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by llamaz 9y ago
I'm confused. In Urdu and Hindi it's "chai" (rhymes with eye) not chay (rhymes with stay)
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by llamaz 9y ago
Yes, I couldn't see the bucket, but I looked at the source code to know it was in the bathroom.
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by llamaz 9y ago
CS shouldn't be in the title. If you learn everything in this set of notes you will have learned something close to a standard 3 year undergraduate math curriculum. So the only way it's related to CS is that undergraduate math is
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by llamaz 9y ago
You too? That article on here about Instant Pot was a marketing wonder. I ended up buying a different cooker though because it's not available locally in my country.
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by llamaz 9y ago
Maybe, but you could easily get through medical school where rote memorisation, hard work, and diligence are more important. (In my country one pathway to medicine is a 6 year undergraduate degree you do straight out of highschool.) I'
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by llamaz 9y ago
How good you are at Go (or chess for that matter) has no correlation with your IQ. There are plenty of examples of people extremely good at chess that struggle, seriously, with academics (e.g. world champion Jose Raul Capablanca, and the yo
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by llamaz 9y ago
Which is what differential geometry is based on - you take a surface (for example - the one dimensional functions you mentioned work too, but those are too trivial). Then you associate to each point a plane (re-centered at to the origin). T
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by llamaz 9y ago
"Processing radar and lidar data, construction of 3d representations" these are all 4th year/masters level electrical (or mechatronic) engineering topics at my university (except Lidar although that might come under photonics
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by llamaz 9y ago
It _is_ taught to 16 year olds in Australia, if they elect to take math C (math a/B is compulsory where math A is remedial). Everyone hated it and wondered what the point was (including me - it was only when I did a course on abstract
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by llamaz 9y ago
I live in Australia where by default, you don't have to pay for university right away (you have to pay the government back slowly once you start earning above a certain salary). As a result it's common for people to do double degr
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by llamaz 9y ago
It's convenient, but not life changing as some people think. It's worth using if you already use emacs, but it's not worth switching over. (I use emacs and org-mode extensively. Before that I used vi)
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by llamaz 9y ago
I agree. I find that it's easier to read and write math when the notation is ambiguous, but clear in a context shared by both the reader and writer. Even in the english language, it's up to the author to gauge the audience and dec
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by llamaz 9y ago
I still don't understand what the parent is talking about then. Could you please restate the explanation using math notation/terminology?
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by llamaz 9y ago
I think that might be a placebo. Maybe you mean his attitude
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by llamaz 9y ago
When I was implementing a neural network for a university assignment (2 years ago so my memory might fail me), we had to run our algorithm multiple time with different starting positions, then take the minimum of those local minima. I'
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by llamaz 9y ago
i.e. a Green's function (disclaimer: I know more about maths than physics)
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by llamaz 9y ago
Terrible title. Tinder isn't the cause, it's just a medium, and we're all acting like cave people in every aspect of life if you follow the logic "evolutionary instincts=cave people"
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by llamaz 9y ago
> However this is India where women can work etc. In Islamic oppressive countries however things might be different. Women work in Pakistan too, FYI. India and Pakistan have been separated for roughly 60 years, their cultures are very si
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by llamaz 9y ago
I've always heard Wiener pronounced wine-r, but that might just be to avoid saying ween-er
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by llamaz 9y ago
I mean that the physicists have accounted for the limited amount of information available and still conclude that the observable universe is not a fractal. I remember thinking about this in 2011/2012 when it wasn't known (IIRC the
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by llamaz 9y ago
As elec. engineers (and c. scientists) one of our only hammers is signals theory and cosmology looks like a nail. But the physicists probably have it right.
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by llamaz 10y ago
You're right, but what I should have emphasized is that if you accept that cos/sin are based in physical reality because they model a circle, then you have to have just as much faith in the dirac delta. Cos/sin are infinitely
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by llamaz 10y ago
Mathematics is formalised is to avoid this sort of philosophizing. I used to think, for example, that the dirac delta function was mathematical fiction - a mathematical "hack". But then in an engineering control systems class, we
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by llamaz 10y ago
Before man walked on the moon, no one had walked on the moon, and society seemed to cope.
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by llamaz 10y ago
I agree with you that critical thinking is important. The point of my post is not to say "don't think critically" but rather to draw attention to how if you pursue status in a hierarchical organisation, then you need to accep
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by llamaz 10y ago
By "critical people" I meant people who think critically, in the sense of the word critical thinking from the previous sentence
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by llamaz 10y ago
I have to question whether critical thinking skills are really that important. Truly critcal people are labelled as trouble makers who have issues with authority. People who are obedient, who can play the political game, tend to do much bet
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by llamaz 10y ago
Only because it's hard to learn to configure emacs. With spacemacs, it's less of a problem, since things work sanely out of the box.
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by llamaz 10y ago
This. In Australia, half of the doctors do a 6 year undergraduate degree in medicine straight out of highschool while half do it as a 4 year postgraduate degree. Those that do the postgraduate degree don't need a PhD level GPA (they ju
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by llamaz 10y ago
What fields of medicine do you think are particularly suited to the mindsets of EE/CS/Math people? I would think "memorisers" would be best at general practitice.

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