Monthly Archives: July 2012

a place where bandwidth flows like diarrhea

nyarrhr

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a place where bandwidth flows like water

kansas

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Temporal Resolution

Temporal resolution (TR) refers to the precision of a measurement with respect to time. Often there is a tradeoff between temporal resolution of a measurement and its spatial resolution. In some contexts such as particle physics, this trade-off can be attributed to the finite speed of light and the fact … Continue reading

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if incentive comes nonlinearly from effort

and what you want is for incentive to be essentially equal to effort the solution is taxation according to a specific logarithmic gradient

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As Doug Fisher said at JavaOne,

“hardware without software just generates heat”.

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golden mean fallacy

“Some would say that hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet, but others claim it is a toxic and dangerous substance. The truth must therefore be somewhere in between.”

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0.5

“Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.” (Stan Kelly-Bootle)

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is apology an autoantonym?

to defend vs to admit

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talented

other person: i wish i was talented me: you can tape little pieces of paper on your fingers and go “rawwrrrrr”

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Corollary of the law of diminishing marginal utility

the relative marginal cost alway decreases of volume, as such, while the ability to profit ascends linearly with the volume of product produced, the cost of doing so always declines, making the only fair system of calculating return volume sub-linear

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