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by golwengaud 3y ago
FWIW, Jonathan Shay's /Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character/ [1] touches on this. It's a good book. IDK if Shay's book qualifies as "professional literature", but he was certainl
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1/f noise, dimensional analysis, the Hooge relation, and the Hooge parameter(renormalizetheworld.wordpress.com)
3 points by golwengaud 3y ago|0 comments
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Six (and a Half) Intuitions for SVD(lesswrong.com)
3 points by golwengaud 3y ago|0 comments
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by golwengaud 3y ago
I found https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/no5jDTut5Byjqb4j5/six-and-a-... very helpful for getting intuition for what the K-L divergence is and why it's useful. The six intuitions: 1. Expected surprise
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Computing expectation values of multivariate Gaussians is #P-complete(renormalizetheworld.wordpress.com)
1 points by golwengaud 3y ago|0 comments
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Designs for Learning(stearnslab.yale.edu)
4 points by golwengaud 3y ago|0 comments
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How the Car Came to LA(construction-physics.com)
3 points by golwengaud 3y ago|0 comments
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The Past and Present of Computer-Augmented Hypothesis Generation(freaktakes.com)
3 points by golwengaud 3y ago|1 comments
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The Los Alamos Primer (pdf, 1943)(upload.wikimedia.org)
2 points by golwengaud 3y ago|0 comments
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by golwengaud 3y ago
> Maintenance is absolutely a possible issue, and due to their restrictions the engines are generally MORE needy than normal GA aircraft. Interesting! How so? > Part 103 compliant aircraft are meant to have limits low enough to be LES
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by golwengaud 3y ago
Setting the legalities aside, flying any of these without the training behind a pilot's license sounds like a great way to have some fun, right up until you have a really bad day. Maybe you can skip the license---I haven't looked
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The Glass Famine(edconway.substack.com)
1 points by golwengaud 3y ago|1 comments
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by golwengaud 16y ago
Real analysis takes balls.
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by golwengaud 16y ago
Not quite. Metonymy is calling something by the name of a related object. The most common use of metonymy is probably "the White House" for President Obama's (Bush's, Clinton's, etc.) administration. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metony
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by golwengaud 16y ago
Original paper (linked in article): http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v105/i16/e161301
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by golwengaud 16y ago
It looks like the author is attacking statement C from the official problem description ( http://www.claymath.org/millennium/Navier-Stokes_Equations/n... ). That statement asks for "a smooth, divergence-free vector ﬁeld u0 (x) on R3 and a s
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by golwengaud 16y ago
I've found Terry Tao's blog (in particular the stuff linked at http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/ ) fascinating and helpful.
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by golwengaud 16y ago
(Single) integrals are freshman calculus, which is nominally taught in the first year of university. In reality, my experience is that many students (and, I would guess most science/engineering/math majors) take AP calculus during their las
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by golwengaud 16y ago
Baroque vs. classical music: That is at best a very simplistic view of the situation: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_music#Transition_to_the... . Also, note that counterpoint remained alive and well, though it certainly did not
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GiveWell(givewell.org)
1 points by golwengaud 16y ago|0 comments
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The World’s ‘Best’ Car Bombers? (2008)(walrusmagazine.com)
33 points by golwengaud 16y ago|2 comments
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by golwengaud 16y ago
re: Bach: agreed. I've found that really listening to Bach -- even starting to understand his use of counterpoint -- requires enormous concentration, but is totally worthwhile; for that reason, it's easy to tune out when I just need some ba
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The Fresh Loaf(thefreshloaf.com)
1 points by golwengaud 16y ago|0 comments
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The Lizard, the Catacombs, and the Clock(brickmag.com)
10 points by golwengaud 16y ago|2 comments
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The Art of Approximation in Science and Engineering(ocw.mit.edu)
2 points by golwengaud 16y ago|0 comments
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by golwengaud 16y ago
Terry Tao, a mathematician, agrees: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/continually-aim-...
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by golwengaud 16y ago
Distros: that's exactly why I've ended up with Debian, over and over again. I'll install something else, spend a weekend getting it working, learn all sorts of interesting stuff, and then get frustrated at all the little things I have to do
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by golwengaud 16y ago
I have no java (programming) experience, and it took me ~45 s: #apt-get install closure #closure user=> (+ 2 2) 4 Most of that 45 s was waiting for apt-get. Now it's not going to be this easy on platforms that don't have such nice packa
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by golwengaud 16y ago
So, in essence, you want to learn everything there is to know about computers and computing :-) . I have a similar impulse -- whenever I see some program, protocol, or even hardware device, I want to learn enough about how it operates to fo
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Felix Klein: The Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century(books.google.com)
6 points by golwengaud 16y ago|0 comments

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