tjradcliffe

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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
You say "disingenuous", I say "focused". :-)
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
You mean the one who recently published this: Curry JA, 2014: Climate science: Uncertain temperature trends. Nature Geoscience, 7, 83-84. ( http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v7/n2/full/ngeo2078.htm
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
One can be a critic of predictive climate models without being a Denialist. I am. I strongly support both technological (nuclear and solar/storage) and political (carbon tax/tariff) approaches to ACC, but as a computational phys
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
So I assume this is demonstrating someone's gibberish generator, like: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ Even if it isn't, I wish people would stop saying things like this: "I have a theory of phenomenon X
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
> To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price. Actually, to achieve success, we must do the job. Some people find lifting heavy weights and whatnot helps them do that. I certainly have. Others find it's quiet c
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
And the even catchier: "Mediocrity borrows, genius steals" which I've never seen attributed to anyone. I think ideas that are really good tend to lose thier attribution entirely because they stand on their own, so the bigger
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
Sure you can, but no one will read them. My novel "Darwin's Theorem" (available on Amazon for a nominal price in e-book format, a less-nominal price in paperback) is published under a CC license but that doesn't mean any
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
His view is almost coherent and makes me reflect on how I unconsciously polish the edges of my own ideas to make them fit. I can see him doing the kind of thing you or I or anyone sane might do to smooth out the rough spots in our belief
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
If you keep firmly in mind that he's a complete crank, his iconoclasm can be quite entertaining in short intervals (maybe one article a year.)
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
Redefining the word "race" so it does not apply to the human varieties does not make the fact of human varieties go away, and so fails to make a counter-argument against racists. "Racism" exists, and saying "race do
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
Except that no one in ordinary discourse uses "race" in the way you are, which means "species" (the whole not-interbreeding thing is often taken as definitive of "species".) "Race" as it is commonly u
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
This was my analysis as well, although we both have the benefit of hindsight, and everything is obvious once you know the answer. But it looks to me like the following models are likely optimal: 1) App that solves a trivial problem, no vira
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
Cherry-pick. There are a lot of good ideas. I found some of the sorting of tasks really useful. There are people who can sort, and people who can't. Give me ten things and I'll find 10! different ways to classify them. Other peopl
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
> you need to go by what society judges as nice Why? You've been down-voted, probably because this assertion seems somewhere between weird and offensive to most people here, but I'm genuinely curious as to why you believe it. T
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
While he's answering that, can you explain why you like grapefruit (if you like grapefruit) or don't like grapefruit (if you don't like grapefruit)? Because I totally don't get it. :-) "Because I enjoy the sensation
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
This is a worthy initiative because academics really are shy about releasing crap code, and yet access to other people's code can be critical in understanding why their results differ from yours. It can save a lot of headache. But it&#
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
Likely a pre-emptive strike. You'd be amazed what people will find they love when given an opportunity to be against something. People are lazy and stupid, and opposition rarely gets called to account, so it's a magnet for the cow
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
> That's why it's important that it's a one-time donation, not a recurring additional paycheck It can only be a one-time donation if no one ever does this again, so that's basically saying, "it's important t
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
This one contains some solid insights, mostly about doing a better job of proving demand: https://medium.com/@michalbohanes/seven-lessons-i-learned-fr... But... There is no business idea I cannot kill using a sufficien
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
The problem with this view is that fear of failure is a strong demotivator for many people. Want to avoid failure? Never do anything interesting. It's a mistake to think that fear of failure is the only or even the best motivator, an
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
Your model of "randomness" is unrelated to the argument that is being made here. No one--absolutely no one--is saying anything to suggest that a random selection of people could win an NBA championship. They are saying that random
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
There's a lot of luck in everything. I've been involved in startups in remote sensing, computer-assisted surgery, medical imaging, and other areas, and while there were various reasons for the failures luck loomed large in all of
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
There is a somewhat dated but still useful book by Stephen Flowers called "Software Failure: Management Failure" that does a nice job of post-mortems for failed large-scale development projects you might find interesting.
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Flip a coin enough times and you'll get a run of all heads that is arbitrarily long. Doesn't change the fact that nothing but randomness is at work. Musk works hard, no doubt. But that is a necessary, not a sufficent, condition fo
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
Trello is a meaningless name. It evokes nothing. It sounds like a portmanteau of "trellis" and "mellow". Even though I've read about the product, or service, or whatever it is, I have no idea what it does because th
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
More importantly, there are a bunch of scenarios where the wing needs to swing that don't involve the pre-conditions you've specified. No one knows what they are, but we know they exist--because they always do--and the last thing
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
The responses here show a depressing ignorance of the Soviet era, which was a time of massive industrialization using a system of forced labour. Western apologists for Stalinism continued to tout the "success" of this project righ
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"Global Crisis" ( http://www.amazon.com/Global-Crisis-Climate-Catastrophe-Seve... ) is a good history of the world-wide climate-driven castastrophe that occurred in the 1600's, which may have killed as much as
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I've recently been reading Norman Cantor's really excellent history of the Middle Ages and thinking that we are seriously missing a science that studies forms of human collective organization, which have varied enormously over tim
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Mathematicians use the universe to think about math; physicists use math to think about the universe. Most physicists don't "understand math" in a way that a mathematician would recognize, but rather use math as a natural lan

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