joelberman

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by joelberman 4y ago
Which ones do you object to? What would you prefer?
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by joelberman 4y ago
It is much easier to calculate eclipses using a lunar calendar. All lunar eclipses happen during a full moon and all solar eclipses during a new moon.
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by joelberman 4y ago
Last month I paid $1 for route53, 12 cents for S3. and am hosting my https site which I create with publii. Works fine. Took a little time to set up, but now it is just a button push to update the site. Great for my personal blog and ph
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by joelberman 4y ago
I was one of the first sailors to go through DS A school at Mare Island. Previously the DS went through ET school first. We learned the purpose of every gate in the UDT a 15-bit computer with 512 words of memory before stepping up to the
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Sweden avoids Corona economic ruin(nationalreview.com)
4 points by joelberman 6y ago|1 comments
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All Covid countries show rapid declines by day 25
3 points by joelberman 6y ago|2 comments
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by joelberman 7y ago
I can go online and get all of my test results including graphs that show change. X-ray reports. The only thing not online is surgical notes, but I easier got copies of them. This is from the UCLA healthcare system. Also Quest labs has
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by joelberman 7y ago
I love the internet. I posted this question 20 years ago. Got an answer right away. And even more interesting answers today. Thanks! https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!searchin/alt.math.re...
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by joelberman 8y ago
DEC wanted to sell Alphaservers (and VMS). Altavista was a great demonstration of scale and speed and distributed computing (versus a giant mainframe). Crawling and indexing speed. Tons of open ip connections, security,etc were all selli
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by joelberman 8y ago
How do you install/run it from scratch?
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by joelberman 10y ago
Very nice project! Learning stuff makes me happy.
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by joelberman 10y ago
anything to speed up tensorflow and/or openCV either on the videocore or an inexpensive chip would be great.
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by joelberman 10y ago
If I buy or rent space for a billboard I am not allowed to put anything I wish on it. That is no different than putting a poster in a public-facing window. It gets more interesting when a website in one country is offensive to another cou
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by joelberman 10y ago
I don't care if you paid for it or not. I care if you learned anything.
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by joelberman 10y ago
Agree, but also some of your future co-workers. If you think you hit it off with one of the interviewers ask if you can call or meet for coffee. Having an asshole boss sucks, but if boss also hired a bunch of assholes it is even worse.
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by joelberman 11y ago
You have not yet met a really great salesperson. They will not let you marginalize them. Only the poor ones will. BTW, it is hard to have a business without customers. And whoever finds those customers is a salesperson.
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by joelberman 11y ago
I think if you are a programmer or have some programming language experience, R is not very weird. But if you are a financial analyst or a social scientist, or a statistician, and only want to get your work done; it depends on your first p
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by joelberman 11y ago
Do you think the government buys and sells stick to manipulate prices? Perhaps the 90M traders lack sophistication so trade mostly on rumor.
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by joelberman 11y ago
Just glucose monitoring for diabetics would make this a valuable patent. The last try at noninvasive glucose monitoring did not work out very well.
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by joelberman 11y ago
I think we should strive for more than to be better than most. I would rather be highly competent at something than good enough at many things. But I understand others may prefer the jack of all trades route.
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by joelberman 11y ago
The potential speedup on those old F2C routines is amazing. The ability to use much more memory, understand cache levels, etc. have a huge impact.
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by joelberman 11y ago
I download books from my library (Boston Public). They are DRM'd and only usable on my Kindle for a few weeks. But that is enough. The range of books available is good. ANd if it is a text or something I like, I can then buy it. If
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by joelberman 11y ago
As a Bostonian I hated the Yankees. But I loved Yogi.
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by joelberman 11y ago
These articles always remind me of William Gibson, who said "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet." I am sure this is in our the future.
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by joelberman 11y ago
IIRC you could push a button and it would automatically read a card into locations 1 through 80 and start executing at location 1. First instruction had to be a set word mark (, i thing) because instructions were variable length and needed
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by joelberman 11y ago
I am happy so far.
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by joelberman 11y ago
And then they thank you for reporting, tell you that they cannot handle individual complaints, and close the case. If they fixed the problem they could handle more difficult cases.
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by joelberman 11y ago
When I had cancer I just wanted it gone. Since it could be cut out, I went with that. Every time I caught a cold I worried that it had returned. I did not want to be on the wrong side of a statistical curve. That others survived would n
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by joelberman 11y ago
Another story. mid 50's, reasonably active and healthy, start to develop BHP (slow stream). Urologist does a PSA test even though I had one a few months before. Long story short, prostate cancer. Had robotic surgery, all good. 67, b
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by joelberman 11y ago
I am 68 and working as much as I want to. I had no trouble finding a job and am actually in demand. I guarantee this is not because I am a genius. I have hired many people over the years, many worked out well. I have also rejected many c

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