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by bob457 7y ago
I thought this was going to be an interesting article. Then I read >At first glance, this is sound—even admirable—advice for aspiring business leaders. But a closer look at Klarman’s remarks, as well as the origins and trajectory of his
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by bob457 7y ago
I took two semester of graduate level applied analysis. The reals still don’t make sense to me. Those were definitely the hardest classes I’ve taken.
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by bob457 7y ago
Everything has an impact. The ultimate act of conservation is suicide. Few are that committed. We are all hypocrites.
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by bob457 7y ago
The revulsion a lot folks express at one based indexing is always bizarre to me. I write code in c, python and matlab. Switching between these is really not that hard. The two indexing models just seem to be convenient/painful for diff
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by bob457 7y ago
The article may be old, but as if 6 months ago (the last time I tried Julia), the complaints about the jit were still valid. Typing something into the repl with a syntax error took tens of seconds to produce an error. Creating an array with
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by bob457 7y ago
I used to smoke a bowl almost every night. I quit because it had a number of affects on me I didn’t like: (1) it made me sleep poorly. (2) it made me paranoid/anxious, as in I would become hyper focused on all the ways my life could hy
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by bob457 7y ago
This xkcd provides a surprisingly effective metric: https://xkcd.com/1301/
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by bob457 7y ago
I think HN follows the aesthetic, to a good extent, of a sparse text based doc page. Those kinds of sites rank high in my personal trustworthiness rubric. The more something has been “designed”, the more the sight falls into the untrustwort
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by bob457 7y ago
Also in EE, and I don’t know anybody using SNOPT for solving any kind of optimization (of which there are many).
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by bob457 7y ago
My field is control systems. Every academic I know, and every paper I’ve read which mentions a software stack, uses matlab/simulink. Simulink appears to me to have no good alternative (maybe jmodelica or something?) There are some pyt
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by bob457 7y ago
It seems to me that one of the difficulties we have with making robots is trying to model them too closely after ourselves. We don’t have a humanoid maid, but we do have a roomba; similarly for lots of industrial automation. Home automation
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by bob457 7y ago
I agree. I print or buy the book for anything I want to read in depth. The ease of sticking a finger or scrap of paper between pages for easy reference is vastly underrated. Also underrated is how easy it is find find something in paper boo
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by bob457 7y ago
Two pieces of software I’ve had to work with for the last five years are matlab and labview. Say what you will about matlab, I think the documentation is the best I’ve seen anywhere. The labview documentation is some of the worst I’ve seen.
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by bob457 7y ago
I always see people say how great gmail search is, as does the author in this article. This befuddles me. Gmail search often leaves out results I know are there, and sometimes comes up erroneously empty. I can verify this, because I store m