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by thearn4 10y ago
To be honest that's true for about 90% of VR demos/experiences that have been released...
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by thearn4 10y ago
FWIW, I use both and vastly prefer most things on the rift (especially flight and driving sims). The room-scale experiences on the Vive are fantastic and definitely the direction this tech will go, but the majority of the SteamVR experience
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by thearn4 10y ago
It really comes down to what the management at NASA JSC wants to do about it. As a non-research oriented center, they don't seem to care very much. At the research centers, I suspect it would be a different story.
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by thearn4 10y ago
Didn't expect to see a link up to my graduate alma mater (Kent State U. mathematics department). I know Oana, if there are any questions about the problems or the course sequence that they fit into let me know.
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by thearn4 10y ago
I work in aerospace engineering, and it's definitely the same here. In scientific research or engineering these days, there are a lot of potential steps up from excel spreadsheet hell or spaghettified MATLAB code. Bonus points for the
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by thearn4 10y ago
I'm a researcher working in propulsion technologies at NASA. For what it's worth, the "Eagleworks" guys at JSC are basically doing their own thing that, as far as I can tell, is outside of any peer review process. For th
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by thearn4 10y ago
> I love visiting but I can't imagine living there. That basically sums up my feelings on the bay area too.
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by thearn4 10y ago
i've heard that the Asus Zenbook has very similar build quality. I've been looking for one locally to show-room for a bit to confirm that, but haven't had a chance to confirm it. If they refresh that line or the Dell XPSs wit
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by thearn4 10y ago
I'm looking at the Asus Zenbook line at the moment.
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by thearn4 10y ago
I teach calculus on the side sometimes for beer money (ie. adjunct), and has made me stronger in my long-running feeling that we teach way too much calculus in the STEM fields. Most people "in the trenches" writing tools that woul
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by thearn4 10y ago
I've always said that if I could be anesthetized and stored like cargo for the entire trip, that would be preferable to me to the hurry-up-and-wait[1] status quo. I don't mind traveling, but really hate the entire airport experien
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by thearn4 10y ago
> I think any re-implementation of something you are fond of is a great exercise This is basically my procedure for learning a new programming language. I have a list of things that I like to have on hand that cover a fair amount of poss
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by thearn4 10y ago
Agreed, there is definitely a huge gap between doing, for example, a t-test and deriving the t-test (or giving any substantial justification for its form). You need a class in analysis, a class in measure-theoretic probability, then a mathe
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by thearn4 10y ago
As someone currently teaching college calculus on the side this semester & works in aerospace engineering, I agree. The two math subjects that I notice most people are deficient in post-college are statistics, and linear algebra. In
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by thearn4 10y ago
Oh wow, that is absolutely blatant rating inflation!
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by thearn4 10y ago
> Deal with Amazon's new, terrible delivery service. Using untrained, un-unformed randos to deliver packages in their personal vehicles means my deliveries get screwed up much, much more frequently. I was noticing a lot of my delive
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by thearn4 10y ago
I think it's a problem with 3rd party sellers being chronically incapable of listing their products correctly. Overall the platform would benefit from at least a small amount of manual curating.
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by thearn4 10y ago
Something that I've noticed over the last year is that there is sometimes a disconnect between the overall rating of a product, and a summation of the ratings given by the individual reviews. Like a product with have 4-stars, but the m
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by thearn4 10y ago
yeah, the analysis at that stage was focused more on the propulsion aspects of the system.
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by thearn4 10y ago
Some folks at NASA have spent some time analyzing the principles and technical challenges behind hyperloop (I know most of them for what it's worth): https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=45818300884035476...
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by thearn4 10y ago
That reminds me way too much of my undergrad alma mater, Cleveland State University. Back when I went it was almost entirely made up of drab (maybe Soviet inspired?) concrete block buildings like this from the 60s-70s. We called it "co
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by thearn4 10y ago
I can vouch for it being a major success for my team. But, like pretty much anything, I could see it being extremely frustrating if forced on a group in an awkward way.
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by thearn4 10y ago
Not a "side project" in the usual sense, but I teach as an adjunct professor (mathematics) every so often, and at a rate of about $1000 - 1200 per credit hour (depending on the institution) I can make a little under a grand a mont
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by thearn4 10y ago
Anyone here with an Erdős number less than 3? I have a 4, which is probably not going to change (I work in research engineering rather than research mathematics these days).
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by thearn4 10y ago
If I compare that to a total market index (say, Vanguard's VTI) over a few years, it honestly doesn't look explosive or anything. Why not just invest in the total market (giving no preference for the valley), and be done with it?
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by thearn4 10y ago
Medicine does seem like a good possibility, though I'm not very familiar with the problem space.
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by thearn4 10y ago
Out of curiosity what sort of data and data visualization strategies would VR be particularly well suited for over more traditional visualization methods?
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by thearn4 10y ago
I think the idea is that you get recycled a couple of times into a new platoon, until you fail enough times that they cut their losses. But being stuck in BCT for endless cycle after cycle seems like a special kind of hell.
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by thearn4 10y ago
Yep. Honestly the only sure-fire way of getting kicked out of army basic it seems is to either repeatedly fail rifle qual, or to repeatedly fail the final PT test. And by the time you get to either, its clear that the easiest way out is to
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by thearn4 10y ago
Yeah people have different reactions to such an odd environment. I had a really bad time the first two weeks of Army basic training, but by week 3 I was actually kind of having a good time with it, in an odd sort of way. Everything still hu

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