signaru

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by signaru 4y ago
Research software engineers need to be more recognized. In my workplace, I am the rare one who can code C++ to work with drivers for real time stuff and develop C# GUIs for convenience and automation. Everyone else is happy with Python or M
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by signaru 4y ago
Since you mentioned ML, I assume you'll need linear algebra (LA). I hated it for a long time since the notation abstracts away too many things. You can look at an equation involving matrices, but you cannot imagine how it would be code
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by signaru 4y ago
This makes me think that there is still use for a Nokia "dumb" phone. I held on to mine for several years even when everyone else was using iPhones.
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by signaru 4y ago
Still using 7 when I'm not using Linux. Every new Windows after that just gave you more bloat you didn't ask for. Unsure whether the OS should run on a desktop or a tablet.
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by signaru 4y ago
I guessed 29 out of 30 correct. Just chose machine for all. Perhaps have more human generated images, although that might be a limited set and people will just soon remember which images are human made. Impressive though.
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by signaru 4y ago
QR factorization leads to many useful stuff : Eigenvalues/vectors, SVD (singular value decomposition), PCA (principal component analysis)
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by signaru 4y ago
add InkScape! ... and FreeCad when it solves its topology naming issues
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by signaru 4y ago
I also couldn't find anything new that rivals the iPod Nano 7th gen's form factor and focused features. I tried looking at Sony players, but they are usually bigger or have an interface that is not as friendly. Knowing it is (soon
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by signaru 4y ago
I once worked under a research grant where the leader is trying to impress by delivering more than promised, i.e. doing a related side project that is not part of the original plan. Upon learning about this "secret" side project,
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by signaru 4y ago
The idea of having a "field" is that a 2d slice of it allows calculating light elsewhere from the field using optical propagation calculations. But this requires phase measurements in addition to intensity which is only what conve
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by signaru 4y ago
to make things worse they even outsource reviewing to unpaid, uncredited scientists. many are just putting up because the older staff or the university management are eager for popularity points.
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by signaru 4y ago
Lox is a more featured language than Monkey, meaning that you'll learn more techniques to implement those features. Lox has classes and a garbage collector for the bytecode implementation and is closer to C++'ish languages. While
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by signaru 5y ago
This seems what marginalia search is designed for.
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by signaru 5y ago
I just dump what would have been my "blog" into google docs. No need to spend time making it presentable to others and serves the purpose as my future reference. I occasionally think that I might clean them up and make it a proper
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by signaru 5y ago
Was looking for a TOC, but quickly realized it's still in progress. Any ballpark on how many chapters there would be? Thanks and keep it up!
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by signaru 5y ago
same. home has been the place for my side projects so having work stuff take over my real estate has been invasive. home maintenance and electricity is also conveniently ignored by my employer (internet bills are flat so I don't mind).
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by signaru 6y ago
I occasionally wonder if a limited 386/486 architecture would get an advantage over current mini Atom x86 boards (e.g. Latte Panda). Would it have a smaller foot print and power requirement? Or is the economics just making it not worth
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by signaru 6y ago
Unfortunately, work from home situations make some managers more eager to have pre-defined itemized metrics that they can understand. In my work, we shifted to online project management tools (without training, dare I say), which is just ad
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by signaru 6y ago
I think the flexibility of academe allows opportunities for abuse. I've been in academe more than industry, but from what I can tell industry has clearer expectations, goals and structures in place. An academic supervisor is free to cr
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by signaru 6y ago
Imagine how confusing it would be to see Amazon postings on Amazon.
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by signaru 6y ago
while we're at it, don't make the mistake of image searching the author's name.
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by signaru 6y ago
Ideally we will be promoted to be mentors to teach the same stuff we've mastered or to handle more difficult/critical parts of the things we're doing. But in reality, promotion means doing more work that you've never see
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by signaru 6y ago
I had my share of porting C# GUI programs to Object Pascal (Lazarus/Delphi). I think the best part of FreePascal are the "outputs". I will always choose native GUI easily multi-platform programs over framework-dependent bytec
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by signaru 6y ago
I've seen some repos put "mirror" in their descriptions. Like others, I wish GitHub has a way of blocking PRs. But I think, what I can do eventually is have my version of your "Open-source, not open-contribution" pa
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by signaru 6y ago
Academic institutions produce a lot of graduates far faster than replacing the people who run them. If they're not keeping up in skills, which is highly likely due to teaching load and other non technical time consuming tasks, some of
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by signaru 6y ago
I'd rather just got a device with a headphone jack and splurge on proper high-end studio headphones.
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by signaru 6y ago
I thought someone finally conclusively debunked Saki Sanobashi.
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by signaru 6y ago
Depends on how much physical stuff you need to work. I'm writing a custom high performance capturing/compression software for a device connected to a tiny computer. The components that gets this barebones computer working have now
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by signaru 6y ago
Yet another interpreted language. I've been focusing more on implementation rather than an actual language design and have been blatantly replicating what commonly works on other languages (i.e. from the C family). My goal is to eventu
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by signaru 6y ago
for portables, batteries need to get replaced somehow.

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