curlcntr

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by curlcntr 1y ago
github, youtube posts, for my hobby have small visibility. Doesn't matter. I enjoy the project for fun of creating and building.
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by curlcntr 1y ago
Open source hybrid piano. Been a very part-time hobby for several years.
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by curlcntr 6y ago
I put this on the back of my phone after completing my PhD. "in the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few" - Shunryu Suzuki
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by curlcntr 6y ago
Great quotes! I had an EE graduate degree (systems, dsp, control...) and returned to school for a physical chemistry graduate degree. Initially was nervous about my first QM class but as Hamming noted so much of the math is similar.
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by curlcntr 7y ago
And something else for any future intelligent species: Today, fossils are dug up and flown around the world to museums etc. We publish but if that storage doesn't last or is undecipherable, future civilizations might have an interestin
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by curlcntr 8y ago
Its interesting to see the influence of Debussy through time. For example the wonderful work of Bill Evans.
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by curlcntr 8y ago
This might be a stupid question, but, airplanes are computerized, can they be programmed such-that they simply won't fly into buildings, cities, restricted airspace, etc..
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by curlcntr 8y ago
My team at work. We are racing to an important deadline. Everyone is working well together. Its just fun.
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by curlcntr 8y ago
And given the possibility some interviewers experiencing their own imposter syndrome, around being qualified to assess qualifications, perhaps that could explain some of the questions too.
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by curlcntr 8y ago
"naming is the origin of all particular things" - Tao Te Ching. That quote, first page, stopped me in my tracks for a long time. I often recall it when I'm tempted by the naming (categorization, abstracting, ...) of some X im
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by curlcntr 8y ago
Yeah, my first exited to $0 as well.
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by curlcntr 8y ago
With you there. My '68 Camaro, small-block, and requisite Muncie 4-speed. Can't imagine it any other way.
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by curlcntr 8y ago
Yeah, back then we would spend massive amount of time hanging around with friends, with few distractions. Cruising was popular, confined to one block, and lots of people, because if you strayed from those physical locations, there was litt
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by curlcntr 8y ago
I wonder if mid-30's could be a point of going either direction? At 34 I discovered a career passion around serving others, whereas previously the orientation was mostly toward myself. Nothing changed in my daily work, just a perspecti
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by curlcntr 8y ago
"There is a duality between zero and infinity, expressed in the elementary identity 1/0 = ∞ . If one side of the duality does not occur in nature, also the other side ought not to." It wasn't clear to me that the secon
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by curlcntr 8y ago
My company has a tuition assistance program that allowed me to complete an MS and PhD, while working full-time. Took 10 years. Loved it! And, it wasn't just the money that helped, it was also that they supported continuing education
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by curlcntr 8y ago
I enjoy combining piano and computer programming and have so many musical composition and animation ideas but they are all fragments of completion. For the past year I've been trying to finish some and put on youtube but would enjoy do
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by curlcntr 8y ago
I learned to program on my own then studied EE and hard sciences in school. Figured I already knew everything about programming. Hubris of my youth. I'd have taken more CS courses in college.
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by curlcntr 8y ago
I worked as an engineer at a startup early in my career (looong time ago). Company went under, stock => $0. However, I am extremely grateful for that time. It taught me a wide range of non-technical skills that have proved invaluable thr
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by curlcntr 8y ago
I have the book the author of that article wrote (The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw). Its an interesting book. Historical perspective on ideas is fascinating.
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by curlcntr 8y ago
Mindfulness style meditation without any goals or objectives, no clock or apps. No expectations. Just the beauty of it. For me, that has been most consistent with the nature of the practice itself.
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by curlcntr 8y ago
Yes. And, When I was younger, I would over-train, recover quickly, repeat (I run, weight train, cycle). Now, I don't heal so fast. Instead, I try to maximize my strength and fitness while simultaneously minimizing injuries. At this ag
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by curlcntr 8y ago
I saw this quote in Nature last year [1] "Viruses outnumber prokaryotes by ten to one and are said to kill half of the world's bacteria every two days" Maybe these two are locked in some sort of existential battle for Earth w
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by curlcntr 9y ago
There was an article a few years back in Chemical & Engineering News (C&E News) about food chemistry and how much time and energy, engineering and planning is put into every aspect of processed foods - flavor, texture, dynamics, con
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by curlcntr 9y ago
Yes, Wagner was a big influence on Debussy (covered well in "Afternoon of a Faun" by Snyder). Some say was an obsession. For example, to find what to do after Tristan. Prelude. Debussy wrote in 1910 - I am neither revolutionizing
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by curlcntr 9y ago
There was an interesting article in Science last month about looking at pollinators holistically - butterflies, flies, 20K species of bees, even some vertebrates - and contrasting to focus on one or a few of bee species. Unfortunately the o
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by curlcntr 9y ago
Taking this another level, and, where I thought the article was originally going, there is an internal dialog going on even with external silence. An aspect of vipassana meditation (and probably others) is when that internal noise silences.
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by curlcntr 9y ago
There's an analogy here for software and engineering too. Getting to root cause and finding solid solutions - takes curiosity, energy... and time.
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Serendipity: Towards a taxonomy and a theory(sciencedirect.com)
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by curlcntr 9y ago
Cool! Nearly all my comments so far are about books but Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics provided a turning point in my understanding of E&M.... and took over a year (of pain) to get through. On the other end of the 'spectr

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