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541.
by blt 6y ago
Yeah I guess "extension" is not a precisely defined word. I wanted to make sure other readers didn't interpret like "generalization", meaning that the original narrow concept is precisely a special case of the exten
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by blt 6y ago
I would not call the SVD an "extension" of the eigen decomposition. The SVD is also defined for square matrices and is not equal to the eigen decomposition except for the case of symmetric matrices. This leads to the question: for
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by blt 6y ago
I've been pretty unenthusiastic about the idea of replacing my Macbook Pro after they removed the MagSafe connector and HDMI ports. However, if the ARM laptops run cool enough to actually use on your lap, it might be worth it. Knowing
544.
by blt 6y ago
Matlab is very strong for controls, well beyond anything I've seen in Python, but for general numerical work and plotting I feel its advantages over numpy+scipy+matplotlib (if any) cannot justify the cost and loss of freedom.
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by blt 6y ago
Really? I thought the simplex method was kind of the opposite of an interior point method.
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by blt 6y ago
Imo, time spent on estimating would usually be better spent on design review and careful thinking about what the product should actually do. In a project with clear goals and vision, it's usually not hard to see what needs to be done.
547.
by blt 6y ago
I think this might seem more interesting for programmers who are mostly used to working with human readable textual serialization formats.
548.
by blt 6y ago
Pixel-aligned sharp edges were super important on low-DPI displays, but they are increasingly less important. A one-pixel line on a phone screen is tiny, so most designs will use lines of more than one pixel. A pixel-perfect 3-pixel line do
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by blt 6y ago
conda seems to spend a lot of time in a SAT solver or something to deal with the known NP-complete problem of dependency resolution [1]. Maybe pip doesn't do the same thing for requirements.txt setups? [1] https://research.s
550.
by blt 6y ago
There is no conflict if you use LaTeX :)
551.
by blt 6y ago
I'm not a DSP person, but I thought the term "transfer function" was more typically used in reference to Laplace transforms of linear time-invariant dynamical systems. Is it also common to use it for state-space mappings like
552.
by blt 6y ago
This is great! I might add a slide or two about Makefiles. Probably the topic is too big and out of scope, but inexperienced Unix users may not realize that they are useful for so much more than compiling multi-file C programs.
553.
by blt 6y ago
I have a Linux desktop and Mac laptop. I am considering installing Windows so I can run this simulator. Maybe that is the real business motivation for its release :)
554.
by blt 6y ago
X-Plane is pretty good. Several of the default small aircraft have a Garmin 530 GPS navigator from that era. It simulates interacting with the with buttons and knobs. Entering waypoint names is realistically slow :)
555.
by blt 7y ago
Has it been updated for C++20?
556.
by blt 7y ago
The pixel 3a is not water resistant, as far as I know.
557.
by blt 7y ago
Is this tangential advice, or an argument that the current tools are good enough?
558.
by blt 7y ago
I agree - it has a nice high contrast and I didn't really see any significant flaws.
559.
by blt 7y ago
I'm waiting for Apple to release an ARM laptop before I consider upgrading my 2013 rMBP.
560.
by blt 7y ago
The aviation community has developed a lot of interesting insights into human decision making. The concept of "pilot workload" is important. Most accidents happen under high pilot workload. An example of high workload is the takeo
561.
by blt 7y ago
By "physics" do you mean actual laws of physics, or "which wall contains the plumbing"?
562.
by blt 7y ago
None of those SVM parameters stick out as obviously unnecessary to me. What alternative do you propose for functions that have many minor variants with a large common core, and many hyperparameters?
563.
by blt 7y ago
Do you have an ownership stake in the company?
564.
by blt 7y ago
If I worked from home and my employer asked me to install a server in my home, I would tell them to go fuck themselves. It's noisy, it takes up space, and presumably I'm on call to fix it if it breaks. You should pay them an extr
565.
by blt 7y ago
Survivorship bias at work. Unix was a reaction against failed complex designs. So was the F-16, maybe a better example in military aviation because the SR-71 had such a unique purpose. Popular and complex things from that era have been forg
566.
by blt 7y ago
I'm turned off by the invocation of quantum mechanics here. Most applications of Bayesian statistics have nothing to do with QM, so "it's not compatible with QM" doesn't seem like a strong argument. QM is the number
567.
by blt 7y ago
yeah, LaTeX tries really hard to avoid such a short trailing line.
568.
by blt 7y ago
> Most airlines won't tell you your aircraft when you book a ticket I don't think this is remotely true. I just checked Delta and British Airways; both show the aircraft type in "details". (Pick the 747 flights from B
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by blt 7y ago
I'd say the aerator and toy are analogous to software bugs, but the wheel bearing is a wear item. Even the best-engineered hardware has parts that wear out. That kind of planned maintenance has no equivalent in software.
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by blt 7y ago
OK... Your point is that there exist comments that could follow from the racist premise "all Indians are bad people", but are also justifiable by non-racist premises like "most scammers are Indian"? Thanks for explaini

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