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by wbhart 7y ago
Release after a certain number of years is one possible way forward. The problem I see with that though is you want as much excitement as possible about your number one hit in the first few years. Covers, adaptions, arrangements, performanc
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by wbhart 7y ago
I don't think this is going to put a dent in cases of existing copyright holders making claims against people coming up with similar sounding works. Firstly, there's an enormous corpus of music out there that precedes this effort,
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by wbhart 7y ago
Right, but that isn't the argument that was being used here, which is my point. The way I read it, the contractor cared only enough to get the design over the line so the customer would sign off on it. Their argument was that you shoul
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by wbhart 7y ago
Missiles don't always hit their intended target. They can go off course, potentially be hacked, fall into the wrong hands, be sold to mass murderers, fail to explode, accidentally fall out of planes (even nuclear bombs have historicall
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by wbhart 7y ago
For those unaware of it, here is a "map" of mathematics that mathematicians use, called the Mathematics Subject Classification: https://cran.r-project.org/web/classifications/MSC-2010.html It is arguably
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by wbhart 7y ago
The main problem has not been the language it was written in. It's hard going mathematically as well (for average graduate students at least). A few people have started translation projects, but gave up after realising that by the time
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by wbhart 7y ago
How common is it for a physics theory to be able to compute so many quantities without fudge factors to make it all work out? I'm not a physicist, so I'm currently imagining this could be quite significant. Is that how physicists
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by wbhart 7y ago
y^2 = 1 because it is the sum of the dot product (1) and the outer product (0). The latter is because the parallelogram between y and y has zero area. The former is just the length of the vector y. Some memorisation is required, but it is i
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by wbhart 7y ago
It means the things in the basis, x^y, y^z and x^z have an easy to understand interpretation in ordinary 3D space, namely the parallelogram between x and y (in the case of x^y), for example. It's also easy (after reading the article) t
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by wbhart 7y ago
I have an inner monologue, but I wouldn't say I was like "hearing" anything. For me it feels a bit more like the muscle movements in my larynx are played out as though I was going to speak the words. I can imagine a voice spe
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by wbhart 7y ago
Is the real barrier to CPU production open source of the logic design or is it in research into chip production, node design, including hundreds or potentially thousands of process steps, maximising yields, segmentation of the market and ot
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by wbhart 7y ago
They can do that with people who will be teaching, since that is bringing funding in for the university. But they don't do it for Research Assistants, because once the funding for the project the Research Assistant is paid from (usuall
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by wbhart 7y ago
From the perspective of an outsider, I can't see how a company like this could survive. They claim on the one hand to have done something really amazing and are at the stage where they are looking for customers. Normally, you'd ex
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by wbhart 7y ago
I don't think a social network based on subscription will work. Although I could afford it, only a tiny proportion of my Facebook friends could afford an expense like that. The endless unresearched opinion on Facebook drives me mad. Bu
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by wbhart 7y ago
The Zilog z80000 wasn't introduced until 1986, but was pipelined and was in some respects about 6 years ahead of Intel. Apparently they are still used today in embedded application, though there was one moderately successful machine ba
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by wbhart 7y ago
There's only of the order of a billion values to check. It's known to be true for all those values.
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by wbhart 7y ago
When I did analysis at university, I read Rudin instead of the recommended text. When the exam came around, I tried to generalise all the problems on the exam and gave answers which did not impress the person marking it, as they looked noth
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by wbhart 7y ago
It's extremely difficult to write a mathematics textbook in the intuitive style. There are some reasons for this. Firstly, much of mathematics is symbolic and any description of equations in an intuitive style is unnecessarily verbose
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by wbhart 7y ago
I'm no Intel fanboy, but I think it is too early to speak of Intel's demise. They are still making a lot of money. I mean, AMD only has single digit penetration into the datacentre market, for example, and Intel is still compellin
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by wbhart 7y ago
They missed the remaining portion of the manifesto: * Websites making controversial claims should state clearly the claim in the first paragraph * Controversial claims should be backed up by at least a summary of a well reasoned argument wi
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by wbhart 7y ago
Thanks but that's not what I asked. I asked what is the difference in delta-v between getting from the surface of the earth to GEO vs getting from the surface of the earth to Lunar orbit. The answer is, there is almost no difference.
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by wbhart 7y ago
Does someone know what the difference in deltav would be to get to geostationary orbit from earth vs getting to lunar orbit from earth? A citation would be helpful. I've tried looking this up, but from previous comments on this paper,
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by wbhart 7y ago
Unfortunately it could not have been hovering though. The velocity was almost certainly too high for the spacecraft to handle.
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by wbhart 7y ago
Can you point to the specific section of the paper where this is calculated. I admittedly only skim read, but I did go through the whole thing, and I'm convinced I missed this kind of analysis somewhere.
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by wbhart 7y ago
A pointer to where they compute this in the paper would be helpful. There are a lot of comments to just read the paper because they calculate this or that, but I quickly read the thing through and either missed all these points being covere
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by wbhart 7y ago
I meant to compare getting to GEO (as proposed in the paper) as opposed to Lunar orbit. Of course the way I worded this is a bit lose, and it's not completely free, but according to the figure in that Wikipedia article, the difference
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by wbhart 7y ago
So they found a material which won't degrade in 24 hours due to radiation from the sun, or a way to shield it? And what about the mismatch between the rotation of the moon around the earth and geostationary orbit? And they figured out
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by wbhart 7y ago
I don't agree. The brain does not create structures in up to 11 dimensions, full stop. This is a popular science article. To use that word from standard vocabulary to describe something that just happens to use the same word as some ut
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by wbhart 7y ago
Right. In other words, it has nothing to do with the human brain creating structures in 11 dimensions. It's a total misreading of the science. This particular claim has been making the rounds for quite some time. It's total rubbis
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by wbhart 7y ago
I am not convinced by this. Amazon does not at any point convey a copy of the written work to the customer. At no point does such a copy exist, nor can it conceivably be constructed from the technology Amazon are supplying to their customer

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