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by yiyus 8y ago
> Everyone I know in astrophysics or engineering who can uses something else--Python, C++, and Julia, are big winners. I know many other languages, but for engineering work I have started some projects in Fortran simply because it is a v
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by yiyus 8y ago
I don't know if this was the case "back when", but nowadays the pro version does not have detachable cables. The difference is that the cable is coiled (and I think a bit longer) and some parts (that do not affect the sound s
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by yiyus 8y ago
There is a good supply of Chinese phones that include a headphone jack. If the iPhone is a product you don't like, just buy another phone. It will be cheaper and will do the same and probably more. It may take a while to get used to a
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by yiyus 8y ago
This is the main reason I prefer CLI programs: I can have several sessions inside dvtm running in abduco and suspend/restore sessions at any time. I'd love to see what you propose, but I don't think there is anything remotely
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by yiyus 8y ago
This MIT professor looks like a very intelligent guy, and I agree with what he says, but the article shows that the reporter did not understand some things. Plasticity theory is presented as an alternative to the finite element method, but
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by yiyus 8y ago
I will give you an example (from my recent work) where actually knowing what the components mean was useful. I had to calculate misorientations between many pairs of orientations. If I treated quaternions as a whole, I would find their quot
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by yiyus 8y ago
In my opinion, the problem is not the geometric product, but having three products (inner, outer and geometric). I have explained GA using a single product, and I think it is much clearer. Of course, the inner and outer products are also ve
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by yiyus 8y ago
For sure they are an interesting concept, thanks for introducing me to them. I cannot apply them to my work (crystallography) because we are only interested in orientations, but they may come handy at some point.
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by yiyus 8y ago
You always write a similar comment but neither you or the page you link explain what is the advantage, or even the difference, of dual quaternions when compared to normal quaternions. However, the article linked in the site, actually gives
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by yiyus 8y ago
It looks like Richard Miller, author of the article and living UNIX legend, is using a verilog implementation by Clifford Wolf [1] in this FPGA board [2]. [1] https://github.com/cliffordwolf/picorv32 [2] https:/&
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by yiyus 8y ago
They are both very different, technically, but culturally they are very similar. Both of them are extremely simple and build complex programs from a few fundamental principles. Both of them are disengaged from the more mainstream languages.
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by yiyus 8y ago
Chuck Moore always says he did not invent FORTH, but discovered it. It's fascinating the relationship between Lisp and Forth. I am quite sure there is something about these two old simple languages and the concept of duality in mathema
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by yiyus 8y ago
That's Whitney's style. My preferred example is http://www.kparc.com/b/b.c It looks obfuscated, but in fact it is just a lot of information. Many people would claim dividing it in 10 files with longer functio
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by yiyus 8y ago
Most of the article is an explanation of why this was a wrong decision.
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by yiyus 8y ago
There was a contest to design the Debian logo and people voted. I remember participating in that contest and remember when the winner was announced, but I don't remember anything about this poster.
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by yiyus 8y ago
While I agree personal attacks do not help, he gives many reasons why he thinks Protocol Buffers are wrong. You may either respond to the issues he raises or explain what are those constraints and compromises you mention, but your comment b
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by yiyus 8y ago
Why wouldn't 0 be a palindrome? Every single digit number is.
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by yiyus 8y ago
AFAIU the problem, from a theoretical point of view, is not that you need to pass the self function, but how to define it. In pure lambda calculus, there are no named functions, just lambdas, so you actually need the Y combinator for recurs
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by yiyus 8y ago
I like writing using mathematical notation. I like trying to express as much as possible using as few symbols as possible, and not as much rigour as I should. It's something that I used to do to study and I keep doing it for work now.
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by yiyus 8y ago
If everybody was of the same opinion as you, we would not have smart phones and watches.
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by yiyus 8y ago
I do not really learn a concept until I can visualize it somehow. Indeed, when I was learning derivatives, it did not click until I saw a graph with a tangent line. But everybody is not the same way. Some people prefer to develop their intu
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by yiyus 8y ago
Totally agree too :) In particular, your explanation about K maps would be a great addition to Cheney's post.
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by yiyus 8y ago
There is a lot to learn from K, but there are two problems: 1) It is not open source, but a commercial product. Although some source code can be found online, there is no license, so I would not dare using any of it in a free software proje
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by yiyus 8y ago
This is a quite well known story in Spain. It made the news at a time when everything to watch on TV was the same news program, so everybody talked about it. The general belief is that his story is indeed exaggerated, but there is no consen
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by yiyus 8y ago
I won't argue with that, but I'd just like to say that the newest Fortran versions actually make a quite modern language. Most of its quirks are related with compatibility with older versions. If a new version without that handica
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by yiyus 8y ago
Read the document: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...
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by yiyus 8y ago
Something I frequently see in the Netherlands and surprises me is how some driver parks his car, takes the child from the special seat with two belts, put him into a wood box in the front of his bike, and gets into traffic while checking hi
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by yiyus 8y ago
Wildberger is a very curious person. I have watched many of his YouTube videos and read some of his papers and I find them very interesting. But be careful, don't take too seriously his contempt towards established math.
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Also, this field is quite easy to get into without any external support. You can become an expert in deep learning with a laptop and an internet connection. Most research fields will require a well equipped lab. You can usually find good la
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by yiyus 8y ago
Before going to management to talk about someone, I would talk with that person. Maybe he/she hates the code as much as you do. Sometimes, shitty code just happens. Avoiding it is part of the job, but not always a possibility. And if y

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