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by tobmlt 6y ago
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head there. the sparsity makes me nervous. Combine that with the fact that I recently changed jobs from a very low stress position where I was basically calling the technical shots for myself to one where I a
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I have a friend who complains that that it would be nice, on some occasions, to specify the shape of the result from a numpy computation. -that it is all to easy to duck type your way into a linear algebra bug that isn’t easily caught. My
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I work on commercial physics solvers (mostly fluids) and engineering design optimization code. Game programming seems like the only other thing I’d ever want to do, programming wise. Maybe optimization but really even machine learning is
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by tobmlt 6y ago
At this level of approximation, so to rises the wealth of society to afford such stupidity.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Well said. If anyone would care to read further on the history from a similar point of view: https://mises.org/library/100-years-medical-robbery
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by tobmlt 6y ago
If you are curious for the theory behind this mechanism, a good source is “what has government done to our money“ by Murray Rothbard. It’s freely available here: https://mises.org/library/what-has-government-done-our-mo
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Awesome! Good luck!
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by tobmlt 6y ago
For sure!
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by tobmlt 6y ago
There must be a few! I guess I’m a hybrid though. (Software guy) Anyway, cheers!
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by tobmlt 6y ago
If anyone with a strong stem background wants a minimal path to understanding this (or at least seeing what it takes to understand this) on a deeper level I have to recommend Leonard Susskind’s “Introduction To Black Holes, Information And
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Thanks for making me aware of this. I’m interested in finding the derivation of this law. Intuitively it sounds sort of like Grisham’s law were bad money drives out good, but it can’t be quite that simple, can it? Is it more of an empiric
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I was going to mention the issue with reuse of old designs “being conservative” but you got there first. Mandated reuse of some component of a prior vehicle is, by definition, an extra constraint on the new design. Extra constraints make
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Ha! Sorry - I hadn’t seen your comment when I started mine. Yeah that engine up front will help I think!
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Surely this appears quick, but does this Camry maintain ideal orientation all the way to terminal velocity? Hmmm, one could imagine using the front wheel drive as a flywheel for some attitude control... Me thinks a drop test is in order.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Along with what others have mentioned, another application of adjacency matrix multiplication is in doing discrete calculus on meshes. Pushing one forms to two forms via exterior differentiation, for example. The chief operation is a matri
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by tobmlt 6y ago
This reminds me of the relational interpreters Will Byrd and company build in minikanren. (See barliman) Very cool stuff! I love relational programming. Relation interpreting still blows my mind.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Nice to see discussion on this topic! I worked on software to design floating wind turbines in my last job. Fun coupled dynamics/hydrodynamics here.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Are there any ramifications/outlook-changes for metastable metallic hydrogen research? Edit: answer = nope
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Hey, just want to say thanks. Fantastic point, and comment. I completely concur. But then I’m basically an Austrian who also likes math so I’m really just choir here.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
This is also the primary topic of “blue ocean strategy” — with a difference there that running without slack causes the system to grind to a halt and or run in “emergency rush order mode” much of the time. In such a case efficiency and re
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by tobmlt 6y ago
SSME’s? Or does it count if the water started off in separate pieces?
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Nice! I tried this out a while back as well, though I did nothing nearly as snazzy. Southampton had instructions here, I believe it was: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/ (Maybe still useful if you w
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I had a professor who was fond of saying "you have to jump in and do it" ("it" being whatever calculation, or problem, or whatever) If you are timid and stay on the sidelines, you will never do anything. Of course in ph
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by tobmlt 6y ago
This sounds great. One hopes that in the years to come, all learning takes on such a multi-faceted structure. I only wish there was a linear "wall" of learning, from baby arithmetic to algebraic cohomology, string theory, etc.,
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Seconded.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Total honesty time. This topic has bothered me for years. I went to public school and did every honors program / enrichment class / etc. that we had. Nothing that showed me how to think about learning, however. I'll get to
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by tobmlt 6y ago
In case it’s helpful, I’ll plug Richard Mattuck’s “a guide to Feynman diagrams in the many body problem” here. This book takes the magic out of Feynman diagrams for sure.
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by tobmlt 6y ago
It’s amazing to me that we allow a regulatory body the power to decide, before a system is even built, whether it qualifies as a “such-and-such performance” system. Why not just wait and see before potentially excluding LEO providers from
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by tobmlt 6y ago
Skimming the website and referenced paper-website (didn’t make it to a particular paper) I saw only statements of results, and none of methodology. Is the p-hacking claim “a general feeling” or can you pull it from something concrete here?
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by tobmlt 6y ago
I trained mostly in a (piper) warrior. Loved that pokey little bird. Much cooler getting around in a super cub. One day I’ll get a Bellanca.... one day!

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