Rayhem

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by Rayhem 5y ago
I've often seen academics abbreviate their (highly uncommon) jargon in their papers and, short of a very firm length requirement, I don't understand why. My brain has to stop and parse it out every time I see it if the acronym isn
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by Rayhem 5y ago
I just played and failed, only to get "Sorry, the word was GIBBY" with a link to the "definition" of GIBBY[1] on dictionary.com. Spoiler alert: according to dictionary.com, GIBBY isn't a word. [1]: https:/&#x2
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by Rayhem 5y ago
> Still a black box. Unless everything is open—open language, open interpreter, open compiler—then it’s not open. Then literally nothing is open because no one is doing any significant computing on a fully-open hardware stack.
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by Rayhem 5y ago
Is this really an argument, though? Certainly for any communication style X, some people will struggle with X. Even then, if, for example, speaking demonstrably had far fewer "strugglers", does that automatically make it preferabl
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by Rayhem 5y ago
Design products so this isn't a problem in the first place.
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by Rayhem 5y ago
I think the "some reason" is fairly obvious: if you don't move fast in a competitive area (i.e. where the money is), someone else will and they'll eat your lunch.
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by Rayhem 5y ago
There's also something to be said for automated "road trains". There are enormous aerodynamic benefits if 20 or 30 (autonomous) vehicles can communicate and link up with each other to drive at exactly the same speed.
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by Rayhem 5y ago
> They are not innovative. I really, really don't want to see the post office innovate on the timescales of startups. IMO "more reliable" > "more features" for this kind of work. I don't want someone thin
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by Rayhem 5y ago
> Fastest known matrix multiplication algorithm... ...for general matrices. Fourier transforms do indeed diagonalize circulant matrices[1], making their multiplications O(2 n log n + n) -> O(n log n). [1]: https://en.wikipe
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by Rayhem 5y ago
I guess things are a spectrum. I've worked on research projects where understanding and developing the algorithm is the research. There isn't really an "input data set" other than a handful of parameters that are really
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by Rayhem 5y ago
> I’ve only ever seen it in the context of frustrated newbie candidates complaining that they have to put in some non-coding effort in order to get hired. This surprises me because I've generally heard hiring is broken because of ho
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by Rayhem 5y ago
I suspect the Eric Wastl (AoC developer) wants this project to remain solely his and this is mostly a polite way to wave away all contributions in one go. I believe he has said he has way more problem ideas than time to implement them as-
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by Rayhem 5y ago
"A vector is a thing with both magnitude and direction" isn't really a good definition. Cars have both -- an SUV is larger than a sedan, establishing a magnitude, and they obviously point in a direction -- but I don't th
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by Rayhem 5y ago
As the great Shug Emery[1] says, "You only get to be new at something once, so enjoy it!" [1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/shugemery
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by Rayhem 5y ago
Pointers are probably in the same category (ha). Notoriously difficult to grasp as a beginner, notoriously difficult to understand why they're difficult to grasp after you "get it", and rife with subpar analogies like "p
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by Rayhem 5y ago
It can be said that everything is traveling through spacetime "at c (the speed of light)". The math works out such that the faster you move through space, the slower you move through time and vice versa.
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by Rayhem 5y ago
My authentic self wouldn't be caught dead at work. I'm only at work to acquire the means to be my authentic self at places that...aren't work.
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by Rayhem 5y ago
I had a hand in fixing this to properly handle Gaussian EM units! It took a bit of doing to make grams^0.5 viable...
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by Rayhem 5y ago
There's one prompt in ZSH, the adam2 prompt[1], that I completely fell in love with due to the automatic horizontal rule since it makes tracing histories so much easier when dealing with long-scrolling outputs. I've never been abl
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by Rayhem 5y ago
I definitely believe they're correlated, but are there any studies demonstrating a causal relationship?
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by Rayhem 5y ago
This doesn't at all track as an argument. The US government is far larger than the Unicode Consortium, and I do feel that the government should work on fixing some of our crumbling infrastructure. That does not at all mean I should joi
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by Rayhem 5y ago
Rust always makes me so sad because it's vastly better designed than the languages I use day-to-day, but I just have no opportunity to use it in a professional capacity where I'm at now.
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by Rayhem 6y ago
<sarcasm>My employer told me a 23-step code submission process, across five tools, that takes four days to run all the tests is fast enough. Is that fast enough?</sarcasm>
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by Rayhem 6y ago
Also the right who view tax simplification as a tax increase. The idea being that people are less involved with the process if they just click OK, and are therefore more accommodating of tax increases.
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by Rayhem 6y ago
Location: Detroit, Michigan Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, particularly Europe Technologies: C++, Fortran, Python, UE4, computational math/science (FFTW, Eigen, plotting/visualization, etc.) Résumé/CV: A
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by Rayhem 6y ago
I'm a native vim-er now so a lot of it is second nature, but there's absolutely nothing about "modal" that suggests one mode is "commands + navigation" a priori. For instance, why isn't navigation a comman
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by Rayhem 6y ago
> Are you going to force products to use higher cost and higher impact materials like brass and aluminum? The post above you didn't suggest using higher impact materials like brass and aluminum, they suggested making manufacturers p
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by Rayhem 6y ago
Wouldn't this directed graph endorsement approach just devolve into more followers = more endorsements? There's nothing built into the system to ensure quality whatsoever.
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by Rayhem 6y ago
> I want to do science, not academia. Don't get me wrong, I come from the same background you do and have similar wishes, but isn't this just "I want to do the things I like and not the things I don't" (which is
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by Rayhem 6y ago
This is phenomenally interesting to me because that very question led me to understand a lot more about the nature of units themselves. In particular, EM practitioners often use "Gaussian units" that name the math much cleaner (fa

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