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by vlasev 6y ago
I felt this comment! I racked up plenty of debt during my school years and it only increased after that for no good reason. I felt overwhelmed most of the time and the marginal increases in debt didn't feel like much. So my debt grew a
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by vlasev 6y ago
Perhaps you lack imagination, perhaps you lack dose, setting, mood, etc. Have you tried different kinds of music to go along with these? Have you tried to isolate from most of your senses like sight? It's a very different experience to
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by vlasev 6y ago
I think it's a pretty good analogy. I was experiencing a personal paradox of mine for over a year and no amount of writing or thinking about it helped. Then after a single experience with weed, the next day I was able to piece things t
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by vlasev 6y ago
Physics does have something to do with it. It takes less energy to leave a food plate on your night stand than to get up and bring it to the sink. It takes less energy to throw your clothes in a mess on a chair than to fold them and put the
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by vlasev 6y ago
What I rarely see, if ever, is writing and guides on what to do with yourself when life throws a wrench at you. I find it's not difficult to eat well, sleep well, exercise well when times are alright. But then if something bad happens
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by vlasev 6y ago
Regarding 3), maybe it's just a small exception, but in Toronto's Chinatown you can see that a lot of the houses have gardens with vegetables. It's just that the overall lots are small and the gardens are small. But they are
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by vlasev 6y ago
That's quite normal. It happens on pretty much every launch to some extent. Something to do with vibrations causes by the landing burn and directional dishes
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by vlasev 6y ago
Dude, I turned off the public profile thing. It appears to be off. BUT when I hard refresh the page and click again, it appears to be ON again! Am I going crazy?
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by vlasev 6y ago
Mathematically the set of squares and the set of rectangles have the same cardinality as there is a bijection between them. To see this, a square can be described by a single number, putting the set of squares in 1 to 1 correspondence with
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by vlasev 6y ago
When my parents brought me to Canada, my dad briefly worked as a pizza delivery driver and me and my mom would often ride with him just to keep him company. Not sure if that's the case here, but they might just be spending time togethe
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by vlasev 6y ago
It's applied pretty much everywhere. Most numerical problems have some linear algebra component to them. Physics uses it a lot too. A lot of non-linear problems have a linearization on which you can use linear algebra to obtain approxi
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by vlasev 6y ago
Take a 3x3 matrix A for example. Then det(A) is the volume of the parallepiped formed by the row vectors. If one vector is a linear combination of the other two, this means that the vectors lie in a plane, which has volume 0 in 3D, so det(A
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by vlasev 6y ago
I whole-heartedly agree. Axler's book is a great stepping stone to more abstract linear algebra.
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by vlasev 6y ago
I believe this is largely because in the field of mathematics, Linear algebra is just the seed that sprouts the growth of other very very useful mathematical subjects like Abstract Algebra, Functional Analysis and so on. Linear Algebra is u
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by vlasev 6y ago
> For example, the derivative is a linear operator, so how do you write it down as a matrix? Consider polynomials in X of degree up, but not including N. The powers 1,X,...,X^(n-1) form a basis. Then the coefficients of the polynomial ca
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by vlasev 6y ago
I don't see it mentioned, but I thought I'd chime in. Even if your crypto algorithm is perfect and works infinitely fast, there's still the problem of implementation. And that's usually not perfect and often leads to pra
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by vlasev 6y ago
A radio station in the 1MHz range is transmitting in the 10s of kW range. The energy of a single photon is tremendously small. So if you divide out the large transmitting power by the energy of a single photon, you'll see that an unima
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by vlasev 6y ago
Yeah, you often send commands several beats in advance. And then there's some lag too, because muscles are fairly viscous and take a bit of time to start up. You're basically dancing in the future, because you are behind. I think
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by vlasev 6y ago
Waiting in line for a venue can easily take 20-30 minutes. So why not deploy this to places like this. You get the test done while waiting in line at no extra time cost to you. So you wouldn't even be waiting 10 min to get in. That&#x2
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by vlasev 6y ago
Perhaps a good starting point would be to look at a "chord"[1], which is a line segment between two points on a circle. Then you'd look at a chord that is tangent to the inner circle of a set of two concentric circles. You ca
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by vlasev 6y ago
Funny enough, on Mac, fn + down works, although the jumps are larger.
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by vlasev 6y ago
If 90% of the work is this repetitive, perhaps you could create methods and tools to make the process quicker?
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by vlasev 7y ago
Tinder has points 1, 2 (if you use your phone number), the first part of 3 (but it's more like $20) and 6. Some apps have certain no-match criteria.
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by vlasev 7y ago
The parent comment said nothing about being able to go on dates. I don't know where you read that. It could really be Tinder's fault. I've used it over the last few years and while my profile hasn't changed appreciably,
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by vlasev 7y ago
Well... WYTINWYG should do it
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by vlasev 7y ago
You gain back some efficiency by cleaning up all in one go at a later time! Think of trips to the sink with the dirty dishes.
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by vlasev 7y ago
In my graduate math research I had to find patterns, formalize them and eventually prove more and more little results that added up to bigger results. I went through a lot of iterations, calculations and "experiments". The thing t
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by vlasev 8y ago
Say you start with a small system of equations and you find out how you can solve them. Then you solve a bunch more, but then you start to notice that you don't like writing out the x, y, and z's, so you just keep the coefficients
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by vlasev 8y ago
You might be thinking along the lines of natural units [1] or even Planck units [2], where you set some fundamental constants to 1 and take it from there. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units [2]: https:&#
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by vlasev 8y ago
It would have been much much better to just use the first letters, like A for Android, P for private office, H for working from home.

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