ajdecon

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by ajdecon 16y ago
People like to work on what they're interested in, and share it. If you've spent a long time becoming a skilled programmer, you probably have a strong interest in software in general and you'd like for a lot of people to use what you make.
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by ajdecon 16y ago
The kind of understanding and appreciation you're talking about, where you " see " the math, can be hard to get to. For me I never found it until I started doing math in applied contexts such as physics or computer science. My "eureka" mom
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Especially in high-energy physics and in (I think) cosmology, the community is small enough that the arXiv is basically the primary means of communication. Peer review is everyone looking at the article and talking about what they mean. P
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by ajdecon 16y ago
I'm a grad student in the sciences, so most of my code is developed to analyze and visualize experimental data. (mostly various types of 3D image data) Since I often don't understand what my data is trying to tell me at first glance, the
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Well, I guess so, as I do write code on a regular basis. But again no, because part of me thinks "programmer" should describe someone whose job it is to produce software, and my code is not the purpose of my work. I'm a scientist: my job i
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Nope, the note names are consistent across time signatures. A quarter note is defined as the note which takes one quarter of a bar in 4/4 time.
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by ajdecon 16y ago
My favorite lately has been Pandemic. If you haven't played it, you should try it out: it's a collaborative board game (players vs game) that feels like a faster-playing Risk, you playing vs diseases across the world. Other games I play wh
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by ajdecon 16y ago
http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2009/01/fan-death-is-real.htm...
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Really late, but thanks!
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Eh, I dunno. He did get really pedantic in that part, but you do run into a lot of circuit analysis that seems to forget that there are actual charged particles moving around in there. And that is really helpful to remember when you wan
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by ajdecon 16y ago
On the one hand, I really like this article in general. It's a pretty clear explanation of how transistors work physically, without requiring too much knowledge of semiconductor physics. Though I don't think he introduced the idea of holes
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Out of curiosity, can you post a link to the "hello, world" article?
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Most of the Asus netbooks have the types of keyboard layouts you refer to (with numlock, scrolllock relegated to Fn+ keys). I don't know about their bigger laptops.
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by ajdecon 16y ago
If it's a lot cheaper than regular clothes, make it fashionable/slutty and call it disposable club-wear.
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Sometimes a term becomes so strongly associated with unethical behavior that it can't be used in a more positive context. I think this is true for "SEO". In theory there should be no cognitive bias against the idea of optimizing a site de
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Probably what he means is that most "research scientist" or "research engineer" jobs out there require a PhD. Though there are a fair number at larger labs that only ask for a masters. But: >I'm not sure what this means--no-one can st
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by ajdecon 16y ago
I think it is, in the specific case of the generation Facebook initially targeted: college students in 2004. It's enough time for most of them to get their first job or two, and for some large fraction of them to start building a life with
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Thanks for the advice. Any advice on the best scripting languages to play with on this? I've got some experience with python and I'm working on getting better, but I don't know if there's a better choice in this domain. Industry or a diffe
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Thanks, that's an excellent list of resources! (And also a good blog for me to check out in general.) But in addition to learning the topic I'm also looking for advice on handling this kind of course correction.
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Ask HN: how to get into a data analysis / machine learning career?
11 points by ajdecon 16y ago|5 comments
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Indeed. One of the things I've learned as a graduate student is that the department secretary is the single most important person in the department, at least for a student. They will likely be the one to schedule your exams, order your su
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by ajdecon 16y ago
Sure. But you send faxes how often? A few times a year? If you're sending faxes all the time and you know how to do it, they're mostly pretty reliable. This is especially true within narrow communities of companies who use it all the ti
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Recent trends in grade inflation at American universities(gradeinflation.com)
20 points by ajdecon 17y ago|36 comments
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by ajdecon 17y ago
To me it sounds like you want to be using a tool like Matlab or matplotlib in python to automatically generate various types of plots from your data. There are a wide variety of books about Matlab, and I don't really know one better than t
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by ajdecon 17y ago
No personal experience with an early-stage non-profit, but it seems like the best way to acquire funding would be to look for government grants or grants from larger non-profits. The government funds a lot of ideas which they don't have th
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by ajdecon 17y ago
I like this a lot, but I have to wonder how many dishes are made up entirely of ingredients which qualify as "printable" in this extruded-gel fashion. Possibly it could be combined with a pick-and-place printer for discrete/solid component
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Michigan Tech
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by ajdecon 17y ago
"Rather not" isn't necessarily the same as "unwilling". If it's work you'd simply find unpleasant or boring but would still do if it had to be done, delegating it is not a bad thing. (With perhaps the caveat that you should do it at least
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by ajdecon 17y ago
Net message (of this and other posts on the startup experience) seems to be that it can be great to be a founder, but startups suck as employers. If you aren't the company-founding type, you're far better off working for an established com
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by ajdecon 17y ago
(b) is almost certain. I have trouble believing no one at Google thought, "I have people in my email contacts I don't want to share with on Buzz." They probably thought that these cases would be in a tiny minority, and that they could resp

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