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by tobmlt 6y ago
I’d guess the worry leading to this kind of write up, and the difference with the cars-mechanics story is that over time, working within the computer is expected to be more and more important/larger fraction of the workforce/highe
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by tobmlt 6y ago
hey, hey!, we can over-fit higher order approximations too. The nerve on some of ya. (Absolutely just kidding around here)
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Just commenting to let you know that at least one other person on hacker news knows marginal revolution style economics/moral philosophy/classical liberalism and finds it more compelling than the alternatives seen to date. No off
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I think we’d have this already/automatically as our interconnectivity has grown. It’s media and government propaganda stoking fear of the other for their gain which actively thwarts it. — up to the point which it can live organically
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Replying to my own comment because there’s more to it. I’m paying more attention to the issue, and sometimes Spyder just context switches, quite often with very annoying timing, and often for no reason I can pinpoint. It just wants to be
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Anecdotal, but I got a chuckle out of it.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Thanks! I’ll try turning off “everything” and see how it goes. — I am hoping to find some middle ground where I can still make use of some features. I’ll play around with it some more. I’d gotten discouraged by stack overflow discussion
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by tobmlt 6y ago
As someone who has used spyder everyday for years, it’s really getting in my way lately. Important caveat: I’ve just recently upgraded from some really old versions to the latest spyder. Now it throws off my work flow by continuously tripp
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by tobmlt 6y ago
One of my first jobs was for a small engineering shop. Paid about 55k a year in 2010 dollars. It did pay overtime, that should have been my first warning. They hired me with the promise of 4x10 work-weeks. What happened in reality is th
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Nah, your right - it does not affect my life that much. It is the principle. The financial system is set up to have a power asymmetry that I find abhorrent. Guess I studied Econ under “the wrong professors” for to long as a kid. I tried
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by tobmlt 6y ago
This is apologetics for the status quo, which by design benefits the financial sector at the expense of consumers. Give me safety over freedom, says every hegemonist when putting words in our mouths. Your corner case scenario should not det
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Building anything that can deal with a catastrophic engine failure at powered landing time is probably out of scope for the foreseeable future. Caveat: Did I mistake the scope here? I’ve not checked to see at what point in the trajectory
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by tobmlt 6y ago
In my industry (computational engineering) I fear leetcode etc. is becoming the bar one must pass before being questioned about anything germane (e.g. what kind of time integrator to use in this situation, different ways to handle that boun
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Thinking of how economics discussion usually goes with truly lay folk in this field makes me want to build a pretty little website showing various triangle diagrams for trade, market clearing under various actions etc. Stuff from undergrad
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by tobmlt 6y ago
We’d be “left with” the left hand side of our newton system of course! Eh hem, That was a computational joke. I know, I know, but anyway, build a Newton’s method for your physics, and the physics is all in the residual (right hand side) wi
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by tobmlt 6y ago
In the last two years I had my first child, finished a PhD, moved across the country away from all family, Moved again and changed jobs to a much more stressful, demanding, and higher paying job during the pandemic, bought a house in a high
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by tobmlt 6y ago
This sounds very similar to my experience doing a PhD while working full time.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Heck yeah they do. For anyone else interested who hasn’t seen it, check out “types” in the wiki article linked above for a nice picture of some variations in common use. Fun stuff to compute the wave induced motions of... The math is ver
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Congrats! If only all inmates unjustly incarcerated could receive fair re-trials / pardons / relief / release depending on circumstances. There are so damn many people in need of justice in this way.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
My first thought was: “at least it’s not the Jones polynomial guy”... oh. Damn it. I know him from “gauge fields, knots and gravity” and the expanding popularity of low dimensional topology generally.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
The answer is a clear yes in my case, but I work on commercial numerical design and analysis software. The interleaving of computers and engineering entailed here makes a hard case that there is not an absolute "no" available. B
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Additionally, the process of doing the physical engineering has changed drastically -- computational tools, design space exploration, optimization methods. (recognizing that the grandparent comment stuck specifically to screw-tech, but it&
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Computational software engineer with physical engineering qualifications here -- we better be engineers on both sides of the divide! I suppose I don't really count though, as far as the question goes, since the software I write is use
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Not sure if this is hyperbole, but usually bugs are caught elsewhere in the design spiral. If caught early enough, this results in a chewing out at worst (I had a bad first job). If caught late enough, this results in a law suit. (Seen it
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Einstein would apparently disagree with you.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Let us not forget the elliptic curve backdoor they gave themselves a few years ago. https://www.wired.com/2013/09/nsa-backdoor/
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by tobmlt 6y ago
You do need to take them every so often to stay certified. This cartel isn’t for slackers, come now. (I jest - half my family is in the medical business. I studied economics for a while)
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Finite element assembly is one I see daily. There are many times In computational mechanics and also mesh manipulation (graphics programming, shape design, etc) when inserting into a sparse matrix is useful.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Well, there’s nothing stopping subdivision of a currency by any means available. Bad money drives out good as well, so in practice, people cash in bitcoin and pay with dollars in order to pay small fraction of what 1 bitcoin is worth. In t
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Yeah, maybe something with differential geometry and ML would be fun. I’ve also built a system for composing relations and generating gradients from a computational graph...(for CAD design generation) Maybe I should look at working on a f

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