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by tobmlt 5y ago
Maybe I missed something but the article mentions that the rear engine design lives on in smaller jets for reasons similar to why it appeared in the first place.
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Yep. I saved that text as I was passing through the article to say something along these lines. To bend over backwards for the article anyway, there may be some merit to the idea that “ Wings on an aircraft with rear-mounted engines can b
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Yep. You’ve found one of the true purposes of immigration law. As with barriers to free competition among employers in the market for employees acting to suppress wages to benefit companies, so with nation states in their control of citiz
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Oh, well still, you’ve got your crow with you today. I can see it.
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by tobmlt 5y ago
I admire one who can stick to character like a true fascist in the face of an internet of doubt. May I request a write up on the benefits of a national psychosis?
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Does anyone know what the process for interviewing for a highly technical spot at Nvidia looks like? I mean like where you are building specialized scientific computing frameworks for accelerating ML (but also accelerating computations for
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Is eternity countable? I really want to know what I am in for, ya know. Plus, depending on the properties of the eternal manifold, maybe I can perform some useful closed timelike computation while there and use that to get rich when/
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by tobmlt 5y ago
If you are grinding leetcode, you are already in hell.
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Is wishful thinking part of divination? Then again they did manage to get, e.g. google and Lockheed Martin(?) To actually purchase some of their wishful thinking hardware. There might have been a deal with minor/slightly demonic imp t
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Maybe… or The Atrocity Archives, or something from the laundry files… something along those lines perhaps. Edit: somebody scooped me
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by tobmlt 5y ago
First you steal the ammonium nitrate, but he sure to leave behind enough to blow up all the evidence (except that which may be deduced by dimensional analysis, if you are GI Taylor ;) Edit: Sorry I simply meant to be imaginative. I didn’t
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Just for a second (before I read carefully) I thought Disney and Science Applications International Corporation collaborated on a VR project 25 years ago. My brain went “I’d like to turn to butter now but I buy it: misquoting Twain, “only
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Yeah, the tone is harsh. He’s trying to deal in mass with a whole pile of cranks wasting his time. Compare with his “how to become a good theoretical physicist”: https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist&#
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by tobmlt 5y ago
See also how to become a good theoretical physicist by the same: https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist/index....
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by tobmlt 5y ago
I can relate. I wrote a constraint solver as a pre-processor for my curve and surface generator. Never quite made a “beautiful” hull…. Probably an issue with my objective function and graduation constraints ;)
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Mr_overalls has the overview idea covered. I might add that if you start with the Reynolds transport theorem, you can’t go wrong, but that might be the wrong-math-way-around for you. Are there particular aspects you are interested in? E.g.
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Yep. Just as bilog says. Navier Stokes. There are additional aspects that may or may not be lumped in somebody’s exposition - such as the transport of heat and coupling of the energy equation in the compressible Navier-Stokes equations.
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Fluid has so much to bend the mind. Soliton waves, shocks, expansions, critical transition phenomena (besides phase transition) Look at froude number and planning hulls, the purpose of chines, steps, etc. in a high speed hull to manage ski
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Nice visualizations! Next how about response amplitude operators and statistical response in a random wavy sea? Spectra of Motion, force, etc are really compact tools for design analysis. The linear theory is quite beautiful in my opinio
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by tobmlt 5y ago
I am with you. I started out at 55-90 hrs over 5-6 days and occasionally 7 days a week after being promised 4-10hr days a week. I was pretty sure I was paying excessive dues. This was entry level engineering after all. Later got a 32 hr a
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Since others have answered, for contrast high energy is sometimes denoted “ultraviolet” also high energy “hard” vs low energy “soft” loosely speaking
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Hey I saw self deforming mirrors as a missile defense intern circa 15 years ago! I thought they were dang cool at the time myself. I recall (for these designs) self deformation being used to help with tracking and compensate for, ya know,
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Wow, yeah thanks for this. I never have time to study for code challenges... (I am a math/physics/optimization programmer - no code challenge prep background) looks like an order of magnitude more reason not to bother.
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Yes. With unsteady and infrequent but purposeful action, move the very bowels of the earth. I mean, accomplish a lot, politely, eh hem. Excessive steady and consistent work has rendered me delirious, clearly. I’ll see myself out.
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Huh... Suddenly I want “comment code folding” up in here. I mean generally speaking, of course.
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Also appreciated by those who prefer to work in torrents, rather than consistently. ;)
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by tobmlt 5y ago
When I was getting to know LaTeX I would use LyX as a quick reference guide. Nice to have so much LaTeX info offline. Basically the reverse of your usage as the learning went on, and then finally going to pure LaTeX sometime in the foggy p
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by tobmlt 5y ago
The paper also gives recommendation for a starting point for some finite element modeling and optimization for field configurations requiring less energy than that, improving other properties and such. (FEM modeling to search the irrotatio
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by tobmlt 5y ago
“A diamond is metastable, just like your marriage and our cartel” -de beers ...possibly
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by tobmlt 5y ago
See also from Keenan Crane and company (discrete differential geometry): http://ddg.cs.columbia.edu/SGP2014/LaplaceBeltrami.pdf “The Swiss Army knife of geometric operators.” I always thought that was cool since I usua

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