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   by atrettel 3y ago

   I'd go further and say that employers are also motivated to keep corporate hardware and personal hardware separate for security reasons. Allowing personal devices direct access to corporate ones is yet another attack surface. Separat
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   by atrettel 3y ago

   I agree that buckling springs are a bit of an acquired taste nowadays given how niche they are. I like them a lot, but I grew up typing on a Model M, so maybe I'm just acclimated to them. Beyond nostalgia, I like buckling springs beca
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   by atrettel 3y ago

   Location: Los Alamos, NM, US Remote: Open to remote, hybrid, and in person (depends on location) Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C, C++, Fortran, Java, Message Passing Interface (MPI), Python (Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy), SQL (
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   by atrettel 3y ago

   I recommend reading What Engineers Know and How They Know It by Walter Vincenti [1]. The book is directed towards mechanical and aerospace engineers, but discusses the philosophy and epistemology of engineering as a discipline via severa
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   by atrettel 3y ago

   Or, as the saying goes, "Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes." - [1] [1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2022/01/02/computer-mistakes/
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   by atrettel 3y ago

   You're right that the addition vs. multiplication issue likely does not matter on a modern chip. I just gave the example because it shows how the CPU architecture can affect how you write the code. I do not recall precisely when or w
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   by atrettel 3y ago

   Yes and no. MPI and OpenMP are the primary abstractions from the hardware in HPC, with MPI being an abstracted form of distributed-memory parallel computing and OpenMP being an abstracted form of shared-memory parallel computing. Many rese
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   by atrettel 3y ago

   I took a course on scientific computing in 2013. It was cross-listed under both the computer science and applied math departments. The issue is that the field is pretty broad overall and a lot of topics were covered in a cursory manner, i
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   by atrettel 3y ago

   You raise a good point. Fortunately, I'm not a web developer but I will keep your point in mind in case I do any web development later. From a web development standpoint, the scrollbars do seem to be an ignored feature for a lot of we
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    I completely agree with this. I have only been ghosted after the interview stage twice but both times left bad feelings in my mind. I did try to contact people but did not receive a response obviously. I never applied to any jobs at thos
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    One UI feature that I love that Firefox lets you change is the scrollbars. I forget the precise settings, but I set them up so that they are always present and always big enough for me to see how far down a page I am (yes, like I'm us
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    I'm a heavy Vim user but I agree with your sentiment. I learned Vim during some down time in my first job out of college. It is a great skill to have in my opinion. It helps me complete complicated text editing quickly and easily, e
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    One advantage of lab notebooks that the article does not mention is that by design, the pages are firmly bound to the book, so you cannot lose them. I started to use lab notebooks because I would otherwise just write thoughts on loose-leaf
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    I hate making two posts, but I remembered there is also an CFD industry job board that you may find useful: https://www.cfd-online.com/Jobs/ Many of the positions unfortunately are for grad students and postdocs, but t
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    1. You should look look for jobs that mention terms like computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite volume methods (FVM), and other numerical methods. It's difficult in a short post to list everything, but terms like large eddy simula
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    > affordable housing programs in large apartment towers have turned out to be hotbeds of societal ills, so nobody wants to build high-density affordable housing The problem isn't with high-density affordable housing but with buildin
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    > I really dislike large stores. They are so overwhelming. I find the average grocery store in the US to be way too big. Some retailers actually intentionally make the stores overwhelming and disorienting since they believe that it incre
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    This phenomena is sometimes called the "sophomore slump" [1] in some creative industries and "second-system effect" [2] in software development. To add to your excellent list of reasons why this happens, I'd also a
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    Yes, linear regression is often quite good, especially if you have a good sense of what transformations you already need to do to the data to make linear regression work well. I think that many people unfortunately think that advanced tech
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    I played an earlier version of Endless Sky but haven't kept up with the recent developments. I agree that combat in Endless Sky is a lot harder than in EV and really is not worth it until you can get a quite decent ship and get good a
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    What changes to the incentive structure do you think would help here? Blacklisting seems appropriate for repeat offenders but I'd be more interested in changing the incentives for funding to prevent fraud in the first place. The prob
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    I can sympathize with the idea of a "scientific police force" looking for fraud, but the fact is that we already attempt the appearance of that through peer review. The problem is that peer review right now only provides the appea
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    For those unfamiliar with the story of Jan Hendrik Schön, I suggest watching this excellent series of videos by BobbyBroccoli on YouTube [1-3]. The series does a good job breaking down the context and the situation that Schön was in, along
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    There is no way to opt out of credit reporting. Lenders report the information to the credit bureaus, typically all three of the big ones, so if you want no information reported, simply close all your credit cards and loans, etc. and place
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    I think that much of what you propose is already enacted in practice, at least for many federal employees who are not political appointees, etc. Elected representatives are another matter entirely. Many federal employees do in fact have to
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    Weird, I was peer reviewing a manuscript earlier today and actually thought of something similar. The manuscript needs some work to improve its English and I wondered if some of the broken English passages were a test to see what nonsense
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    When I got my PhD (at a public university), I almost got charged for the out-of-state part of this fictitious tuition because I did not switch my residency to the state where I got my PhD. The requirements for residency were pretty onerous
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    Not getting an offer after 10 interviews may seem concerning at first, but based on my experience there is a lot left to chance here. I typically get offers after 25% of jobs that I interview for. If I had 10 interviews, I would have a 94
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    I used to run middle distance in high school track and won several races in the 400m or 800m events. At the collegiate and professional levels, there is a lot of specialization from what I know, but at the lower levels there are a lot of p
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    by atrettel 3y ago

    I agree. I've applied to approximately 50 data scientist/engineer positions over the last few years. I have not received a single interview despite having a PhD in a quantitative field and several years of industry and research