yosyp

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by yosyp 8y ago
Highly recommend the book "Voices From Chernobyl" by Svetlana Alexievich (she won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature partially for this work), it is an illuminating account of the Belarusian struggle and subsequent cover-up of the
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by yosyp 8y ago
This is the same Robin Hanson that recently authored "The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life". His physics background makes for interesting economic analyses.
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by yosyp 8y ago
Couldn't agree more, it had me going back to the Algorithms book to refresh on most of part VI (Graph Algorithms). For those interested, Bellman-Ford is 24.1, and Dijkstra's algo is 24.3 in CLRS. Reviewing those helped step throug
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by yosyp 8y ago
Yes! And be careful and very picky about what you read! To quote a popular Quora answer [1]: "If you really want to learn C++, I advise against any and all online tutorials and against most books. Without any kind of quality control,
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by yosyp 8y ago
Tangentially related: how does one get their foot in the door at a medical software company? Is there a big market for such professionals?
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by yosyp 8y ago
Confirmed: The stars in the background behind Comet #67P are in Canis Major: the cluster NGC2362 "falls down" past the limb at top-left; sparse cluster NGC2354 & the star 27CMa are also in the field. Programming challenge: f
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by yosyp 9y ago
This can also be driven by unreasonable reporting requirements. Say you go against your boss and deliver X,Y, and Z in the first month, and during the second and third months you cannot deliver anything tangible because you have uncovered l
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by yosyp 9y ago
Do you have any pointers/references for getting started with Software Defined Radios? i.e. the state of the art software, hardware, and common hobbyist applications? Any open source communities?
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by yosyp 9y ago
A quick google search shows some people are already working on that, including https://www.pathio.com
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MacOS High Sierra “root” vulnerability: user reported 2 weeks ago on Apple board(forums.developer.apple.com)
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by yosyp 9y ago
My pet theory is that the long-term reasoning for artificially limiting the number of residencies/medical school spots is to avoid an oversupply of healthcare professionals after the baby-boomers die off in 15-20 years. Sure, there is
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by yosyp 9y ago
Link to the paper: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2387687
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by yosyp 9y ago
You're right, I learned something here. Thank you for correcting me. Fentanyl seems like the culprit.
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by yosyp 9y ago
That's just the problem isn't it? People are prescribed a drug for medicinal purposes that is so addictive and so readily distributed for minor ailments that medicinal use inevitably turns to recreational use after the prescriptio
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by yosyp 9y ago
Could you elaborate on quant jobs requiring PhDs? Do they look for a very specific PhD (i.e. statistics), or is it just a blanket requirement to get past the hiring screens?
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by yosyp 9y ago
Are you referring to Professor Sadoway? I greatly enjoyed his Solid State Chemistry course! Always wondered what will come of his flow battery company (Ambri). Looks like they are still steadily making progress, no?
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by yosyp 9y ago
You wouldn't want to combine a solar cell and a battery in a single package; maybe in a modular system instead. After some amount of charge/discharge cycles the battery will quickly lose its capacity and utility. I suspect the ope
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by yosyp 9y ago
$ cd Labs/ $ cd ../Projects <-- this does not work, the cwd remains Labs/
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by yosyp 9y ago
For a more technical description, the paper is here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017GL074998/full . "Detection of intact lava tubes at Marius Hills on the Moon by SELENE (Kaguya) Lunar Rad
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by yosyp 9y ago
Safari "Show Reader View" gets rid of all those annoying gifs and makes the formatting nice. Now I practically use it to read all web-based content.
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by yosyp 9y ago
Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator (LAMMPS) is written in C++ and it's over 20 years old. The FORTRAN codebases seem to be centered around the finite elements/difference methods and the fluid dynamics c
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by yosyp 9y ago
Isn't the topological manifold of the "wrap around" space described in the post spherical? A toroidal manifold would more complicated since the two generalized coordinates do not commute (order matters).
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by yosyp 9y ago
Are Google employees expected to work on Google services over multi-weekends? Are you compensated or is this for fun? If you're working for free and your work is not open source it seems like you are being taken advantage of by your em
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by yosyp 9y ago
Have you updated to iOS 11? I couldn't find it in the App Store without updating, since the app is only for iOS 11.
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by yosyp 9y ago
Could someone explain this gem in the C version? https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/c/types.c#L170
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by yosyp 9y ago
Could you recommend further reading about multivariate polynomials and their applications to problems of this type?
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by yosyp 9y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by yosyp 9y ago
This is very interesting insight! May I ask which software or service you use to keep track of your family tree?
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by yosyp 9y ago
Don't print Musk's journal article in black and white: the copy editing is bad. Table 4 distinguishes Good/OK/Bad using colored circles -- it's undecipherable in black and white.
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by yosyp 10y ago
And wear himself out he did, dying barely into his fifty-first year.

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