arcanus

51 ms·

601.
by arcanus 10y ago
> All in all, would do again, except not more than 1 a month because flying across a continent and back for 1.5 days is gruelling. This is part of the problem. Aside from college graduates, who has time to fly around the country burning
602.
by arcanus 10y ago
Came here to suggest 'Forbidden Planet'. Happy to see someone beat me to it. Monsters...Monsters from the ID!
603.
by arcanus 10y ago
His expertise is in deep learning, not that this is a surprise. Was Siri already based on neural nets?
604.
by arcanus 10y ago
Scientists are optimistic that the promise of fusion energy is only twenty years away.
605.
by arcanus 10y ago
> Pao rejected the idea that Thiel’s donation could be dismissed as political speech. We agree that people shouldn’t be fired for their political views, but this isn’t a disagreement on tax policy, this is advocating hatred and violence
606.
by arcanus 10y ago
A reminder that Soviet science used to rival the West's capabilities, or even surpass them. A pity that Russia has fallen so far behind in this regard.
607.
by arcanus 10y ago
I agree. This is the candidate of a major political party. Calling for the elimination of positions of those you disagree with is only going to make the world a more polar place. We need more discussions and less calls for firing people or
608.
by arcanus 10y ago
> raised £409,000 in July 2015, seed round investors include JamJar Investments (The Founders of Innocent), The Collective, The Founder of Treatwell/Wahanda, Force Over Mass Capital, Jim Mellon and Pi Capital. So they burned through
609.
by arcanus 10y ago
> I really enjoy the way AMD and Nvidia fight That's why I was so sad AMD was having trouble later year and hope they pull through. Competition is valuable and benefits the consumer!
610.
by arcanus 10y ago
> Xeon Phi have got more cores, 50 or 60, and the cores share memory 60 cores. Furthermore, the cores have multiple (4) hardware threads per core. So on the latest Phi (Knights Landing) you can have several hundred threads (240) running
611.
by arcanus 10y ago
> This problem is ingrained not just in New York, but a stack of “superstar” Western cities like London, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, Florida argued I can attest that it is certainly happening in Austin, TX. I suspect this is strongly
612.
Obama: We'll be debating unconditional free money over the next 10 or 20 years(businessinsider.com)
2 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
613.
by arcanus 10y ago
> If you work through the all of the textbooks in the Undergraduate Physics list of this post, and master each of the topics, you'll have gained the knowledge equivalent of a Bachelor's Degree in Physics (and will be able to sc
614.
Facebook Had an Insane Effect on Voter Registration(gizmodo.com)
3 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
615.
by arcanus 10y ago
I have a healthy dose of skepticism around the Musk personality cult that has developed. However, the two essential (and, it might be added, correct) points are: > To the extent that the electric car is a reality, it’s largely thanks to
616.
by arcanus 10y ago
Expect this to become a common offering. The big vendors are all working on this (Cray, IBM, Dell's HPC group,etc.). Furthermore, the hardware manufacturers are increasingly moving towards hardware that should effectively resolve this.
617.
by arcanus 10y ago
Did Obama sign an executive order? Or is this a motivational announcement? As a contrast, in my field (computational science) Obama signed an executive order ( https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/07&#x2
618.
by arcanus 10y ago
I worked for the better part of a decade on my phd in an office with no windows and no clocks on the wall, and a coffee machine. We liked to joke it was a near equivalent to a Vegas Casino for mathematicians.
619.
by arcanus 10y ago
Do as I say, not as I do.
620.
by arcanus 10y ago
As someone who did numerical optimization for my doctoral thesis (also mechE), this sounds more amenable to publications than a start up. Are you trying to commercialize?
621.
by arcanus 10y ago
Good point, but I'll note that many cities have technology companies that just don't get the press and hype you see for VC backed software companies in SF. There aren't that many articles about biotechnology in Boston, for in
622.
by arcanus 10y ago
> The Palace of Versailles is, in its way, one of the last dim shadows of the Han court Lots of arguments are a pretty big stretch in this article.
623.
by arcanus 10y ago
> Bosses such as Messrs. Chiat, Ellison and Lucas became widely known as “the guy” to work for in their industries because of all the prominent people who had come through their organizations and gone on to spectacular careers. Similar t
624.
by arcanus 10y ago
Oil is certainly 'high tech'. These firms employ literally thousands of engineers.
625.
by arcanus 10y ago
> From his hotel room, Kabbaj called Michael Sherwood, one of Goldman’s top London executives, who said the bank would do whatever it took to get them out. Goldman’s security team called back, telling Kabbaj it was looking at options for
626.
by arcanus 10y ago
> if it can be outsourced to a university lab Thankfully, my work is sufficiently specialized and my background is strong enough I am not easily replaced. However, like many on HN I'm not representative of the general population a
627.
by arcanus 10y ago
> Dismiss its wage problems at your own peril. It's far worse than this. In my field, even in industry I have had far more lucrative offers from quantitative hedge funds than any industrial research labor. Let alone staying in aca
628.
by arcanus 10y ago
Which, due to the drag over several miles, would be an impossible shot. I've not heard of subsonic rounds being used at distances over five hundred yards, and even that is a very difficult shot for that low velocity.
629.
by arcanus 10y ago
> hardly oppression of the worst degree. The symbolism is what is important. A government that tells you what to dress will certainly not stop with benign restrictions.
630.
by arcanus 10y ago
Also CFD guy, completely agree with the above. Quantum computers have several algorithms for various applications, such ashort shors for factorization. Not aware of any algos for CFD. Perhaps a rarefied gas dynamics, bolts man distribution

More ›