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by thearn4 10y ago
This rings true. I just fixed our 5-year old Kenmore fridge - a 15A glass fuse blew after a storm. Of course it is soldered into the power control board directly without a housing, and the manufacturer lists it as an unserviceable part. The
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This reminds me of a 4chan greentext story, but I can't seem to put my finger on which one.
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It seems reasonable to me. Certainly, even if you don't get all of the questions correctly, this exam tells you more about the proficiency of a candidate than a standard graduate school exam like the GRE (in the US) does. Especially if
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Some number theory, linear algebra, calculus of variations, combinatorics, etc. From the applied math side of things, it isn't terribly deep. It's actually right about what I would expect from an applied math student who was good
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Appropriation of eastern asian (particularly Japanese) cultural terms is an odd trend in the American tech community. I cringe a bit every time I see a listing for a Java/Javascript/.NET/$LANGUAGE "ninja", "sam
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by thearn4 10y ago
This is exactly why I use Tinfoil for Facebook on my android phone. It's just a webview around FB's mobile site.
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by thearn4 10y ago
I do believe that this is true, but I can't help but also believe that the timelines that the tech community has in mind are absolutely too optimistic. I think like many promising innovations (AI, VR, etc.) it will have periods of rapi
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by thearn4 10y ago
I do feel like an outlier in that I really enjoy living in distinct seasons. It feel like it helps me mark the time internally, and reminds me that I'm a pretty small part of nature overall.
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It's a mix. On the one hand, I do also regret not being able to crunch things through the night like I used to. On the other hand, most of that stuff matters a lot less to me now than it used to. I mean, I still do a fair amount of hob
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> Had the drug companies been regulated in the first place Were they given out without prescription? If not, I feel like MDs have to share some blame on this.
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Off-topic, but what is a "data engineer"?
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This is very true in practice. I lecture as a part-time professor every so often, and this is one of many good reasons why you should never lecture via powerpoint. The act of writing down a thought as it's spoken is an important thing
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I've been skeptical of mobile devices in the classroom for awhile now. They just seem like distraction machines. Which I admit sounds weirdly luddite for someone who makes a career working with technology.
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I was also in the US Army, and thought the same thing. There is a delicate balance between MWR and focusing on the mission. I don't have a great feeling on where that should be.
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Historically Sweden has not been invaded in quite a long time, right?
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GMRES is definitely my go-to these days. Though it is worth noting that direct methods do have a benefit of letting you quickly solve many successive linear problems involving the same matrix, but different right-hand sides. But iterative m
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So as someone who does mostly scientific computing but within programming-flavored editors (like sublime), I find XCode/ Android Studio/IntelliJ/Visual Studio sort of terrible in their own special and unique ways. But Intelli
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In applied mathematics, the idea of having a standard platform for releasing numerical experiments and standard datasets have come and gone over the years. My advisor said that in the early 2000s, there was a push in some areas to standardi
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I do agree. I use Linux every day via ssh as headless servers and find it indispensable in that role. But I really have no interest in using a Linux distro in an end-user graphical desktop environment. They don't always hit the mark, b
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Ask HN: Opinions on cheating and modern computer science education
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I'm a pretty big fan of DCS world, though it's more military oriented.
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For whatever reason, statistics seems to be in the midst of a serious branding problem. Maybe traditional frameworks of inference are too conservative for non-researcher's tastes? I'm curious what Fisher, Neyman, and Pearson would
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Or more likely in actual implementation (than direct decomposition of A^T * A), an SVD of A.
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Interesting, I didn't realize Mark had resigned from LaRC. I'd be interested to hear a more complete take on his opinions about NASA Aeronautics, because he sounded a bit disillusioned. The big caveat when comparing to industry ef
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This is our setup in my gov't agency (NASA): 3-4 engineers per room, typically grouped by either project or functional area. We have a couple of regular conference rooms, and also have a few breakout/collaboration rooms that can&#
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My wisdom teeth happened to come in pretty straight and level. When I was in the Army, the dentist there suggested having them taken out during AIT (primary MOS training school), but it wasn't an order. I nope'd right out of that
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I'm translating a giant pile of Excel w/VB macros into Python at the moment and am not exactly having fun. The ugliness isn't really VB syntax as much as the interactions with and organization into the underlying sheet. But I
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I think I stumbled on this about a year ago, anyone from Google know when this was officially rolled out?
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I can see that, and it does match my expectations at least. It somewhat gamifies the process of me getting up from my desk every so often to walk around the lab complex.
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Yikes, I just picked up a FB Charge 2. I like it so far. Disappointing to hear that it may fail prematurely.

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