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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I did some lab work at my university synthetizing materials for Li ion battery anodes as part of my honors thesis in Materials Engineering almost 15 years ago now. My side of the project mostly concerned the method we were using to manufact
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I live in Australia when I first signed up for a credit card through my bank they issued me with both a Mastercard and an American Express card linked to the same credit account. It seemed to me they really wanted to push Amex as they offer
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
>I am concerned tho that preference voting (is that the right word?) gives people too many opportunities to screw up—there are too many things that can go wrong on the ballot Here in Australia you number the box next to the candidates na
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I think everyone will have a different definition. In my opinion the "Role Playing" element is the ability for the game player to make deliberate choices which alter the character progression. It can seem somewhat arbitrary. But t
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
>motivation doesn't get results. Discipline does. I think it depends on the type of motivation, when I think back to my time at high school (Australia in the 90's) there was a contrast between how English was taught and how Mat
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
>professors had a rule that all programming assignment submissions must compile and run on their servers running Solaris This is what made me learn Linux, my universities comp sci also ran Solaris and required the assignments run under t
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I work in manufacturing (large industrial plant) and the data processes we have are honestly not great - mostly it is because there are a heap of legacy system and not a lot of commonality between our data sources we have a hideous mashup o
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I think there is some generalizing here I grew up in an Australian City in the 90's. Even back then kids weren't clamoring to play outside in the street. Or ride bikes etc (there was a clique at school who were skateboarders but n
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
>Highly constrain your inputs and limit what the robot is supposed to accomplish and you will have an achievable goal. I think this is the key take away. I work in an industrial plant we have a large amount of things that are automated b
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
Internally yes they probably convert but it is not exposed anywhere, kind of like Chemical reaction you convert everything to Mols internally to do the calculations but externally you report all of the inputs as a mass. The control system w
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
Output on control system HMI Scada screens for stuff like Tilt Drives are all in degrees as well, in this respect it's like the Kelvin scale. Control system doesn't display thermocouple readings in Kelvin either (at plant I work a
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I'm a materials engineer, off the top of my head, the first thing that comes to mind when you mention access to improved metallurgy is lighter, stronger materials and the impact that would have on construction. That could have lead to
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
This happens with SQL a lot where people copy and paste queries all over the place. Especially for reports, there's always the case where some quick and dirty report was thrown together in 20 mins ends up as something managers can&#x27
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
There is potential for integrating ML with time series data in industrial applications (things like smelters, reactors etc.), where you have continuous stream of time series measurements from things like gauges and thermocouples. If you can
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I think it helps if the parents set an example. I grew up in the 90's in a house full of readers, reading was normalized. Until about age 10 my parents would read to my sisters and I every night. It was part of the bedtime routine. We
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
Math and Science questions in general chat bots seem to struggle with. I've asked the chat bot that Microsoft Bing uses (not sure what brand or version it is) Chemistry questions - In the format "Is the reaction between X and Y Ex
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
Does it need to be live (i.e when database or underlying spreadsheet updates does it need to be reflected in real time on the dashboard) or are you ok with static display. Live updating data is a pain I've messed around using javascrip
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
Diagrams are what I tend to use as well, my background is Engineering (the non software kind) for solving engineering problems one of the first thing we are taught to do at uni is to sketch out the problem and I have somewhat carried that h
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
When you mention linking to physics are you talking about Parametric equations? i.e something like, Distance, Velocity and Acceleration with respect to Time. Velocity is rate of change of Distance in respect to time (ds/dt) Acceleratio
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
Zork Nemesis one of my favorite games from the 90's was heavily inspired by Myst it was one of the first games I played where I felt immersed in the game world.
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by bigger_cheese 3y ago
I work at an industrial plant (steel mill) - "Walking the floor" is still taught to current managers I think it comes out of LEAN manufacturing or similar. It is supposed to be an informal thing, so not looking over people shoulde
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by bigger_cheese 3y ago
Thanks for sharing, good article. I work in the Steel industry but was not all that familiar with the US history, my experience from the last 20 years is that the JKT area (Japan, Korea, Taiwan) have been the leaders with innovative technol
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by bigger_cheese 3y ago
>You can always use different databases for different use cases. Unfortunately this is not always realistic, especially in large organizations, I know where I am there is a big push from top (i.e the IT budget people) to standardize ever
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by bigger_cheese 3y ago
Yes Bundaberg Lemon Lime and Bitters is excellent. I believe they were originally an alcohol company Bundaberg Rum, is a relatively popular spirit.
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by bigger_cheese 3y ago
I Use SAS reports in my job pretty heavily I'm keen to find alternatives - this looks pretty promising. One thing in particular I'm interested in but could not see an example for is if this will let you insert "break lines&qu
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by bigger_cheese 3y ago
Yep this is my experience here in Australia, the manned checkouts are understaffed the stores want to deliberately funnel you into the self checkout.
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by bigger_cheese 3y ago
I think it depends a lot on usage, I have a "real email" and consider my gmail address as "disposable", I use it to sign up for websites etc, whenever a form ask me to include an email address I will use my gmail address
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by bigger_cheese 3y ago
Personally in my experience office hours were not that helpful, I was working fulltime at a factory while I was attending university, I simply did not have time to hang around professors offices (My Manager allowed me time off to attend lec
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by bigger_cheese 3y ago
Perhaps you can limit to training only on peer reviewed sources. The peer review process is imperfect but it is perhaps the closest thing we have to flagging something as the "best" answer for a particular topic. History (maybe ex
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by bigger_cheese 3y ago
I'm Australian, I started high school in 1996, what stuck out to me was lack of computer literacy in the vast majority of teachers. It wasn't uncommon for students to know more than the teachers. We had the occasional teacher who

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