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by thearn4 12y ago
The development/announcement blog is... interesting. I'm very familiar with the theme of Wolf3D, but I think this guy is an actual Nazi sympathiser. (nsfw) http://voxelstein3d.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2014-1
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by thearn4 12y ago
I can second this, this was my approach (as insisted upon by my professor). This only really works in some fields though - formal sciences (math, cs, etc) where you can make your own data from thin air. If you have an IRB to go through, it&
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by thearn4 12y ago
There's definitely pockets like this where I work (Gov't agency), but these pockets are still floating in a sea of the expected waterfall bureaucracy. It's basically up to team leads/PMs to decide if they're going t
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by thearn4 12y ago
Cubesat mission costs depend pretty heavily on launch options. For this, it isn't entirely clear if it's included in the challenge. But you can generally expect to pay somewhere in the neighborhood of $100-150k for launch to LEO.
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by thearn4 12y ago
As a soon-to-be-father, I'd also be interested in infant/toddler ideas. Though simply reading to and talking with them as often as you can is probably the obvious winner there.
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by thearn4 12y ago
This would be my worry too, because I've seen it in a few others. Eventually, they make it to a place (top tier college, big name company, etc) where they are no longer consistently the smartest person in the room, and they are unable
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by thearn4 12y ago
Same here, though in my case it was LinkedIn.
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by thearn4 12y ago
SPF is an awesome and unique facility, I wish more of the public would get to see it in person. If you want to see more of it in video, it's also where the opening scene to "The Avengers" was filmed. Plum Brook Station has a
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by thearn4 12y ago
Thank you so sharing, it's a good reminder that careful focus on health can't take a backseat forever. It's great to hear how much better you're doing now.
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by thearn4 12y ago
$1.12B kind of blows my mind, but me and my team really do love the service.
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by thearn4 12y ago
> In any case, Flask seems to be the inheritor of the "write webapps in Python" description. Flask definitely fills that role for me. It's very simple to get up and going with it, and deploys easily.
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by thearn4 12y ago
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by thearn4 12y ago
Yeah, I have to agree with this. I used GNU/Linux on my laptop exclusively when I was in grad school, and every "sudo apt-get update && upgrade" felt like taking a turn in Russian roulette. The generic device drivers
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by thearn4 12y ago
Awesome! Congrats on getting it out there. I just started getting into mobile development as a hobby this year (after 6+ years of mostly systems programming/scientific computing). I'm hoping to have something released within the n
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by thearn4 12y ago
I would consider technical collaboration in this space (pardon the pun) to generally be a great thing. Missions to Mars have historically been very difficult: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_Mars Hopef
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by thearn4 12y ago
Still more on-topic than the question asking about Snapchat.
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by thearn4 12y ago
As a mod of two defaults, I agree that this might be a good way forward. Right now, adding a popular but non-default sub to the default set is a very quick way to decrease the quality of the posted content, and can nearly kill the community
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by thearn4 12y ago
I was at the STS-135 launch, and both the sound and brightness of the main engines surprised me.
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by thearn4 12y ago
I have a small python library that does this for stock Arduino boards: https://github.com/thearn/Python-Arduino-Command-API Not quite as cool as the micro python boards though!
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by thearn4 12y ago
I've been following his posts on reddit for awhile now. They're always.. interesting.
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by thearn4 12y ago
Agreed. My agency just switched over, and it is 100% awful.
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by thearn4 12y ago
I have a Brother HL-2270DW for the rare printing that I do need to do at home. Has been great so far.
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by thearn4 12y ago
I can't help but think that there really is a hard limit on the number of powered electronics that a person is willing to routinely carry on their person, and that number is one. Am I alone in feeling this way?
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by thearn4 12y ago
I've played with a few different things, but right now I just have a plain text file at the top-level of my dropbox directory, as a rough short-term notes and to-do list. Then I turn these into work task as all-day events in my google
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by thearn4 12y ago
These are largely a list of "best practices", yes. Influence and budgetary conflicts between projects and centers can happen from the "shop floor" all the way up to the capital building. NASA's is one of the most ea
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by thearn4 12y ago
I've been with the agency for 5 years. Rules 76 and 78 kind of made me laugh, since projects and centers stab each other in the back all the time. But I think similar dynamics exist in any sufficiently large organization. Mastery of in
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by thearn4 12y ago
Kind of like reading research papers: 1) Read the abstract 2) Read the conclusion 3) If any questions or doubts remain, read the middle.
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by thearn4 12y ago
Partially related: Here is a Python implementation of Conway's Game Of Life, using numpy.fft https://github.com/thearn/game-of-life This advances the game state image through re-expression of the game rules as a c
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by thearn4 12y ago
I guess a part of me was expecting a re-direct to the wikipedia article on PageRank.
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by thearn4 12y ago
Pseudo-inverse (and other direct methods) do have a lot going against them, especially as problems scale. In practice, iterative methods introduce their own challenges as well though. Optimal algorithm selection is highly problem dependant,

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