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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Roman Space Telescope, LISA. [1] https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [2] https://lisa.nasa.gov/ , https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/LISA
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
I live in the sorta midwest (Rochester NY). Today is was basically pitch black outside at 5. I enjoy our winters for now, but I totally understand why people snowbird.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Not necessarily bullish on SF and california in general, but the bull case is: California has GREAT weather and natural beauty. Frisco has the best west coast port and should continue which will allow it to capitalize on continued east asi
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
I really appreciate you posting this. I am trying to get an SaaS off the ground and I know there are tools/stacks to get everything going, but don't really know where to look.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
I find that lowes and home depot have very useful personalized ads. I bough some concrete repair spackle, they saw it in the cart and suggested all of the other tools I needed (degreasers, cleaning brooms, chisel, sandpaper) that I would n
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
The south in general has a history of funding their local governments through traffic tickets.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Surely there must be a few good schools. I grew up in Tennessee and there were 4 or 5 good high schools in the state, one for each of the major cities plus an extra one due to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. They also happened to be in the
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
I suspect (but don't know for sure) that sines and cosines converge uniformly but squares and triangles don't. The math is also simpler with sines and cosines which makes a difference for both practical implication and learning.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
You can also argue that a recession is a better time than usual to start a company. Your opportunity cost is a little bit less (due to the job market), customers are a looking to save money are, perhaps, more willing to take on risk to red
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
You can sell your business. You can't sell your job. Plus 180k a year, especially if location independent, is still a lot. Median income in the USA is 40k.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
You can also be thinking about trying to set your grandchildren up with a small inheritance (e.g. down payment on a moderate home). I wouldn't consider that dynastic wealth (they will still need to work) but it goes a long long way to
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
This is true and I relish being able to work from home have extra time with my kids and also it seems that on most days I can get 4 hours of work done and 8 hours of sleep or 8 hours of work and 4 hours of sleep. So either my work has to s
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Both. They are taught, generally speaking, by giving a series of techniques to solve problems without the underlying mathematics (i.e why those techniques work on those problems). Calculus generally takes some time to grok, which typically
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
In the case of the lawn mowing company, you don't have employees showing up at customer houses drunk. You don't have to deal with your employees running into houses and cars with their trailers, trucks etc. Lots more head aches wi
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
I have a similar problem with voicemail: the spammers leave voicemail too so I don't want to check that either.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
or for ODEs a higher order method.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Euler's method is non-conservative, you ought to be using a hire order method e.g. leap frog or Backward Time, Centered Space Method.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
You can always reference "You and Your Research" by Richard Hamming, which again is anecdotal and not the study. https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
It feels, to me, that a duopoly is worse for the consumer than a monopoly. Monopolies behave better due to fear of regulation, but in a duopoly's justify their own bad behaviour based on the their counter-party.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Have you ever dug into Bayesian reasoning? See E.T. Jayne's probability theory chapter 5 for an explanation on this. The more facts we get, the more likely our views diverge and become more strongly held.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
We have to find a way to come together and just assuming half the country is terrible doesn't lead anywhere good. Reasons people might support Trump in spite of his many many shortcomings: Trump has generated a middle east peace deal w
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
I know, she's a 10 months and I can't do my day job (working remotely) with her in the room any more. She especially likes to hit the power button on the computer and pull the power cords out of the outlets.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Yes, although I was thinking more along the lines of we should be neighbourly to each other hand have a good relationship where we say hi and watch out for each other. Giving people bureaucracy won't work. A number of the neighbourho
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Isn't this what happened to paetron? https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2020/08/patreon-loses-lawsuit-...
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Sure but the network is the thing which gives you leverage to do more than what you can do by yourself.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Your conclusion is very true. And academia has a way of putting the pressure on the young workforce (until tenure at 40ish) to work long hours for not much money. And while this is true, it is also worth pointing out that many parents don&
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Sure all the systems suck currently (except hire by internal reference, that one works great). Just because all the systems suck doesn't mean that something better might be possible. And part of finding the something better is unders
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
I did this recently. We wanted to validate our thermal control model and we had ~20 heaters and 24 hours to do the test. Heaters couldn't cycle faster than about 4 hours due to thermal mass, so we had to fit our periodic function in
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
more importantly, thanks to the internet there is a huge amount of available data that is reasonably available. Many of the science problems I have dealt with have something like 11 data "points". And experiments may take a mont
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Frequently, you still need a clever subject matter expert to figure out what form of input you need to insert into the neural network. E.G. someone has to figure out how to take crystal structure and put it in a neural network. Most obvio

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