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by bgoated01 16d ago
My kids are learning on Scratch. 10 and 9 years old, been doing it for a few years at this point. The older one has had the opportunity to switch to Python but keeps going back to Scratch. He can make less trivial things than I used to mak
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by bgoated01 2mo ago
But what if the genie instead offered (or threatened) to give _everyone_ the answers to everything you'll ever discover in your career, including your boss, your competitors, etc?
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by bgoated01 4mo ago
Is the telescope design available anywhere for hobbyists to build? I can't seem to find anything in the article or in a separate search. I'd be interested in perhaps putting one of these together to do radio astronomy with my ki
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by bgoated01 5mo ago
> “This isn’t just a new value of the Hubble constant,” the collaboration notes, “it’s a community-built framework that brings decades of independent distance measurements together, transparently and accessibly.” Don't love that I c
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by bgoated01 7mo ago
Probably the biggest purpose for me is to have something to look back on. The last time I consistently journaled before this was during the time when I dated, got engaged to, and married my wife. Granted, that was more than a line journal,
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by bgoated01 7mo ago
I have been doing a one-line-a-day journal for the past two years. If I ever feel like writing more I have a separate section for that, but I only ever tell myself to write the one line. It's the first time I have been able to consist
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by bgoated01 10mo ago
Right. All it takes is for one to work out, if you have several suitable options. If some of the options are only vaguely suitable, or it comes to light through the process that some of them are not suitable at all, then it takes more tha
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by bgoated01 10mo ago
If you're referring to Cubit, they license the ACIS kernel under the hood.
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by bgoated01 11mo ago
I notice that your application asks about willingness to relocate. Are you able to do fully remote for the right candidate?
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by bgoated01 1y ago
> So much of writing is managing your own emotions. The virtue of “pseudowriting” is that it helps you preserve hope for as long as possible—hope that what you will eventually put in place of those square brackets will be good. Hope keep
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by bgoated01 1y ago
I didn't have time to get through the whole article today, but I did spend some time with my kids playing the Wikipedia first link game, which we enjoyed. We kept trying to find one that didn't end in Philosophy, and my youngest s
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by bgoated01 1y ago
My brother just finished building an automatic pipe organ for his Mechanical Engineering senior project. Or maybe you'd call it a street organ since it has no keyboard. It has midi input on some arduino-like device, 3d printed pipes, a
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by bgoated01 2y ago
I'm the kind of guy who decently likes maps, and I pay attention to where I'm going and also to the map before, during, and after using a GPS (Google maps). I do benefit from Google maps in learning my way around a place. It depe
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by bgoated01 2y ago
You're right, I was thinking of Combobulate, linked in a sibling comment.
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by bgoated01 2y ago
I'm not extremely familiar with the details of incremental parsing, but I have used Cursorless, a VSCode extension based on tree-sitter for voice controlled structured editing, and it is pretty powerful. You can use the structured edit
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by bgoated01 2y ago
Here is a nice article on a study of baseball bats using microphones. https://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/bats/papers/AcousticsToday_...
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by bgoated01 2y ago
All models are wrong, but some are useful. If you’re discussing large groups of people, you have to somehow compress the data. On the other hand, yeah, you probably shouldn’t prefer things like this to explain your neighbor/friend&#x2F
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by bgoated01 2y ago
So these addition formulas that apply to series and parallel resistors seem more generally to be formulas for finding the new ratio when you have several ratios and want to add them together treating the quantity in the numerator or the den
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by bgoated01 2y ago
> Isn't IGA's shtick just replacing classical shape functions with the splines used to specify the geometry? That's how it started, yes. The splines used to specify the geometry are trimmed surfaces, and IGA has expanded f
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by bgoated01 2y ago
Interesting perspective. I just attended an academic conference on isogeometric analysis (IGA), which is briefly mentioned in this article. Tom Hughes, who is mentioned several times, is now the de facto leader of the IGA research communit
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by bgoated01 2y ago
For some reason the copy my library has doesn't have that page the same as it appears on hathitrust. Other nearby pages match the snippets I see on google books, but that page does not, and none of the nearby pages do, either. So I&#
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by bgoated01 2y ago
I just put in a request at my university library for that item. I'll let you know what it turns up.
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by bgoated01 2y ago
The biggest thing that keeps me from using Julia rather than Python for math prototypes is that it uses one-based indexing. I go back and forth between these prototypes and my C++ codebase, and the mental gymnastics to switch from 0-based t
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by bgoated01 2y ago
I’m working on a PhD adjacent to computational differential geometry, and while I’ve made a lot of progress on the computation, I still don’t have much intuition for k-vectors and k-forms. I love coming across articles like this that help m
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by bgoated01 2y ago
This doesn’t seem to address the original question very well. The question is someone who is unable to find time to fill their social needs between working a remote job and caring for children asking for advice, and the answer is “it was an
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by bgoated01 2y ago
I made a calcium fertilizer for my potted peppers last month, soaking dried eggshells in vinegar. They did a similar “dance,” though the bubbles were formed through the chemical reaction rather than a supersaturated liquid. I spent more tim
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by bgoated01 2y ago
This is really cool. I took an optimization class a few years back, but haven't made the time to do anything fun with it since. This inspires me to do it. I do kind of wish that the last note corresponded to a game over, though, and I
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by bgoated01 2y ago
Often times in areas I'm experienced in I will feel strongly that a certain decision is the way to go based on intuition or gut feel. I do think these intuitions are usually correct, but would be hard pressed to describe why. I even s
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by bgoated01 2y ago
"...arrested an amateur photographer for selling manually photoshopped pictures..." Am I the only one who finds the phrase "manually photoshopped" in an article about the late 1800s to early 1900s amusingly anochronistic
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by bgoated01 2y ago
I'm currently working on a PhD dissertation part time, and this concept has been very helpful since I'm not working full days and therefore have more context switching. I end up drawing a lot of graphs and figures to think things

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