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by teeja 17y ago
You can get a job working for the government? http://pi.nersc.gov/
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PI to 2.7 trillion places on a desktop(bellard.org)
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by teeja 17y ago
Me neither ... I never leave the keys to my account in the ignition.
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by teeja 17y ago
Sorry to say, this article is very realistic about a lot of things. Since tuition got so high and heavy debt became common, starting college without a realistic idea why you're there is a bad idea. There's nothing new about PhD's leaving
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by teeja 17y ago
My craziest bug was making text-only changes to an html file I'd edited for months, saving the file, then seeing no changes in the browser. Somehow I'd opened a second editing window for the file, exactly on top of the first window - and th
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by teeja 17y ago
There were plenty of programmable machines that made sounds in ancient history ... but recording was rare (until wire recorders anyway). But someone who beat that 1951 recording may turn up yet.
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by teeja 17y ago
Where he published the article is funny . Who cares about theories? A pox on all their houses. His core observations are unassailable: * The bankers' pursuit of self-interest (greed) did not lead to the well-being of society * It certainly
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by teeja 17y ago
Ad hominem is the last resort of a lazy mind.
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by teeja 17y ago
"When I listened to Mozart last year, I thought classical music was all about the composer. Today I realized the performer matters just as much" That's certainly true to an extent. But some performers won't suit your taste, and if you judge
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by teeja 17y ago
Citizens of the US will begin to publicly insist on being told what to think.
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by teeja 17y ago
Charles Stross, 'Accelerando' Stephenson, 'Anathem' (first 150 pages slow)
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by teeja 17y ago
"What’s the courseware and curriculum?" And if you don't ask this question first, your well-intended project to 'gift the poor' becomes 'abetting the criminals'. Examples: FM. Television. Someone will fill the vacuum. I maintain that ther
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by teeja 17y ago
This is really excellent ... and it makes you think: we (US) used to have one-room schoolhouses where the older kids helped the younger kids . Another thought: a lot of the differences between the prof and students would be removed by phy
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by teeja 17y ago
Here goes another wave of plastic & silicon hitting the world's dumpgrounds. If we made less hardware and more software, the world would thank us for it.
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by teeja 17y ago
I can't speak for all accordians, but the chords at the left-hands of piano-accordian players are arranged in circles of fifths. F is below C is below G is below D ... As a result, buttons for all the (non-chromatic) intervals are within 2
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by teeja 17y ago
People who have trouble considering this idea because of all the conditioning can take a couple of hours online to investigate the scientific evidence for the dangers of second-hand smoke. When I did, they fell into the noise ... within s
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by teeja 17y ago
In the end, you have to make music you want to make... that you like, that pushes where you want to push ... and then if other people like it great. If you try to please the crowd, but that doesn't motivate you .... Frank Zappa pops into mi
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by teeja 17y ago
Especially back when most CPUs were about 200MHz tops, drives were much smaller, and turning on a single reverb brought everything to a screaming halt. (Freezing trax was not an option.) One of the better DAWs at the time was Opcode's Vis
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by teeja 17y ago
"Worth it"? Depends on what "it" is. There was a time when college wasn't about vocational education ... Is it worth spending 4 years learning about the history of your country and culture? Seeing a lot of great movies or concerts? Hanging
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by teeja 17y ago
Feinstein didn't "block solar energy". She saved 30,000 acres of desert land, that the state had promised would be saved and which was bought with private and federal funds, from powerline developers, including Goldman-Sachs (who could care
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by teeja 17y ago
I found an earworm-killer. It's a more 'powerful' piece of music you really like that isn't an earworm. Just play it, it 'reverberates' for a minute or two, and voila.
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by teeja 17y ago
"Everybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed." Too good for this world.
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by teeja 17y ago
It's an interesting approach, and the 'plaintext'/plant matching looks convincing. Many of the words she derives require omitting letters or adding letters to the anagram text. There go standard frequencies. In some cases one letter stands
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by teeja 17y ago
I don't 'stomach' higher math (experimentalist), but thought Hofstadter did a good job in "Godel, Escher, Bach". http://geb.stenius.org/
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by teeja 17y ago
IIRC the figures on TMI (not broken down into phantom per-capita exposures but to the environment) included millions of Curies released into the environment. Some credible researchers have found evidence that figure may be 10 to 100 times t
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by teeja 17y ago
"People see Facebook as a way to privately share their life with friends." Fits what people in my family think (I'm not a user). I haven't thought it was a good choice for that, because huge sites tend to attract hacks. If private sharing i
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by teeja 17y ago
Of all the colleges in the world to have problems in such times, Harvard is the one I have the hardest time finding sympathy for. Most schools wish they took in annually what Harvard earns in interest. So many of us are paying for the massi
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by teeja 17y ago
Looks like he may have crossed one of the invisible lines. http://www.flexyourrights.org/faq "just touching an officer could get you tasered or beaten and stuck with a felony charge for assaulting a police officer." NOT to excuse what the
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by teeja 17y ago
I'm not surprised (at least for people trying to hire online) because I've never seen crappier job descriptions than those on the Web these days. Nobody leaves a phone#, they expect CV and won't answer the simplest preliminary questions by
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by teeja 17y ago
Indeed. It's easy to criticize from a distance, easy to be disgusted by egregious fraud by a rare few when it's trumpeted left and right by the media, deliberately harming the interests of the great majority. I too have been on 'both sides

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