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Applying eigenvalues to the Fibonacci problem(scottsievert.github.io)
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by skierscott 12y ago
Linear algebra is cool, no doubt. This blog post is certainly well written and explains how to think of matrices as functions. I have written a blog post[1] that describes matrices as functions. This blog post is titled "Correcting com
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by skierscott 12y ago
For raw text, word and latex are equal (raw words, quotes, etc) latex and word are even in wpm. Certain areas of latex beat words in wpm (\ref, \cite) but there are many other areas where word wins. Anything where you care about how the doc
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by skierscott 12y ago
Please, wear a helmet. The costs of not wearing a helmet can be severe and far outweigh the minor inconvenience of wearing a helmet. I'm a severe traumatic brain injury survivor. I was wearing a helmet (skiing crash) but lived with the
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by skierscott 12y ago
I wrote a blog post[1] about the Fourier transform and lenses. Lenses taking Fourier transforms has surprising evolutionary effects. [1]: http://scottsievert.github.io/blog/2014/05/27/fourier-transf...
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by skierscott 12y ago
I believe that web apps especially will see an Internet of Things (IoT) takeoff. Things like a web service to remotely control your house (lights heat TV etc) are prime and ready and wouldn't require that much work. That may seem obvio
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by skierscott 12y ago
Touch ID only works for a minute or two after your finger is cut off. Touch ID reads the blood vessels, not the fingerprint, meaning it only works for a minute or two after the finger is cut off.
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by skierscott 12y ago
I'm inclined to believe the FLIR One does not use "true" infrared. There's a portion of the visible spectrum that is nearly IR and it's possible to rely on some IR reflectivity phenomena. I looked at some other FLIR
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by skierscott 12y ago
I do not have a webpage; it's not public yet. This work will be published in February and I'll probably write a corresponding blog[1] post similar to OP's. I'll try and distill the mathematics down while telling a story.
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by skierscott 12y ago
Take snow melting on your roof, meaning a heat leak and wasted cash. You want to buy a thermal camera, but they're expensive at $4k to $40k. A single pixel camera would be fine for you -- you wouldn't mind waiting a couple minutes
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by skierscott 12y ago
I have spent the last year making a camera that implements exactly a single pixel camera that relies on compressed sensing. The motivation behind this project is that a professor I am working with had snow melting on his roof. He looked int
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by skierscott 12y ago
The takeaway message seems to be that there's another safe helmet technology that exists. Regular helmets help but MIPS[1] helmets maintain protection against brute-force impacts and improve protection against concussions and brain inj
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by skierscott 12y ago
I'd like to know the average hourly amount earned from HN. I know personally HN has helped me greatly in the projects I do at work.
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by skierscott 12y ago
> I've only had a mild traumatic brain injury "only". All brain injuries are incredibly frustrating. Adding on the advice, if you have others close around you, please listen to them and take their advice even if it's
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by skierscott 12y ago
> I'm glad to know that my experience helps people gain further understanding of strokes/brain injuries. After my severe traumatic brain injury, I'm trying to do the same thing. Brain injuries are so broad and so complex a
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by skierscott 12y ago
You're right; I was wrong. It makes complete sense for an advertiser to say, "Sell adds to people interested in X" and for i.e. Google to show those ads. Even for less reputable companies, it seems you're right: it makes
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by skierscott 12y ago
> I tend to think of most "tracking" not as "stalking" but as "relationship building." I'm fine with relationship building. Google can give me better search results based on other activity they observe;
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by skierscott 12y ago
Good at everything but not best at anything.
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Implementing XKCD #688(github.com)
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I love math and I hate the Fields Medal(mathbabe.org)
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by skierscott 12y ago
While most of these suggestions are terrible, think of the message they're trying to send: ask open ended questions that promote discussion and answer with real answers. On asking open ended questions, I have a few questions I always f
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by skierscott 12y ago
Thanks for that -- fixed.
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by skierscott 12y ago
> Hence, a question like this may not have a unique right answer. If you allow philosophers in, you will definitely not have a unique answer :) I'm not sure if this is what you're describing, but many nonlinear[1] math problems
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by skierscott 12y ago
I'm a senior in college. I've learned about a host of mathematical concepts that are misunderstood by popular media (N dimensions, linear algebra, linear functions). Wanting to correct these topics, I wrote a blog post[1] about th
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by skierscott 12y ago
I came to say something along these lines. I'm a severe traumatic brain injury patient, and as you might imagine, there have been a huge number of deficits. These ranged from (at first) linear and concrete thinking to (prolonged) poor
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Common Mathematical Misconceptions(scottsievert.github.io)
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by skierscott 12y ago
This is exactly why I'm so excited for iOS 8. I never liked the apps living in their own walled garden and am excited to see those walls start to break.
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by skierscott 12y ago
I went through this same thought process about two years ago. IPython's notebook allows you to easily publish results. They include all you want and need: latex, imshow and nice code with many languages. But it's not good for g
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Simple Python Parallelism(scottsievert.github.io)
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by skierscott 12y ago
Then I really pity her; what I went through was incredibly frustrating. As cheesy as it sounds, my heart goes out to her. > the doctors don't want her to start college yet. That's completely normal in cases like this. My doct

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