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by kxyvr 6y ago
Oh, I very much agree and they were most certainly capped at that organization. It's a major problem because and I very much agree with your original comment that there are better options now working for big tech. I guess my point abo
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by kxyvr 6y ago
That is not entirely true, but the devil is in the details. As an example, the Federal government employs thousands of physicians at the VA and, depending on specialty, they are paid significantly more than this. Last time I checked, they
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by kxyvr 6y ago
It depends on what level you're starting from. During non-COVID times, a reasonable path was to buy a sewing machine from a local shop and part of that transaction would be a short class to help you understand and use your machine. N
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by kxyvr 6y ago
Sadly, yes. I've clients who still prefer to work on their Mac laptop and desktops. Large runs still go to Linux clusters, but small, debugging runs occur locally. Per the parent, the lack of Fortran compiler causes an issue because
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by kxyvr 6y ago
Every author has their own motivations, but I will echo what the parent has expressed that often, if not the majority of the time, authors are making their papers far more difficult to read than they need be. To that, I'll add anecdote
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by kxyvr 6y ago
Actually, yes it should, but it depends on the numbers and this is a well studied area of statistics. One of the many issues is whether or not someone who flags positive is actually positive and whether someone who flags negative is actuall
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by kxyvr 6y ago
I applied as well and have yet to receive funds. I also received the email about the $1k/employee change and that was last that I've heard from the SBA. As such, it sounds like many of us are in the same boat.
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by kxyvr 7y ago
For posterity's sake, one correction: Not all critical care rooms have a vent. There's a certain number in the unit that are then pulled in.
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by kxyvr 7y ago
Wait. How does this work? I have an small spray gun that I use for small metal and wood projects that I hook to an air compressor. It can be used for smaller detail work on cars. Is there a way to reclaim my paint or is this just for la
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by kxyvr 7y ago
My understanding that a number of things contribute to this difficulty: - What are the number of critical care beds in the hospital? - What are the number of negative pressure rooms in the critical care unit? Negative pressure rooms help k
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by kxyvr 7y ago
Not to delve too deeply into this, but I believe you're factually incorrect about the hospital capacity of Italy versus the United States. What matters in the number of critical care beds because they have the equipment available such
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by kxyvr 7y ago
Perhaps it would help to give a longer example for the parent. For many complex systems and differential equations, modern solution techniques such as finite element, finite difference, and finite volume methods provide superior performanc
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by kxyvr 7y ago
Certainly I may be missing something, but it seems like the advance in this series of papers is that they figured out a way to calculate a differentiable solution to the sorting problem quickly, whereas it was already known that the a diffe
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by kxyvr 7y ago
Something that I didn't know, and may help others understand this paper better, is that there's a way to define the sorting a vector through the creative use of the Birkhoff–von Neumann theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by kxyvr 7y ago
I suppose that we could also state that solving with a totally unimodular matrix also absolves us from going through the trouble of going through branch and bound, but that's a pretty niche case. I guess I react strongly whenever I hea
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by kxyvr 7y ago
In many ways, closures can be more difficult when there is not garbage collection because we precisely do not want to refer to values that have been freed or collected. For example, in C++, we can write code like: #include <function
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by kxyvr 7y ago
Yes. The residency programs are heavily weighted toward and really designed to ensure that every graduate from an American medical school has the ability to enter the residency program. Those to who attend the Caribbean schools or who are
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by kxyvr 7y ago
The physicians that I know talk about this a lot. From what I gather, part of the problem is that medical school is really expensive, so they take these really massive loans to get through school, which is generally on top of their debt
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by kxyvr 7y ago
I do not believe this is correct: https://www.mdmag.com/physicians-money-digest/contributor/he... From the article, "And, it turns out that most (more than 95 percent) U.S. graduates did match in a residency
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by kxyvr 7y ago
I'm sorry. I am incorrect and it was more a comment based on the lobbying efforts during the 1990s when the AMA lobbied for the cap. Thanks for the clarification.
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by kxyvr 7y ago
Well, here's a couple of points. Ultimately, the decision of how many residency slots to fund comes down to Congress. Here's an older article that discuss how the cost of residency slots is covered, but it's essentially cov
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by kxyvr 7y ago
Outside of the potential social or philosophical benefits to going to college, a degree can be looked at like an investment. In the case of Houston, UH has good programs hooked into the petrochemical and banking sector in the city. The Ba
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by kxyvr 7y ago
Unfortunately, this is a common misconception. The government pays for private universities in a number of ways: 1. Private non-profit universities are typically exempt from paying property tax. While this may seem like a reasonable idea
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by kxyvr 7y ago
Though I have complaints with it, Numerical Optimization by Nocedal and Wright is probably the best reference for modern optimization techniques. My complaint with it is that they also present many historical techniques that I would argue
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by kxyvr 7y ago
I think there may be some confusion as to the terminology in the article. The gradient does not necessarily lead to the greatest decrease in the function. Specifically, if our function of interest is f and we're currently at the po
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by kxyvr 7y ago
I've been through the Ph.D. process and while I agree that stipends should be larger, it is not insurmountable. Specifically, what you're missing is that stipends are a 9 month salary and that many students, including myself, tak
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by kxyvr 7y ago
Yes and no. Higher public tuition costs allow private entities to raise their tuition as well. While it depends on the college, I contend that most private colleges are not competing on cost. Schools like Harvard and Duke use price as a
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by kxyvr 7y ago
I will contend that this is not the core problem, but an auxiliary one forced by the states themselves. The primary source of funding for universities is the state, which makes sense because universities rely on local infrastructure and re
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by kxyvr 7y ago
To build onto this, the Ashby high-rise dispute has been going on since I was in graduate school over a decade ago: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/real-estate/articl... There was a more recent dispute i
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by kxyvr 7y ago
This is a bit of an irritation of mine. To be clear, if a function is nondifferentiable, automatic differentiation will not magically fix this. Ever. There are plenty of nondifferentiable, elementary functions. For example, `sqrt` is non

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