Joe Newstrom @JoeNewstrom

Minnesotan living in California. Sometimes, an engineer. Somewhere Outside of L.A. Joined April 2013

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Joe Newstrom @JoeNewstrom

3 weeks ago

@random_eddie What do you want to do with it?

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8 months ago

“The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.” — Milton Friedman

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@andrewmccalip @a19grey There’s another aspect to this which is industry dependent, but also relevant- too many engineers have zero assembly, machining, or installation experience- so GD&T becomes a crutch to make up for a lack of understanding of what actually makes assemblies practical in the field.

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Joe Newstrom @JoeNewstrom

2 years ago

Stuck in line at the California DMV @elonmusk please send D.O.G.E.

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Joe Newstrom @JoeNewstrom

2 years ago

@matthewkiff98 @quail_man2 @yayavarkm @elonmusk @NASASpaceflight Crane, or conveyor… Since you are starting from space, you could simply catch the capsule at a higher elevation and use the retained potential energy to bring the capsule downhill to land on the booster.

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Joe Newstrom @JoeNewstrom

2 years ago

@fermatslibrary Backwards a bullet is more similar to a typical cylinder which means the drag coefficient would be much higher and its terminal velocity significantly lower

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Joe Newstrom @JoeNewstrom

2 years ago

@fermatslibrary Without knowing both the coefficient of drag with the bullet in retrograde and the caliber of the bullet, arriving at 95 m/s is a very soft estimate of velocity. Standard Cd charts for bullets assume that the bullet travels forward in its aerodynamically optimized direction

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Joe Newstrom @JoeNewstrom

2 years ago

@PTC is the least competent software organization I have ever had the displeasure of purchasing software from. Charged $2k for software that locks itself out (imagine an engineering software product that locks itself to a static MAC address) they autorenewed without authorization

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Joe Newstrom @JoeNewstrom

2 years ago

@littmath !!!

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2 years ago

@SinisaCatic @jeffreytucker @NSKinsella “Grog make fire” was the seeds of humanity’s downfall

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ᗩᑎT ᗯᖇIGᕼT @itsAntWright

2 years ago

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Joe Newstrom @JoeNewstrom

2 years ago

@UnitedWeZag The dude is huge and good; I assure you, he doesn’t need your assistance, Stripes.

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Joe Newstrom @JoeNewstrom

2 years ago

@UnitedWeZag NCAA refs call fouls when they guard Zach Edey like he’s lebron

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2 years ago

@istartedi @millpreetk @Will_I_AmLegend @yoheinakajima @jerrrrrrryyyyy @littmath The common thread is about the impact of asymmetrical upside. In this case, due to the wording of the question (who is more likely to win, not who wins the biggest) the answer to the question inversely correlates with the asymmetrical upside question…

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2 years ago

@istartedi @Will_I_AmLegend @yoheinakajima @jerrrrrrryyyyy @littmath It’s about the total number of expected points, and the point distribution among the permutations. Alice can win big, and therefore she doesn’t win as often. Very unusual

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Joe Newstrom @JoeNewstrom

2 years ago

@rohbear0 @littmath I misread the question! Since the expected points are equal, but Alice’s winning scores are potentially more lopsided, the probability of winning actually favors Bob, who is more likely to win by lower point differentials

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Joe Newstrom @JoeNewstrom

2 years ago

@rohbear0 @littmath So I thought so at first until I wrote out the permutations and then I realized that regardless of length, 50% of the possibilities end in H and the binary tree branches from those possibilities with a 50/50 split, meaning- counterintuitively- that the expected points are equal.