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by cameronperot 6y ago
Discussion from a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26204756
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by cameronperot 6y ago
One could, but automatic differentiation is much more efficient than numerical differentiation, thus for high performance applications it is preferable to use automatic differentiation.
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by cameronperot 6y ago
Just donated as well :)
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by cameronperot 6y ago
I absolutely loved my WRT54G series router. I had one years ago that had its input ethernet port fried during a storm. Luckily I was running DD-WRT on it and was able to reconfigure one of the output ethernet ports as the new input so the r
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by cameronperot 6y ago
Looks like a decent basic summary. Section G.2.6 should probably be called "Multiple Dispatch" rather than "Function Overloading" though. Defining multiple methods of the same function in Julia is different to function o
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by cameronperot 6y ago
I have been using Signal since before it was even called Signal (TextSecure and RedPhone), and I must say it has really refined itself over the years. It's pretty easy to set up these days, and I have more non tech oriented friends swi
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by cameronperot 6y ago
Yes, you can enable the "default encryption module" in the apps page like any other Nextcloud instance, as well as other apps, e.g., 2FA.
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by cameronperot 6y ago
I would suggest Hetzner's storage share (their managed Nextcloud hosting) [1]. Their pricing starts at €2.90/mo for 100GB of storage, which is significantly cheaper than what is mentioned in the post ($5/mo for 25GB). [1] ht
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by cameronperot 6y ago
I've used Firejail for years and can definitely recommend it! It has a lot of nifty features, e.g. network namespacing via the --net argument.
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by cameronperot 6y ago
For anyone interested in additional resources, MIT has some courses taught by Peter Shor and Isaac Chuang on quantum information science [1-6]. [1] https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-information-science-i-par... [2] h
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by cameronperot 6y ago
PrivacyTools usually has an up to date list [1] of good extensions to use. It might also be worth going through their about:config tweaks section [2]. [1] https://privacytools.io/browsers/#addons [2] https:/&#x2F
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by cameronperot 6y ago
[4] is the wrong link, but it's too late to edit. Correction: [4] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-06-quantum-physics-iii...
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by cameronperot 6y ago
It was merely a suggestion, I never said it was necessary. However, in my experience, having knowledge in quantum physics has made it easier for me to read literature related to quantum computing, hence why I suggested it.
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by cameronperot 6y ago
I would suggest starting from the basics of quantum physics if you don't already have a solid foundation. MIT has several excellent courses on the subject [1-4]. The first two are the same course, but taught by different professors wit
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by cameronperot 6y ago
I came across that paper just recently, it was a very good read!
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by cameronperot 6y ago
I'm not working on any specific problem yet, but for my master's thesis I'm hoping to do something related to the use of neural networks in numerical solutions to differential equations. Along the lines of this sort of stuff
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by cameronperot 6y ago
I'm studying in the intersection of physics and data science, and I think there's a number of places where physics can benefit from ML. From my current point of view though, most of these applications lie more on the experimental&
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by cameronperot 6y ago
I've sold old computer hardware on both eBay and hardforum [1]. The nice thing about hardforum is a lot of buyers have heatware [2] which makes it easy to judge their legitimacy. I'm sure there's other forums out there that h
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by cameronperot 6y ago
I do a lot of scientific computing, mostly in Julia, and having a REPL at my disposal is extremely useful. There's a great VIM plugin [1] that enables you to send code from the editor to a terminal to be executed, e.g. a tmux session w
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by cameronperot 6y ago
That's a tough one. On one hand it should be easy because who wants to perform more clicks to get the same end result. On the other hand it shouldn't because it attracts people without proper knowledge who could possibly end up ma
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by cameronperot 6y ago
The only thing Robinhood did good was pushing other brokerages to get rid of commissions. I would hope that most people left their platform after they had those major outages during volatile trading days a few months ago. Any place that has
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by cameronperot 6y ago
I had to turn off uBlock Origin to get it to work.
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by cameronperot 6y ago
After living in Germany (originally from the big city in Texas), I've come to realize how valuable it is for a city to be walkable. I really like being able to walk out of my door and reach anywhere I need to on foot, especially when t
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by cameronperot 6y ago
In theory, yes, you would want just enough thermal paste to fill any gaps between the heatsink and die as the thermal conductivity of the heatsink (e.g. copper) is much higher than that of the thermal paste. Unfortunately, I haven't be
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by cameronperot 6y ago
Yes it does.
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by cameronperot 6y ago
Good to know. If the PK-3 ever fails me I'll give the Kryonaut a shot.
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by cameronperot 6y ago
Thinkpads with a dedicated GPU come with a dual heat pipe heatsink, whereas ones without the dedicated GPU don't. So, you can take the heatsink for the former and use it on the latter, given that you make sure to insulate the part of t
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by cameronperot 6y ago
Interesting, I had heard somewhat of a different take from Der8auer (who is associated with Thermal Grizzly). In [2] he explains that Kryonaut is a fairly wet thermal compound and that it does indeed suffer from the pump-out effect, and tha
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by cameronperot 6y ago
I replaced the single pipe heatsink on my T490 for one with dual heat pipes as the single couldn't sufficiently cool the CPU (was hitting 97C out of the box and after several re-pastes). So I set out on a journey to find a good thermal
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by cameronperot 6y ago
Gilbert Strang covers a this well in his "18.065 - Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning" course [1]. I can highly recommend the lecture series to anyone interested in such topics. [1] https:&#x

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