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What CO2 sensor do you use? Any recommendations?

You're not the only one!

I believe you are incorrect about the US Army’s percent of the federal budget. Total defense spending (all branches) represents around 15% of the budget. Source: https://en.wikiped…

APL is not so much a model of computation as a new notation for semantics which already exist. The real semantic explanation of APL is set theory and traditional mathematics. Proba…

In Zero History, the purpose of the shirt was not to fool the algorithm, but to trip a deep "gentlemen's agreement" between intelligence agencies to make invisible anyone bearing a…

Some of these aren’t bad. The Goal, for example, is a great book for helping you build intuition about constraints. But by far, the best manufacturing book I’ve read is Factory Phy…

Internet Archive copy of the IATA publication on boarding pass barcodes referenced in the Krebs piece. https://web.archive.org/web/20120324074139/https://www.iata....

Here is a relevant interview with journalist Steven Pearlstein in which he suggests that current conditions only support 7-9 global journalism outlets worldwide, with only 2 or so …

> But at that time APL was not running on any computer; and he stoutly insisted that it was unnecessary that it ever run on a computer. It was for him a notation with which he coul…

> I am firmly convinced that APL and LISP are related to each other along an important axis of language design and that acquiring simultaneous expertise in both languages is possib…

> My advice is this: as you learn Common Lisp and look for > libraries, try to suppress the voice in the back of your > head that says “This project was last updated six years > ag…

This is understandable, given the fact that this is from Deloitte, who would like to sell consulting services.

I would also highly recommend the Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago. http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/thorne

These do exist. They are used all the time for land-based oil rigs. Search for oilfield temporary roads.

That’s a bit reductive. For example, many anti-depressants affect serotonin reputake, which is now known to be integral to gut function. Further, often these off-label uses are at …

Buffet is well-known for this and I often hear tech people dismiss his views as a result, but I think some people misunderstand what he is saying. Buffet is concerned with companie…

For anyone interested in index card systems, the idiosyncratic method of Niklas Luhmann [0] is a fascinating example. Many additional interesting opinions on notetaking and modern …

I agree the future is hard to predict, but I don’t know about your claim the US engages in similar trickery. Economic statistics for the US with fully disclosed methodologies are r…

This article is mostly a review of the book The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf [0] which traces the origin of our concept of Nature to the Prussian explorer Alexander von Humbo…

I'll just offer a contrary anecdote. A few months ago, I had a catastrophic failure of my X260 failure (hard crash--would not power up) while on site for a client in a manufacturin…

I must admit to being a little nostalgic for the original's high-affordance user interface elements. The original appeared and felt like more like a tool than a world unto itself.

There are many rule-based expert systems in large scale use today. I know of applications in medicine, supply chain and logistics, and military.

This is much like Nina George's novel, The Little Paris Bookshop [1], which is a pleasant and occasionally thought provoking read. From the publisher's description: "Monsieur Perdu…