tnecniv

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by tnecniv 10y ago
In a broader context, the two are more similar than you are giving them credit for. I was working on a paper and wrote a rather long messy proof that involved a large number of variables. When I finished, I thought the thing was too difficu
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by tnecniv 10y ago
You could have specialized in a more applied field though? Math is a big place and plenty of people get their hands dirty with useful things.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
> This becomes less of an issue once you go through some abstract algebra. But typically, constants would come from the start of the English alphabet, and vectors, from the end. That rule gets broke quite a bit though. For example, if yo
814.
by tnecniv 10y ago
Can you give an example of a place you've seen notation you can't understand? Typically, papers include a brief notation section where they define notation you can then google. In other cases, I've normally been able to googl
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by tnecniv 10y ago
I used to think this way, but as I learned more math, I realized that the way mathematicians do things isn't an issue in practice. I do wish notation was more standardized, but that's a nitpick (i.e. whether/how scalars and v
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by tnecniv 10y ago
> I'd rather do a PhD in History or Archaeology than an MBA To be fair, business schools offer PhDs which are different beasts I suspect.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Pretty much, but it has some warts (the matrix library is notably bad imo). How easy the task is depends on the nature of your game. If your players have a red outline and that's the only red in the scene, no big deal.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
So what's your suggestion when dealing with any non-trivial system? All those issues you mention are true but also active research areas.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
People don't need wheels. Cars shouldn't need them either.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
With the SLAM algorithms I am familiar, they are mostly statistics and abstracted above the camera component. They are mainly concerned with where am I most likely to be given I am witnessing these previously seen landmarks and have this no
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by tnecniv 10y ago
I don't know about non-competes, but you can't patent math. You can patent systems that use math, but not the math itself. If the application is different enough they might be fine? I'd be interested to hear from somebody who
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by tnecniv 10y ago
This is probably one of those things that varies a lot based on what your field is and how close to academia you stay while in industry. It's going to be a lot harder to come back to doing experimental physics if you spent 5 years as a
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by tnecniv 10y ago
During my undergrad I definitely had a handful of professors that came from stints at corporate research labs.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Why is CGI heading to Canada? I know its common for TV to film up there for tax / government arts funding reasons. Is it a similar situation or something else?
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by tnecniv 10y ago
> Are there actually programmers who prefer the open-office setting? It's not like I magically stop socializing if you put me in an office. Me. I like having the background activity and don't find it distracting. I've only
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by tnecniv 10y ago
It's worth noting there have been some attempts to unify ANNs with formal logic specifications, but I haven't seen anything incredible.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
The language docs are pretty well written and accessible.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
In the math and engineering classes I took, the prof normally just distributed his notes via PDF.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
In my experience, this is just mathematical code in general.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
The rumors going around the Julia IRC channel is that they are announcing 1.0 at JuliaCon this summer.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Figured I'd mention since I saw the author and an editor in here: in footnote 4, the LaTeX isn't rendering (chrome, OSX).
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by tnecniv 10y ago
It's more likely that the dean is just not the person who should be writing the grant proposal. Professors whose groups are actively working in the area the grant is for will write a much better proposal. It's also expected that a
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Not to mention some of these places have billion dollar annual budgets.
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by tnecniv 10y ago
Any idea what it was written in before?
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by tnecniv 10y ago
> Similarly, Dijkstra had to leave Europe to escape a 'religious' academia and found refuge in 'backwards' religious Texas. Do you have a source for this? Seems like an interesting story and I couldn't find menti
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by tnecniv 10y ago
I had a professor who liked to talk about how "elementary" did not mean easy, it just means "uses only the foundations." This proof is a perfect example of that statement. Formulating the problem the right way -- which i
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by tnecniv 10y ago
The thing that's interesting to me is that he knew that this was a famous unsolved problem, knew that he was correct, wanted to take SOME amount of time to publish it, and then didn't care to get it out there at all. I feel like m
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by tnecniv 10y ago
It's not as daunting as it sounds. I consider myself about halfway between introvert and extrovert. On a Friday, I'll semi-regularly will go to a quiet bar with 1-2 friends and talk. If we start with dinner, that's 6 hours un
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by tnecniv 10y ago
It mostly depends on what you want to do. If you want to try to beat the speed of the internet like some of the HFT stories you hear, you're going to want to cut as much fat out as you can. If you are more interested in doing some anal
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by tnecniv 10y ago
I'm looking forward to the episode where he confronts this development.

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