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by shas3 12y ago
A thoughtful counterpoint to Wigner's enthusiasm for Platonistic math is Derek Abbott's "The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics" from IEEE Proceedings vol. 101, no. 10, 2013 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org&#
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Another historic object of interest concerning the 'hype cycle' is Claude Shannon's 'Bandwagon': http://dsp.rice.edu/sites/dsp.rice.edu/files/shannon-bandwag...
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Laptops are more modular than the newer phones. So most laptop manufacturers give you options to 'customize' the specs. It is probably not profitable to have fully customizable phones, yet. So you have 'more models'. In
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Thanks for the clarification. I apologize for adding 'NASA-level'. I did parenthesize it, though. Also, since 'standards' are usually intended to ensure quality, I assumed that you were implying that the Indian space pro
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by shas3 12y ago
You are implicitly assuming somehow they don't currently 'play by NASA rules (and NASA-level) standards.' Any evidence that this is so?
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Curiosity is a rover. Rovers require cleanrooms for assembly for the reasons that you just mentioned, since they land. I don't think this is an issue with orbiters. For example, one of the reasons failing orbiters are of concern is tha
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by shas3 12y ago
If nothing, at least IBM's radio astronomy effort should count as 'bluesky' research literally and figuratively speaking, https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/37361.wss
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> Google X is amazing in that it is about the only one left doing true bluesky R&D. Everyone else is just doing product development. That is quite wrong, really. There are many industrial research labs that are pursuing 'bluesky
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Yitang Zhang is an outlier in that sense, like Alexander Grothendick and Grigori Perelman. Many other great mathematicians, like Terence Tao, Timothy Gowers, etc. and even some working on 'big problems' like Andrew Wiles are in st
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So throw the baby out with the bathwater? My friend is one of only about 50 experts in his field in the world. He is at the risk of losing his ability to work in the US because he didn't get through the H1B lottery.
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This could potentially increase the 'cost-to-company' for each employee. Also, it could well be that an employee is worth a lot to Infosys, Cognizant, or other off-shoring companies who make up a bulk of the H1B applications, and
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On the topic of free e-books related to signal processing, I really love this book by Vivek Goyal, Martin Vetterli, and Jelena Kovacevic: www.fourierandwavelets.org I think their treatment of the subject is more 'modern'. Classica
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The U Michigan management academic, C. K. Prahalad (with an Indian science administrator, Mashelkar) had written an article about innovating for the Indian economy in the Harvard Business Review. The summary of their article is that Indian
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The problem with the lead-crime hypothesis is that the cause of lead and the effect of increased crime are 'too far apart' with many intervening links in the causal chain, to paraphrase Steven Pinker [1]. He calls the hypothesis &
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"you think X is easy?" is a pointless statement. Everything is easy or difficult to different extents to different people. Also, the difficulty of solving a problem is not the primary criterion for choosing whether to attempt or e
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Paraphrasing Peter Thiel [1], this is a stochastic approach ("unplanned statistical view of the future") to technological progress. Throw darts at ad clicks and hope that it cures cancer. The opposite approach is the 'Manhatt
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Apple probably has to work on improving the accuracy of activity monitoring on its devices. This paper from ACM Ubicomp 2013 concludes (as of ~2012), that iPhone (Moves App)performed worse than Nike+Fuelband, Nike+Sportsband, and Fitbit in
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I think the problem with Modi, like extreme politicians (e.g. Le Pen in France or the Tea Party) in other democracies is that some of his utterances are contradictory to Enlightenment humanist ideals. It remains to be seen if the subset of
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> Because the American government exists to serve Americans. It's not fair and it's not supposed to be. You miss the point that the definition of 'American' is quite arbitrary. It is 'fair' in the sense that
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Foreign nonimmigrant workers should be as eligible for social assistance as anyone else. H1B workers pay almost exactly the same federal, state, and local taxes as citizens and permanent residents. In general, restrictive visa rules are a f
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Your accusation of cherry-picking is disingenuous. It is just this: in the current system, there is no way of rewarding merit. That NY Times example is one data point. A second one is this, from Newsweek: https://webcache.googleu
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In the current H1B system, it doesn't matter if the applicant is from an elite US university. If you have to work in the US, and if you are not a permanent resident or US citizen, you go through, for the most part, the exact same H1B s
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Designing the experiment is also a problem they have to figure out. A part of the challenge is designing hypotheses that best represent the physical phenomena that are also testable. So instead of going for the whole enchilada, work on part
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It doesn't matter if their blog does lip-service to the scientific method. No pun intended, but the proof is in eating the pudding, that is, in doing science.
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This is not about motives. This is about the method of science. There should be scientific evidence to believe such claims as Solyent's, especially since it is possible to do reliable experiments to test many of his claims. Also, more
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Create a hypothesis, do experiments, examine the evidence, revise the hypothesis. Then, restrict your claims to the hypothesis and evidence. 'Knowing anything' is irrelevant and the assertion that 'we know so little about nut
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How is this any different from mail-order diets and such? Where are the double-blind peer reviewed studies? The original post by Rob Rhinehart sounds no different from the mail-order diet ads that you see on TV. Is it legitimate because it
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But if it is a zero-sum game, 'crime by omission' may be as bad as 'commission' of throttling. So the question is: is it a zero-sum game? If Paying Company A pays for more bandwidth, are they doing so at the cost of reve
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Twin Cities and Chicago areas are exceptions to the rule, when it comes to Midwest. Both have a healthy mix of old-school industrial giants, financial, retail, and new tech and bio companies. This is different from other big metros in the r
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How do you account for criticisms of IQ? I think anecdotes are permissible here since we are looking for counter-examples: I know people who have scored in the 110s and 120s on IQ tests in school, who are now, in their 30s, very prolific re

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