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| Aulere | anyone in here familiar with computational linguistics? | 02:11 |
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| Utopiah | Back to Nature for the Next Technology Revolution http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rid=28232 | 04:01 |
| Utopiah | (by Babak Parviz, Ph.D, associate professor, Electrical Engineering, University of Washington) | 04:01 |
| bkero | Anybody here good at algorithms? | 04:06 |
| Utopiah | have the basics, why? | 04:12 |
| bkero | Having some issues with a programming assignment of mine | 04:14 |
| Utopiah | ? | 04:16 |
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| fenn | do people really expect you to bother every previous employer/teacher/whatever every single time you apply for a job? | 08:55 |
| nsh | generally you just give a couple of potential referees, and the hiring employer will ask them for references if they consider it necessary | 08:58 |
| * nsh doesn't generally ask previous employers up-front for references | 08:58 | |
| nsh | some have offered to pre-write them though | 08:58 |
| nsh | but employment is stupid anyway... | 08:59 |
| fenn | of cours | 09:00 |
| fenn | recommend any alternatives? | 09:00 |
| nsh | investment fraud seems to be paying well recently | 09:00 |
| kanzure | apparently you're supposed to make them write the letters of recommendation before you quit/leave/flip-them-off | 09:05 |
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| kanzure | and then just copy those forever. | 09:06 |
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| fenn | damn | 09:14 |
| fenn | nobody ever told me that! | 09:14 |
| fenn | hmm i want this on my HUD http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/gipfel.html | 09:26 |
| fenn | but for buildings too | 09:27 |
| fenn | hmm.. differential gps would even allow tagging of inventory items down to the mm | 09:36 |
| kanzure | THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE | 13:24 |
| kanzure | Saul is married to O'Reilly's daughter | 13:24 |
| kanzure | instructables is incest | 13:24 |
| bkero | what | 13:25 |
| bkero | I've seen some incredibly badass stuff on instructables. | 13:25 |
| kanzure | Yes, but there's just some problems with it. | 13:25 |
| kanzure | Anyway, I was talking with the unptnt guy (Dave) and his angel over lunch with Charlie. | 13:26 |
| kanzure | So he completely destroyed my worldview. Instructables is the way it is because it's just incest. Make Magazine links over to instructables, instructables links back to Make.. not because it's "the scene" but because it's artificial (which is fine, but still) | 13:26 |
| kanzure | Saul Griffith. | 13:26 |
| bkero | Make links back to Instructables because an outsourced community is much easier to generate news. | 13:27 |
| bkero | s/news/articles/ | 13:28 |
| kanzure | Sure. | 13:28 |
| kanzure | I don't think you understand though. | 13:28 |
| bkero | Perhaps you need to broadsde me with it for me to understand. | 13:28 |
| kanzure | Haven't you seen us complaining about instructables, Make, Make Magazine, O'Reilly, etc. in here before? | 13:29 |
| bkero | Can't say so | 13:29 |
| bkero | I have my own qualms about O'Reilly though. | 13:29 |
| bkero | Make is the new, hip Popular Science though. | 13:29 |
| fenn | Popular Mechanics | 13:31 |
| fenn | without all that focus on practical stuff | 13:31 |
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| bkero | I still enjoy learning about impractical things. | 13:32 |
| bkero | Many of the crazy impractical thoughts I had for operations of a datacentre turned out to be right on the money of what Google actually does. :) | 13:33 |
| fenn | apparently they werent impractical | 13:33 |
| bkero | They are when I do them with a room full of computers. They aren't when Google's doing them with hundreds of thousands. | 13:34 |
| fenn | what i mean is popular mechanics had all sorts of articles like "how to build a lathe from stuff you have lying around" or "how to build a workbench" which is totally absent in Make | 13:34 |
| fenn | you mean like semi trailers full of motherboards and hard drives in huge piles? | 13:34 |
| bkero | fenn: I mean using lakes for cooling ;) | 13:34 |
| bkero | and auto part stores | 13:35 |
| fenn | gosh do they really? | 13:35 |
| * fenn mumbles about low power architectures | 13:35 | |
| fenn | auto parts for what? | 13:36 |
| kanzure | apparently Dave's angel is also associated with the octopart group | 13:38 |
| bkero | fenn: Ask me in a PM sometime and I'll see what I can tell you without breaking NDA | 13:40 |
| bkero | :) | 13:40 |
| fenn | octopart is pretty neat | 13:40 |
| kanzure | doesn't have a "buy now" button | 13:41 |
| kanzure | Dave looks a bit like Alec | 13:41 |
| kanzure | lots of energy going on with Dave | 13:41 |
| fenn | i think amazon patented the "buy now" button :) | 13:41 |
| kanzure | anyway, kits, "buy now" buttons, surfraw + octopart | 13:41 |
| kanzure | Amazon Industrial API but only for 10+ orders of things | 13:41 |
| kanzure | need to run off to class | 13:41 |
| fenn | heh actually there is a buy now button | 13:41 |
| kanzure | it links over to another site | 13:42 |
| bkero | The 'buy now' links correlate to the site on the left | 13:44 |
| bkero | Right now it seems only Farnell has a 'buy now' button, at least for opa2132's | 13:44 |
| fenn | coincidentally i'm messing around with audio amps right now | 13:45 |
| bkero | I've got an OPA2132 in my headphone amp. :) | 13:46 |
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| bkero | Haha, did you guys see http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/03/232221 ? | 13:52 |
| kanzure3_ | yes, it's already screwing up though | 16:00 |
| kanzure3_ | it turns out that Ray regrets doing it because of the poor management of Space U | 16:00 |
| kanzure3_ | Diamandis? that's the guy, or something | 16:00 |
| fenn | isunet.edu? | 16:01 |
| kanzure3_ | I think so. | 16:02 |
| fenn | www.isunet.edu | 16:02 |
| fenn | i wonder how to go about getting a .edu domain | 16:02 |
| fenn | you'd think they would just get space.edu | 16:04 |
| bkero | Sounds like a great way to take $25,000 from some kids with a twinkle in their eye. | 16:08 |
| procto | fenn: you need to be accredited | 16:12 |
| procto | in the US | 16:12 |
| procto | apply somewhere here: http://www.chea.org/ | 16:13 |
| fenn | http://net.educause.edu/edudomain/show_faq.asp?code=EDUELIGIBILITY | 16:14 |
| fenn | postsecondary.. that's kinda unfair isnt it? | 16:14 |
| kanzure3_ | I'm looking for a diagnosis | 16:22 |
| kanzure3_ | it's not hypochondriac | 16:22 |
| kanzure3_ | and it's not agoraphobia | 16:22 |
| kanzure3_ | it's where a person is too disgusted with the world to go outside | 16:22 |
| kanzure3_ | what's the word? | 16:22 |
| fenn | postmodern | 16:22 |
| fenn | hikikomori | 16:23 |
| kanzure3_ | yes, it's like that | 16:23 |
| kanzure3_ | although there's a more popular english term fori t | 16:23 |
| kanzure3_ | *it | 16:23 |
| kanzure | todo: write "Strategies to Prevent Total System Failure" | 16:55 |
| kanzure3_ | Joseph will talk about the end of scarcity on the Speculist's popular | 17:12 |
| kanzure3_ | podcast Wednesday, February 4 10:30 PM Eastern / 7:30 PM Pacific. | 17:12 |
| kanzure3_ | Joseph Jackson | 17:12 |
| kanzure3_ | http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/001979.html | 17:12 |
| kanzure | guess that's 9 my time. | 17:15 |
| kanzure | hm. | 17:16 |
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| kanzure3_ | http://nerdbazaar.com/ | 18:51 |
| kanzure3_ | http://delicious.com/earms | 18:52 |
| kanzure3_ | http://vimeo.com/1037507 Institute for the Future - video on ponoko, david ten have | 18:58 |
| gene_ | wow Make and Instructables are almost like some sort of news illuminati | 19:25 |
| gene_ | let's talk about seasteading | 19:31 |
| gene_ | apparently at the bottom of the ocean are huge caches of high grade metal ores just waiting to be exploited: http://www.wealthdaily.com/articles/gold-underwater-mining/302 | 19:32 |
| gene_ | the problem is getting to them | 19:32 |
| gene_ | and the legality of such actions | 19:33 |
| gene_ | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese_nodule | 19:35 |
| gene_ | apparently | 19:35 |
| gene_ | you have to share your profits with the UN or something | 19:36 |
| gene_ | or you have to buy a liscense from the UN to pick up rocks on the bottom of the ocean | 19:37 |
| gene_ | rocks rich in a little element named gold | 19:42 |
| gene_ | http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/2007/05/gold_rush_to_the_deep_seafloor.php | 19:56 |
| gene_ | Damn, apparently the UN "owns" the ocean | 19:56 |
| kanzure3_ | http://partsregistry.org/Assembly:Robotic_assembly | 20:19 |
| kanzure3_ | http://ginkgobioworks.com/ <- the guys doing that | 20:19 |
| gene_ | damn | 20:25 |
| gene_ | Kanzure | 20:25 |
| gene_ | I've got a burning question | 20:25 |
| gene_ | how the heck do they repair nuclear reactors? | 20:26 |
| gene_ | do they use robots or people willing to become eunuchs | 20:26 |
| gene_ | holy cow | 20:29 |
| gene_ | automatic assembly of biobricks? | 20:30 |
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| gene_ | http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/telerobotics_page/Photos/ManufWorkcell.jpg | 20:32 |
| gene_ | take a look at this | 20:32 |
| gene_ | http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/telerobotics_page/photos.html | 20:33 |
| kanzure3_ | http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1404046&dl=ACM&coll=portal Free factories: unified infrastructure for data intensive web services | 20:34 |
| gene_ | http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/telerobotics_page/Photos/VisualCalibration.jpg | 20:35 |
| gene_ | hmmmm... | 20:35 |
| gene_ | If I could only find the paper that goes with this | 20:35 |
| kanzure3_ | http://www.robiotec.com/ | 20:37 |
| kanzure3_ | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHlxKhCSbpA | 20:37 |
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| gene_ | http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/telerobotics_page/Photos/RSIAlgorithm.jpg | 20:40 |
| gene_ | look at the grainyness on that photo | 20:40 |
| gene_ | they might have been doing this in the 80s | 20:41 |
| kanzure3_ | http://www.symyx.com/ | 20:41 |
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| gene_ | http://brl.ee.washington.edu/publications/Rep127/images/FigBH1.jpg | 20:57 |
| gene_ | I could watch that video you sent me all day long | 21:08 |
| kanzure | RND? yeah | 21:08 |
| kanzure3_ | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s3IlIE4Yuk | 21:09 |
| kanzure3_ | skip the first 3 minutes or something | 21:09 |
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| kanzure3_ | http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fastforwardradio | 22:00 |
| kanzure3_ | Can anyone figure out how to actually access this stream? | 22:00 |
| gene_ | http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0805/0805.0230.pdf | 22:17 |
| gene_ | I wonder what it'd take to actually make one these | 22:17 |
| gene_ | a balloon filled with electrons | 22:17 |
| gene_ | 500million volts/ meter | 22:18 |
| gene_ | where can I get that | 22:18 |
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| kanzure3_ | http://www.haque.co.uk/papers/hardsp-softsp-open-so-arch.PDF | 23:08 |
| gene_ | hmmmm.... physicists are very theoretical | 23:16 |
| gene_ | how do I fill a balloon with electrons? | 23:16 |
| kanzure | oooh | 23:18 |
| kanzure | April 3rd, here in Austin, Jerry Seinfeld live :) | 23:18 |
| kanzure3_ | http://www.austin360.com/calendar/events2/etc/userEventDisplay.jspd?eventid=100695 | 23:19 |
| gene_ | speaking of entertainment and such, did you ever finish haruhi? | 23:24 |
| gene_ | or at least watch the first couple episodes | 23:24 |
| kanzure | yes | 23:24 |
| gene_ | you watched them in chronological order right? | 23:25 |
| kanzure | No. | 23:25 |
| kanzure | Episode numerical order. | 23:25 |
| gene_ | damn non-standardized systems | 23:25 |
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| gene_ | now it says if one could build a giant tube of electronic gas covered in insulator surrounded by positive charge, one could make a quasi-superconducting balloon and fly levitating future cars on it | 23:30 |
| gene_ | http://books.google.com/books?id=u-UqR8zIDEAC&pg=PA165&lpg=PA165&dq=kinetic+anti-gravitator&source=bl&ots=5FgHGaiC6E&sig=FMcXMRyQm8Natjo-m1Z4w7aG7UI&hl=en&ei=3neKSZrdBJ6DtweKzbmTBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result | 23:30 |
| gene_ | check out this paper too | 23:30 |
| gene_ | make something stand on the end of a loop of cable | 23:31 |
| gene_ | I want to build one | 23:31 |
| kanzure3_ | well that was interesting, listening to Joseph Jackson go on about abundancy topics | 23:52 |
| kanzure3_ | he was actually kind of coherent | 23:52 |
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