thearn4

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1. 721.▲
   by thearn4 13y ago

   Desert combat was a fantastic mod! I remember helicopters being very tricky to control (you actually had to balance cyclic & collective controls)
2. 722.▲
   by thearn4 13y ago

   Pretty clever. False cockpit aside, the A-10 is my favorite plane of all time. It has a sound that's really unmistakable. (well, technically I guess it's the GAU-8 making the sound...)
3. 723.▲
   by thearn4 13y ago

   Apparently (unless I missed it) the Singular Value Decomposition. Which is unfortunate. Otherwise, it reads very reasonably.
4. 724.▲
   by thearn4 13y ago

   Trying to give Julia a far shot. My current scientific computing stack is Python+numpy+scipy+matplotlib, with wrapped C and Fortran where needed. Also, I wrote a fast numpy implementation of Conway's game of life yesterday, for the hec
5. 725.▲
   by thearn4 13y ago

   Sounds like a fun program! Come to Cleveland, we could use something like this.
6. 726.▲
   by thearn4 13y ago

   It's really difficult to imagine the proposed approach panning out as intended - the infrastructure for STS wasn't set up for really quick turn arounds. STS's conceptual design was pitched that way (shuttles going up several
7. 727.▲
   by thearn4 13y ago

   > "The whole mission, however, depended on the titanic Saturn V rocket, a technology that is lost to the current generation." NASA engineer here. I think it's actually kind of ludicrous to claim that we have somehow "
8. 728.▲
   by thearn4 13y ago

   I used to do the same. Even now, thinking about the scale of very large things can be unsettling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Yi58jtNdY
9. 729.▲
   by thearn4 13y ago

   It's gaudier than I could have ever imagined.
10. 730.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    I wish I knew more about linguistics to understand his this work further. Though it seems a bit odd to host his work on his own personal site, rather than one hosted by his institution.
11. 731.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    To be honest, I'd focus less on it being about learning how to code, and more about deductive problem solving skills and numeracy in general. If you have a pretty good foundation there, picking up a particular programming language isn&
12. 732.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    I would guess that it mostly depends on the quality of the prior.
13. 733.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    > The assembly and dissemination of this template is a purely student-run effort. Typically the task of managing it gets passed to a new student when the previous manager graduates. This was the unwritten ritual at my department when I w
14. 734.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    Thanks for open sourcing! Looks like a pretty great concept, best of luck to you guys.
15. 735.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    Just checked it out. Has numpy, matplotlib, and a few other packages too. Nice!
16. 736.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    Awesome!
17. 737.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    I have a hard time imagining what the best-case is among the likely scenarios for Ukraine, moving forward. Stepdown of their president, and then business as usual? A full military coup (like Egypt)?
18. 738.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    Nice redesign. It'd be neat if that panel of code was a live REPL.
19. 739.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    I think that there are just as many counter examples of this as there are confirmations. The Mongols are probably the best counter example.
20. 740.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    ` PCA measures JPEG artifacts.` Just for some clarification - how does that work, exactly? If you decompose an image using PCA/SVD and find a cliff in the spectrum, is that a fingerprint of JPEG compression?
21. 741.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    Haven't had a chance to read the paper yet (though I do like both number theory and network theory, so it'll be on my to-do list). But if anyone is interested in a probabilistic notion of primality, the best practical example out
22. 742.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    American PhD here, this is a pretty alien concept to me.
23. 743.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    Though not really an IDE, IJulia is kind of neat, reminds me of mathematica in some ways (like IPython).
24. 744.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    I've been playing around with Julia for about a week now too. There are so many things to like, but I agree - the tracebacks are pretty useless half of the time.
25. 745.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    I have to say, I'm not a huge fan of articles or discussions with titles that beg the question.
26. 746.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    > Fb (oebnqyl), lbh pna pbhag gur cbffvovyvgvrf vaibyivat jvqgu-N bowrpgf, naq whfg zhygvcyl gung pbhag ol O+1-N. Njrfbzr - guvf jnf rknpgyl jung zl ynfg gubhtugf jrer ba gung.
27. 747.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    Usually, it either implies a possible simplification step (using something like Fermat's little theorem), or its to reduce a huge answer to a range that can feasibly be pasted into the input element on their site.
28. 748.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    Basically, you're looking for the rectangular equivalent of A189414 ( http://oeis.org/A189414 ). Tricky problem, even for PE. I started to retool some earlier success with it towards a quasi-DP approach, but have since g
29. 749.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    The Voynich manuscript is one of my favorite mysteries. In a lot of ways, I hope it's never really solved.
30. 750.▲
    by thearn4 13y ago

    I was a pretty huge fan of Sins of a Solar Empire for a long while too.