thechao

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by thechao 3y ago
The San Antonio/I35/Austin district you refer to is Lloyd Dogget's; it's a minority-majority district created by MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense). It is a prime example of the use of gerrymandering for positive re
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by thechao 3y ago
Let me drill down to Texas, where I am quite active. I have been privy to a conversation[1] with Governor Abbot where he described in detail his horse-trading to swap precincts between Congressional representatives in order to: (1) maximi
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by thechao 3y ago
Gerrymandering is a political process; it can't be "solved" with math. If there were a technical solution to the 'gerrymandering problem' we'd've used any of the standard tools for drawing such maps. The m
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by thechao 3y ago
How do you verify ground-truth of the original snippets? > snippets of the original text as evidence Assuredly the sources ("news"?) are poisoned wells, now?
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by thechao 3y ago
It kept Feynman occasionally entertained for, I believe, decades, on-and-off. Depending on who you ask it was crystal clear that this was either a good thing for science or a bad thing for science.
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by thechao 3y ago
I like this model because consciousness just becomes another function, and it lets us explain some of the weirder modalities; for instance, being able to predict free-will choices way ahead of time in human subjects. Also, SMBC had a funn
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by thechao 3y ago
My personal take is that 3+1 is not privileged; but that the physics that takes place in the other combinations is either so uninteresting it doesn't meaningfully interact, or that the number of Feynman paths through the non-3+1 case
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by thechao 3y ago
The back-of-the-envelope analysis for kite-based power is very compelling; enough that I tried my hand at designing a kite-powered system in ~2004. I don't think anyone can really appreciate how challenging the engineering (control sys
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by thechao 3y ago
Thanks for the pointer! I was shocked at the quality of the article. Also, having recently read a great adaptation of "The Odyssey", I feel like I was primed for the author's conclusion. As an academic expat, myself, withou
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by thechao 3y ago
+1. I'm years away from fp-analysis, but do the transcendental expansions even converge in the presence of fast-math? No `sin()`, no `cos()`, no `exp()`, ...
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by thechao 3y ago
I'd like it if there was a centralized shared secret system available from the following sources: my credit union, my local & state govt, and the fed govt. I'd like to be able to set an arbitrary K-of-N recovery with an additi
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by thechao 3y ago
I see the opposite: the DNA/RNA/protein mechanism is just a gigantic pile of self-interacting hacks — core "design constraints" being that the cell: (1) shouldn't die too quickly; and, (2) should be reasonably energ
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by thechao 3y ago
This reminds me of the random polynomial time bound for the simplex algorithm; an algorithm that is, naively, exponential time[1]. I seem to vaguely remember — this is ~17 years ago, now — that it's possible to "characterize"
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by thechao 3y ago
Actually, the OST would interact with the use of the moon dirt and the lack of clear res nullia would greatly complicate burial. Space law is the worst .
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What is the stiffness of spacetime? (2018) [pdf](kirkmcd.princeton.edu)
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by thechao 3y ago
I'm about to write a little "choose-your-own-adventure" script that walks new employees through our processes. We're about to begin our decade-ly turning-over, and the idea is that the we'll hand over the script a
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by thechao 3y ago
The equation is: A * (W / A) ** 4 So, a 2 ton car is 1 unit of damage; a fully loaded 18 wheeler is 20,000 units. On top of that, we expect a 30 mile/day drive from the car, but more like 300+ from the truck. So, throwing
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by thechao 3y ago
I'm trying to imagine the apocalyptic scenario that'd have all of Texas windless and cloudy for a week? Nameplate values for Texas wind & solar will eventually be well above peak required: excess power can be sold for silly
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by thechao 3y ago
Discipline, not training, for sure! The Spartans considered training (for war) to be demeaning. https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...
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by thechao 3y ago
At least near me, HD repair is usually based on the area of the blinds; I have this unholy-huge 6.5' x 6' blind that the local HD shop wants $1000 to fix ... what I think is the clutch? (Just going off the troubleshooting sectio
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by thechao 3y ago
I am immediately nerd-sniped by this. Is there any code out there you know of I can see? The dual meta-data pages sounds precisely like double-buffering (from graphics; my domain of expertise). I am also drawn to append-only- like and
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by thechao 3y ago
Where's my 550 mile ranged EV minivan!?
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by thechao 3y ago
I'm 45, walk, weight lift, eat well, sleep well, and feel better than I ever have. My dad says he didn't start to "feel" his age until 80: it may just be genetics?
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by thechao 3y ago
Undomesticated precursors of grain crops are literally no better than foraging. The domestication of grain crops is probably a necessary precondition to our type of civilization. And, more importantly, we don't see hominid densities —
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by thechao 3y ago
I reported Apple to the FCC. Fun fact: the FCC are looking for complainants for precisely the hijacking of SMS from Messages.
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by thechao 3y ago
The only reason I bought a Tesla in April of this year is because they'd sell me one. Every other car company gave me the same line: give us money, we'll call you in July/August. They all had outrageous dealer markups. Two we
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by thechao 3y ago
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by thechao 3y ago
I suggested this to my US Representative, but I'm pretty sure he's a Lich, so it didn't go anywhere. I think the tunnel thing might be more his style: dungeony.
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by thechao 3y ago
There is a world where we dig tunnels under federal highways, and stick freight trucks down there. They'd run on a monorail, at 120+ mph. Surface vehicles would be dramatically limited in terms of height, width, and length. Maybe peopl
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by thechao 3y ago
We have this in Austin, Texas. I don't know any locals who use, or like them. Austin's not great to walk in, but the scooters are just a menace.

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