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by yagyu 8y ago
TLDR; Recognize impostor syndrome and include 'basics' even in presentations for highly skilled people. I'm in the physical sciences and routinely give fairly math-heavy presentations. It's easy to think that an audience
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by yagyu 8y ago
I agree with you that the estimate is conservative, and would depend strongly on image resolution and how broad your distribution of bedrooms is - only modern US style, or also 40 year old Japanese houses?
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by yagyu 8y ago
It has very much been fitted. The supplementary material describes the training set as 5 pictures each of 2M different scenes of the type you can see in the paper (square room with random objects). So to extrapolate wildly, it seems reasona
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by yagyu 8y ago
Opeth Bloodbath Leprous Soen Haken Mostly prog metal that I know well already. I find it hard to focus with music I have not heard before, but can quickly go into very deep focus mode with something well known.
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by yagyu 8y ago
I have an uncle who's about to retire after a career as a cobol dev. He tells me that he can teach me the language in two days, show me around the legacy systems of [big company you know] in two months, and then I could have a safe and
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by yagyu 8y ago
The 'framework build and venv on osx' thing ruined my night yesterday so this post had great timing. Seriously, starting from a clean osx, how do you install python? I always liked using vex for venv management. But I would also l
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by yagyu 8y ago
Today you learned: Borg means fortress in swedish.
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by yagyu 9y ago
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Jonase Cool, thanks a lot! Sign up was smooth on Android chrome, but I managed to misunderstand the save button once in the edit page. I pressed save and went to hamburger menu-your page, and al
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by yagyu 9y ago
This is really cool :) Thought, look into nanocellulose fibers for textiles, and your product could be biodegradable while still exceptionally strong[1]. Tech is probably not mature, but worth keeping an eye on for future. [1] https:/
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by yagyu 9y ago
I work as a theoretical physicist, and I second this. Not only for code but mathematics and other chain-of-logic kind of work. Also not limited to train, but to doing dishes or other routine activities where the mind can decouple. It does h
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by yagyu 9y ago
I'd say watching the full 4:17 is worth your time https://youtu.be/xpj2x5s7DkM Note, this is a parody aired by Norwegian TV, hilarious to anyone who tried learning Danish at least;) Edit: on the same theme, how to pron
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by yagyu 9y ago
Tldr; The creator of curl awarded the Polhem prize, arguably the most prestigious award for technical innovation in Sweden. The prize includes a medal from the king, a healthy chunk of cash and minor fame. Congratulations Daniel! And good o
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by yagyu 9y ago
This trust is a result of intentional training towards enabling everyone down to private to know when to make a decision and when to bother chain of command. It's not only training of management, it's more like a culture. I guess
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by yagyu 9y ago
I still use vex and am very happy with that https://pypi.python.org/pypi/vex https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7987259
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NASA technical writing style manual [pdf] (1990)(hdl.handle.net)
3 points by yagyu 9y ago|0 comments
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by yagyu 9y ago
Vaguely related, the technical writing style manual from NASA: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19900017394 It's of course opinionated, but for anyone who is not an opinionated pro themselves, it's a great resource
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by yagyu 9y ago
Here's a minimal template for local dev in Python, flask, psql if anyone looked for one: https://github.com/jeinarsson/app-template
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by yagyu 9y ago
Long time user of Tree Style Tabs. Works great for me. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
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Ask HN: Machine learning for scientists?
4 points by yagyu 9y ago|1 comments
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by yagyu 9y ago
Thanks for your time!
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by yagyu 9y ago
Thanks for your reply, that's encouraging. Follow up question: I can see how the points - Evidence of your original scientific, scholarly, artistic, athletic, or business-related contributions of major significance to the field - Evide
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by yagyu 9y ago
Hi Peter, In this AMA you mentioned a few times that while the EB1A bar is high, it is perhaps not as high as it seems. Any advice for early career academics?, eg As a reasonably successful postdoc at, say, Stanford (good scholarship, stead
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by yagyu 9y ago
Coming from a physics background I once upon a time learned the basics of neural nets from Hertz' book https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=9a_SyUG-A24C It is obviously outdated with respect to modern ap
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by yagyu 9y ago
I did this (with dates) for all calculations I did during my PhD and it turned out very useful despite its simplicity. I guess it was simple enough that I could actually be consistent over years. I wish the rest of my projects were as order
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by yagyu 10y ago
This is the start of the free e-book, by the way: http://www.fractalcurves.com/HorrorVacui.html
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by yagyu 10y ago
This site inspired me to make a fractal curve generator in d3.js once: http://www.jonaseinarsson.se/fractal-curves/ (Not mobile friendly, sorry) A good start is http://www.fractalcurves.com/Root9Square.
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by yagyu 10y ago
I just moved to the outlook webmail in a large-ish organization. It surprised me that Reply All is the default reply-button, and a regular reply requires expanding a drop down! The ui really encourages the mistake.
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Ask HN: Casual hacking in bay area?
5 points by yagyu 10y ago|4 comments
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by yagyu 10y ago
There is this hard question that is often glossed over in a first course on Fourier analysis: We learn that the Fourier transform of f(t) is an integral of exp(iwt)f(t) over all t. But when we look at a table of Fourier transform pairs, we
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by yagyu 10y ago
wow, I just found microcorruption, now it looks like there's man-months of fun ahead. Technical comment: "forgot password"-link is not wired to anything? Not working for me on FF at least.

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