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  1. Re: Has the exodus started yet? on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I have no desire to leave (or plans), but if I did, I'd go to Mexico. It's closer and I have friends there. Probably less expensive too. I go there anyway and it's a chill place, nice people

  2. Re:Just a guess.. on Galileo Satellites Are Experiencing Multiple Clock Failures (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Long ago when my company looked into this, the problem was finding manufacturing facilities that had procedures for it.

  3. Re:Just a guess.. on Galileo Satellites Are Experiencing Multiple Clock Failures (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    +1 Came here to post this.

  4. Re:Self-fulfilling Prophecy on Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought it really sucked. It was right on the edge of being too busy to sleep and too boring to do anything except sleep. I did work many times in a friend's parents convenience store covering for them on weekends. That was quite boring too, but all the free cheesewiz and cheap cigars you could handle.

  5. Re:Not just tuition, you have to fit in on Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
    It was a very difficult school. I think the only gravitation's we had were the smart kids and the really smart kids, so kinda academic cliches, but not really strong. Some of my closest today friends come from very wealthy families and school was almost 30 years ago.

    They come to my house, I go to their houses, we invite each other to social functions. Maybe it had something to do with surviving school together. I don't know. Since HS we've all made and lost lots of money, a few times. I can't say any has made as much as their parents, but in most if not all cases, that would be difficult

  6. Re:There are some interesting ramifications. on Neuroscience Can't Explain How a Microprocessor Works (economist.com) · · Score: 1
    Those other things you listed are just different ways to realize a Turing Machine. And through computational equivalence, and they're all the same.

    If you really want to blow your mind on something, watch this talk on all possible sentient spaces, as in the set of possible intelligences/consciousnesses.

  7. Re:Intelligent design on Neuroscience Can't Explain How a Microprocessor Works (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    All of existence magic'd into existence by divine fiat 1 microsecond ago.

  8. They could have asked me on Neuroscience Can't Explain How a Microprocessor Works (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    I know. It's really not that difficult and does not take any math beyond simple logic.

  9. Re:Not just tuition, you have to fit in on Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    I was a poor kid who got into (and attended) a wealthy school. I didn't care. None of the other students did either (AFAIK, I'm usually oblivious to those things. Your daughter shouldn't care either, maybe you didn't raise her right). I remember sitting at the bus stop one day when I was a freshman watching one of the seniors getting picked up in a Countach. I just thought that was the coolest thing ever. I also saw an LM2 but didn't believe what I saw, That was back in the days before google and there was no way to verify.

  10. This is not true.

  11. for the next sixteen years

    What happens after 16 years when there's no more money left?

  12. Re:Self-fulfilling Prophecy on Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Mostly this, but it's no guaranty and there are opportunities everywhere. A much larger factor is how well you can take advantage of them.

  13. Re:Self-fulfilling Prophecy on Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    put paper in the printer and spent the rest of her time studying

    I had that exact same job in college.

  14. Re:Self-fulfilling Prophecy on Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0
    I just plugged random numbers into a the Harvard financial aid calculator, https://college.harvard.edu/fi...

    A one parent household making $130k/year would get $48k worth of scholarships bringing the annual bill to under $20k. This does not sound unreasonable for someone making $130k.

  15. Re:Agreed & I went thru it... apk on Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    math is always math even in the Ivy League & facts are facts

    This is what one of my physics professors would always say (and she was a graduate of and former professor at MIT). The only difference is the competition between students, but the opportunities are the same. It's up to the students to take advantage of them.

  16. Re:seriously? on NASA Is Making New Robots That Can Control Themselves (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently Autonav was used on the Deep Impact probe too.

  17. Re:seriously? on NASA Is Making New Robots That Can Control Themselves (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Deep space one used neural networks for navigation. It was also the first NASA probe to use an ion engine.

  18. Re:"developed an artificial intelligence(AI) progr on AI Can Predict When Patients Will Die From Heart Failure 'With 80% Accuracy' (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    5 dim a(32)

    10 input "What is your name";A$

    20 print "Hello ";a$

    30 goto 20

    Artificial intelligence

  19. seriously? on NASA Is Making New Robots That Can Control Themselves (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean like an autonomous robot?

  20. Re:"developed an artificial intelligence(AI) progr on AI Can Predict When Patients Will Die From Heart Failure 'With 80% Accuracy' (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1
  21. Re:"developed an artificial intelligence(AI) progr on AI Can Predict When Patients Will Die From Heart Failure 'With 80% Accuracy' (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You mean like back in the day when it was called with less sexy Multivarate Analysis? Ahhh, 1958 had such unimaginative people,

  22. Best comment on slashdot.

  23. That's a losing argument I've found. Sad

  24. Re: Can it be done the other way around? on Scientists Turn Docile Mice Into Ruthless Hunters (the-scientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Justice is a nicer word for institutionalized revenge.

  25. Re:Jacob's Ladder on Scientists Turn Docile Mice Into Ruthless Hunters (the-scientist.com) · · Score: 1

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