Jugurtha

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1. 1951.▲
   by Jugurtha 10y ago

   > I believe you mentioned somewhere "The Jacobian is a m x n matrix containing the 1st order partial derivatives of vectors with respect to vectors." -- Since I have a math background I can understand what you write. But for so
2. 1952.▲
   by Jugurtha 10y ago

   Hey, Have you tried the Duolingo incubator? Your efforts could potentially reach way more people that way. https://incubator.duolingo.com/
3. 1953.▲
   by Jugurtha 10y ago

   I use https://www.overleaf.com/ (formerly writelatex.com). Here are some features: * Dual view: LaTeX on the left and rendering on the right. * A file manager for images, etc within reach. * \usepackage{} is enough: No need
4. 1954.▲
   by Jugurtha 10y ago

   There's " silicon " in Silicon Valley. The reason it exists is hardware, yet they seem oblivious to that fact and make it seem that, somehow, SV's pursuit of hardware is a new path.
5. 1955.▲
   by Jugurtha 10y ago

   I've been interested in solar since I saw a solar powered Casio watch as a kid but haven't kept up with the technology. The panels are ugly and having to add a panel to get solar energy is clunky. I want to believe, looking at
6. 1956.▲
   by Jugurtha 10y ago

   Here's what Google Trends returns for "solar shingles" for the past 5 years. https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=solar%20shingles
7. 1957.▲
   by Jugurtha 10y ago

   I've recently taken a Udacity course " Intro to the Design of Everyday Things "[0] and jotted down a preliminary summary[1]. Here are some of the tools they listed: + Hybrid paper/digital tools to animate paper pictures:
8. 1958.▲
   by Jugurtha 10y ago

   Here: https://mytemp.email/2 The link takes you, without clicking on anything, to the inbox of a disposable email address that perishes if you don't visit it for 24 hours or if you close the session.
9. 1959.▲
   by Jugurtha 10y ago

   > Search for images of solar shingles and you'll see what I mean about previous attempts. The first 9 images Google returned in the top 2 rows for "solar shingles" have 2 pictures from Tesla/SC's presentation. (
10. 1960.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    Any statistics on how each of those are performing relative to each other . I've never traded real money,only paper trading freshman year and played a game on MarketWatch where I traded like a monkey and made profits. I also put a pro
11. 1961.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    If you don't discriminate when it comes to languages, I can recommend Zed Shaw's "Learn Python the Hard Way". It's an excellent book that gets you writing code right from the start. Here's the free book in HTML
12. 1962.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    > Procrastination is a psychological problem, not a planning problem. This is one of those "circular cause and consequence" things.. our psychological state is a function with side effects changing the events in our lives, whi
13. 1963.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    People who work in auto shops love the ThinkPad to the point it's probably the only model they buy. It's the AK-47 of laptops. It apears there's little dogfooding in products, whether laptops or cars. Design flaws that just n
14. 1964.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    Looks interesting. I have a Dell Latitude E6320 (my second one because they're great). Here are the features that are cool in my opinion: * SIM card slot for 3G (remove battery to place and forget). * Magnesium & aluminum. * Very g
15. 1965.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    I agree and slightly point out a difference: John Deere tells you what you can't do to your tractor; Tesla Motors tells you what you can't do with your car, which is way worse as the forbidden use is not even diverting the p
16. 1966.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    Awesome.. I remember reading your first post and finding the idea neat but also saying in my head, with amusement: "right, everything is easy when your name is John Wheeler ". Archibald.
17. 1967.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    One rather successful man I e-know put it this way: business is the stuff you do to make money; investing is the stuff you do not to lose it. He said that because often the part that sees the thing for what it is gets shorted when the avera
18. 1968.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    I mostly use English. Never been to the U.S. and not in a country where it's spoken. I've never "studied" English except in school. I just wanted to learn about Neuro-Linguistic Programing and all the good stuff was in E
19. 1969.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    One definition of a problem is that whenever there is a gap between where you are and where you want to be and you don't know how to cross that gap, you have a problem. Programming allows to cross many gaps regardless of importance, an
20. 1970.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    I've always opened the door this way. I want to know what's happening and it makes sense to open it that way. Kind of looking both ways before crossing, it'd be strange to give it a name like "The British Method" si
21. 1971.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    As mentioned in the title, it's a maid's room ("Chambre de bonne"[0]). The structure of these buildings is quite interesting. The stratification of classes through the floors they occupy (the first floor is called "
22. 1972.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    Well, we used to do that in college in... 2005, 2006, etc. We had a lab once a week, but we wrote and debugged programs in Pascal, C, x86 ASM, Microchip ASM by hand. We wrote stuff for the Intel 8251, 8253, 8255, 8257, 8259 (to handle inter
23. 1973.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    I get you, c13k. This is why I upvoted your first reply and I answered with something other than "how dare you not be nice". I knew there was more to your comment than what it let appear. The part where you say you could have penn
24. 1974.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    Thank you for the not asinine recommendation, sn9.
25. 1975.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    Think about it as a closed loop system. There's a desired state, a process/plant that produces an output given the desired state, a feedback loop that brings information about the output, and a comparator between the output and th
26. 1976.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    >I do not mean this to be offensive, but of course bayonets are still sharp when their edges are not ground by use. It can't be offensive. I might have been unclear but we actively use one of them. The other is a French stabbing swo
27. 1977.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    I looked into cognitive skills on and off for some time. I started writing something to sythesize my knowledge about it and share it but I didn't as you can see (from the time management chapter, you see where the problem lies): https
28. 1978.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    “A good cook changes his knife once a year — because he cuts. A mediocre cook changes his knife once a month — because he hacks. I’ve had this knife of mine for nineteen years and I’ve cut up thousands of oxen with it, and yet the blade is
29. 1979.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    > Secondly if Palantir works on highly sensitive data it probably requires applicants to be US citizens. So essentially it is probably discriminating against Asian Americans and not citizens of other countries. My remark was about Arabi
30. 1980.▲
    by Jugurtha 10y ago

    What is the definition of Asian, here? One has to remember that Middle Eastern countries and Pakistan are in Asia. Given the nature of what Palantir does, it is easy to guess why it would discriminate against a certain category of people wh