cop359

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by cop359 14y ago
Also, unlike 90% of starups; he actually has a business model.
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by cop359 14y ago
This is exactly why patents exist. It's to stop predatory crap like that. You should use them and protect your corner of the market. VC will think twice about investing in copy-cat startups that are on legally shaky ground.
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by cop359 14y ago
The "Old" refers to the medium of distribution. I have no idea what "Fast Company" is, but according to wikipedia it's a printed magazine.
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by cop359 14y ago
There was a while in college I was like that. It's like you confuse your circadian rhythm enough that it stops bothering you. It was super convenient, but once you sleep the several days in the row it starts breaking down. You just need to
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by cop359 14y ago
Does anyone know how they communicate with the sub? My understanding is that radio waves can't penetrate water very far (if at all) and that it's impractical to drag a long cable down.
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by cop359 14y ago
Strang's hand-wavy teaching style in my opinion kinda falls apart towards the later part of the course. I feel like the whole second half is kinda half baked. I didn't come away really having a good intuitive understanding of what the SVD w
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by cop359 14y ago
I dunno. That book is really dense and terse. It's a good reference book, but not something you'd read cover to cover.
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by cop359 14y ago
Seems like a silly paradox. Why is it important? Also it seems very similar to this famous paradox: (from 600BC btw.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides_paradox
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by cop359 15y ago
So this is a StumbleUpon for Reddit?
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by cop359 15y ago
You're absolutely on track here The way he did it is nice and minimal, and in 2 months when you go back to change something you will have no idea what you did. I've had to do a few things in R and I always dread revisiting my code. Half the
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by cop359 15y ago
Out of curiosity, does anyone have any info on if Dropbox is profitable? I personally don't know anyone who actually pays for more space. Most people that use it are not tech savy and I don't think would take the leap to start paying monthl
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by cop359 15y ago
Can anyone make an estimate on how much that would cost?
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by cop359 15y ago
Naturally because it's on "simplecv.tumblr.com" this is pretty biased. But some glaring omissions 1) You can compile Matlab to C++ code which is much faster. 2) With respect to Portability there is the glaring omission of Octave (nor to men
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by cop359 15y ago
In total it might be a lot, but it can't be indepth. for example "Error and Noise" is something you can spend a whole year studying. What are you really going to cover in one lecture? You'll just touch on a few things that might be useful a
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by cop359 15y ago
The course seems all over the place. You learn very little about a lot of things... The topics don't really seem to build on each other. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
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by cop359 15y ago
Forget about superconductivity. How about flywheels?
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by cop359 15y ago
The data on that graph looks bogus to me. I doubt they'd be able to assess per capita GDP year to year so accurately for the years before 1900. Take for example the Taiping Rebellion which was from 1850 to 1864. Described by wikipedia: "Abo
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by cop359 15y ago
so without very high power sounds and the nonlinearity business the whole "Sound from Ultrasound" wouldn't work? Huh, I guess all this time I misunderstood it. for those curious http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_from_ultrasound
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by cop359 15y ago
I don't really know much about this, but wouldn't the 22kHz sounds potentially create beats in the lower frequencies?
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by cop359 15y ago
As someone who actually has bro friends the author has no idea what he's talking about. He's completely misrepresenting bros and is regurgitating stereotypes. First he gets all pissy about stereotyping nerds as having pocket-protectors and
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by cop359 15y ago
I think you've got it backwards. There is definitely a degree of pride associated with being nerdy and non-social to the exclusion of "brogrammers". Try getting a technical job as with a popped collar. Even if you are technically very profi
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by cop359 15y ago
Aren't you forgetting diffraction?
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by cop359 15y ago
"The larger the corporation (by total employee count) the less nimble they become." That's because of antiquated management structures. Look at Gore and Associates (makers of Goretex) for a modern corporate structure. Elements of a corporat
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by cop359 15y ago
"I had a "gift" of being really creative and having my best ideas just before sleep, just waking up, and during insomnia episodes." This is called Hypnogogia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnogogia The only way I can definitely replicate
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by cop359 15y ago
Soon they'll be paying us for our DNA! (for targeted advertisement etc.)
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by cop359 15y ago
Physics education is extremely baroque. There is a set way of teaching which has been done for the past 50 years and nothing is going to change it unfortunately. Everyone learns from the same exact textbooks. My professors were using the sa
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by cop359 15y ago
I think there is a bit of cultural relativism going on here. As someone who goes to UCSB, that's simply the culture here. We have a lot of very smart "bro"s and while it might offend you, that's just the way we roll. It's about being chill.
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by cop359 15y ago
I think the "stream of particles" method is the easier, most visually appealing, way of showing the direction the people are moving.
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by cop359 15y ago
The first sentence is related to policies of the device maker and the second is to M$'s policies
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by cop359 15y ago
If no money is changing hands; who's gonna edit, typeset and print them? Who is gonna manage mail, comments from readers and so on? Pimple-faced volunteering undergrads? I think desire to have everything free is a fantasy of the open source

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