Merrill

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by Merrill 4mo ago
By being deported, Qian Xuesen was thrust into an environment where he was able to succeed. Had he been allowed to stay in the US, he may have had a brilliant career as a scientist, but it is very unlikely that he would have ever been given
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by Merrill 7mo ago
Now that the California refineries are shutting down, where does LA get asphalt to do the paving? Has the price gone up due to having to import it from the Gulf Coast?
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by Merrill 7mo ago
There are lots of sensors in a data center monitoring everything from CPU/GPU temperatures to drive health to data volumes to chiller operation to voltage and frequency on the input power. Once these are pulled together and fed into an
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by Merrill 7mo ago
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service New York NY 344 PM EST Fri Feb 20 2026 Issued by NWS Upton, NY https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=O... Confidence has increased enough to warrant
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by Merrill 7mo ago
Consciousness is an emergent phenomenon from the ability to fantasize - to think about things that don't exist. In particular, it is fantasy about the "self". AI is getting close.
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by Merrill 7mo ago
It doesn't appear to be equivalent. If one site in a stretched cluster becomes suddenly available, the same batch processing application would not be running on the alternative site. The application would have to be restarted after the
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by Merrill 7mo ago
Are there ARM or Intel servers capable of the reliability and availability of the Z-Series in Parallel Sysplex operation where processing can continue uninterrupted even if one of a pair of data centers becomes unavailable? If a change of p
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by Merrill 7mo ago
Which language would you convert the COBOL to that has a compiler that compiles to the Z-series' fixed and floating decimal type machine instructions for financial calculations?
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by Merrill 8mo ago
Historically, 5 to 10% of the population have been the nobility, upper ranks of the clergy, and military officers and their families. Most of the rest has been the peasantry and landless workers with a small middle class of artisans and min
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by Merrill 8mo ago
Very interesting that it did so well. Although it did leave out the point that reading and interpreting documents could also be done by an expert in the first paragraph as well as the idea that not just words but language are used in techni
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by Merrill 8mo ago
With good speech to text and text to speech technologies the skills of writing and reading may become unnecessary for the bulk of the population. If the average person needs to create a critical document like a contract or a will, or to und
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by Merrill 8mo ago
Starch is the preferred carbohydrate, since digestion depolymerizes it to pure glucose which can be used directly by cells. Cane sugar, a disaccharide, is split by digestion into its constituent glucose and fructose molecules, and the latte
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by Merrill 9mo ago
Rather than trying to draw policy conclusions from an epidemiological study like this, wouldn't it be more accurate to give drivers measured amounts of THC, put them in a driving simulator, and measure their performance?
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by Merrill 10mo ago
The internet took every Cliff Clavin out of his neighborhood bar and gave him a global platform. Society wasn't ready for what had been private discussions to become public.
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by Merrill 10mo ago
At the time PC's came to market, High Fidelity music systems still were built from components such as preamps, amplifiers, turntables, FM tuners, tape decks, CD players, and speakers. A PC was similarly a collection of base unit, monit
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by Merrill 1y ago
There is evidence that the ranking of students in order of who should get the best entry-level jobs is done mainly by the college admissions process which bins students into more or less selective colleges.
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by Merrill 1y ago
An old, unopened bottle of wine is like Schrödinger's cat - it may be alive; it may be dead.
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by Merrill 1y ago
1870 sees the Franco-Prussian War, the unification of Germany, the unification of Italy, and the reorganization of continental politics. The US is in dynamic industrial and Western expansion following the Civil War. Britain is in the Long D
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by Merrill 1y ago
The Sud Aviation Caravelle first flew in 1955 and entered revenue service in 1959. It was a small airliner with two engines in the rear. Although the Caravelle was retired in 2005, the twin rear engine layout was used by the very successful
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by Merrill 1y ago
A favorite book on the period is "Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914" by Frederic Morton. Freud's city was one of the centers of Europe's neuroses. It was also a center of political ferment under the lid weighte
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by Merrill 1y ago
A relative worked at home doing medical transcription. It was not unheard of for physicians to make up non-existent body parts, non-existent drugs, etc. Part of her job was to correct their terminology. She has since been replaced by cheape
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by Merrill 1y ago
Why wouldn't any reasonably good AI be able to replicate large portions of the US Army TM 31-210 "Improvised Munitions Handbook"?
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by Merrill 1y ago
MPEG's patent policy was not its own. The Moving Picture Experts Group was Working Group 11 of Sub Committee 2 of ISO-IEC Joint Technical Committee 1. Other Working Groups in SC2 were the Joint Photographic Experts Group, the Joint Bi-
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by Merrill 1y ago
Due to chromosome crossover, you do not inherit genes individually from ancestors, but instead you inherit segments of chromosomes containing many genes. However, the randomness is great enough that first cousins do share approximately 1&#x
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by Merrill 1y ago
Migration and reassortment events in the US would include depopulation of Appalachian coal fields, the migration of farm kids from rural counties as farm size increased, and core city to suburban movement in rust belt cities as manufacturin
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by Merrill 1y ago
There is also antenna gain in decibels.
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by Merrill 1y ago
A good configuration is a pair of mainframes running parallel sysplex in two data centers on separate power and communications grids, with another pair more than 200 miles away for disaster recovery, and maybe a 5th in a single data center
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by Merrill 1y ago
Wouldn't it be better to arrange the network and software to run the GPUs continuously at optimal usage? Otherwise a lot of expensive GPU capital is idle between bursts of computation. Didn't DeepSeek do something like this to ge
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by Merrill 1y ago
How would use of the Kylin OS instead of Windows 11 affect the user's perception of performance?
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by Merrill 2y ago
"Building new lamps" is why the engineers and technicians developing new scientific instruments and experimental processes deserve more credit than they get.

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