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   by ziofill 1y ago

   I left a tenured position after getting fed up with several things, among which the same grant proposal getting a “it’s too visionary” from a reviewer and “it’s trivial” from another. If it’s such a coin toss, F off will ya?
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   by ziofill 1y ago

   Missed opportunity to name the experiment "Multinucleon Induced Dissociation in Accelerator Systems" (MIDAS)
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   by ziofill 1y ago

   How many prompts does Claude code send per user prompt? Is it 1:1?
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   by ziofill 1y ago

   I don't know exactly why but I so much appreciated the 'average guy-ness' and humility of the author. Good job, man. I wish there were more good people like you, starting with me...
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   by ziofill 1y ago

   I saw the best Milky Way of my life while driving from Las Vegas to Phoenix on a summer night. My friend’s car had a sunroof, but I had my eyes on the road so I hadn’t noticed. At some point the guy sitting at the back points up and goes “i
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   by ziofill 1y ago

   Good for you
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   by ziofill 1y ago

   > So if I have to protect myself from those websites anyway, I may as well apply the same protections to all websites. And what is the protection?
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   by ziofill 1y ago

   Good memories ^^
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   by ziofill 1y ago

   I’ll keep asking my ignorant questions since I found informed people: what about a basis of wavelets or some heterogeneous bag of functions (which could include linear, polynomial times Gaussian, and why not some harmonic functions too)? At
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    by ziofill 1y ago

    Ah good point. There ought to be a way to get the best of both worlds.
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    by ziofill 1y ago

    In this case wouldn't a Fourier-type approach work better? At least there's no risk the function blows up and it possibly needs fewer parameters?
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    by ziofill 1y ago

    Also the error correction strategies that are available to different architectures/platforms can make a huge difference in the future.
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    If you know how hard it is to align an interferometer on an optical table, where things are BOLTED to it, this looks absolutely insane.
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    Sorry, no. Universities are great places to learn math. You’re misrepresenting the genuine passion for teaching that many university instructors have.
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    I know the article is about sec(x) but I want to share this tidbit about its cousin, the hyperbolic secant: sech(x) is its own Fourier transform (modulo rescalings). That’s right, exp(-x^2) is not the only one.
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    Also `my_func(**{a:1, b:2})`
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    Wow, the lag as I scroll the page makes me sea sick, I had to stop reading. Why reimplement scrolling??
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    Are there statistics about funding round (A, B, C, etc) and getting good value for options?
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    https://ghuntley.com/stdlib/
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    I think it's not a coincidence that they decided to publish on PNAS...
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    This is a tangent, but I would love so much to be able to give my kids memories of playing in a creek in the backyard...
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    Probably I'm biased because I'm Italian and I grew up eating them, but Parmigiano Reggiano and Grana Padano are hands down the best cheeses there can be. Many people know and consume them only grated on pasta dishes, but they are
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    I usually agree with most of Gary Marcus' points, but I'd really like to hear his take on this. One of his examples is that "the system can't generate a horse riding an astronaut" and in fact I tried a lot in the pa
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    Ha. My first digital camera was a Pentax kx from 2010. I didn’t know about RAW standards and I started using DNG by pure luck. BTW I loved that camera: it had the image stabilizer built into the sensor, which meant I could use amazing k-mou
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    Because you’d have to search for and choose to see that page, not being fed a banner/pop up
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    I'm not sure I understand: does one still need a copy of the game to play or is it self-contained?
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    If you are on iOS you can also use the app via TestFlight (in beta). It's free of banners and you get to contribute to its development if you spot a bug.
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    Energy conservation and momentum conservation are different
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    It’s different because it’s simpler to assume that the total angular momentum of the universe is zero. If one black hole is rotating one way there must be other stuff rotating the other way to counterbalance. If you assume instead that the
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    by ziofill 2y ago

    Well, the watts that come out of the rotational energy must match the ones we need, for energy conservation.