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by graycat 9mo ago
I have it on good authority and a lot of data that over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for recently having (i) breathed air containing oxygen, (ii) drank tap water (iii) were wearing shoes, (iv) had used those shoe
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by graycat 9mo ago
As I read the post by MrAlex94, I noticed a remark that the browser Chrome is good as a user agent. To me, that's terrific! Looks like I'll have to consider Chrome again.` Here are what I find as reasons to scream about Mozilla:
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by graycat 10mo ago
> Not enough time for evolution to respond And we have to guess that evolution didn't "respond". Sooooo, we have some lack of fit , evolved over 10s of thousands of years for life as it was then and for the last ~5000 yea
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by graycat 10mo ago
In a Markov stochastic process, the past and the future are conditionally independent given the present.
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by graycat 10mo ago
Glanced at the exercises. It appears that two of them have numbers arranged in a triangle and ask for a longest path. Hmm. Given such a triangle, let m be the largest number in the triangle. For each x in the triangle, replace it with m
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by graycat 11mo ago
A one word explanation from the T.J. Watson Research lab in Yorktown Heights: "Luster".
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by graycat 11mo ago
One reason for appearing smart is to be terrified of something and work every waking moment to defend against the "something". So such a person can be desperately unhappy, and at some random setback give up everything.
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by graycat 11mo ago
As I was being interviewed by an IBM branch manager in Chicago (my wife had started grad school at the University of Chicago), it was explained to me: "Some people think that IBM is a technology company or a computer company. It'
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by graycat 11mo ago
Such a cube , i.e., a set, is closed , right? Sooo, there exists a function on the space that is 0 on the cube, strictly positive otherwise, and infinitely differentiable.
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by graycat 11mo ago
For garbage collection and the idea of assigning storage requests to different categories of (dynamic) storage .... Apparently part of the algorithm is based on the size of the storage being requested. Hmm. So, we have historical data of
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by graycat 11mo ago
> ridiculously tiny and fragile my little life Naw!!! We are rare, so rare that we might be unique in our solar system, galaxy! We don't look little and instead the reason for the whole show! "Where is everybody?" -- ea
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by graycat 11mo ago
> Good research is just a vehicle for producing knowledge and talent. Yup, it was surprise seeing that once have a good STEM field Ph.D., written a lot of STEM and (early) AI software, and have published some peer-reviewed papers, are th
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by graycat 11mo ago
It can appear that some famous companies pursue pure research as a source of public luster .
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by graycat 11mo ago
> random delay A Poison process. Just specify the expected value. E.g., if the expected value is 5 seconds and have gone some hours without an event, then the expected time is still 5 seconds. E.g., like the time to some radio active d
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by graycat 1y ago
Likely are also making a probabilistic independence assumption.
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by graycat 1y ago
> I don't understand how you could have trouble finding the volume down button. Read again: It was Apple Online Help that didn't know where the Volume Down button was. I wasn't asking them; in a 'chat' session a
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by graycat 1y ago
Got an iPhone 16 Plus: Apparently somehow needed to have an "Apple account." Don't want one -- don't want to be subservient, subordinate to, dependent on Apple or hurt my privacy -- but relented and applied -- refused!
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by graycat 1y ago
Bell Labs was part of AT&T which had in effect a government approved monopoly -- nearly all of the US telephone system, so was awash in earnings for transistors, lasers, information theory, the Fast Fourier Transform, etc. Xerox PARC
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by graycat 1y ago
A guess: Smart VCs know that they are not smart enough to evaluate a business from a plan or a founder' background and instead wait for the revenue growing explosively.
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by graycat 1y ago
Some good Bach: Rostropovich Prelude from Bach Cello Suite No.1 BWV 1007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml14kGHCBg0 Also Maurice Gendron as at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDPdCJ7nVss&list=PLuc6tv6pj
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by graycat 1y ago
Some Rostropovich, second movement of the Dvorak Cello Concerto, as at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyAMvctMEbI
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by graycat 1y ago
That's not "everything"! Just wasted ~3 hours trying to set up an account, supervised by me, for my 8 year old daughter. (1) There are some old rules for a user interface. (2) Billions of people know these rules, implicitly,
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by graycat 1y ago
Basic rule in technical writing: For obscure terminology, always define and explain that (e.g., maybe with a reference) before using it.
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by graycat 1y ago
For the author, some definitions: GC? -- Maybe "Garbage Collection", i.e., have some memory (mainly computer main memory ) allocated, don't need it (just now or forever), and want to release it, i.e., no longer have it al
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by graycat 1y ago
Supply and Demand: (1) Big issue, barriers to entry: In the US, for plumbers, electricians, lawn maintainers, ..., they get little competition, i.e., no supply from more than, say, 100 miles away and, thus, none from Asia or Europe. E.g.,
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by graycat 1y ago
From the comments here, now super tough to get a job. Much different when I started, and can draw a lesson: Started my career as a "physicist" at the NIST in research on the "Lamb dip" in the wavelengths of He-Ne lasers
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by graycat 1y ago
Have the black hole primal and then "naked" due to the early, rapid expansion?
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by graycat 1y ago
Apparently a lot of money is flowing into AI. Looking around, can find curious things current AI can't do but likely can find important things it can do. Uh, there's "a lot of money", can't be sure AI won't m
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by graycat 1y ago
Spent a lot of time in education, K through Ph.D and as a college professor. Net, it seemed that the keys to good or better quality K-12 public school education was simply the parents, their quality that also showed in careers, income, s
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by graycat 1y ago
I heard from somewhere that Herstein was an Emil Artin student at Princeton. Herstein went to the extra trouble to make his linear algebra also work for finite fields. In the back he has group representation theory is a small nutshell. Also

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