ted_dunning

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   by ted_dunning 3y ago

   For 15ths, convert x/5 to decimal, then divide by 3.
2. 512.▲
   by ted_dunning 3y ago

   Those are nice.
3. 513.▲
   by ted_dunning 3y ago

   Not non-stick pans. But yes, they did make red Fiesta ware using what is effectively low-level nuclear waste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesta_(dinnerware)
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   by ted_dunning 4y ago

   Well, the problem with an AI-based system here might well have been that I-25 goes north and south through the heart of Denver rather than east and west. The location "30 miles east of Denver on I-25" literally does not exist. Per
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   by ted_dunning 4y ago

   The word AI has always meant "the intelligent system that we would like to build". Historically, as soon as the system actually works for some task, it gets a new name. Thus expert systems, neural networks, logistic regression wer
6. 516.▲
   by ted_dunning 4y ago

   Your postulates are wrong * Nobody ever had to memorize trig tables (unless you mean the values for 30, 45 and 60 degrees) * Understanding accuracy is not associated with just slide rules. It is ubiquitous whenever you make measurements. Mo
7. 517.▲
   by ted_dunning 4y ago

   Yes. Ish. Obviously text-oriented grep doesn't work. But table oriented duckdb can work very well indeed (and it basically combines a lot of awk and grep together) $ duckdb <<EOQ select count(\*) from 'archive.parquet&
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   by ted_dunning 4y ago

   The actual representation doesn't much matter. When you read the data into something like a dataframe, the boolean values are translated into something appropriate for the supporting language. The actual encodings are documented, but g
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   by ted_dunning 4y ago

   That is the point of having a competent CFO. The letters "CFO" are pronounced "those in the know". Doing a cash sweep is NOT rocket science and there are lots of services that can do it for you. A company can also projec
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    You should check out the Times Literary Supplement. Very, very interesting articles. Fiendish crossword. They don't much cover any technical material, but they cover all kinds of everything else. The reviews are often much better than
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    Paraphrasing slightly: > when you synthetically generate data ... you're not materially going to get > out something different than what you put in Well, yes and no. If I give you five points and tell you that they are actually
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    I use 8 fingers with two thumbs for carrying. That can be interpreted mathematically or practically.
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    You are off here a bit. ALL decimal, base 12 and base 60 expansions of rational numbers end in a repeating sequence. Just like base 11 and 59. The only difference between 1/7 and 1/5 in decimal is that for the 1/7, the repeat
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    These algorithms for floating computation feel completely familiar (except for the base 60 part) to a user of a slide rule. For instance, there is the completely separate method for addition/subtraction versus multiplication/divis
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    You should have read more carefully. They are talking about transport of molten regolith. Not rockets.
16. 526.▲
    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    Well, if you are going to be as insulting as "the trust the science morons", could you be a bit more specific about exactly who you are insulting. Your description fit my own actions pretty accurately. Or, maybe, you could just
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    Provide an actual quote in context. What I remember is Fauci saying that to be fully effective, protective needs to be fitted and fit-tested and that due to limited supplies, PPE supplies with high levels of protection (i.e. N95 and above)
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    OK. Assuming you are acting in good faith as well. The two previous zoonotic coronavirus outbreaks, SARS and MERS, had case fatality rates of nearly 10% and over 30% respectively. Before we had reliable clinical data to the contrary, it was
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    Care to cite an actual example of a COVID vaccine study that didn't have a caveat about what risks might still be unknown?
20. 530.▲
    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    Are you thinking of Copernicus, perhaps?
21. 531.▲
    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    Would you mind toning down the ad hominem attacks here? I, for example, suggested to a number of non-scientifically trained friends that the scientific consensus about vaccines was pretty strong, that the vaccine studies were well conducted
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    That could be an excellent use for sensors that only give reasonable relative measurements.
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    It is incredibly easy to use an on-line service to specify and fabricate PCBs. I just did it for an adapted multi-sensor temperature system and the boards were about $5 and tooling costs were minimal. The quality far exceeded anything that
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    If you have a library that is tightly coupled to A and B, then A and B are effectively coupled. Ergo, put all three into a single repo because you pretty much have to deploy all three together. The test for the tightness of coupling is to a
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    This isn't a matter of not being able to delegate. This is a matter of being cut out of the loop. Done right, these people would have reported to him or reported to a peer manager, but detailed to work with him to build a department. H
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    And his judgement seems impaired lately. Should be monitored for stroke risk and be kept out of high-value decisions.
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    And Werner von Braun was 56 in 1968. You think he should have been replaced with somebody younger? Or do you think that his level of experience was useful?
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    Well, the 1, 2.2, 4.7 E3 sequence that is embedded in the E12 sequence is plenty close enough for almost all applications. The successive ratios are noticeably more consistent than for the 1,2,5,10 sequence (2.2, 2.14, 2.13 versus 2, 2.5, 2
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    I took this book on a long (for me) trip to Minnesota the year that it came out. It was a great read, trying to work out all the details with my eyes closed because back then computers didn't come on vacations with you. When I got back
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    by ted_dunning 4y ago

    Here is a citation for you. 3/4 of the repos on github use MIT, GPL or Apache. Done and won. Most open source projects (in 2015) use real open source licenses. https://github.blog/2015-03-09-open-source-license-usage-on