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by thearn4 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - NE Ohio region or (limited) remote. I'm an applied mathematician who does freelance work as a software developer. I also have research engineering experience in the aerospace and biomedical fields. Proficient in frontend
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by thearn4 11y ago
Space is certainly hard, even for those that people might assume are good at it (NASA, Roscosmos, etc.). This failure is a likely setback for man-rating the falcon in the future.
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by thearn4 11y ago
It did looks like it was close to the point of stage separation. But we'll see soon what the SpaceX's engineering analysis is.
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by thearn4 11y ago
The GS payscale is a bit unforgiving for very early career technical folks, but regular pay raises, step increases, and grade advancement catches up later on. Although congress has been pretty stingy with the "regular pay raises"
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by thearn4 11y ago
Yep. For me, the PhD LaTeX stylesheet was a file passed down and updated from graduate student to graduate student for who knows how many decades in my dept.
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by thearn4 11y ago
> I bought a 64 GB USB drive there in 2007. I knew it was fake, but I wanted to see how they were doing it Out of curiosity (if you remember), what was its actual capacity?
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by thearn4 11y ago
We came across one at work (NASA) a few years back, a server running in a far off room that no one remembered anything about. It had probably last been used by a grad student at least a decade ago, but was still up and running and doing, we
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by thearn4 11y ago
At this point, I'm just on FB to keep up with family, and to share baby photos. Basically, a kind of glorified white pages.
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by thearn4 11y ago
Flask is an awesome framework. I've used a little bit of Tornado and Django for side projects, but found how overkill those were (at least for my small use cases) as soon as I got into Flask.
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by thearn4 11y ago
Next up: A Stallman slack bot that interjects into any conversations that mention "Linux" to remind everyone that it's "GNU/Linux"
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by thearn4 11y ago
Similar situation. Cost of living here in Cleveland is practically negligible compared to SV, while my salary is far more comparable.
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by thearn4 11y ago
Yep, my math PhD was literally 4 submitted papers placed together with an introduction section to the topic area. This wasn't 100% common in my department (US public state university), but my advisor strongly suggested it as the most e
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by thearn4 11y ago
This happens to be a very timely article - I've been going through a replay of this game recently. I bought it right after it was released, but only played it once (and very quickly). I'm a huge fan of the original Deus Ex.
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by thearn4 11y ago
I subscribe to a variety of non-default reddits: /r/programming, /r/python, /r/android, /r/programmerhumor, /r/gaming, /r/truegaming. I'm also a mod of /r/science an
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by thearn4 11y ago
I would say that graduate programs tend to be a bit more binary, i.e. you're either passing a course or you aren't, and the professor knows exactly who those people are. And if you aren't passing, your prof. will also quietly
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by thearn4 11y ago
My understanding is that the quad rotor configuration is more stable at low reynolds numbers, but I'm not a rotary wing expert.
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by thearn4 11y ago
I was a low level army grunt for several years before finishing college, and getting into R&D. I agree with your perspective 100%.
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by thearn4 11y ago
I grew up in the middle of the city, and recently moved out to 4 acres of country land. I guess we all crave a change of scenery eventually.
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by thearn4 11y ago
Actually, as a NASA employee I think the public affairs/communication office is pretty awful. Everything is highly disjoint, where a single project may have 4-5 official websites run by different org units, most of the time with differ
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by thearn4 12y ago
I've been following this game for a long time now. It's fantastic! I'm glad to see them make it to 1.0.
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by thearn4 12y ago
For smaller 2 cycle engines (chain saws, string trimmers, etc.) you can also buy small volumes of pre-blended gasoline and oil at various mixture ratios that are ethanol free. You can find these near the mower section in most of the big box
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by thearn4 12y ago
For those who are interested in a simple Python implementation of the automa described in the wiki: https://github.com/thearn/game-of-life
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by thearn4 12y ago
It's nice to see a Fortran code this old factored and presented properly as a subroutine! Other legacy Fotran codes are not very modular (at least this has been my experience).
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by thearn4 12y ago
A fair number of `Open Data` municipal initiatives seem to end with a single SQL dump or two handed over to a commercial vendor (such as socrata) for display. Not much of substance, but just enough for an elected official to say "see l
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by thearn4 12y ago
I'll have to add that to my list. I just got caught up through Dan Carlin's current `Hardcore History` multi-part podcast series on WW1, which is fantastic. http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50
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by thearn4 12y ago
> And does water exist anywhere outside Earth Was this a big pop science mystery back in the day? The simplicity of the composition of water ("burned hydrogen gas") would lead me to think that we should expect to find it in so
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by thearn4 12y ago
A good read. I remember asking my stats professor in undergrad about the "whys" of the various hypothesis testing schemes we use, and he eventually just told me that I should take a math-stats class in graduate school. I did that
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by thearn4 12y ago
I'd be interested in that too, just to have a simple stock wifi-enabled button that is easy to configure for a general API endpoint.
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by thearn4 12y ago
For me, this was more the case in graduate school than as an undergraduate. While I did like my department (mathematics), my advisor, and the other students in my class, the majority of my undergraduate studies really did end up being direc
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by thearn4 12y ago
1 programmer per office is pretty sparse. We have 3-4 here where I work, and it seems to be a nice equilibrium between privacy and ease of collaboration.

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