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by tnecniv 3y ago
I do love animals, but I’ve always been intimidated about the responsibility of being the person solely in charge of that animal’s life. I’ve always struggled with routines and such (I found out in adulthood I have ADHD). I have thought abo
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by tnecniv 3y ago
You are right, but the hard part for me is determining the causality here. Am I depressed because I’m burnt out, or am I feeling burnt out because I’m depressed?
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by tnecniv 3y ago
As a researcher, I’ve felt largely the same way lately. It’s been hard for me to even wrap up a project I was so excited about when I started it that I missed sleep because I was that engaged. Unfortunately, I don’t have a cozy tenure posit
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by tnecniv 3y ago
It’s probably a thread, but those of us without Twitter accounts can’t easily view threads anymore
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I’d say that it requires good arm design for that to work. This might seem obvious, but I have a watch that I like as an accessory because the “arms” make cool hatch patterns, but the minute and hour hand are not distinct enough to be read
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by tnecniv 3y ago
In that case, it does not materially change the content but it does change the tone to indicate you would appreciate them responding in the affirmative . Adding a “please” to a request also doesn’t make it harder to understand. You do have
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Lots of people also just like them for comfort food. They were one of my favorite snacks as a kid and I was fortunate to have access to plenty of healthy food. To this day, if I see a new noodle flavor I feel compelled to try it. Same with
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I have a mild enough case I didn’t get diagnosed until grad school and my long term memory is great. I’d crush history tests growing up and struggled more with math due to misreading problems and making sign errors or similar mistakes. I di
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Eh it really depends on the context. When I got my EE degree I was told getting your PE only really mattered if you worked on the power grid or similar. It wasn’t that you were less of an engineer or an expert without it but that 1) you did
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by tnecniv 3y ago
This is a really insightful book that I’d recommend to anyone in STEM with an academic inclination (not necessarily an academic but someone who likes reading big idea nonfiction book)
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by tnecniv 3y ago
It can’t. There’s no gradient since it’s not a sufficiently nice space for them. You can use gradient free methods but I’d be shocked if there was an efficient enough way to do that
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by tnecniv 3y ago
The famous mathematician Vladimir Arnold said (approximately) “the best way to learn a topic is to write a book on it.” He did that a few times in his career — most notably his excellent book on classical mechanics.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Right in the title it explains it’s a book on theory. “Prompt engineering” doesn’t really fit in any theoretical framework I’m aware of and, while I also like graphics, most theory publications are light on them. You might be looking for a
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Not just understanding, but how to parse it. For example, I can read a theorem that introduces a bunch of variables in the first sentence that don’t get used until a few lines later and say “yeah those are probably just some constants they’
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Yeah I know it’s a common challenge. I think it took me a bit longer than some of my peers because I was trying to force it to be like something I knew instead of meeting it on its own terms. When all you have is a hammer and all that
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Really trial and error and grinding through proofs. Working through Linear Algebra Done Right was a big a-ha moment for me. Since I was self-studying over the summer (to remedy my poor linear algebra skills), I was very rigorous in making s
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I remember cackling so loudly when I first watched that episode and he opened the door to the image of goth Freddy
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Likely graduate students with a very theoretical interest. Some theoretically-oriented scientists and engineers are also basically applied mathematicians. It is presumably targeted at people that want to further develop the theoretical aspe
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by tnecniv 3y ago
The last part was a big hurdle for me as an early undergrad. I was a fairly strong programmer toward the end of high school, and was trying to think of math as programming. That worked for the fairly algorithmic high school stuff and I got
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by tnecniv 3y ago
While I tend to grade generously when instructions aren’t followed, it is a real pain. It takes a lot more time to grade an assignment when someone does not follow the requested protocol. It’s likely to me that the prof saw a mess of printe
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by tnecniv 3y ago
A little bit of A and B. You can do a lot with very little math beyond linear algebra, calculus, and undergraduate probability, and that knowledge is mainly there to provide intuition and formalize the problem that you’re solving a bit. You
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by tnecniv 3y ago
So this is a book written by applied mathematicians for applied mathematics (they state in the preface it’s for scientists, but some theoretical scientists and engineers are essentially applied mathematics). As a result, both the topics and
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by tnecniv 3y ago
It depends on what you’re doing. That is accurate for, say, describing the training of a neural network, but if you want to prove something about generalization, for example (which the book at least touches on from my skimming), you’ll need
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by tnecniv 3y ago
All very great choices! “Dog army? What do you think that means?” Is an inside joke with me and my best friend from “High Holidays”. I also agree that the ranking is hard. A remarkable thing about the show is how it’s consistent throughout
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I’m curious what your pics for best Frasier episodes are? Two of mine are when they become illegal caviar dealers and when Niles wants to try weed. The episodes with Lilith tend to also be very good. People love the Valentine’s Day one, but
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by tnecniv 3y ago
…is Ted Kaczynski popular among tech workers? Even the hardcore socialists I know aren’t really fans beyond acknowledging he had a good point or two.
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The only reason I don’t is because, when I’m on my MacBook, I’m worried about sacrificing battery life by not using safari
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Yeah a lot of these articles seem to be a lot of people who are very opinionated and don’t want to consider any other side. I guess that’s a lot of articles these days in general…and probably past days too but I wasn’t around then.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Yeah I grew up in a suburb and spent time in both suburbs and cities as an adult. I certainly prefer the big city but there are a lot of hobbies and lifestyles they do not promote. For example, any hobby that needs space (practicing an inst
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Plus, gym equipment is designed to be as ergonomic as possible (even something like a dumbbell is designed to be easy to grip and hold, contrast that with moving large, bulky equipment for a job).

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