seigenblues

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by seigenblues 16y ago
Wow, cool! I take it back, then :) Would i be correct in thinking that this probably makes it less useful? Current thermal collectors use absorbent coatings that are "full-spectrum," with a minimum of IR emission, which i have to imagine
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by seigenblues 16y ago
Not really -- solar thermal already is about 75% efficient. I.e., 100J of light => 75J of heat added to working fluid. My understanding was that this chemical toggles state at the addition of any heat -- not necessarily by the additio
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by seigenblues 16y ago
As a dude working at a solar thermal startup, i would be really excited to see this work. OTOH, solar thermal is already about 30% cheaper than photovoltaics, so that diruthenium is gonna have to be replaced by something really, really che
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by seigenblues 16y ago
Totally -- not to mention surviving long enough to let compound interest naturally magnify that difference. As for the tactics or "logistics" -- if that means clicking 500 times/minute, then i really don't see the appeal :)
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by seigenblues 16y ago
Starcraft has always struck me as a game of compound interest, and the optimal early builds always seem to be just that: maximizing an instantaneous rate-of-production, which will correlate to maximizing your instantaneous rates-of-doing-da
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by seigenblues 16y ago
Man, I can't up vote this enough. I would also add that this is also usually symbolically equal to what VCs seem to do in their "interviewing"/wooing process. Well said!
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by seigenblues 16y ago
Hey thangalin! I remember seeing you on KGS a few years ago. I'm. About 2-3d on kgs and would be happy for a game. Also, if any go players in CA are interested, next years US Go Congress will be in Santa Barbara, 1st week in August!
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by seigenblues 16y ago
With all due respect, I don't think it was the right choice at all. As I've studied go, I've learned large "life lessons" in an almost 1-to-1 correspondence. Even now, having hit diminishing returns at 5d, I still find it to be a wonderfu
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by seigenblues 16y ago
thank you for making '[I' my hey-i-learned-a-neat-thing-of-the day! (from the doc, [I: Display all lines that contain the keyword under the cursor. Filenames and line numbers are displayed for the found lines. The search starts at the beg
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by seigenblues 16y ago
ah, thanks! So it's the incremental improvement of a Harvard vs. a Cornell, or even a (gasp!) non-ivy. That makes sense, i suppose. I think I got confused because, as you acknowledge, "We might not be the best analyst, the best clien
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by seigenblues 16y ago
Can you explain that "flash and pedigree" line? What is that? Is that basically having the right upper-middle-class background? Your next sentence seems to imply that it's related to the economic status of these 24 year olds. If that's t
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by seigenblues 16y ago
Yes: A post where every sentence is an observation of a fact, but the implicit generalization of those facts is false. I.e., a successive series of observations of white swans, written with a strong narrative, to strongly imply that all sw
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by seigenblues 16y ago
No, they're not false at all. I'm looking at your definition of Relentlessly Resourceful (RR), as understood from the essay, and his definition of tough. Those two seem to be vastly different. As I went on to say, where they're no
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by seigenblues 16y ago
Where have I misrepresented him? He's used a frame that i think is not useful at all. It's not false -- but then again, which of his sentences are actually facts? For example: "I don’t think there is anything particularly new here. PG say
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by seigenblues 16y ago
Great! Glad to see we're back to anthropological alpha-maleness as a signifier of business fitness! That's TOTALLY THE SAME as savvy planning and competent, persevering execution. And it's worked really well for Wall Street, right? ...L
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by seigenblues 16y ago
Because, If we were to do so, "it turns out" would be immediately followed by a citation of the authority in question?
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by seigenblues 16y ago
Not to wade too far into an already pedantic dispute... "A compiler takes in a stream of symbols and translates it to another stream of symbols. Common compiler techniques include intermediate tree representations, parsing of symbols, vario
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by seigenblues 16y ago
"Hire normal people who depend on you for their income." yes! that's it! Be sure you're the one in control, ensuring your ability to treat them as less than human! Sorry for the snark, but that last line may be pretty unintentionally reve
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by seigenblues 16y ago
This is a great list! The only thing i could add would be to learn the olympic lifts as well: the snatch, the clean, & the jerk. But maybe only after you've got the lifts in #2, though :) Also, i second the recommendation of Starting S
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by seigenblues 16y ago
$300,000/year treadmill? Is that a joke? One year at 300K and i'd never need to be on a treadmill again -- 30k to build a house, 50k for land, probably still 70-100k left over after taxes to start my next business. So I'm gonna assume that
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by seigenblues 17y ago
I see you've updated your comment! re: [4] 1) I'm glad you've had personal experience with this! Cool! 2) Having a name for a phenomena does not mean that the phenomena actually exists. and 3) It's hard to see that this is "more rigorou
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by seigenblues 17y ago
that's one of the thinnest wikipedia articles i've ever seen. C'mon, outside of the hysterical NRO articles it has at the bottom, can you show me another example of it "happening throughout history?"
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by seigenblues 17y ago
While the first sentence helpfully has a footnote, it does not actually cite anything. Unfortunately, the second footnote lends no more actual factual basis to this argument either. The wikipedia article linked to uses equally vague gener
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by seigenblues 17y ago
I wish they mentioned any specific smart-meter vendors using those chipsets! Maybe this will get picked up by some greentech bloggers & develop into a real story.
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by seigenblues 17y ago
this is really cool. Anyone wanna port it to matplotlib in python, or should i?
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by seigenblues 17y ago
quite true. I'm sorry for taking you out of context. It is indeed more valuable that way. I would ask the next question; which is the more important problem we are trying to "cure" -- the lack of competence or the lack of courage? One ca
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by seigenblues 17y ago
I'm with you. I know people who can remember every game they've played and i'm just not one of them. I learned "the western way" myself. I've noticed, though, that i don't remember the recurring patterns or sequences, i just kind of feel
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by seigenblues 17y ago
one of the stronger players i know did this -- he just played blitz with a 7d over and over and over in a coffeeshop, didn't ask many questions but just imitated first & drew conclusions second.
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by seigenblues 17y ago
Yeah, your rules->formulate strategy->develop tactical plan->iterate is usually a great approach! Sadly, Go's rules are so simple it's really tough to guess what good strategies are from a reading of the rules. I think this is
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by seigenblues 17y ago
This post makes me want to start a blog, just to answer some of these questions. Go is really hard to teach. I try to avoid it whenever possible. This isn't trying to be a wiseass; i find this actually has some great effects. I've found

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