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by tobmlt 6y ago
I sympathize. I was buzz-worded half way to brain death by this at a prior job. Maybe we were in the business of building better business builders, I am still not sure.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Yeah they managed to find their way into circulation somehow. ;) Not sure what I really had to add with that whole bit up there. I suppose it’s that sometimes intermediary units are a fun part of the story! Anyway, very cool project.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Imagine you are G.I.Taylor and its the start of The Cold War. Life magazine has just published an amazing high speed photographic sequence of the detonation of an atom bomb. The nation is enthralled by these images, but you see a bit furt
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Yep! Or go for miniKanren if you want something like core.logic, but outside of clojure. Will Byrd has a lot of documentation out there. (Scheme focus of course.) I think the easiest way for a programmer with a vanilla background to “get
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Agreed. I’ve just gotten well into singularity sky, and the Eschaton and it’s fantastic computational powers reminds me of the minds of the culture. Although I guess I am holding out hope the Eschaton has a good sense of humor if it ever
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Oh yes, some (many?) employers do prefer those with more to loose. Immigration rules tie right into this as well (of course).
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I want to express sympathies in a particular way: When I had a job I didn’t want, in a city i didn’t want, no kids, no wife, and prospects abounding, it was easy to speak truth to power. I did it, and I was right technically, businesswise,
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Ian M. Banks novel “surface detail” comes to mind. Please note it is better than the tawdry wiki write up. Somehow, it gets similar points across — similar to this essay, but deeper in feeling. Let me also say the authors here have done r
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I love the linked twitter page detailing the ... details of floating configurations for icebergs. My old mentor used to talk about how hard it was for the solvers to find stable configurations for floating bodies/structures/rubbe
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Yes indeed. I guess I will use this comment to explore its objectionable properties. I think I can come up with a somewhat nuanced reason for objection (not saying this has any bearing on legality). Let me talk it through. Here goes: The
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by tobmlt 6y ago
This is a beautiful, dark humored, hilarious comment. Thanks for it!
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Hey thanks! That’s nice to hear for sure. Similarly I’ve given way to much to work as well. My problem is they hold the cards for the moment!
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Good idea. Maybe I’ll break out LOR - it will help me make up stories for my kid toddler too. Usually the only thing that helps is progress but we shall see!
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I am facing yet another day of utter sleep deprivation tomorrow... most of this is from work stress I think, and a good chunk of that is because Ive never in my life been able to force myself to really focus on something that wasn’t fun&#x
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I remember from my flying days that: “The addition of water vapor to air (making the air humid) reduces the density of the air, which may at first appear counter-intuitive. This occurs because the molar mass of water (18 g/mol) is less
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Judging by the comments I think there might be a good amount of interest in reading Gavin Bascom’s “On the Inside of a Marble” As for the actual question of spacetime, I like the author’s conclusion for the time being: “ But despite all the
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by tobmlt 6y ago
As a guy who built an interval arithmetic constraint programming system, based on minikanren, in python for his PhD, I agree, unification is pretty sweet!
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Oh man, Gradsteyn and Rhyzik! My masters was about modifying potential flow singularities (Singularities to cancel other singularities... eh hem, I was young) to model vortices shed from blunt surfaces - part of fast/cheap performance
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I want to say something about how messed up this system is... I spent many years as a grad student in economics and especially engineering. Not sure what to say though, my trajectory was pretty non-standard. From where I sat, the academi
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Because M. Navier and Sir Stokes called up their buddies Euler and Kolmogorov... to melt my machine’s brain, ...and my own.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Congrats! Me too, until recently.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Not late enough yet. I only code productively between the hours of 10 pm and 4 am. If the baby sleeps. Morning coding time is spent fighting with my inner manager about how to present last night’s work at standup. Afternoon coding time is
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I think local predictions are hard for any school to make accurately in economics, but broad swath stuff is doable. So, to have a decent shot at a good theory, you need to figure out what the most important drivers are in your situation of
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by tobmlt 6y ago
There is no need to throw out the baby with the bathwater here. Who cares about gold? Who cares about avoiding math? Not me. I guess I am no Austrian for those reasons. I do care, however, about restraining the inflationary tendencies o
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I appreciate your counter argument and am familiar with it. I disagree about the Great Depression and pretty much everything else you’ve said, but I mean no disrespect, only contend that there is a whole body of economic thought that agrees
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Yep. The fed is an engine, whose purpose is to move wealth silently from the masses to the powerful monied few, via time-asymmetric inflation. (Mostly Inflation of assets presently) The resulting data looks like corporations have used th
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by tobmlt 6y ago
This is pretty much my experience with linked, to the extent that I use it at least. I see my friends from my old job posting about wind turbine projects using our software. See my last big project get released into the wild. Give them a
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Thanks for the info, ha!
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Since I’ve bounced off the paywall, I can only say, I thought this was by “Sarah Connor” - probably not something that goes in a financial times, Unless it’s a play piece on post apocalyptic investment opportunities in “the new economy” eh
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Cheers, and spot on. I think a good deal of the hate Bitcoin gets is due to people not having much to go on when trying to think about currency generally. Without anything to stand on but the status quo, feelings seem to take over, and the

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