diracs_stache

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by diracs_stache 2y ago
Not too much to add from what others have mentioned but this looks like a good (low cost wide fov) photon bucket with low complexity (important for reducing stray/scattered light).
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
Turns out folks are solving PDEs in excel: https://sie.scholasticahq.com/article/4654-spreadsheet-imple... (i knew about FFTs and special functions , but this looks fun/interesting)
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
In calibrating satellites getting folks like you to go out with sensors on the ground to send back well vetted data is an expensive and limiting factor. Much cheaper (and often preferred) to do as much as possible from space and do smart gr
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
Independent thinking like that could never be encouraged or rewarded in a place designed to produce just smart enough replacement labor. Hell, equivalent stunts in places like university or the workplace wouldn't necessarily end up in
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
That's cool to see, I remember in high school the ROTC came to track practice to get people to come out for orienteering meets. Turned out to be a fun/useful experience.
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
I'm guessing you're in in automotive or aerospace based off the engine piece. I agree, but I would presume a day long meeting leading up to a wind-tunnel test for example would have a full agenda of presentations based off simulat
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
> they need constant Q&A Wants daily 20-30 minute stand-up/tag-up Constantly bombards DMs since understanding is weak/research skills are poor Pull engineers into fringe meetings "Just in case" (can't multi-
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
Yep, a lot of places allow for 80hrs/2wks of "training". Crazy how popular those Agile/SAFE/AWS/Azure/etc. conferences are in a destination location, meanwhile engineers asking to have time prorated for so
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
Several people from my high school went to Deep Springs. They were all incredibly bright, high potential students but definitely wanted "different". The ones I knew went on to UChicago, MIT, and (I think?) Harvard after their term
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
Weightlifting is interesting, "most" elites have really good technique (tempo, maintaining angles throughout the pull, bottom position, lockout, etc.) indicating some level of mastery from years of practice. But I think a good amo
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
Control theory doesn't come up much in what I do but as a practitioner are Root Locus ever utilized? I've been unpleasantly surprised to see that exact positive feedback instance existing in places you wouldn't want (things w
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
Not sure what the exact context the blog refers to (they are a scientist turned software engineer?, their field is data/software intensive and see this as an improvement area?). Our team does engineering test and evaluation that includ
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
For the interested reader: https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/ (The Good Commander has dedicated himself to exposing problems of this sort that plague our Navy) I had the pleasure of spending part of my service trying to es
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
I agree with having shared team documentation but this has always been gray for me. My notebook ( and my softcopy log for the week) are incredibly raw (one-lines through mistakes, my personal commentary/snark, "napkin math",e
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
Sounds like a good project to me (we did this for a couple of labs in an undergraduate [sophomore maybe junior year] control systems class). The "inverted pendulum" problem and its subsequent derivations should be a good model for
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
Right?!? Plenty of highly intelligent athletes exist (countless examples from President Ford to Dr. John Urschel) but football helping them sit in the oval office or on the MIT Faculty probably had nothing to do with a boost in cognitive fu
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
Agreed, in image processing the time-domain representation doesn't always carry significance when spatial extent is pertinent
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
I think these engineering marvels whose FWHM (sorry I'm a bit rusty on what the right parameter for light gathering ability in this application) will be leaps ahead of current instrumentation is important. But have the science missions
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
Yeah this article should be more forthright in describing meta-materials/left handed media. This media is highly dispersive and described by changes in constituent properties (permittivity, permeability) usually coinciding with frequen
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
Please enjoy this upvote, nice to see the full forest of application from struggling with something like LU decomps by hand
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
It may not be that "only SMEs can work" but that "SMEs don't have 5 tickets this sprint but 3 high level deliveries over the next quarter" thus they are allowed work uninterrupted from the daily churn and focus int
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
That's really cool, astropy is well baked into our python codebase but may need to experiment more with Skyfield since it's coordinate transformations and timing and positions functionality look good.
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
In my military officer training, routine boxing/wrestling/fighting was included to give people a "taste of getting hit in the mouth". It was also super effective for solving disputes. I remember having some trivial issue
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
As a flight attrite who ended up running a division on something grey, the Navy knocked me down more pegs than I was thought possible. Appreciate the forced opportunities to grow, but there's got to to be some better ways. Sounds like
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
Scored a brother MFC-7340 from someone giving it away. Think it was 10 yrs old when we got it a couple years ago, it does a wonderful job.
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
Yes! I have a exercise bike in my garage that is mechanically sound but with a terrible monitor, would love to have it come up to the level of Concept2 machines.
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
Yep, stand-ups and retros literally feel like presenting my homework and saying what I've "learned" today most of the time. I've found myself as the ic that must speak and present on behalf of the group and this is all t
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
Agreed the classical electrodynamic approach lets us derive this relationship in terms of electric fields (Ampere-Maxwell and Gauss given a suitable gauge), a change in permittivity /varepsilon lets us change the region of this effect
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
What is the application for the training? I don't need payment or job placement but damn if my software engineering abilities don't need a boost (EE/physics background)
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by diracs_stache 3y ago
even a rough go would be nice, I'll go back and check variables and matrix operations, etc. but that step of going from a derivation to engineering code is a slow step in my workflow

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