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This was in 1952. Soviet pilots started flying over Korea in 1951, posing as Chinese or Korean pilots [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_and_the_Korean_Wa...

Sounds like EE263 at Stanford. Stephen Boyd’s lectures are on YouTube and so are most of the slides and psets.

https://ee263.stanford.edu/archive/

> For awhile this Google dev was putting up extremely detailed amazon reviews for USBC cables

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_Leung

> statistics aside, which does require calculus but not of the pointless-algebra-tricks kind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_integral

The previous CS major declaration standard was roughly the median grade (B+) over three intro courses. The intro courses have standard "grade bins" to prevent sections from turning into the Hunger Games. In recent years, far more students were getting into L&S CS than into EECS.

So they were clearly not optimizing for weed-out.

> You need to test into the major before you even enter campus?

As an EECS major of roughly the same period...yes? The Cal engineering majors have been direct admit for ages, precisely because demand is always higher than capacity. In our day, the CS path was neglected because most incoming CS kids wanted the EECS guarantee. Once demand rose and the L&S admission advantage obviously outweighed the value of the EECS major guarantee, it was all over. The "backdoor" IEOR major (ORMS) has the same issue and is also going "high demand."

That said, the last plan-of-record I have seen involves a "discovery" path that will take a few undeclared L&S majors each year. So today's you would still have a chance. But you would be ineligible for the "discovery" path if you had declared "intended CS" during admission (i.e., were actually rejected from the direct admit path).

I took the "numbered theses" format as being a deliberate reference to the Central European writing tradition to which you allude, e.g., Benjamin's theses on history, or Marx' theses on Feuerbach. Writing in the "merciless telegram style" implies that the reader is expected to fill in the gaps with their own store of knowledge and their own effort. Like modern mathematical writing, it's more about "high bandwidth" scholar-to-scholar dialogue than explication for a broad audience. Taken in this light, it's has the opposite intent of compressing down to "hot takes" (sparking internal dialogue with the reader vs. sparking lazy emotional acceptance of the argument).

Or maybe she's just a lazy writer who clicked "numbered paragraph," who knows.

More charitably, there was a pretty good probability that the manager was asking a variant of that question. So the reasonable and respectful response is to invite them to say more about what they are thinking.

Beast Academy. The books, not just the practice website. Most kids love stories and characters and corny jokes and detailed Waldo-esque cartoons and cultural references. For some, that makes the “productive struggle” of learning problem solving more palatable. My elementary school kid thinks a lot about whether he wants to be like Grogg, Winnie, Alex, or Lizzie in the future.

The 1st and 2nd grade books may be too hard for many kids to read on their own (math has big words and long sentences - even curricular materials like EurekaMath seem to be written above grade level for K-2) so it becomes family reading time as well.

One lesson of the Ukraine war so far is that the defender needs a very strong SEAD story, because if you let the invader fight a ground war (under an intact air defense umbrella) it becomes an artillery battle in which your civilians, infrastructure, and ground forces suffer tremendously. Another is the power of deep penetration attacks on logistics. You can have doubts about the F-35 as a fighter as such, but the above is what the F-35 was designed to do.

Not knowing anything about vape internals and with him referring to them as “lithium” instead of LiPo or LiIon, I thought on first reading that he was recommending recharging primary lithium batteries. Which would already be a kind of stochastic IFD!

AoPS and Beast Academy.

are you thinking of mike ubell? (paula's mike.)

this discussion is about UC -- he's talking about the fact that the admission rate for many campuses and majors is actually higher for california CC transfers, with some UC campuses still offering guaranteed admission (TAG) under certain conditions.

i think the "semi-prestigious" refers to the fact that some bay area CCs are known as transfer feeders for Berkeley (which does not have TAG, so you have to be competitive among CC candidates).

“Worse” was Bell Labs: portable C/Unix. As opposed to MIT: codesigned Lisp/LispMs. The Unix workstation was the triumph of COTS micros over LSI or custom VLSI hardware.

The author built the NUKEMAP site [0], which is very popular around here.

[0] https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

I have no idea what happened in this case, but that doesn't follow - MIT is one of those schools that routinely promote to associate without necessarily giving tenure [0].

[0] https://thetech.com/2010/06/11/tenure-v130-n28

I wonder how this affects the American Institute of Mathematics (which was started with John Fry’s money).

IANAL but my understanding is that commercial access to terrestrial mobile service spectrum from space ought to require legal action (e.g., FCC rulemaking) in essentially all countries. It’s not a use for which that spectrum is allocated by the ITU.

The issue is potential interference with terrestrial mobile networks, particularly those in non-approving countries and of non-partner operators. A test over the middle of the ocean may not violate ITU Radio Regulations, but a satellite transmitting over land in a way that interferes with a mobile operator’s network surely does. I looked at some of their recent FCC filings and they seem to say they will be able to manage this using very tight spot beam control. (They will have to work around arbitrary national and operator license borders.) Other than that, they decline to say how this will work, drawing on the theory that they are just a contractor for a terrestrial service who remains liable if they mess up. I’ll be interested to see if that argument flies.

Think about the many hard problems to be solved. They had cost-effective high-endurance stratospheric balloons - decades of military projects never really got there. They had very detailed stratospheric wind models - decades of atmospheric science research never really got there. They had a flying LTE network. Each of these solutions was almost certainly too expensive and “niche” for any conventional funding agency to consider, but necessary for Loon to work.

Realistically, wide area coverage dictates elevated antennas (towers or the equivalent) and a nontrivial amount of power. The point of Loon would have been to be able to restore some mobile capacity without ground logistics. Apparently that use case isn’t enough to close the business case.

No, Loon would have provided LTE service in terrestrial mobile spectrum. The big LEO constellations all use fixed satellite service spectrum.

For anyone else who was confused: this is an ARM design aimed at supercomputers, and it is used in a recent system that topped TOP500.

A recent(ish) famous example is the discovery of the importance of trace contaminants in the manufacture of FOGBANK [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK

I believe you are correct. I had to shorten the title, and removed “observable” because the word “medieval” already refers to the science class meme that the viscous flow is at human history timescale (as opposed to ~1 nm/10^7 years).

The related example that I always remember is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment

Judging by Eureka Math, 10% of a 6-8 Common Core math curriculum (by hours) is rudimentary probability/statistics.

The current approach to deal with the remedial situation you describe is “corequisite support.” In the case where the placement test says you’re not up-to-speed, you get assigned to extra sections of prep/tutoring rather than being told to stop your college progress and retake the prerequisite(s).

+1, and I’m eagerly awaiting Mullaney’s follow-on (in progress) about post-typewriter text entry.

An odd but interesting related book is Unger’s _Fifth Generation Fallacy_. If you ignore the dubious framing about 1980s Japanese AI, there’s a long discussion of kanji text entry (including computer text entry) with some kanji-specific references that _Chinese Typewriter_ necessarily skips.

1) Yes, it’s nicknamed “Gertrude”.

2) Yes, every tactical platform that hunts subs has an active sonar capability of some kind. (Hull mounted, towed, dipping, sonobuoys, ...) When the ambient noise floor exceeds the target sub’s noise, you need that option.