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by michaelrpeskin 6y ago
+1 for mentioning IDL. I’ve always thought that was the best native array based language.
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by michaelrpeskin 6y ago
Great article! I wish I would have had this a couple of years ago when I was working on improving a very old lossy image compression algorithm. I don't want to into great detail here, but there's a highly compressed image format
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by michaelrpeskin 6y ago
Yes! I’ve always fallen into this realm in many different fields. My graduate research was in meso-scale chemistry. The physicists would dig down and solve the quantum mechanics for small systems to crazy high detail. The traditional theor
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by michaelrpeskin 6y ago
25 years ago when I was an intern, I worked for a healthcare software company on the interface team. Our job was to get records out of a hospital’s system and into a home care provider’s system. We were an early proponent of the HL7 standar
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by michaelrpeskin 6y ago
Love to see it still alive! Did my whole Physics PhD in high performance C and FORTRAN with gnuplot for visuals and Perl to tie it all together.
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by michaelrpeskin 6y ago
1) don't know how much I trust the stuff from Amazon - see my earlier comment above about working at a pulse oximiter company and all the calibration tests we did. 2) while being an intern and sitting alone in my cube, I had dozen of t
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by michaelrpeskin 6y ago
Former research engineer (intern) at a pulse oximiter company. This was about 18 years ago, so the details are shaky. Yes, this is likely the probe calibrating itself. Recall that the SpO2 is based on the ratio of two measurements. From T
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by michaelrpeskin 6y ago
Antifragility Or more specifically, just getting the term for it. I spent years trying to articulate in my own mind many of the ideas in Taleb's book, and once I had a word for it I could see it everywhere and actually start to change
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by michaelrpeskin 7y ago
I know this isn't the time to see a doctor, but...GO GET IT CHECKED OUT BY A PROFESSIONAL. I have had both testicular cancer and a varicocele. The pain and symptoms are very very similar. One is deadly, one will go away on it's ow
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by michaelrpeskin 7y ago
"When I was a grad student I knew multiple people in STEM fields who tried to do their thesis in Word (or equivalent) and gave up in frustration, moving it all to LaTeX. I never knew anyone who successfully went the other direction. I
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by michaelrpeskin 7y ago
At a previous job, I had a great setup: I had a drafting table but I set it up where the front was higher than the back - not dramatic, maybe only a couple of inches. That way my elbows could be on the desk but they weren’t forced at 90 deg
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by michaelrpeskin 7y ago
That’s what I do. For me it’s in the math and algorithm side. The key is being able to craft up proofs of concept and scripts fast. Show their value. Document well so the dev team can implement and the be able to quickly learn the next topi
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by michaelrpeskin 7y ago
One thing I’ve discovered about not having layout control is that the resulting graph complexity can help give you a hint about the correctness of your solution. A couple of years ago I was helping to architect a new system and I decided to
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by michaelrpeskin 7y ago
I've been thinking all morning how to answer this. Rather than give advice, here's some thoughts about what I've seen in the industry. The quick answer is that, yes, a PhD should give you a more interesting life...but you m
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by michaelrpeskin 7y ago
Here’s an old article about the performance characteristics of Deques. https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5425/An-In-Depth-Study-...
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by michaelrpeskin 7y ago
Is there a reason you didn’t just use std::deque? You’re already in C++.