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by thearn4 13y ago
Same. My background is mathematics, but I made sure to pick up some EE and software development skills along the way.
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by thearn4 13y ago
This is a very good point. I think it's great to encourage students to take up challenging technical career paths like engineering, physical science, math, etc. But getting into field because it's currently perceived that it'
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by thearn4 13y ago
Very impressive! I'd be very curious to see what this would look like with streetview images.
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by thearn4 13y ago
The short version is that we need to do a better job distinguishing academics from job training.
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by thearn4 13y ago
If it's anything like the colleges in this area, much of that money is going towards endless construction of "student life" type facilities, designed to market the campus towards visiting 17-year olds who will soon be able to
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by thearn4 13y ago
Julia is a lot of fun, but still has ways to go. R and Python ecosystems are pretty mature in comparison.
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by thearn4 13y ago
I've done a fair amount of work in image processing and computer vision, but haven't read much into hashing of images. Interesting article.
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by thearn4 13y ago
Really cool idea, but something seems up with the is_even() python question. A valid solution is not passing the site's validation.
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by thearn4 13y ago
It probably isn't necessary in the strictest sense of the word, But I guess that really depends on what it is that you want to get out of it. But the most valuable part of my PhD were the few years that I spent getting regular face tim
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by thearn4 13y ago
I don't know, I think 'Clang' will forever have that honor.
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by thearn4 13y ago
I think it's because FB is basically a modern day white pages, whose core mission is mine user data and deliver ads to people who don't want to see them. I think much of the disdain is in the fact that a company like this can mana
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by thearn4 13y ago
Wow, down voted into oblivion..
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by thearn4 13y ago
Great stuff! I'm hosting a programming meetup this friday at a coffee shop, seems like a good opportunity to put it through it's paces.
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by thearn4 13y ago
My favorite way to generate a maze (imperfect, but fun): http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Maze quickstart: https://github.com/thearn/game-of-life/blob/master/rule_stri...
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by thearn4 13y ago
It would still probably be cheaper to simulate that using something like COMSOL.
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by thearn4 13y ago
In fairness, I actually edited my reply for clarity, what I had in mind were small samples where the prior ends up dominating.
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by thearn4 13y ago
Bayesian inference is definitely only as good as the quality of the chosen prior, if the number of samples is low.
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by thearn4 13y ago
I think that is just a necessity considering how long of a period of time this video spans (from the medieval period that you mention, well into the modern age). If you were making a similar animation that spanned the last 1000 years, how w
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by thearn4 13y ago
It's interesting how recent the concepts of the nations of "Germany" and "Italy" are. Though as another commenter mentioned, the concept of a "nation" (at least the way that we understand it today) is also
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by thearn4 13y ago
Very nice, OneNote is a pretty fantastic program that I never really found a good replacement for. I used it mostly for college course lecturing, and it was great. Although I don't teach anymore, it would still be really handy for work
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by thearn4 13y ago
I guess it would still have value for those who want to go long, and sell at a higher stock price.
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by thearn4 13y ago
Agreed, syntax highlighting for repos with a lot of example code blocks in their README.md would be great: https://gitprint.com/thearn/stl_tools
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by thearn4 13y ago
> What scares me more are the ones that are visibly on the chopping block. You can see their agony from space. I'd toss google scholar into the ones you listed as well. A fantastic search tool, but (unless I'm missing somethin
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by thearn4 13y ago
Yeah, generally speaking for object detection - Scale, position, rotation: typically you can identify something based on 2 of these really efficiently (for example, wavelets give you a transform that is sufficient for object identification
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by thearn4 13y ago
SR-71 was built for one mission only: Fly-over the Soviet Union and take pictures. At the speeds that it operates, you can't really do much else. And recon satellites do this much more effectively now, and are extremely hard to take do
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by thearn4 13y ago
And with a little bit of trigonometry intuition on top of this, powers of i and Euler's formula become much easier to understand as well. Great ways to think about it!
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by thearn4 13y ago
Yeah, I actually really do like the rest of it. It's just the part: "Don’t try to actually understand this term as there is no logical reason why it exists. We just have to accept that is just something that squares to -1."
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by thearn4 13y ago
Where the author talks about imaginary numbers being completely "made up" and suggests you shouldn't bother with trying to understand them, I think that's selling them short. Imagine, if you will, trying to explain to th
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by thearn4 13y ago
I found the source of the photo: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/27416195 Not convinced that the auction is legit. By the way, the American version (military aviation graveyard) of this is pretty fun to look around at t
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by thearn4 13y ago
I know personally that Europa is actually pretty high on Charlie Bolden's (and other NASA HQ folk's) as well as academia's radar, but has thus far lost out to other programmatic/political necessities. NASA has a very har

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