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by tnecniv 8y ago
They may not market it that way, but they definitely do. In my program, you are admitted by a specific professor behind the scenes. You may end up working for someone different during your first year, but there is a specific advisor who sai
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Yeah that's the gist of it. There are things like adaptive control where aspects of the model are adjusted on the fly in real-time to improve performance based on data from the system and robust control that tries to account for modeli
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Depends on what you mean by rigorous and who you are talking to. Both fields are attempting to solve the same problem: choose the optimal action to take at the current time for a given process. Control theorists normally start out with a mo
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by tnecniv 8y ago
You can't just mention Husker Du and not bring up The Replacements!
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Good choices. I was thinking of Bad Brains, who started out as a fusion band, and Craig Finn's early stuff, but that probably gets into more post-punk.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
The other thing about punk is that it's really more an attitude. Some punks are really skilled musicians and lyricists that bring a lot of outside influence into their music.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Punk died in 1958
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Depends on your definition of aristocracy. Remember, you used to have land to be able to vote.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Honestly, writing a Game Boy emulator was the most instructive project I ever did on how computers work. Probably learned more on that project than from my OS and embedded systems classes combined.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
> whether I was doing something useful with my time, or whether I was just a crazy person. This is grad school in a nutshell, but in the classical route, you have a lot of people to talk with who can tell you which bucket you're in.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Honestly, the things it sounds like you're doing are great. I'd rather have my lecturer be dry and provide all the resources it sounds like you do than the opposite. Really, the biggest thing for me is making sure the lecture is p
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by tnecniv 8y ago
A Greek professor told me that when he started his PhD (in the US) his Greek advisor told him as a Greek in America his two options were to become a control theorist or open a diner.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
> I also would fully fund grad student tuition, room, and board, with somewhat adjusted numbers depending on the program. This already happens for PhD students.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
> If you hid the dates and reformatted it as a reddit thread, everyone would believe it was written today. Maybe cut out the bits about Sun, PARC, NeXT, etc.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Generally I've found you carry around fewer n +/- 1 type expressions when you index from 1. Also, most applied math papers I've read index from 1 and that makes implementing them a lot easier.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Yeah it's almost more a video game than anything. Reminds me of games like Her Story.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
I definitely knew some in undergrad. I went the grad school route though, so I haven't seen them so much in industry.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
That's not true. I knew a lot of professors at my undergrad, which is a well-known university, that worked in industrial research positions after their PhD before returning to academia.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Right, any individual sentence is fine and the idea is probably usable, yet it's not clear how each statement relates to those that came before it.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Starship Troopers is great on multiple levels, ranging from a fun action movie I was sad to see and to a commentary on Nazi Germany.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Yes, although my intention was to further support their last statement which was left open to a degree. There is a slight distinction. If you are creating a programming language, you can come up with whatever syntax you'd like for assi
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Technical papers are written using '<-' in pseudocode because the papers likely use '=' elsewhere to assert equality in a mathematical statement and they want to avoid confusion.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
I majored in electrical engineering at a good school, and had to take ~8 humanities and social science credits, so that is surprising to me.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
I mean, if you want to go back far enough, many major results in optimization theory and operations research started in one form or another as a project to aid with military logistics. Now those are fundamental tools inside and outside SV.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
In the US, your funding primarily comes from your PI. You may have to supplement it via TAing some semesters depending on your group's resources. Even if you are lucky enough to get something like an NSF GRFP, that wont fund your full
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Also your summers aren't off, necessarily. If you're at a research institute, it's not like the group of PhD students and postdocs you manage vanishes.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
> I learned that real world IMU use in navigation is pretty ugly and has to be supplemented due to constant errors. This can be particularly difficult when flying. In my case I used other sensors, such as a GPS. But a strictly IMU-only a
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by tnecniv 9y ago
FWIW, philosophy majors are among the highest scoring majors on the LSAT.
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Research? Largely no, although they crop up now and then in clever ways. They are still very relevant in industry, however.
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> For a non-linear system, machine learning can perform much better and solve more complex tasks. Like walking for a humanoid robot. A linearzied PID solution can not beat that. Right but you are comparing a nonlinear regression model wi

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