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That's basically it for me. Sometimes, I generate data from some very large programs and it's more practical and scalable to process that data outside of Python. In addition, most often, I put the plots inside of a LaTeX generat
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What workflow does everyone else use for generating a large number of plots? Personally, I've used both gnuplot and Veusz quite a bit. In gnuplot, my workflow has been: 1. Write a bunch of scripts in Python or MATLAB/Octave to se
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One other nice benefit to this project is determining name mangling schemes when linking to other Fortran projects using a pure LLVM toolchain. Say we want to use BLAS and LAPACK in a C/C++ project that uses clang as the compiler. All
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I've been a paying member for years. For me, it's been good: service has been reliable; email gets delivered; when I did use them for hosting, pages were served; I've filed 2-3 tickets over that time and each was handled qui
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I believe that there are simple modifications that could be done now to the existing system. Namely, why are reviews typically single blind, where the author doesn't know the referees, but not double blind? Certainly, the reviewers c
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I have hundreds of bookmarks stored across dozens of folders based on topic. I've been burned in the past with Google changing their search algorithm and not being able to find material easily, so I just bookmark everything I want to
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As a side note, I really like that Wikipedia page. Does anyone know of an RSS feed that scrapes these links day by day or does Wikipedia provide one directly?
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That does indeed look neat. At the same time, there are extensions to CalDAV that codify how to add scheduling to the standard. Namely, RFC 6638: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6638 Certainly, it's something tha
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I'm actually a little curious as to what sort of workflow others are using for their calendars. Personally, I use a terminal/text based program named khal: https://lostpackets.de/khal/ to view and edit calen
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I wanted to echo this experience. I agree that reviewers are generally looking for novelty and difficulty. Unfortunately, difficulty can translate into a system where reviewers create small fiefdoms: This isn't difficult enough for
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A similar trend happened in the sewing machine world. Basically, most of the manufacturing of the machines moved to Asia where the quality control dropped and the designs used cheaper parts. Even premium brands like Bernina moved their ma
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That's a perfectly valid point of view. I believe that's not necessary and doesn't dilute the material. That said, I believe what you propose does exclude a sizable group of people from the field, which is elitism. It&#x27
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Well, there's a lot going on in the thread, so I'll try to be more specific. The context for much of what I've been writing here, other than my own frustrations, is the OP that stated: Mathematics is not a subject reserved
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Some of the point that I was trying to make is that a large number of papers are incomprehensible for people in the field as well and often not for any good reason. Yes, sometimes it's hard to come up with good illustrations or exampl
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Off the top of my head, I'd probably say integration by parts in multiple dimensions. Generally, I see people given an outline of a proof in two dimensions for Green's theorem. I'd say it's an outline because the typic
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I don't think we need to postulate about aliens to come to a similar scenario. If someone in primary school, an undergraduate, or a practitioner asks me a question and I continue to lose them because I am unwilling to revise my explan
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As a counter point, I've a PhD in applied mathematics and I believe there's plenty of elitism in the field. Unless you're a logician following a very specific set of reduction rules that can be verified mechanically, a proof
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Yes. I'm pretty sure most of their laptops are just rebranded Clevos. I don't have enough info to track down the Galago, but something like the Gazelle: https://system76.com/laptops/gazelle Is almost certai
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I work as an applied mathematician. In general, I would say that this is incorrect. Virtually all of the papers that I read I would contend have full proofs. That said, I can sympathize with the sentiment in a certain sense. Just because
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I like the taxonomy of French and Raven's bases of power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Raven's_bases_of_po... In this framework, I tend to associate charisma with referent power, which deals with
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Very much this. In my state, it was literally a two page form requiring only my name, the company's name, and an address plus the filing fee.
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Absolutely not. Certainly, if you believe this to be the case, you can go make a $1 billion selling this software to the oil industry since full wave inversion for seismic imaging problems, one example of an inverse problem, is still an op
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There's a lot that goes into it and I can't claim that everything I believe can be strictly related to Jantelagen. That said, I believe that it takes longer to introduce and have accepted new ideas in a Scandinavian workplace. F
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As an American who lived in Scandinavia for a few years and spent a fair amount of time in Sweden, I will say that Jantelagen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante takes some getting used to and has an affect on
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I went to an engineering school that had a very difficult time with their drop out rate. One of the biggest indicators of success, meaning graduation, was the students incoming math ability. Basically, if the student came in and took anyt
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One auxiliary thing to consider with MOOCs and higher education is how it changes the power balance between administration and faculty. Faculty members own their course notes and take them with them when they retire or move universities.
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Just checked. I think both of you are right on the distributions. My mistake. Let me see if I can push out better numbers. From here: http://taxfoundation.org/article/2017-tax-brackets https://www.tax-bra
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It's actually worse. The numbers above do not include the cost of healthcare nor retirement past what FICA pays for in social security. Say we're working with the magical $100k number above. In my state, my healthcare premiums
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Note, I am not an accountant, but these are my experiences running a business in the U.S. If you are a passthrough entity like a sole-propietorship, partnership, or S-corp, probably not. Note, this doesn't matter if you're an LLC
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Alright, so machine learning is a pretty broad term that encompasses a lot of things. Very specifically above, I was talking about things I call curve fitters, which include multilayer perceptrons. There's also classifiers, which oft

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