tobmlt

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by tobmlt 6mo ago
fuck me. I have had ridiculous insomnia since 2020. I have had tinnitus on and off since 2015/16 Incidentally this is also when my insomnia first showed up.
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by tobmlt 8mo ago
On both my nokia and my blackberry it was far far better than on my iphone. That wasn't quite 199X but pretty close. I wish the iphone had word prediction and autocorrect that was from the previous centruy
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by tobmlt 2y ago
This reminds me of something I remember from college but cannot ever seem to find: "The Jevon's diagram" by which I mean a two country system, with country containing two groups: highly educated and not very educated. The t
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Hey thanks. Reddit could be your friend here. Well, honestly, youtube as well. Here's a good, to the point summary of a lot of things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgH_9Iy7_mQ (lot's of good advice from this
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Great idea. Here is something that could be similar but more niche (sorry if too niche): join a meetup group for that does indoor rock climbing. If, say, meetup is a big thing where you are. Otherwise, check for, e.g. facebook groups th
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by tobmlt 5y ago
I've always imagined Feynman making a QED, QED joke sometime in the late 1940's for this very reason. Like he could end his Shelter Island Conference talk with the joke and then look up from the blackboard... to a bunch of confus
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by tobmlt 5y ago
If you happen to desire to implement your own NURBS library, (and/or the bspline and bezier simplifications) take the nurbs book c reference implementation, and modernize, convert to you language of choice. https://link.spri
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Latex specific ide \frac and auto fill. You can for sure get speedy with practice! Those beautiful graphs now… I ended up using secondary programs to gen images (pdf or whatever) of graphs and such for latex to bring in the usual way. Not
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Great stuff! I am in awe of your beautifully done graphs. For speed with, e.g. matrices like you say, but also more specialized course specific notation, could you build a set of quick functions for the topic of the day to aid note taking?
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Experiences vary. I was just at the point of qualifying exams when a full time job op came up in a tightly related field. They (profs and managers all) understood, my new co-workers mostly being phds themselves, and I hired on at 32 hrs
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by tobmlt 5y ago
This should be a proxy measure for inflation. (If only it was quantifiable so easily…) Instead of prices going up in this case, quality goes down.
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Yes thanks. My bad for not putting up a link.
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Give me a neural lace with which I can stop a knife missile, or contact which stops the figurative knife missile forever, and so am I.
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by tobmlt 5y ago
This thread makes me wonder how many knife-missiles the USA has in stock. (I am using the opportunity to reference the fact that the USA indeed has a “knife missile” and it is similar in principle if not in capability to the knife missile i
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by tobmlt 5y ago
No clue. Octave is here for us… so at least we can run their code and ask any pertinent questions to expedite the port. ;) (Yes I know it’s simulink for many, but I’ve met some pure computational folk who swear by matlab as their prototyp
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by tobmlt 5y ago
This whole conversation has been very insightful. From the noalias = no panacea To the Fortran repl Thank you. This was inspiring. Maybe it’s time I learn me some llvm too. Cheers.
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by tobmlt 5y ago
The barrier to entry to doing fast linear algebra from scratch is the lowest of any of c,c++,Fortran. Python and matlab being to slow at “low barrier to entry level” for sure anyway. I’m not going to comment on julia because I’m still drink
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Modern Fortran has oop with one major design mistake: They use % as the accessor instead of . (Yes I am joking around) ;)
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Thanks for all the context!
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Hey thanks for a very interesting and thought provoking reply. I lived in NOLA for 10 years and long may it live! Spot on with the destruction of the marshlands - something so desperately needing reversal. I was just wondering if you coul
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by tobmlt 5y ago
From the title, I thought it was going to be an article about the present day. Sort of a “surprise! -it’s right now” kind of feel, and then talk about the second quantum revolution etc etc.
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Thank you for the info depth response. I am credentialed and experienced at picking up things across domains so I might kick it around a bit - as far as it dove tails with computational quantum mechanics at least. Could be interesting to l
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by tobmlt 5y ago
How about nutrient content by mass, or some such measure? I skimmed the article, maybe I missed it. Aside: How easy is it to break into computational biology as a, say, practitioner of computational mechanics?
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by tobmlt 5y ago
If this one looks to be a bit of a deep dive, try the cup trick first!
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by tobmlt 5y ago
Yes. You took the entropy right out of my mouth.
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by tobmlt 5y ago
>>> I suspect that we could have much richer conceptual tools for thinking about the physical world actually around us if only more resources went into looking at it What I hear in this statement is more towards the domains of rese
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by tobmlt 5y ago
“Winning” at this work is not worth “dying” at life. But that is just “words words words” and I cannot make it mean for you what it means for me. Self introspection is nonlinear and non-rational to a real extent. Love letter to hacker ne
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by tobmlt 5y ago
That might have been what I am mis-recalling then, thanks! Our proff. still managed to turn it into something like a proverb of wisdom. (More engines not necessarily = more reliability)
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by tobmlt 5y ago
You don’t think both reasons have been important? How about the eastern block during the Cold War? I bet my rulers in the USA are happy that the EU makes it difficult for our people to move there. On the other hand I am certain our popula
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by tobmlt 5y ago
You reminded me of the tale of the Ford trimotor. The way I recall it from aerospace design class (20 years ago) was that any single engine out meant the aircraft couldn’t climb. Hence, the probability of a serious incident was 3 times a

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