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  1. Re:It didn't launch! on SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches, Rocket Recovery Attempt Scrapped · · Score: 1

    It didn't launch. What's with the totally wrong headline?

    Sorry, SpaceX had a strange misleading headline. My bad.

  2. It didn't launch! on SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches, Rocket Recovery Attempt Scrapped · · Score: 1

    It didn't launch. What's with the totally wrong headline?

  3. Try this on DARPA Wants Help Building a Drone That Flies Like a Hawk · · Score: 0

    Load up a few million drones with programs of random instructions. Send them all into the woods. Use the program from the drone that makes it to the other side. I think that's how the hawks do it.

  4. The limit as G approaches zero, but not zero on Rand Paul Suggests Backing Bitcoin With Stocks · · Score: 1

    Any mathematicians in the crowd? Explain to me the difference between minimalist government and no government. Something less than epsilon? Less than one full time employee?

  5. Not so new technology on A Big Step Forward In Air Display and Interface Tech · · Score: 1

    This looks exactly like that which was developed down the hall from my office ten years ago. IO2 Technologies. They still have a web site so I think they are still in business. I don't see much different in the technology.

  6. a long time ago on The Physics of Zero-G Whipped Cream · · Score: 3, Funny

    Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream - someone is showing their age. Me too I guess.

  7. math used for modeling systems on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 1

    The important flaw in this idea is that computers model math, if the author had actually paid attention in math class he would have learned that math is used to model computers, and all other systems that need formal description. So if you are doing trivial programming forget the math, if you are modeling a complicated flow (or circuit) you are using math, no matter what you call it.

  8. Exactly right! on The Fallacy of Hard Tests · · Score: 1
    As a Math major, 37 years ago, I took an intro to Psych course for some reason. I made a very poor grade on a strange multiple choice exam. Each question had five or six items that "applied" or didn't. You were to circle the ones that "applied". If you missed any part, you were marked wrong for all of them for that question, so one factual error, caused 5 or 6 deductions from 100.

    I demonstrated to the very young "professor" that by changing placement alone of various factoids my grade could have been anywhere from a high B to an F. What made matters worse, he declared that the bell shape curve of the outcomes validated his scheme. I couldn't quite get across the bell shape curve that, for instance, loaded dice create.

    My adviser agreed with me but stayed out of the dispute. I am still angry!

  9. Improved interface? on Jef Raskin Gets $2 Million To Develop RCHI · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do this mean that with the new interface, his web site will actually indicate what it is he is talking about doing ?