vortmeester

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by vortmeester 13y ago
All of your points are sound. But notice what's not on your list: generating new ideas, the ostensible goal of many brainstorming sessions. From what I've read elsewhere, the "alternative suggestion" that you asked for i
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by vortmeester 13y ago
As best anyone knows, quantum mechanical effects (like radioactive decay) really are purely and objectively random -- i.e., it is not the case that they appear random because of our ignorance of some deterministic processes. The not-actuall
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by vortmeester 13y ago
As an experimental physicist, I want to point out that negative results do get published -- for example, much of the experimental work on gravity amounts to the showing of no measurable difference from theoretical expectation, to a high deg
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by vortmeester 13y ago
It's true that increasing trail and rake both increase stability. But curiously, a bicycle can be made stable with both negative rake and negative trail. An interesting take on this, with both mathematical modeling and real prototypes,
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by vortmeester 13y ago
They are getting 12 kbit/s right now, and claim they could get Mbit/s to Gbit/s using very fast light modulators (which themselves are research-lab projects, to my knowledge).[1] The phrase "ultra-fast" laser is a t
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by vortmeester 13y ago
An interesting idea, but I think this argument leaves out an important fact: money in the present is more useful than money in the future. This is often captured in accounting by use of a "discount rate". A pretty conventional number is 10%
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by vortmeester 13y ago
You could rephrase the weak version to make it undeniable (if banal): the whole point of language is to influence the way others think! If I want to create thoughts in your brain, language is a pretty effective means. (I got this from Steph