thearn4

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1. 61.▲
   by thearn4 9y ago

   This definitely concerns me as a dad. I need to keep discipline not just for myself, but to set the right example.
2. 62.▲
   by thearn4 9y ago

   Same! It came free with my dad's 386 that he bought for work back in 1991 or 1992. He didn't have any interest in it so I read through the manual and tinkered with it.
3. 63.▲
   by thearn4 9y ago

   I've taught some undergrad courses, and unfortunately in practice this is a bit of an upstream problem. The pace of main line non-remedial courses is often set by the scope of course objectives, which in many cases are tied to accredit
4. 64.▲
   by thearn4 9y ago

   This was something I had to find out the hard way in the process of writing this https://github.com/thearn/webcam-pulse-detector Without interpolative resampling, it didn't work well for me at all.
5. 65.▲
   by thearn4 9y ago

   Agreed, I'm a father and found it to be a tough read.
6. 66.▲
   by thearn4 9y ago

   I have a PhD in mathematics, and have been working in the public sector (NASA) for a little under 10 years. A mix of interest in numerical linear algebra and software engineering helped me work into a niche in scientific computing and engin
7. 67.▲
   by thearn4 9y ago

   for what it's worth, we do it for fun too, not just for getting rid of the annoy-a-trons :)
8. 68.▲
   by thearn4 9y ago

   I've started a habit of sitting down with my son and taking them apart, screw by screw, piece by piece. He loves tools so he's into it 100%. The louder, brighter, and more annoying the y are, the more likely that they don't m
9. 69.▲
   by thearn4 9y ago

   Agreed. It's worth separating things like agile from Agile™®.
10. 70.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    I added z-wave switches to my house, but honestly they function enough like normal switches that I would just leave them if I sold the house (but take the controller with me). I never used any cloud services though.
11. 71.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    Awesome, pretty handy to have for engineering/scientific computing code. Over time, you do start to build the intuition just like you do for scalar derivative calculations, but it takes time.
12. 72.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    Agreed, many congrats due to the Scipy team! Their library was one of several that helped me get away from MATLAB post graduate school.
13. 73.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    Side note: It's interesting that you're getting a masters after your phd. Is it in a pretty different field?
14. 74.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    I've worked on a few teams at my job that only seemed to hire from GA Tech, MIT or Purdue (engineering), though I was the odd one out in coming from a non-engineering background (math) from a state school. Intellectual inbreeding is a
15. 75.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    As an arachnophobia Something about looking at spiders really disturbs me at some fundamental level. but I'm extremely fascinated by their biology still. Is anyone else similar?
16. 76.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    I've been trying to cut sugar out of my diet recently. Eventually I'd like to at least feel comfortable treating it like alcohol: only for consumption in social settings and not too often.
17. 77.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    Looks interesting, can this function as a ZWave controller hub when used on system with a ZWave USB stick?
18. 78.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    I really want to watch it, but man 18 hours is a deep dive, especially for such a serious topic. I need to set aside some time.
19. 79.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    The reaction gifs were a bit too distracting for me to finish the article.
20. 80.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    I wonder, is BTC liquid enough that you could actually get your $600k if you suddenly were able to recover them? I haven't dabbled in crypto coins, so I have no idea how the exchanges really operate in practice.
21. 81.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    Any opinions or predictions for the alternative meal prep box services, like Hello Fresh etc. ?
22. 82.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    Same in rural Ohio, tons of both this year
23. 83.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    FFT is a pretty cool thing. But yeah, this "trick" has been used for correlation-based computations for quite awhile. Assuming that it's the trick that the author was referring to, the article is actually a bit sparse on deta
24. 84.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    Some colleagues of mine also did a short feasibility assessment of the original white paper, and came to some similar conclusions. The propulsion system also made some assumptions about compressor performance that seemed too optimistic comp
25. 85.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    It reads like a script right out of Silicon Valley.
26. 86.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    Same experience on my end. I mean, the recommendation system is better than nothing, but I very rarely find something I really like based on it.
27. 87.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    Annexation was a strategy used by Columbus OH some years ago to continue growth past the limits of its suburban sprawl (and officially past the size of Cleveland, making it defacto the largest city in Ohio). Cleveland has been talking about
28. 88.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    I have a thunderbolt display and the my macbooks screen when at work. Text editing, bash, and web browser are on the monitor, with e-mail and slack on the laptop screen.
29. 89.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    I grew up right where the photo for Cleveland was taken. It was still dirty in the early 80s, but so much better than even 10 years before that. I can't imagine rolling back to the 60s. Then again, the steel industry is probably never
30. 90.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    I understand the issue with continuity of care, but to be honest that sounds like a communication problem at its core rather something that absolutely can only be addressed with aggressive scheduling.