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by segfault99 1mo ago
Disappointed that it's missing name of a yacht or catamaran I once saw on trailer parked by roadside in 1980s Queensland: Blue E. Zarzoff
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by segfault99 1mo ago
DS comes out (one of, or) the most successful quant fund in China. They don't strictly need any kind of subsidies. FWIW they have a funding round planned (kerfuffle about leaks from CEO presentation few weeks back) -- presumably becaus
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by segfault99 2mo ago
Are these tippy top-secret Skunkworks Final Boss Wunderwaffen with you in the room right now? More and more there seems to be some wishful thinking that the USA has another hidden generation of SR-71 or Stealth tech type surprises squirrell
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by segfault99 2mo ago
Workplace metrics and surveillance... What could possibly go wrong? That being said, more than one (female at that) doctor has told me in confidence and based upon their observations during residencies, etc. that if I'm ever admitted,
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by segfault99 10mo ago
Very good. Thought-termination achieved. Branch pruned. Back-tracking... Now where's my pony?
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by segfault99 1y ago
I forgot to mention the converse also applies. Mathematicians talking about stuff we engineers learned the paint by numbers way makes our heads hurt!
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by segfault99 1y ago
December/January 1987 I was doing a vacation EE internship in a power station in Australia. Some of the Hitachi mini computers still used core RAM. This was in an all Hitachi Heavy Industries turnkey coal-fired power station commission
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by segfault99 1y ago
Back in the day you'd go into an electronics store and there'd be books containing just 555 circuit recipes. Not to mention the magazine articles. And every EE student back when we tied onions to our belts must have had a lab assi
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by segfault99 1y ago
The world would be a much sadder, drearier place without the 555. That's the nostalgia part out of the way. Really it's such a useful almost universal lego block of a component that it's hard to imagine it going away anytime
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by segfault99 1y ago
Back in the 1980s2H there was a brief fashion trend of woollen knit sweaters with IC mask type patterns. Guessing related to designers playing around with design software and knitting tech made possible by microprocessor revolution.
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by segfault99 1y ago
Plot twist: He's a Haskell guru juggling hylomorphisms blindfolded.
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by segfault99 1y ago
Undergrad. Mid-late 1980s. I wasn't making point about mathematics qua mathematics. Was thinking that if I were doing EE undergrad today, I'd use SageMath or Mathematica to crunch the mechanical algebraic manipulations involved in
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by segfault99 1y ago
True dat. But you see there's this thing called 'Engineering Maths'. Apparently it's really bad for real mathematicians' blood pressure.
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by segfault99 1y ago
Of course!
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by segfault99 1y ago
When I did EE, didn't have access to any kind of computer algebra system. Have 'fond' memories of taking Laplace transform transfer functions and converting to z-transform form. Expand and then re-group and factor. Used a lot
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by segfault99 1y ago
Apple: Hold my beer!
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by segfault99 1y ago
Bingo. We certainly learned about Cooley-Tukey in undergrad back then. That power station was 100% Hitachi Heavy Industries turnkey. The control rooms had Hitachi mainframe and some minicomputers running proprietary real time OS (I guess).
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by segfault99 1y ago
In the late 1980s I did an electrical engineering internship in a coal-fired power station over summer vacation. The gas furnace igniters ran continuously, but how do you detect presence or absence of burner flames against semi-apocalyptic
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by segfault99 1y ago
My first thought was to upload the PDF to Qwen3 and ask it to reimplement in Python using NumPy, Astropy, etc. Have to work on the day job, but could be some educational fun learning and Jupyter plots in my near future. Anyway, the generate
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by segfault99 1y ago
Indeed. She called him a “queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples” after Ulysses.
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by segfault99 1y ago
Jingle. Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway makes for a nice stream of consciousness study in contrast.
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by segfault99 1y ago
Anyone seen Jorn Barger lately?
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by segfault99 1y ago
Who wouldn't pay more to not have to interact with an unknown human?