2008/1/4-7 [Science/Disaster] UID:48891 Activity:nil | 1/4 Are storm, hurricane and typhoon all the same thing?
\_ A typhoon is a hurricane in the Pacific.
\_ Except when it's in the Eastern Pacific, where it's called
a hurricane.
\_ A hurricane has to reach a certain rotational speed (80mph?) before
it officially is recorded as a hurricane. Lower than that it is
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2007/8/21-22 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:47690 Activity:low | 8/21 why doesn't the bush administration name the next
hurricane Hurricane Obama ?
\- What doesnt Congress rename Camp X-ray, Camp Cheney?
\- Why doesnt Congress rename Camp X-ray Camp Cheney?
\_ That's silly. Camp X-Ray already exists. I'm talking about
naming a future event. Completely different things!
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2010/3/7-30 [Computer/SW/Languages] UID:53743 Activity:nil | 3/7 My sister is graduating soon with a decree in information management.
She was orignally CS, but couldn't cut the math, so her GPA sucks.
However, she has had a couple of internships and did fine. She did
desktop support at RockYou and is currently doing web programming
at UC Santa Cruz, but they can't keep her on after graduation.
Anyone got any jobs? She wanted to be a network admin, but right now
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2009/9/18-29 [Computer/Theory] UID:53378 Activity:nil | 9/18 I forgot my math. Say the probability of a bug happening is the
unknown fixed value p in [0,1]. I attempt to reproduce the
bug until it happens once. Then it happens at my n-th trial, so I
stop. Now, what is the expected value of p? Is it E(p) = 1/n? Thx.
\_ Did a quick program to test. Looks like E(p) = 1/n
(given assumption n(p) = sum x = 1 to inf of x*(1-p)^(x-1)*p
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2009/8/3-13 [Computer/Companies/Google, Computer/SW/Security] UID:53230 Activity:high | 8/1 Yahoo to get 88% of the ad revenue in team up with m$. Y!m$,
discuss?
\_ I thought Jerry Yang would never sell!
\_ He's gone, replaced by some broad.
\_ 88% of pittance is still pittance, I don't know how people
think there is money in click through ads. Who clicks on them?
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2009/7/14-27 [Academia, Academia/GradSchool, Computer/Theory] UID:53139 Activity:nil | 7/22 (redux)
To those in academia, how do you organize the journal articles
you keep (hard copies, that is)? By date? Author? Subject?
Something else? Thanks.
\_ I am not in academia, but author makes most sense. If you want, you
can group by subject (Sun Spots, Solar Wind, Solar Flares) and then
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