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811.
by thearn4 13y ago
Great little boards, I use these as mini portable file servers/Git hosts in my lab.
812.
by thearn4 13y ago
hangouts are the one thing I do like about G+
813.
by thearn4 13y ago
No kidding. You could replace "DOS" with "______", then fill in any software project, and it would sound pretty spot on.
814.
by thearn4 13y ago
I think that awarding contracts to the lowest bidder is a recipe for disaster if it is a software product being ordered.
815.
by thearn4 13y ago
Another cool thing is that orthonormal bases are not unique - there are many other basis functions that you can choose beyond just sine and cosine to decompose a function (or digital signal). Though they are a natural choice if you are spec
816.
by thearn4 13y ago
Love git, but am also glad to see that changes are being considered to make its behavior more intuitive. Relevant: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/
817.
by thearn4 13y ago
Please don't tell me that Richard Stallman was right all along...
818.
by thearn4 13y ago
Another angle: the PCA is given by computing the SVD (a more general analog of eigenvalue/eigenvector decomposition) of a whitened representation of the data. Some idiosyncrasies of PCA them become obvious: we can't determine if
819.
by thearn4 13y ago
Pretty good advice, much of it not exclusive to CS alone. In particular the notes about the opportunity cost involved with getting a PhD. I'd add to this: find out with absolute clarity upfront what the terms are for applying as a doct
820.
by thearn4 13y ago
I like the idea. Though in my field (mathematics), I think this is actually not at all uncommon already (reviewing and sanity checking unpublished work of your adviser and their colleagues). Then again, we have the benefit of being able to
821.
by thearn4 13y ago
Someone should make an app that aggregates a list of companies that pay for advertisements which are especially disruptive or annoying, so I can be extra sure that I'm not supporting their behavior.
822.
by thearn4 13y ago
My students this summer used python/numpy/scipy with spyder in place of MATLAB. I was pretty impressed with it overall.
823.
by thearn4 13y ago
Looks great!
824.
by thearn4 13y ago
Homebrew is definitely the way to go for installing python for development on Mac
825.
by thearn4 13y ago
A good way to get folks to make the switch. I just wish Python 3 didn't benchmark so much slower than Python 2 in some of my use cases (though I still aim for compatibility with it). Couple of relevant search results: http:/&#x2F
826.
by thearn4 13y ago
Good to hear. The situation with python packaging has seemed kind of chaotic for awhile. The setuptools/distribute merger will hopefully standardize things from here on out.
827.
by thearn4 13y ago
The new statistics library looks interesting.
828.
by thearn4 13y ago
Kind of a novelty, but cool. Looks like they're going to hit their goal.
829.
by thearn4 13y ago
Good comment, and much of it also applies to vague optimism that some people put into Machine Learning methods.
830.
by thearn4 13y ago
It's funny to think that only exposure folks have to floppy disks now is the look of "save" icons.
831.
by thearn4 13y ago
Both. The higher order cubes aren't as hard as they might seem. Most strategies degenerate towards knowing how to solve the 3x3x3 case.
832.
by thearn4 13y ago
I know Morley Davidson, one of the mathematicians who worked this out. Well, I took seminars with him while working on my PhD at least. His office is full of puzzle cubes. Now that I've got my own office, so is mine. They're kind
833.
by thearn4 13y ago
<twitch>
834.
by thearn4 13y ago
Easiest way is to get partners (or at least followers) on a project, if you can. It definitely helps motivate me to keep working on things after the initial drive wears down.
835.
by thearn4 13y ago
Unless you have some extra cash to burn, it's usually a bad idea to buy development hardware, unless you're interested in developing for it (or at least hacking on it).
836.
by thearn4 13y ago
Very surprising, I figured they would go right to the consumer version. It's good to hear that Oculus is taking their time and getting things right.
837.
by thearn4 13y ago
I'd have to concur. I highly value both kinds of experience, for this diversity actually.
838.
by thearn4 13y ago
I'm an applied mathematician (PhD) working partially in software development, partially in research mathematics and statistics proper. A mathematician is someone who works on things that honestly very few folks can understand completel
839.
NASA engineers release open-source model Hyperloop(openmdao.org)
1 points by thearn4 13y ago|0 comments
840.
Python code for converting images and text directly into 3D-printable STL files(github.com)
1 points by thearn4 13y ago|0 comments

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