MichailP

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by MichailP 9y ago
Thank you for the very informative and balanced comment.
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by MichailP 9y ago
I can never shake off the feeling that statistics is somewhat lacking compared to the rest of "fundamental" sciences. To me it just lacks sort of brutal honesty that is present say in physics. And how come that the math often &quo
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by MichailP 9y ago
I want to make simple FDTD mesher, maybe with non rectangular grid. For this I would need ray-object intersections and point to object shortest distance. Thanks for pointing out Embree, I was not familiar with that library.
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by MichailP 9y ago
Is there a blazingly fast library for ray object intersection? Ideally usable from python? As I understand, ShaderToy uses implicit object description, and calculates ray object intersection numerically. It is somewhat of a abuse of OpenGL,
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by MichailP 9y ago
What can an ordinary person do? Plugging out the network cable? What about laptops? Can this vulnerability hack into Wi-Fi and allow itself to the internet? But then again the moment you plug internet back in you're done.
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by MichailP 9y ago
This reminds me once again how much of our reality is in the brain. So, if you "think" you hear voices - you do, if you think the thing you hear are just your thoughts running wild - you do that and act accordingly. I guess in the
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by MichailP 9y ago
But it is somewhat dishonest. You could color the lines in the same color as the background and then you would have "illusion" of dissapearing lines, right?
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by MichailP 9y ago
This seems not to be due to curvature but due to color distribution of lines. I wonder if effect would still be visible if all lines had same color distribution.
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by MichailP 9y ago
Now this is an ideal crowd and topic to ask a question that is niggling me for a long time. What paper could you use with regular laser printers to get professionally looking printed book? The regular A4 is just too thick, and books printed
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by MichailP 9y ago
Is there a calculus based approach to statistics? Like understanding linear regression simply as a minimization problem, but ALL THE WAY ie extending to other statistical techniques?
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by MichailP 9y ago
This is so sad. Every time I read something like this a naive question appears in my head: "Why can't people just get along?". Because in the end it comes down to this: "we" against "them", where "we&
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by MichailP 9y ago
I love this snippet from Dr Gabor Mate [1], where he talks about "the myth of normal". If you haven't seen this, please take a look, it is truly wonderful. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_j5mmBa4mw
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by MichailP 9y ago
The knowledge presented in the slides will advance where you are going with your programming in the same way as knowing from which wood chess board is made will improve your ELO rating. Although learning about wood may be more worthwhile go
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by MichailP 9y ago
Are there some examples of Auto-Tune used with more subtle settings? Famous Cher song used it at setting 0, robotic sounding one, but there are 10 more to go, and they are increasingly more subtle. Also related to this, at least I think, is
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Upverter (YC W11) Acquired by Altium(blog.upverter.com)
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by MichailP 9y ago
Not necessarily, what if it is long term effect? What if it is some kind of resonance involved, i.e. it only shows it face when there is certain geometry and frequency present? Plus there were some courts rulings about phones causing cancer
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by MichailP 9y ago
Are you suggesting that microwave oven doesn't work because it doesn't use ionizing radiation? Nonionizing radiation CAN have effects on humans, and current regulations are only based on temperature effects i.e a proxy like a SAR
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by MichailP 9y ago
I wonder what occasional socially accepted sleep deprivation (staying out late, working long hours, making love all night ^^ ) does to a body. The day after does typically feel like part of you died, and that dead part has to go to work any
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by MichailP 9y ago
There was a whole course (notes for which are here [1]) dedicated to this topic, by prof. Jeremy Siek. [1] ecee.colorado.edu/ecen4553/fall09/notes.pdf
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by MichailP 9y ago
Speaking of distorting reality, you say: - 'journalist' while article says 'an enlisted man in the U.S. Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade' - 'just for the kicks' was sense I got from this paragraph of the article:
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by MichailP 9y ago
You are right, it is important to have documents. The soldier obviously had passion for photography, judging by the aesthetics of the photos. I just got irritated by the asymmetry of the situation.
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by MichailP 9y ago
Just found interesting comment from Jack Ma, about US strategy. He said that US had excellent strategy of focusing on IP and design while moving manufacturing and services to other countries. Large amounts of profits were generated, and the
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by MichailP 9y ago
The tone of the article, and the actions of main protagonist, makes a disturbing picture of war. In this setting war is fun for one side (protagonist is taking photos! just for the kicks) and life-death situation for other side. Who is the
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by MichailP 9y ago
Can someone here recommend good practical statistics book? Something with modern methods, but explained sufficiently in depth?
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by MichailP 9y ago
I think this project would gain much more traction if it was simple to integrate it within jupyter notebooks. Currently, it is possible, but FreeCAD window pops out outside of browser, or if it is inside the browser the scene is static (no
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by MichailP 9y ago
70 USD, but thanks to large institution which massively ditches 5 years old computers (which costed 1k at the time) for 30USD.
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by MichailP 9y ago
Is there some nice explanation of how the projections between various EPSG codes work? I converted one projection into another but in QGIS or in python pyproj, but except for the very basics I have no idea what is going on.
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by MichailP 9y ago
Is this true? I once heard that carbonated water is bad for liver, but never found facts to support this (until this paper). Can someone more knowledgeable please comment? People may be destroying their liver and thinking they are doing som
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by MichailP 9y ago
I think that such wide popularity of internet is driven by illegal content (music, tv shows, movies, books, etc). At least that is one of the rare thing that have some value on the internet. If you take away that, what is left? Cat memes, a
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by MichailP 9y ago
That sounds really impressive. I jumped to comment before reading the paper. I found a nice gem in David Tongs lectures [1] in chapter about Dimensional analysis. He mentions Planck legnth Lp ~ 10^-35m, for which "All indications are t

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