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by maliker 8y ago
“I inhabit physical environments where old communities are crumbling, and people are tentatively groping for social structure through meetups”... “DC area”. Hey, I recognize that place. Great description of northern virginia in 2009 and som
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No way, Bombadil is great. He’a immune to the powers of the one ring [1]. He’d rather sing about badgers than conquer the world. He’s a reminder of weird and awesome and maybe a little scary powers in the universe that we may never understa
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Same here. I pull references out all the time though. I figure at some point some subjects can be turned in to articles. Good retirement hobby I imagine.
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I just throw everything in to text files, .pngs or .pdfs in a synced folder and find stuff by searching. One day I will try to organize.
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I give every project their own folder, and I put that in Desktop/Projects/, which I backup/sync via Google Drive. Then I navigate using Launchbar ( https://www.obdev.at/launchbar ). It's a fast search tool
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I like to share this talk with new junior devs instead of ranting about strangely defined behavior in javascript. Saves time, and it's more fun.
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We've enjoyed using Prophet for forecasting in our work with electric utilities. It's pretty fire-and-forget. We wish it had an option for fast retraining of the model when we get new hourly data, though. That's pushing us to
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by maliker 8y ago
Tom Sachs does have a reputation for being a dictator, but that attitude has led to fascinating work that can't be put together without the close collaboration of a big team (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm3M9v3
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If this kind of work is interesting to you, you might like Daniel Lemire's blog ( https://lemire.me/blog/ ). He's a professor, but his work is highly applied and immediately usable. He manages to find and demon
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Definitely http://worrydream.com (Bret Victor's home page). The animated transitions are pretty neat, and were even neater 4 years ago when he first built them, but my favorite part about the site is the way he lays out his
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Show HN: Net Zero Energy House Simulator(github.com)
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My team has had luck rendering an SVG from the graph and sending it to a browser. It works well for about 10k vertices and edges. Above that scale we use datashader, and we're investigating a potential to move to QGIS. We tried Gephi a
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I put a strict timeline on the activities that were burning me out, which were contracting and legal problems. I scheduled about 4 hours a week to work on them, and I told myself if the outcome wasn't good then it could go to hell beca
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I know this is not what you're asking for, but I'd recommend stopping at the end of the sophomore level classes in the open courseware material. I finished an undergrad degree in math from a school that had a large PHD program, an
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by maliker 8y ago
I switched from software generally to software for energy. I had a software job and my friends were always making fun of me for working for "the man", i.e. banks and large consumer product companies (Coke, McDonalds, etc.). So I s
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by maliker 8y ago
There's some good evidence that protein is more filling on a per-calorie basis than other foods [1]. But there's also a lot of other foods that are primarily carbohydrates and more filling than meat. Boiled potatoes, oatmeal, appl
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by maliker 8y ago
Upvote for Launchbar. When I use it at work people look at me like I’m a wizard. All 3rd deliverable docs from that random project started 3 years ago? cmd + space + couple characters guessed from the title + 1 second, boom, its there.
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With zero quality of service impact to boot (once the 1/2 gallon milk bug is fixed).
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The blog mentioned in the article (romafaschifo.com) is pretty readable via google translate. I noticed the vast majority of the articles are about political corruption and failure and not garbage. Compared to those issue, and speaking here
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If you have software skills, electric utilities are hungry for good developers, are a key piece of infrastructure for fighting climate change, and are going through an IT revolution (from a host of special purpose systems to well-integrated
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Cool! It’s a very fun time for energy storage work. I’m part of a utility group but I mostly work with DOE and the national labs. The unbalanced phasing in distribution can make solving powerflow harder, but the big problem we face is data
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Mostly focused on distribution engineering analysis: distributed generation interconnection, energy storage dispatch, demand response planning. Hoping to do more transmission analysis in the future but for now work mostly with distribution
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I’m a scientific programmer working on electric grid simulations in Python. This year the big new tools I added to my toolkit and will use in the future are: 1. Docker. I resisted learning it for the longest time because of the stories abou
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Thanks! I'll take a look.
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More like greatest mathematician whose work I’ve never understood. Sadly. At least I can reduce Grothendieck to algebraic topology or Wiles to number theory plus that one old problem. Terry Tao to analysis. But Langlands? Interconnectivity
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I've built a team of 10 junior devs in the Washington DC area. The prime motivation for hiring juniors is that there's ton of good entry-level talent (worked on published research in college, built an app and got some users, etc.)
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Note that this shortcut was built by someone who is a lawyer and had only minor experience with "scripts for macOS in the past". It's great to see Apple building technologies for this audience on the iPhone like they have wit
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It has given me peace of mind at work a couple times when I thought or said to management: “just bring the cluster down to 1 node, you can still support X users, and your server bill will be $500/year” Still probably designed more syst
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Direct air capture of CO2 is getting pretty good. Carbon Engineering [1] was in the news recently for demonstrating an efficient scheme at commercial scale. When I looked at the math, their technique would add about 8 cents/kWh to the
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Maybe for expensive microgreens. Otherwise your energy costs are prohibitive. Utah State’s Extension service did a good analysis [1]. Indoor farming energy costs only add about 30% to your cost of tomatoes, but 10,000% for wheat. Of course

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