge bets by pushing the next generation to look for new frameworks. That is a long term endeavor, and he's just admitting that he
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by rrmm 10y ago
Lots of good suggestions on the list. I would add a few (maybe advanced ones) that I don't think I saw: * write a device driver for a real or virtual device; hook into the various kernel virtual filesystems that allow userspace intera
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by rrmm 10y ago
Nice overview. I thought it was a bit odd that they pulled out a stieltjes integral so early on to define the mean and variance (I = Integral x dF(x)). I wouldn't expect most people reading this sort of introductory material to be fa
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by rrmm 10y ago
I share your concerns. The post-9/11 scramble for homeland security funding in academia really killed my enthusiasm for the AI/ML stuff I was doing at the time. The message that is heard when tech people sell AI/ML is '
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by rrmm 10y ago
To be fair, the government's computer systems really are just that crappy. Technical debt and obsolete systems that still kind-of-sorta work are always the last things to be addressed in budgets. There is also no incentive for the gov
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by rrmm 10y ago
Terry Tao shows how to get from side of equality to the other: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/the-euler-maclauri... It goes into detail and shows the derivation and internal consistency of the meth
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by rrmm 10y ago
At least we'll save money by having all the branches use the JSF for everything. I mean with all that commonality, there's no way we can go wrong...right? /s
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by rrmm 10y ago
Not wood but, if you're interested in building clocks/machining/etc check out Clickspring on youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCworsKCR-Sx6R6-BnIjS2MA/vid... The production and content of the
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Intel has always used the x86 to add incremental improvements which are aimed at improving bottlenecks (Pentium 4 not withstanding). The bad side is that x86 is a multilayered blob of random features cobbled together; (I'm glad AMD go
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Intel has had some bad luck trying to move past x86. ia432, i860, i960 (which found niche markets), and ia64. The revisions to the sales forecasts from market research companies were ugly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by rrmm 10y ago
How does this sort of experience bode for long term space missions and exploration. Will contingencies be better planned in environments with even less access to equipment? I guess most of it would go into crew selection and health screeni
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You could also heat the airstream after the compressor.
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Chapters from his textbook are available online.
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by rrmm 10y ago
If you are interested in this stuff, check out Strang's Linear algebra course lectures (mit opencourseware iirc). He goes through SVD and FFT in terms of matrices. Really illuminating course.
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by rrmm 10y ago
An excellent algorithm to know backwards and forwards. It's one of those tools you always want to try first if you can assume a somewhat linear approximation will work.

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