robotsteve2

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by robotsteve2 4y ago
1. Uncertainty in the speed, direction, position. 2. Uncertainty in the model (e.g. influence of external bodies besides the sun and earth). Kinematic motion models are exact but our knowledge of all the variables involved is not.
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by robotsteve2 4y ago
This is typical in other fields of engineering. Details and best methods for running advanced design tools, some of the most advanced engineering knowledge, etc, are not found online in a easily-digestible Stack Overflow format. This is the
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by robotsteve2 4y ago
This is just an ad for an RSS reader.
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by robotsteve2 4y ago
Might not be much of a production line. Very big, very slow, sensitive to weather conditions. What do you do about all the scattered light? The guy in the picture is wearing goggles, but people in the building who see the crucible (while lo
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by robotsteve2 4y ago
The world doesn't revolve around web development. It's not the only use case. Scientific Python is huge and benefits tremendously from the language being faster. If Python can be 1% faster, that's a significant force multipli
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by robotsteve2 4y ago
Any sort of hardware or software error seems much more likely. Computers are incredibly complex and approximations are used everywhere (in the design of the hardware, in the theory of operation). I don't think inference-based experimen
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by robotsteve2 4y ago
> I’m happy enough to be putting books out in the world, making this community better, having a physical space, challenging myself, etc…as long as I don’t lose lots of money, that’s a win. The author defines book store success as "
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by robotsteve2 5y ago
Their observations of nature and their ability to predict stuff should be consistent with ours. They might not use the same mathematical tools or the same physical models, but they should make the same predictions. That is, we might not be
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by robotsteve2 5y ago
Nobody knows, full stop. We can guess and conjecture about what should and should not be possible with respect to the origins of life, but really, we know very little. So it's not very meaningful. We haven't observed abiogenesis a
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by robotsteve2 5y ago
It's an important distinction. A lot of people would like to think electrons orbit the nucleus like planets orbit a star.
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by robotsteve2 5y ago
Spherical harmonics are a useful mathematical basis set for eigenfunctions of a Schrodinger equation describing a hydrogen atom like system. There's nothing particularly special about them, and they fail to be a good basis set for solu
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by robotsteve2 5y ago
You'd have to also include plain English instructions on how to read the QR code, since the QR code format probably won't be around in the future either. As for reading the instructions: they could probably still interpret modern
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by robotsteve2 5y ago
Once you've got the waveforms as arrays, what do you need the ASCII rendering for? Instead of diffing ASCII-rendered waveforms, save the arrays and diff the arrays (and then use any kind of numerical metric on the residual). Scientist
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by robotsteve2 5y ago
You need more than a first approximation.
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by robotsteve2 5y ago
For #2: I tried it, downloaded the large file and installed. Then on launch, it couldn't find any JupyterLab install from my Conda environments, and it asked me to find it. I just uninstalled. I'm not sure what it wants or how it
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by robotsteve2 5y ago
I use JupyterLab professionally and have never been able to get VSCode notebooks working at the same level. For example, simple bracket highlighting doesn't work in the VSCode notebooks I've tried. I want to like them, but they do
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by robotsteve2 5y ago
That didn't end up happening.