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by luchak 17y ago
The link only uses Euler integration for the diffusion (advection is semi-Lagrangian), and in graphics you never use very much diffusion anyway, because highly diffusive fluids are boring. In fact, when using this particular technique, it'
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by luchak 17y ago
Honestly, in a lot of cases language performance doesn't matter as long as you have a good numerics library. For example, here's one implementation of the projection step in my current project, which does fluid simulation on unstructured t
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by luchak 17y ago
From Wikipedia: "Sexual objectification refers to the practice of regarding or treating another person merely as an instrument (object) towards the person's sexual pleasure." I don't know of anyone who wants this in the context of work. Ev
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by luchak 17y ago
No, no, no. If you say "okay, we won't do that" and mean it, you've demonstrated respect for her, and that her opinions and preferences are valued. You've included her in the group. And for your second paragraph: saying "no, it's not lik
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by luchak 17y ago
It's not like somebody's sitting there saying, "hey, it's a woman -- I should make her miserable." It's more like there's a category of crap that ends up shoved at you if you're female, but not if you're male. There's another category tha
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by luchak 17y ago
Yes, these things are important to both men and women. But the female engineers I know make it a higher priority in their job searches because they've been burned this way before, in work and in school -- specifically because they are wome
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by luchak 17y ago
From a recent email exchange with a female software engineer (heavily paraphrased): Get to know some female engineers, if you don't already. Not necessarily as potential hires, but as professional contacts. At that point, they may decide
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by luchak 17y ago
I tried to address this in the last paragraph of my post, but it's a hard problem, and not one I know how to solve. Some of it, undoubtedly, also comes down to timing, location, and luck. But you're right, I should have a better answer to
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by luchak 17y ago
If you can't hire any female engineers, part of the reason may be that you don't already have any. This can be a huge red flag. Basically, most women applying for the job want to have some assurance that they're going to be respected and
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by luchak 17y ago
In approximately inverse order of importance (sorry about that): * Misc.: - Don't like using my Facebook account. * UI: - Always find myself hunting for the "follow" button. - Front page is a visually undifferentiated mishmash of 20ish diff
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by luchak 17y ago
That bar analogy is sounding awfully tenuous by this point. Was YouTube paying people to upload the video?
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by luchak 17y ago
Neat! I can't say I'm familiar with the paper, but I'll check it out sometime.
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by luchak 17y ago
This is definitely very cool. I was actually fortunate enough to attend a presentation that the first author gave just a couple of days ago. It was a good talk and the slides were substantially based on the ones from the project page, so
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by luchak 17y ago
I'm not so sure, given the article as written. Comparing Earth and Jupiter: 1. made up of about three-quarters liquid water False for both. Possibly true for Earth if you're talking about surface area, but that's a pretty generous interp
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by luchak 17y ago
"Based on its density, scientists think GJ 1214b is made up of about three-quarters liquid water with a solid core of iron and nickel and an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium—not unlike Earth." what This is either terrible writing or terrib
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by luchak 17y ago
What? The Chinese government has issues with sites containing user-generated content. Neither Microsoft nor anyone else can resolve these issues just by throwing money at the problem. Getting Plurk back into China would likely involve mak
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by luchak 17y ago
Something like this did happen at Google China a couple of years ago: they released a Chinese IME that contained a dictionary taken from Sohu. Sohu demanded a public apology, which Google issued a couple of days later, along with a versio
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by luchak 17y ago
The guide that basically walked me through the entire application process was also written by a CMU professor. It's a much drier read, but, if you're applying to Ph.D. programs in computer science, it's gold. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harcho
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by luchak 17y ago
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/14/aaup might be a good starting point ... looks like the average for an assistant professor is around 60k, but Dartmouth is likely to be above that.
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by luchak 17y ago
Graduate school has a number of extremely important advantages over independent research, at least when you're getting started: 1. Mentorship. 2. Easy access to the rest of the research community. 3. Access to resources: libraries, jour
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by luchak 17y ago
As Wikipedia says, in a quantum computer, you have a quantum register (a bunch of entangled qubits) that holds the result of your computation. The contents of this register can be visualized as a high-dimensional vector of length 1 -- thin
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by luchak 17y ago
Hm. So what's the alternative? I've tried to do research in a corporate environment, and am now in grad school: in my experience, it seems like getting a Ph.D. has a lot to offer in terms of teaching you how to do good research. I've lear
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by luchak 17y ago
Hm ... I'm puzzled by your last sentence. Why do you say that?
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by luchak 17y ago
As other people have said, the stock-photo girl has got to go. It makes me feel like you're trying to sell me insurance or tooth whitener or a mortgage or something. My main issue after poking around the site for a couple minutes is that I
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by luchak 17y ago
I know someone who wanted a Master's degree, but applied to Ph.D. programs so he could get it paid for. Things didn't go exactly as planned, and now he's a computer science professor. He seems pretty happy with the outcome, though. (I don'
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by luchak 17y ago
Really cool. Would be interesting to break some of these things down further, into easier-to-estimate probabilities -- probably using some sort of more detailed graphical model. Seeing some sort of consensus view of the future according t
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by luchak 17y ago
I'm okay with that, I just don't like the affect they effect.
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by luchak 17y ago
I still don't get it. You've described an abstract issue: universities have a fair amount of power to control what messages about them are disseminated. But what are the use cases? Why would I want to visit your site? Give us a couple
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by luchak 17y ago
I feel like this blog is an optical illusion where, if I stare long enough, I'll see John Campbell. Except I'm still not seeing it.
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by luchak 17y ago
This would be more educational as a collection of pages that each get one or two things wrong.

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