thearn4

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   by thearn4 9y ago

   > Companies under French management I'm curious about this one, how come?
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   by thearn4 9y ago

   That's a great read, thanks for linking it.
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   by thearn4 9y ago

   I didn't trade, but Italian army rations looked pretty good. U.S. MREs are obviously awful when compared to pretty much any prepared food, but when you're genuinely hungry you mind that a lot less.
4. 214.▲
   by thearn4 9y ago

   Anything in particular stick out as bad in the API? I haven't tinkered with mobile development in awhile, but I remember content providers feeling like an oddly thought-out concept at the time.
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   by thearn4 9y ago

   I hadn't noticed that pattern, but it is an interesting one.
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   by thearn4 9y ago

   I'm in that 45%, though I used military benefits to cover it. So really, American taxpayers as a whole paid for my bachelor degree.
7. 217.▲
   by thearn4 9y ago

   Federal research (i.e. civil servants at NASA, NOAA, DOE, etc.) tends to work closer to that model, but not 100%.
8. 218.▲
   by thearn4 9y ago

   I'm not a medical professional, but the whole discussion of handoff risk always seemed to me like it was side-stepping the real issue presented, which is poor documentation and/or communication between peers. Instead, the premise
9. 219.▲
   by thearn4 9y ago

   I think ESP8266 boards (running something NodeMCU) are becoming the more popular replacements for Arduino. They're super cheap, and have integrated Wifi. Cool thing about them is that you can write in C-like AVR code (like Arduino), or
10. 220.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    This is a good point, and a relevant one when discussion Common Core with people. At the surface level, I don't see anything in the new mathematics curriculum that I would consider negative, but the biggest complaint I hear is that par
11. 221.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    It concerns me a bit that at some point, there are fundamentals concerning simple yet effective approaches that may be forgotten (or a least not taught) in favor of black box neural nets, like Kalman filtering, PID control, etc. Institution
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    by thearn4 9y ago

    Linear algebra is the ultimate common variable in technical computing and applied mathematics at large.
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    by thearn4 9y ago

    I'm pretty close to Lake Erie, the sewer drain of the other Great Lakes. Invasive species are pretty bad here too. But the agricultural runoff and season algae blooms have been the most recent headache in the western portion of the lak
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    by thearn4 9y ago

    Serious question, why do the major tech companies put up with this and not slowly migrate elsewhere? I get it's a bit of a chicken vs. the egg game when it comes to where the work is & where the talent is, but the bay area seems li
15. 225.▲
    by thearn4 9y ago

    I feel like Python is the closest that we've come to this, though it is imperfect.
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    Deep Learning’s Impact on Image Processing, Mathematics, and Humanity(sinews.siam.org)

    4 points by thearn4 9y ago|0 comments
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    by thearn4 9y ago

    So for someone who has tinkered on the periphery of Java development (but does not work with Java/JVM languages professionally), it isn't entirely clear to me what the purpose of modules is for developers, over the encapsulation a
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    by thearn4 9y ago

    I reached this point in graduate school, though it took a few years for it to feel that natural.
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    by thearn4 9y ago

    FWIW, I'm a GED holder, but later finished college & PhD. My linkedin profile is 100% complete, and I find zero utility in the platform. You really aren't missing much there.
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    by thearn4 9y ago

    Do you feel the same way about visibility in OOP? E.g. private data and methods?
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    by thearn4 9y ago

    Does DL provide mechanisms for feeding back into theory? As in, does a successful deep convolutional neural network provide a means to extract enough from it's structure and behavior to potentially not NEED the CNN for prediction in a
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    by thearn4 9y ago

    Count me among the "moon first, then mars" crowd.
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    by thearn4 9y ago

    Are you saying that you think IRBs are a waste by design, or that the way IRBs are typically implemented makes them so as a side effect?
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    by thearn4 9y ago

    > professors are getting paid to do next to nothing Speaking from the part-time professors perspective: occurring in parallel to this is a steady growth in course section sizes. 30 students used to be the norm for some courses, but 80-90
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    by thearn4 9y ago

    I taught a calculus class the the department had mandated be managed with MyMathLab. There is a kernel of a good idea in these subject-specific course content management systems, key among them is they give a reasonable way to actually man
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    by thearn4 9y ago

    I'm teaching a data structures class w/java this coming fall semester, and am putting together a reference text/notes in markdown to provide for free, since it seems really silly to require a paid text for this stuff. Every s
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    by thearn4 9y ago

    For what it's worth, I've had luck moving some people's anti-science opinions by meeting them at their level of understanding, and offering some compassion. Might help that they are relatives and not total strangers though.
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    by thearn4 9y ago

    I'm extremely skeptical that this could in any way be possible, but is it remotely possible that she herself did not know the extent of the fraudulence of the tests?
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    by thearn4 9y ago

    1. Aerospace 2.1 Access to energy / energy density of fuels (batteries included). This is the case across a wide range of industries and problem areas of course, not just transportation. But incremental optimizations in efficiency have
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    by thearn4 10y ago

    Yeah, the strange "data structures and algorithms are either everything or nothing" polarization in the opinions on tech interviewing is strange.