kwekly

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by kwekly 9y ago
I work in the control room for an electrical generation system an this isn't the case at all for us. Each desk has 12 ~30 inch monitors, and each monitor has a similar degree of information density, from monitors of system frequency, v
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by kwekly 10y ago
"I live in rural France with narrow roads and it's incredibly stressful to be driving with nearly no margin of error preventing a head on collision." This is the crux -- I think the author is in fact saying that roads are saf
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by kwekly 10y ago
What you're describing sounds a lot like a statistically trained system. "until we understand how that information is encoded in our own minds, getting a machine to truly understand it the same way will be elusive." Here&#x27
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by kwekly 10y ago
Pure speculation, but I think heat dissipation is probably the more important bottleneck of spaceship design -- no convective cooling, so you potentially want more surface area to increase radiation. I think aerodynamics (both lift to weigh
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by kwekly 10y ago
Very cool -- what about sliders to feed parameters for new ship generation :)
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by kwekly 10y ago
You're probably at a good point to appreciate the following: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
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by kwekly 14y ago
You're reinforcing this point by with even "stronger opinions" but you're avoiding the fundamental issue: "There's a difference between a person having an unconventional idea, e.g. for a business, and an unconventional theory, which they cl
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by kwekly 14y ago
I can't tell if you're kidding or not... Is your question, do writers and mathematicians also speak of elegance and aesthetic in their work? Do writers engage and practice free writing and side-projects to hone their skills, beside whatever
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by kwekly 14y ago
There's one more aspect at play here too: If you're brash and "break things" and overall the situation turn out for the worst, if you're a kid, people will tutt and mutter and aww shucks who should have been supervising those rough edges on
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by kwekly 14y ago
The intuitive cynic in me sees a combination of 1b and 2 explaining this: 1b: Many people barely know the name of, let alone trust their neighbours these days. They are turning to the neighbour out of necessity, rather than old-fashioned go
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by kwekly 14y ago
If you read to the end of the article, you come across an an interesting comment that might be of relevance here: "If you think Phillip Roth, one of the greatest living writers, wrote this 2,648 word piece to get a remark on Wikipedia chang
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by kwekly 14y ago
And at this risk of stating the obvious: the Michelin guide then went on to evolve a culture and impact well beyond it's intended use...
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by kwekly 14y ago
I deal a bit with arty types, and they tend to pride themselves on being able to identify products, along with designers and quoting how many hundred $'s something "costs" I think it's a bit like nerds and bragging rights in being able to p
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by kwekly 14y ago
The analogous concept here is the product of sampling rate and bit-depth , the number of bits per sample i.e the precision of the recording
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by kwekly 14y ago
Neil Stephenson addresses this in his book, Anathem. He states it's a fact "well known" within the military etc. that a certain percentage of folks respond very well to training for high risk, high intensity, high pressure situations (i.e f
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by kwekly 14y ago
Quoth the author: "I've been an advisor to the company for years, and you'd be hard pressed to find a more hard-working, dedicated founding team that has endured every roadblock and frustration a startup can experience. They recently decide
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by kwekly 14y ago
Files are sorted into filing cabinets or boxes, which are stored on shelves, in different rooms etc.
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by kwekly 14y ago
There's more at stake than that -- malice or not, a simple, tidy diagram can bypass a human's critical faculties and increase the feeling that the false data (and whatever it's conclusion) are more true. For a statistical research organis
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by kwekly 14y ago
That is incredible -- I'm pretty sure a professional statistical research organisation appreciates power of manipulation of humans through visual effect. If they pull the line that it was a mistake on the artistic front to get the text to f
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by kwekly 14y ago
Because Science, man. You don't do things in science because they are practical (you just write that on the grant applications), in fact you do many things largely because they are impractical. It's about wonder and lust for knowledge and a
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by kwekly 14y ago
Yet you're just feeding the same beast you claim to dislike. Yes, the post has a bait title, but it's not entirely irrelevant and -- more importantly -- the article has real substance. It's structured lazily as a list but the overall point
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by kwekly 14y ago
I can appreciate why it took a while for the thought to die off that "brandy drinking women" were prone to spontaneous combustion.
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by kwekly 14y ago
That's a bit dishonest -- the scepticism is direct at the results, not the process itself. I routinely distrust the gushing claims by paid TV advertising actors about how the Magic Bullet changed their entire life. That hardly implies I thi
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by kwekly 14y ago
This article has been cobbled together from a few threads here and there taken from Kahneman's own recent book popularising his research (Fast and Slow Thinking, 2011). The book explores several interesting ideas, but I think I can safely s
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by kwekly 14y ago
This is already built into the requirement: 3 to 7 years. After three years he/she is open to apply for what might take others 7.
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by kwekly 15y ago
"Back to Econ 101. What happens when you double the price of something? Demand for it decreases." Pretty sure what he's describing is sliding the supply curve straight up, which has exactly the opposite effect.