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borismon Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery

exactly!

Let's imagine a plane starting take-off roll. Engines are spinning up to full throttle (99-100% of thrust), but airframe just started to accelerate slowly. Compensating for anything is pretty useless in this case - airflow trough the engines is even higher than during cruise, but airflow around wings is quite minimal.

borismon Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery

BTW, I imagine a pitot tube placed on the body of the engine would not need extra heating and would be very unlikely to ice. You can even place it inside the exhaust and compensate the reading for engine flow.

There are such things in the engines! They're used to feed the data about engine performance to FADECs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FADEC) and the crew.

But they're totally useless for airspeed calculation! Bear in mind that air flowing trough and around the engine has totally different dynamics than the air passing around the rest of the airframe. Well, that's kind of the point of the engine - to create thrust, isn't it? That's why airspeed, altitude and AoA sensors actually have to be placed further away from the engines - so that they give as accurate picture as possible.

borismon Why should anyone ever use a Google API again?

have you tried migrating to Python 3.0 yet?

borismon Why should anyone ever use a Google API again?

I never liked IT anyway. Shit has to be designed and stuff.

Why can't we all be friends and blossom like flowers in the fields?

borismon On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning

maybe the brain is nothing more than a particularly flexible "neural net"

now that I found quite funny :)

(yeah, most likely it is just that)

borismon On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning

And while it may seem crass and anti-intellectual to consider a financial measure of success

Why are other metrics Norvig provides like articles published or prevalence in practical applications are considered more intellectual?

And besides, I don't think "accurately modeling the world" is the end of it. Classical Newtonian mechanics correctly describe 99% of our activities in the real world and were considered pinnacle of scientific achievement for several centuries. Yet we know today that they're just a subset of General relativity and Quantum mechanics.

borismon On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning

it's the result of a universe-wide scenario of statistical multiple endpoints

totally agreed with you up to that point which I have hard time understanding.

so you say universe is kind of fractal and we happen to be in the right place on that fractal, where all the ingredients come together?

borismon The New Tech Bubble

Skype buy was very expensive...but all of that is private investment

meh?

borismon Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google

I wonder what the ex googlers who moved to FaceBook think of such slimy tactics

stock options non olet, I guess...

borismon Chromebook

indeed:

http://tinkercad.com

borismon Why Google Does Not Own Skype

we'll never know...

borismon Google App Engine 1.5.0 released

probably http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/go/overview.html ?

borismon Bitcoin hits US$ 4, after being mentioned on CNN yesterday

think of the bounties on someone like Kim Jong-Il

Now think of the bounties on average folks like you and me in comparison.

That's right, our lives will instantly be worth pennies and there'll instantly many folks around with incentive to murder.

borismon Bitcoin hits US$ 4, after being mentioned on CNN yesterday

I wouldn't make much out of CIA doing something. They have done crazier shit before.

borismon This Tech Bubble Is Different

This Time is Different: A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of Financial Crises

http://www.economics.harvard.edu/files/faculty/51_This_Time_...

borismon Putting on the Brakes: Mankind Nears the End of the Age of Speed

Interesting. I wonder what kind of energy is needed to keep 12000km long tunnel situated 4+km below sea level at partial vacuum...

Without even getting into problems that will occur at tectonic plate boundaries...

borismon Putting on the Brakes: Mankind Nears the End of the Age of Speed

are you telling me there is less air friction 4km below sea level than there is 12km above it?

borismon The Future Of Libraries In The E-Book Age

you don't prohibit a person who loaned a book from you to photocopy or take notes from it, do you?

borismon The Future Of Libraries In The E-Book Age

so will you be happy if I overwrite the original file with zeroes 7 times?

borismon Top Gear responds to Tesla

you mean the technology where you connect electrodes to solar panel or wind turbine, put them into water and hydrogen and oxygen come out?

borismon Plutonium is Forever

now please factor in duration and affected area and population into account when talking about severity of nuclear accidents, the same way you factored in hours and miles when you wrote about aviation safety.

borismon Plutonium is Forever

this is a testament to safety measures in aviation, not to some inherent safety of air travel.

inherently, 99.9% of people will die if plane was to collide with another plane or ground. That number is inherently much lower for car collisions.

so if we talk about nuclear safety, yes it is very safe compared to some other energy sources. But it also so much more dangerous when nuclear accidents happen than anything else.

borismon I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

Because there is a huge rise in early-stage investment activity and associated rise in valuations. That's the definition of a bubble regardless whether asset class is stock in startups, public companies, houses or tulips.

borismon I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

That's why it's epic.

borismon I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

Smart guys don't trade Forex.

borismon I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

That's what the word "bubble" refers to, though

why? not at all. last spectacular bubble was in real estate - it was accompanied by stock market rise but not by any means stock market bubble.

borismon I Hope This Bubble Kills The App

There is no stock market bubble.

nobody said there was a stock market bubble. but I suggest you to check few graphs on Google/Yahoo Finance.

But the market will decide that. Not us nerds.

I hope us nerds are a little bit more aware about stuff going on than Mr. Market.

borismon Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

They've deliberately stayed away from those areas that have products in them.

[citation needed]

At the scale AWS is operating I guess Amazon isn't even fully aware of all the stuff going on there. No surprise an elephant can stomp onto ants.

borismon Warren Buffett: The U.S. is moving toward plutocracy

it is not the first time Buffett used the "plutocracy" word:

Dynastic wealth, the enemy of a meritocracy, is on the rise. Equality of opportunity has been on the decline. A progressive and meaningful estate tax is needed to curb the movement of a democracy toward a plutocracy.

at a Congressional Hearing on Estate Tax in November 2007 http://www.cnbc.com/id/21791804

borismon Burned by Twitter, Developers Launch Distributed Microblogging Service

what else?