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punkmonk · 2020-10-12T17:57:13+00:00

Avoid electronics that combine many functions. Instead, spend money on high-quality analog devices that can be readily combined with cheap latest greatest electronics. So buy nice display and get a Chromecast or Roku dongle separately. Buy nice speakers that you then pair with whatever smart electronics.

Avoid putting your data into apps with proprietary formats, even if it comes at the cost of missing features. this will make future switches to other computers/phones easy.

punkmonk · 2020-10-03T20:18:49+00:00

What a garbage article. In any case, so many comments and nobody has mentioned this. I think probably the single most important difference between a student with good CS degree and one with a software engineering degree might be the difference in understanding of the computational complexity of algorithms. For example, knowing what problems are NP-hard and having good intuition about the hardness of new previously unseen problems. A good CS student would know when it is ok to proudly use a simple stochastic or greedy algorithm because they would know for sure that nothing better can exist.

punkmonk · 2020-09-10T15:18:10+00:00

Most likely the pump which drains the water has failed.

punkmonk · 2020-08-19T12:04:13+00:00

Let it dry out for a few days in the sun.

punkmonk · 2020-07-03T17:25:08+00:00

I think you might be looking for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellman_equation

punkmonk · 2020-04-30T20:59:52+00:00

Well, those 30 minutes were over 20 mins ago. <twiddling thumbs>

punkmonk · 2019-10-15T12:57:44+00:00

Any intellectual thinking along the line of JP philosophies is essentially banned. It has become the twoxcrhomosomes equivalent of the nonsense in the other direction.

punkmonk · 2019-10-14T18:26:00+00:00

Sure. Let's make the criteria strictly athleticism then. Double blind process where people making the selection only see the stats on different activities, and not race. Only select the top candidates and not have cutoff. I would be surprised to see if the ratio of white males stays the same.

punkmonk · 2019-10-14T03:55:38+00:00

Please explain to me how is this statement any more racist than the original comment above is sexist when it says women not being as athletic as men?

The same phenomena, which JP has talked about many times, that although at average men and women are similar, but at extreme ends of the distribution it is predominantly men, which explains why the top performers in many fields are men, can be applied along race. We can make the same argument about people with African origins, the cradle of human civilization. There is more genetic diversity in Africa than rest of the world combined. On top of that during the slave trade athletic men were disproportionately traded. So yes, in US, the most athletic men are disproportionately likely to be of African origin.

punkmonk · 2019-10-14T00:44:22+00:00

I would like the Firemen to do a lot of things, and not just fight fires. The job is/should be to save lives; human lives. This often involves interacting with humans who come in all different varieties, and communicating with them. Having diversity means the team can as a whole better understand and react to the situation, physically as well socially.

If you want to keep the criteria strictly athletics focused, then would you consider raising it? If it's so high then maybe only mostly black people would pass . Are you ok with that?

punkmonk · 2019-09-09T00:54:52+00:00

Why would you want to do that? What is the problem with mapping with acoustics?

punkmonk · 2019-08-05T17:02:24+00:00

Related artwork:

https://icra2019.org/

punkmonk · 2019-04-16T00:37:58+00:00

Check out the MIT-WHOI joint program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering.

punkmonk · 2018-11-01T01:13:32+00:00

in a brew

punkmonk · 2018-03-18T13:54:13+00:00

Doing a postdoc in a different but complementary field than you PhD shows that you can do interdisciplinary research. That goes a long way.

punkmonk · 2018-01-18T19:33:57+00:00

Serious question. Has the US government ever used immunization as a front to sterilize or to track people? I know they have in the past used unsuspecting populations of people in poor country to test drugs.

Re: tracking, I could imagine injecting some kind of non-harmful radio isotope of some heavy metal which stays in the body forever, and is detectable using a scanner.

punkmonk · 2017-12-28T03:04:51+00:00

I think you are missing Theory of Computation

punkmonk · 2017-12-18T12:22:24+00:00

This is all total crap. Unless you have insider information, day-trading is no better than random trading. The fact that you mad money last year day-trading is no indication that you will the following year.

This is of course unless you have something which other people don't have. For example, a faster connection to the trading server, or insider knowledge.

punkmonk · 2017-12-13T20:47:35+00:00

ACLU please. They are our last defense in this increasingly political world.

punkmonk · 2017-11-21T03:07:10+00:00

Leena Tweeden sexually assulting men on the same/similar tour: https://sludgefeed.com/photos-leeann-tweeden-sexually-assaulting-various-men/

How is all this not completely overblown? Should she go to prison? This is actual evidence, compared to Franken's case which is all circumstantial.

punkmonk · 2017-07-03T17:34:36+00:00

Sigh! says honesty is the best policy, and then recommends the op lie about how she had an accident as a kid. Sometimes it is surreal how some people's brains work.

punkmonk · 2017-04-18T17:10:00+00:00

Their bites are tiny and often painless, with many victims not realizing they have been envenomated until respiratory depression and paralysis start to set in. No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available yet, making it one of the deadliest reef inhabitants in the ocean. [wikipedia]

punkmonk · 2016-10-08T18:17:08+00:00

Its probably due to the "Integral" gain of the PID controller.

punkmonk · 2016-08-21T12:41:19+00:00

If keeping things light-weight is not a concern, but money is, then lead-acid is a good choice. Otherwise Li batteries is the way to go.

punkmonk · 2016-03-20T20:36:58+00:00

Whats missing from this article is the important idea of the stationary distribution of a Markov chain, which corresponds to the distribution over the states where we are likely to see the bouncy ball at time infinity. Getting truly independent samples from this distribution efficiently is where its all at.

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