RogerL

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by RogerL 11y ago
This is what puzzles me. It did seem like stonewalling. But I also believe a non-math savvy person could take a course, cram the formulas, and become an "expert". It's not like this guy is a PhD physics professor who is moonl
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by RogerL 11y ago
Ya, I liked the real video more. It wasn't "exciting", but it gave me a much better sense of what happened.
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by RogerL 11y ago
How much money do you think the NYT put into making this video? How much should they have? At the end of the day you are at the mercy of who shows up at the casting call, their accents, and their ability to duplicate a regional accent. Or,
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by RogerL 11y ago
No, a book is called a "book", and a class is not a book. Classes entail teaching, homework, grades, a final exam, and TAs. You are supported in your learning efforts. A few books/textbooks are structured for self-learning, b
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by RogerL 11y ago
Lorena Barba at GW agrees with you (and so do I). Here is one of her MOOCs: http://openedx.seas.gwu.edu/courses/GW/MAE6226/2014_spring/a... She uses python & Jupyter Notebook to present the course, n
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by RogerL 11y ago
PDFs in structured folders. I.e papers papers\filtering papers\math papers\languages papers\filtering\IMM papers\filtering\MHT You get the idea. When I read I highlight using the yellow highlighter, and type
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by RogerL 11y ago
Playing blackjack is really, really, really boring (really!). There's a reason professional gamblers call it a 'grind'. There are mathematical systems to beat blackjack (counting cards, change your bets when the odds are in&#
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by RogerL 11y ago
My book uses Jupyter Notebook, which uses MathJax for LaTeX generation, and of course Python or any of the other 30 or so kernels available for software. I haven't done JS with it for animation because I also want to support print, b
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by RogerL 11y ago
Define "best". We've used a quarter million dollar one at my current company, and at a previous job we spent far, far more than that for military airframes. Groves "Principles of GNSS, Inertial, and Multisensor Navigatio
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by RogerL 11y ago
I was in defense - avionics, mostly. It was pretty great in the mid-late 90s as military aircraft were retrofitting to use GPS and digital navigation. Things got harder after most of the airframes were upgraded. I ended up doing an augmente
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by RogerL 11y ago
You don't sound "pained", you sound complicit.
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by RogerL 11y ago
Okay, if I replace auto, then you know that employee is of type "EmployeeRec". Happy? Of course not. That still tells you basically nothing. Surely it does not tell you what the store function does (I argue 'storeXXX' is
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by RogerL 11y ago
As I just posted to his blog: How about instead you use proper names? "Results" is a terrible name. So is "i". That is why you can't understand that code. Your 'fix' is still unreadable - the struct is rar
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by RogerL 11y ago
Who is claiming she is insane? She has the gene for it, the question is is she actually seeing these colors. Seems easy to test. You can test if I see reds, for example, even if you are color blind. Example: here's a rose petal that sh
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by RogerL 11y ago
As the article states, the town has existed for 400 years, and until the 1950s mining was done with tunnels, not open pits.
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by RogerL 11y ago
> Many hiring managers view that as fulfilling your initial obligations after being hired (hiring expense etc.). Some do. I'd rather have somebody leave ASAP so I can bring somebody in that will stay, be happy, and excel at the job.
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by RogerL 11y ago
The question is: what language should I use for HPC. An answer is Python. If you use C for HPC (the way you mean it) it will be slow as a dog. Because HPC is done with BLAS, LAPACK, etc. If you do HPC in C you are calling into BLAS and LAPA
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by RogerL 11y ago
NumPy/SciPy's install page tells you to use Anaconda (or equivalent) for Windows, and build from repositories for Linux. http://www.scipy.org/install.html Granted, it does not say "and by the way, when you do
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by RogerL 11y ago
"No one does this or asks for it" despite it being pretty easy to do is a good signal that there is no demand for it. Not a perfect signal, but a good one.
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by RogerL 11y ago
Recoll? http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ Haven't used it, I'm a Windows guy. I searched for "Everything for linux" (Everything by voidtools does this functionality for windows, and is fantastic
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by RogerL 11y ago
"isn't the worst" is a pretty low bar. As for your challenge, just about anyone I have worked for and respected. You don't know them, so you can use a No True Scotsman defense, I guess. That won't change that ego&#x
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by RogerL 11y ago
Okay, let's say you lose the genetic gamble, and you test poorly on these algorithms. I've seen no claim that they are are infallible, they just find correlations. If the correlation is not 1, it is measuring some people poorly (f
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by RogerL 11y ago
My "centralized solution" is my career. I've successfully done a lot of hard work, I can speak intelligently about it, what more do you want? (generic you, not OP you)
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by RogerL 11y ago
This is still true. This library uses Eigen, that one uses Boost, the other one uses a home grown one. And then you want to use another library, it uses Eigen (yay!), but an old version of Eigen and it won't compile against the current
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by RogerL 11y ago
Let's say for the sake of argument that there is a positive correlation. Should you use it? I argue probably not. You will be selecting for one "type" of person. Maybe people that do well on these tests are bad at, I dunno, c
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by RogerL 11y ago
I don't see how this measures analytical capabilities. For example, people with mild ADHD will probably fair poorly on your tests. Now, if you are hiring for something that requires profound attention to detail (dispensing medicines in
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by RogerL 11y ago
Yes, this is the new (ab)normal, unfortunately. No one has any evidence whatsoever that all these hoops have any relevance to on the job performance. All we can do is push back. Be clear with HR on what you expect from the interview (I need
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by RogerL 11y ago
"No problem, I'll revert it all." - direct quote from the so-called "prima donna".
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by RogerL 11y ago
How am I, a voter, supposed to know that long ago somebody hid something that wasn't even able to be discovered in the court he was in at the time?
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by RogerL 11y ago
I spent weeks and weeks doing the same thing over and over - multiply these 2 digit numbers together. Multiply these three digit numbers together. next week? 4 digit numbers!!! Some people needed to do that, some didn't. What is wrong

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