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Why call it "dynamic" if it is compiled?

There is a free tool that implements Shelling's process. This work was a major contribution to his body of work for his Nobel prize. Website: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/

FOSS software is not necessarily "unowned". Any asset or resource must be assigned to some entity. Typically one has to dig for the fine print that leads to the osner.

That is one of several reasons that innovation in the U.S. is mortally wounded.

IIRC the earlier work on roll-overs made the point that all cars have a resonate roll-over frequency that plays a part when drivers over correct a swerve. I wonder if anyone is taking a new look at that isdue. Also, whdn a bunch of combustion engines get displaced, what is therd to do with them beyond recycling the metal? Looks like the cost of these freed-up motors is about to drop. Motor futures; shorting anyone?

It's in all professions. In school we studied a case in which a man hired every lawyer in his small town for his divorce. Then he quit them all except one. By ABA procedures, lawyers can't represent a party if they have work for the other party on the same case. His wife had to drive long distances to work with a lawyer from another town.

Oh, and there is the case of the cobbler who made high heels for a living. His agreement prevented him from making high heels for anyone. But that was all he knew. The court ruled against the contractual agreement which effectively made it impossible for him to find work.

So, October 1, 2020? We use "years" here. That will be $2.

Illegal fish catches are transfered at night when transponders are turned off. So there is now monitoring by satellite, not drones, to identify the culprits. That is cheaper than keeping drones replenished, and its batteries charged, the ocean is huge.

VC's want to keep their risks low, they are more like investment bankers than true VC's. If someone approaches them with a seemingly good idea, they will want to unload it after a development period and realize a 10:1 return. So, they will first talk with a couple of the big companies and try to "pre-sell" the concept without giving away too much of tge secret sauce. In essence, VC's are captive by the tech giants, just as are most professors, and university curriculums.

Go To Jail, Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Pass Go. Do Not Collect $200B.

Innovation in America is essentially dead. First VC's don't know a good product when they see one, and they won't do due diligence on new products. So, they look to the tech companies that control the markets. Second, the services the tech giants are providing result in "soft GDP" dollars. We need VC's to be more community aware, and stop chasing cotton candy. WeWork is a rent seeker that has inserted another layer into the rental arbitrage process. That does not help the U.S. economy.

The paywall link should be disabled after 50 people unsuccessfully try to reach the site.

It might be state money. Just seeing the transaction flow is gold. And once you have sold an exchange, you might never get an opportunity to buy it back.

It looks interesting. What are you using for category names? Can I add my own private categories?

The vendor is selling just the executable. But it appears tgat ghey have the source code, so why not provide a 64 bit version?

The use of an approach based on Letters of Credit entail clasuses that compel arbitration. That means there must be "Principled Documents" available that will support a court case in the event the arbitration process fails. Further, it is now seen that there are weaknesses in arbitration jurisprudence that allow either party to reneg on payments to the arbitrator; in which case the judge must dismiss the case. (Harvard Negotiation Law Review). It is not clear if the arbitration process will be modified (read: repaired). In effect, Amazon is asking to ignore precedent jurisprudence.

The news is that consumers are running out of money. That can be called a market warning if you like, but it is pretty damn obvious without a new economic analysis.

It is not just companies. There are agencies of the government that make a practice of using consumer money first to accomplish things for the benefit of enterprises.

"That's perfectly cromulent."

"Brevity is the soul of wit." -WS

The Orchid Bubble (Orchidelirium) was comparable to the tulip bubble. Bulldozers were just digging up tons of Amazon soil and orchid plants and dumping them into ship's holds. Then the ships would lumber home, and have their cargo sorted out in port.

And "King of the Wind".

So is efficiency the new bias? Efficiency is also closely related to excellency in terms of evaluations. And we don't teach these things in school. I've noticed in practice people use cover-all expressions like "you will know it when it's right", or "oh, that would be too complex". The required level of explanation seems to escape us.

Currently the approach is to use an ontology. There are free onto-editors such as Protege. "Onto" refers to everything. A common practice is to classify additions to knowledge either with a classifier or manually. The potentially lost knowledge is the unclassied remains. So we include a bag called "undecided". It can be just one per system or it can be many scattered throughout the ontology.

Chalk and the chalk holder.

Just yeah, I didn't let Ramunujan into my school, much too messy, over promised, couldn't do proofs right. Not really academic material. He refused to learn LaTex.

Home spun was important. Now business has changed and companies are in a race to get up the learning curve quickly and capture new markets. It might be better if they partnered for foreign direct investment (FDI) in exchange to tech assistance. They don't have much to offer otherwise. There are many who would like to get a piece of the action in India, and the companies that try to go it alone will miss out on the globalization wave.

You omitted the first browser, Silversmith. From Wikipedia, "History of the Browser": "Another early browser, Silversmith, was created by John Bottoms in 1987.[9] The browser, based on SGML tags,[10] used a tag set from the Electronic Document Project of the AAP with minor modifications and was sold to a number of early adopters. At the time SGML was used exclusively for the formatting of printed documents.[11] The use of SGML for electronically displayed documents signaled a shift in electronic publishing and was met with considerable resistance. Silversmith included an integrated indexer, full text searches, hypertext links between images text and sound using SGML tags and a return stack for use with hypertext links. It included features that are still not available in today's browsers. These include capabilities such as the ability to restrict searches within document structures, searches on indexed documents using wild cards and the ability to search on tag attribute values and attribute names."

Silversmith implemented a portion of Ted's vision and I have discussed it with him from time to time. Ted developed Hypertext fixed links for books and we extended that to Hypertext links across the Internet, along with returns to multiple sources which was not done in books.

I was not able to get funding to continue the work. TimBL's innovation was in 1.) soliciting funding from the 10 large companies that funded the Web, and 2.) embedding advertising on web pages and in the content. But along with this was the funder's specification of how the WWW should work.

My descriptions of Silversmith were removed from wikipedia at W3c's request and Silversmith is now conveniently a "precursor" and most people believe Netscape was the first, when in fact it was released about 8 years after Silversmith The government was the early adopter and we released 4 different browsers in the first year, the last of which was a semantic browser for the U.S. Army Material Command. Silversmith included a browse-able index of each document, automatic markup of submitted texts, a parser to automatically check the page composition and it was a distributed system. The 5th browser was Erwise, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwise, which Tim looked at before he started on his browser, the W3c implementation (the 6th). He declined to pursue it because the comments in the code were written in Finnish. Our other browsers were for the DoD Computer Aided Logistics Support (CALS) documents, for DoD Tech Manuals, and one for Old Norse documents written in Old Norse.I designed the browser to aid in the development of ontologies for AI. We have been working in the field for 33 years. My hope is that our next browser will include Ted's vision of draft versions and payments.

Agreed, I wish professors were required to take a course in Basic Pedaegogy for Math, as soon as someone invents it.

I agree the courts have issues. Courts have given me (Pro se) faslse information and refused to answer procedural questions. In what sense are you referring to outsourcing? Could you explain you outsourcing view