vadman

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by vadman 3y ago
> Most important for me is to write down why I made that note. My ears perked at this. Great advice!
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by vadman 3y ago
Plot twist: Rochko is a Ukrainian last name.
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by vadman 7y ago
This sounds like hell, and just proves again that wrong metrics are way worse than no metrics at all. You wrote "I had a manager" so I assume you took corrective action :)
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by vadman 8y ago
https://musiccog.ohio-state.edu/Music829C/hindsight.bias.htm... Not every "common sense" hypothesis turns out to be true, hence the seemingly useless studies.
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by vadman 9y ago
To carry the fallout onto South Korea, and the US militry stationed there? Brilliant!
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by vadman 9y ago
Or perhaps, the US has a vested interest in a divided and unstable Korea to have an excuse to maintain lots of military bases in the region, because China. And Russia.
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by vadman 9y ago
The Pyongyang wind rose indicates that a lot of the fallout will be carried N, NW, and W -- i.e. to the Chinese territory. I doubt they would welcome nuking so close to their borders. http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather&
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by vadman 9y ago
Why? The author didn't crap nor fawn all over the language. He highlighted what he thought were important quirks of the Haskell ecosystem/community/whatever, in a measured manner, while noting that if you invest time and ef
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by vadman 10y ago
I learned that violin plots exist, so your experiment was worth it to me :)
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by vadman 11y ago
Veale is one of the widely recommended authors: http://www.amazon.com/Stuart-R.-Veale/e/B001IOBOR0 specifically this book: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dst...
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by vadman 11y ago
But the within-audible-range-"beat" at the recorded "listening position" (where the microphones are located) would be recorded anyway, no?[1] So how does hi-res audio help in this case? [1] AFAIK most music is not record
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by vadman 11y ago
Good point, stupid of me not to think of it. So in most cases, the murderer escapes without even paying the "murder fee"? This is even worse...
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by vadman 11y ago
One thing baffles me. If parents knew (there is security camera footage) that their child was run over several times because some asshole made a RATIONAL choice; and then said parents hired a bunch of guys to disappear the asshole, suddenl
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by vadman 11y ago
Massacre from above minimized American losses.
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by vadman 11y ago
I brought up the topic of raise with one of my previous bosses, and he promised to check with the higher-ups. Some time later, he honestly told me: "The only way they would give you a raise is to prevent you from leaving. At that poin
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by vadman 11y ago
Research/creative work is difficult to automate, and it seems that only a smallish percentage of population excels at it. Small population -> falling behind in those areas, unless the Japanese somehow revolutionize their education
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by vadman 11y ago
The man just had a thing for annoying sci-fi authors :) Lem hated his "Solaris" as well.
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by vadman 11y ago
By "stories about vampires" GP probably means Lukyanenko's "* Watch" series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Lukyanenko#Series "Night Watch" the movie made some splashes even in t
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by vadman 12y ago
"The body doesn't care where it gets its chemicals from" Sometimes it does, or maybe the supplements are not formulated quite right. E.g. I saw this at LessWrong: "turns out that fish oil pills suck, and you’d need to t
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by vadman 12y ago
Your country was of enormous help to Hitler while attacking the USSR, and the retribution you had to "endure", given everything you did, was astonishingly mild. So spare me your complaints.
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by vadman 12y ago
Thank you for the sincere post. Best of luck with your surgery, hope everything turns out well.
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by vadman 12y ago
"The problem is, crowd funding requires a significant investment of time, which might be applied more productively to research." So they can't arrange for a capable student to take care of that as part of a work-study program
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by vadman 12y ago
Not to mention that sitting on things in back pockets is bad for you: http://www.osteochirocentre.co.uk/practice-news/company-news...
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by vadman 12y ago
I have doubts about the crown thingy -- turning a watch crown while the thing is on your wrist is quite uncomfortable. I understand it's a big crown, but still doesn't seem ergonomic to me.
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by vadman 12y ago
I wear an automatic watch. 1) I like being able to know time and date at a quick glance -- the ease of this is light years ahead of any smartphone. 2) It never runs out of juice since it doesn't have a battery. 3) It looks good (IMO).
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by vadman 12y ago
I actually went to college with Gayle - she was a TA* in one of my harder, more rigorous classes. I never got to know her personally, but I find it hard to believe that you can talk to her for an entire hour and not figure out that her kno
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by vadman 12y ago
Most candidates cannot take a day off and just work for somebody else -- employment contracts may prevent that.
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by vadman 12y ago
I did. One of the other 2 jobs turned out to be completely opposite of what the job offer advertised (consulting instead of R&D), so I lost interest. The other could have been interesting, but they took their time to get back to me an
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by vadman 12y ago
Heh, completely opposite experience with BoA for me. Incredibly disorganized interviewers (I was waiting for almost an hour between some interviews), the last 2 out of 5 gave me attitude too. No offer in the end. Bloomberg was the next pl
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by vadman 12y ago
I like Paterson, but I always appreciated Charles MacLean's more relaxed delivery -- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC6CEFB7B0C73A51D

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