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by nnadams 5y ago
Any advice on doing a PhD while working? I've been considering doing that in the back of my mind.
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by nnadams 5y ago
I came here to post that same book! When I was a kid I wanted to make an IRC chatbot. I didn't know much, but I read online you could use regular expressions to match text commands. I felt like I needed a book, saved up money, and got
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by nnadams 5y ago
The interfaces of Paradox games only get better with each release in my opinion. Crusader Kings 3 looks polished and is easy to use. Leagues above CK2. I love the stackable tooltips that let you define terms in tooltips defining terms in me
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by nnadams 5y ago
Didn't think I'd see RuneScape on HN today. As someone who plays and has since I was around 10, I often think about that same question. Sometimes I think of myself as being from the early 2000s Internet, rather than my hometown. B
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by nnadams 5y ago
I saw this post and came to ask for left-handers' recommendations. I'm glad this article actually has a section for it! Certain pens perform very poorly for me, like the ink stoping and starting. Pens are the only left-handed desi
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by nnadams 5y ago
I spent a good amount of time outside when I worked for an automotive company. And just a lot of time being active in general. Technically I was just a software engineer, but I was in a department of mostly mechanical engineers. My days wer
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by nnadams 5y ago
This is true, although in a previous job I was surprised to be working on systems that could receive steering commands with unencrypted CAN messages. As others have mentioned most USA manufacturers are moving to encrypted CAN buses now thou
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by nnadams 5y ago
Yes the editor's note at the top says: "we are re-publishing our top ten posts for the year. This is our number one post of 2021!" Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996684
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by nnadams 5y ago
Cognitive architecture research is an interesting mix of AI and cognitive science. It's a different approach from the usual: get a ton of data and train a neural network. I had the privilege of taking multiple AI classes taught by Prof
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by nnadams 5y ago
In the automotive industry we called this "level 2.999." I've moved on from automotive now, but in my experience nearly all of the new vehicle features in development, big or small, are developed at that level.
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by nnadams 5y ago
> I choose Lisp for projects that benefit from Lisp Are there any examples you have of projects or types of problems that benefit from Lisp? I've been "learning" Lisp on and off for a while, but I always end up going back
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by nnadams 5y ago
People like that resemble modern day "wise men" or sages to me. Our middle school janitor was a math PhD who left academia, became a farmer for decades, and eventually our janitor. He rarely told anyone his credentials. Most peopl
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by nnadams 5y ago
You are right that CISC processors (like x86) have more capabilities, i.e. more instructions. You as the programmer get to take advantage of the "extra" very specific instructions, so overall you write less instructions. Less inst
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by nnadams 6y ago
Did you mean to add this comment to the nearby "tmux lets you select and copy text with you keyboard" post?
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by nnadams 6y ago
Using a client like that helped me get up to speed as well. If anyone wants a terminal based k8s client, I like https://github.com/derailed/k9s
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by nnadams 6y ago
I'm excited to try this out, especially after seeing the XLA support. Where do you see Nx going in the future? I saw there's an MNIST example in the repo. Do you plan including higher-level features for neural networks, similar to
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by nnadams 6y ago
Looks like some of this book's content is available online at: staffeng.com/guides
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by nnadams 6y ago
I second this exact comparison. Being able to try and customize jQuery UI components was also what sold me back then. I think simple web-based demos in your docs go a long way in explaining what your product actually feels like to use. Even
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by nnadams 6y ago
I was thinking the same thing. A 90 minute movie where he doesn't say a single word. It could be one day in his life just being there for his different clients.
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by nnadams 6y ago
I don't use any PLM software. Someone in the company might, but I haven't heard of any being used. All of our requirements are maintained in a company-wide tool though. Requirements get decomposed from customer requirements all th
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by nnadams 6y ago
We wanted to do more simulations with Simulink models to help cut back on physical prototypes. We started tracking time spent to get the results of these simulations. Most of our engineers' time was spent finding the right models, sett
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by nnadams 6y ago
I hope the Bill of Materials concept spreads to more areas of software development. A bit different from your example, but a small group of us started a "Bill of Models" project for our department. We spent too much time failing t
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by nnadams 6y ago
This is a bit tangential but what helped me most in picking up Lisp was writing my own. Until I worked through Make A Lisp [0] I don't think I really "got" Lisp. You can work in whatever language you're familiar with. Yo
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by nnadams 6y ago
Ford steering engineer here. I worked on the 2020 Super Duty line. How has the experience with your truck been so far? Did you opt for any of the trailer assistance features? Trailer Backup Assist was something I worked a lot on, and I woul
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by nnadams 6y ago
Do you have any existing books you would recommend from your "tech and science books aimed at the scientific literate but non-specialist" category?
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by nnadams 7y ago
I used Nim for my implementation of Make A Lisp[1]. I use Python every day and the jump was pretty straightforward. Almost copy and paste from some things. I don't have to think about static types much, but it was a welcome change. I l