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by yaks_hairbrush 11y ago
Don't know about disability. I would answer "yes" to your second paragraph, excepting possibly residents of Hawaii. Regarding your third paragraph, we (society) already do tell a segment of the population "tough, you get
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by yaks_hairbrush 11y ago
Look at the 2-body gravitational system -- let's say Earth-Moon. Let's put our non-rotating reference frame at the barycenter. At any given moment, Earth has a definite position and velocity, and the Moon has a definite position
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by yaks_hairbrush 11y ago
What is the point you're arguing against? I know perfectly well that conservation of angular momentum is a thing. I know perfectly well that the intrinsic property that we call 'spin' of an electron is really angular moment
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by yaks_hairbrush 11y ago
The angular momentum of a spinning bucket of water has approximately nothing to do with the intrinsic angular momentum of the particles, though. Statistically, we'd expect all of the intrinsic spins of the electrons and quarks to canc
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by yaks_hairbrush 11y ago
And this suggests a path for lowering the magic number. We can lower the number of bits needed by noting that the required outputs for 8 through 14 (mod 15) are the same as the outputs for 1 through 7 (mod 15), only reversed.
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by yaks_hairbrush 11y ago
The interesting thing here is that he used only algebra. This model therefore occupies a sort of sweet spot, insofar as adding to the accuracy of the model requires machinery a level above what was used to get this model. To wit: If you wa
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by yaks_hairbrush 11y ago
Note the date: 2013. This isn't a response to the blog post at all. Seems to have been part of the initial conversation or shortly after.
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by yaks_hairbrush 11y ago
Think of it like this: Someone in Sacramento can get to Milwaukee in 3 days (driving). Someone in Chicago can get to Milwaukee in 3 hours (or less). That's a 24x factor. When any old randomly chosen person Sacramento gets to Chicago
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by yaks_hairbrush 11y ago
My advisor at the time was 60-ish, and had tenure for 30 years or so. The gap in capability was (to my eye) mostly due to his experience.
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by yaks_hairbrush 11y ago
40x sounds pretty conservative to me. I did graduate school in math (did not get a Ph.D.) and my advisor indicated that he assigns problems assuming a 200x multiplier between his capability and the students'. That is, he'd assum
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by yaks_hairbrush 12y ago
Other parts of the country don't need an Ellis Act type framework. Most places, you can evict tenants when their lease is up.
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by yaks_hairbrush 12y ago
There's the Caesar & Pharaoh series which does something along those lines, albeit with ancient cities.
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by yaks_hairbrush 12y ago
I likewise find the "harmony with nature" idea to be laughable, but for a very different reason. If "nature" has any meaning at all, then we are part of it. Other animals are perfectly happy to change their situation t
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by yaks_hairbrush 12y ago
That's not a scary question. One could simultaneously believe that an employee's performance was coincidence, but still give that employee a bonus (why not reward luck, after all?).
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by yaks_hairbrush 12y ago
Fruit Loops sound like they wouldn't be too bad. Instead, the Kellogg's product is called Froot Loops. It's a bit fitting: a bastardization of the spelling which underscores the bastardization of nutrition going on with the
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by yaks_hairbrush 13y ago
Yes, you did. It may not have been stated explicitly, but it was implied in a couple places: 1. Binomial theorem. Its statement does not conventionally include any caveats about the x^0 case. 2. D(x^n) = n x^(n-1). When n = 1 and x = 0,
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by yaks_hairbrush 13y ago
A word from Knuth on the matter (warning: PDF): http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/9205211v1.pdf See page 6.
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by yaks_hairbrush 13y ago
There's this app... http://www.ortisoft.de/en/accessmenubarapps/ Essentially, "knock" the top of the screen twice with the mouse, and it'll switch to this application which has no menus. &quot
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by yaks_hairbrush 13y ago
Evolution requires selection pressure, whether natural or otherwise. And there's still selection pressure from so many sources. Partial list: Some people die before they reach breeding age, some people refuse to have children, some pe
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
No chance! MN and WI are so proactive about road maintenance that we get pretty good roads despite the extra hassles caused by cold weather. I've spent a bit of time in Los Angeles and Hawaii, and those roads are easily in worse condition
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
Absolutely, yes! I was and still am upset with PPACA because it reinforces the horrid employer-provided care model.
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
> The world is run by extraverts. Sure is. Collaboration is the trait that made humanity advance to where we are today. And things are better today than they have ever been in the past for introverts: much more collaboration is done r
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
Another way to look at it is that the important quantity is not temperature, but its reciprocal. Absolute zero becomes infinity under this transformation, hence unattainable. Heat energy will flow from lower 1/T to higher 1/T, and more he
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
Presuming you're just letting gravity do its work and not, say, firing engines to resist... You'd be in free fall, and that's a perfectly nice reference frame. Within that frame, your gravitational sensors would observe certain doom in eve
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
No. Inside the event horizon, all paths lead to the singularity. If you had gravitational sensors on your spacecraft, they would show the singularity all around you.
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
> Why is it necessarily the case that "stars would compress into this material rather than into black holes"? There's a good argument to be made that this isn't necessarily the case. I was thinking that all particles are interchangeabl
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
Inside an event horizon, orbiting implies traveling faster than c from your reference frame. No can do. (Note: this applies to an electrically neutral non-rotating black hole.)
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
> Not all your brain would be the same distance from the singularity. True, but you are not standing still. You are moving. Accelerating, in fact. No messages need to be sent away from the event horizon for the brain to work.
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
> Complete ignorant question: there is always the discussion of "falling" in to a black hole, but could it be possible to "hang" something from outside the event horizont?(given an infinitely strong and quite long wire). It's a good que
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by yaks_hairbrush 14y ago
I think (note: I am not a cutting-edge theoretical physicist) that the brain would work fine against both of these effects. First, I'm not sure it's possible for the brain to be half-way across an event horizon. When an in-falling object n

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