wlievens

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   by wlievens 13y ago

   The easiest path into a nr 3 job here is to find a job with an engineering product company, ie a company that sells a high-tech product that is not software. My current job mixes those three categories nicely and I love it :)
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   Unless you pay, I guess.
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   Well they are engineers... what did you expect?
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   Model-View-Presenter might be a tad more relevant.
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   So your algorithm would be a MTurk api?
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   I see what you nean: the computer as a tool, rather than as the one that does tge proving.
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   How is that not just a matter of not all of the information being available? What does uncalculable mean here?
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   Clearly there is a defent "yo mamma" joke in there.
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   I think you two are disagreeing about terminology. You're the ecpert in the field, which (correctly) makes you more sensitive to terminological distinctions. What's not disputed I guess, is the commonly (to CS-educated engineers)
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    What what? And, what the hell is an infinite number?
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    I'm not even sure that's true. Fractals come to mind.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    I don't think there is a market for cars without micro electronics. Especially not with the rise of electric cars. FPGA's are several orders of magnitude more expensive than mass-produced electronics. Modern cars contain more than
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    I would think even entirely deterministic systems need to be treated probabilistically if you don't have perfect information.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    I offer one crude definition: intelligence is a requirement for an agent that can solve a wid range of problems, without being specifically designed for these problems.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    That so sounded like a bad yo momma joke.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Not just the compounding, but also the spreading of risk, if I understand well. Which is the point with any kind of conservative pension plan.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    It's a dumb choice to even have to make, if your profits are more than enough to not have to make it. However it's their right to make it. If they want to run their company into the ground like that, why not.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Is the actual medical care so much more expensive in the US than in Europe? I'm not talking about the insurance system or anything like that, I'm talking about the actual hospitalization cost. My twins spent six weeks in NICU in a
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Cars have ridiculously much electronics in them and you cannot "print" those just like that in a small shop. Have you seen how big wnd expensive a wafer fab is?
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    I've never met these elusive mysterious men in the software industry that are negative towards women, or towards the idea of women working in the software industry. I have however met plenty of women (high school era mostly) who were v
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Wow, what's with the rage? Find a job with a company you like, and get some proper job gratification and self respect, please.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Oh, like PayPal?
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    SimCountry?
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Even if it's accidental - why didn't they at least google their name idea?
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Or Rembrandt paintings?
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    > for irrational things your only options are doubles That's obviously not true. For irrational things, if exact values matter, use symbolic arithmetic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_computation
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    We do all our image processing using floats (as memory and disk storage - not as computation accumulators obviously). It helps a lot if you keep a dozen seventy-megapixel images in memory, because it means you can run twice as many jobs on
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    We had a tradition of playing 1960 on election night. Great game, and complex enough to play it as 2v2. With running mates.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    To better picture the severity of that normalisation, just reverse the genders and imagine a TV show where a male inspector threatens a female suspect with prison rape...
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    ARM has a CA office IIRC (not HQ though obviously). It's nit a big big company but it is a nice place to work.