That brought nice memories of having my Casio Data Bank in the 80s and feeling like the coolest kid in school. It looked so futuristic and slick :) I remember spending quite a bit some time entering the phone numbers of…
I had been using LaTeX for 25 years. I gave it a try recently to write a technical paper and I was blown away. I saved so much time. The immediate feedback and the advanced features were impressive. I had to include a…
As many here, I spent too much time with POVRay in my youth. About 8 years ago I decided to try an idea that I had in my mind and decided to install it and relearn it. I wanted to try this fractal idea made of toruses.…
I used to live near a high-traffic road that was built with cobblestones. It probably had decades of having been built and it was horrible. I conjecture that due to soil expansion due to changes in moisture (no snow,…
Of course you mean the "normal" meaning of a kernel pertaining to Linear Algebra, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(linear_algebra) Of course I'm kidding. It's one of those terms that many fields adopt and…
I'd love to buy more heirloom tomatoes. The flavor is great. The problem is that often they're like 3 USD for a single large tomato in my supermarket :(
A dear friend of mine that works at a very large tech company has frequent (many times a week) meetings at ungodly hours (such as 7am AND 11pm) because of time zone differences with other teams in different parts of the…
There's an excellent docuseries adaptation of the book on PBS: https://www.pbs.org/show/story-cancer-emperor-all-maladies/
When my son was about 5 months old, he was crawling in the bathroom floor while I was getting dressed in the adjacent walk-in closet. He was playing with the closet door and closed it. I didn't think much of it, but…
Also, there is evidence that there might be some hidden meta-language on humans as well from studies on how bilingual people/polyglots speak, code-switch, translate, etc.
My favorite at this moment is Worldle, the geographic analogue: https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
I grew up consuming movies and TV shows with subtitles so it has never bothered me. My theory is that if you're not used to them, then they are really annoying. Most of my American friends do not like them. There is…
It depends a lot of the problem. For a general least squares solution of the Ax=b problem, is your A matrix dense, sparse, structured? Do you need to solve it very accurately or just approximately? Are you going to be…
They are indeed concise and beautiful, but some of the implementations I checked are quite naïve. They're great for academic purposes and for some simple problems they will work just fine, but I would advise against…
When progress bars are not useful it is because the underlying problem is hard to extrapolate faithfully. If you are doing just a few tasks where each one takes a significant different time to execute, it will be hard…
I immediately thought about that episode as well. We need to prepare for the future of fake news on steroids when this gets even better. It's really scary.
That brought nice memories of having my Casio Data Bank in the 80s and feeling like the coolest kid in school. It looked so futuristic and slick :) I remember spending quite a bit some time entering the phone numbers of…
I had been using LaTeX for 25 years. I gave it a try recently to write a technical paper and I was blown away. I saved so much time. The immediate feedback and the advanced features were impressive. I had to include a…
As many here, I spent too much time with POVRay in my youth. About 8 years ago I decided to try an idea that I had in my mind and decided to install it and relearn it. I wanted to try this fractal idea made of toruses.…
I used to live near a high-traffic road that was built with cobblestones. It probably had decades of having been built and it was horrible. I conjecture that due to soil expansion due to changes in moisture (no snow,…
Of course you mean the "normal" meaning of a kernel pertaining to Linear Algebra, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(linear_algebra) Of course I'm kidding. It's one of those terms that many fields adopt and…
I'd love to buy more heirloom tomatoes. The flavor is great. The problem is that often they're like 3 USD for a single large tomato in my supermarket :(
A dear friend of mine that works at a very large tech company has frequent (many times a week) meetings at ungodly hours (such as 7am AND 11pm) because of time zone differences with other teams in different parts of the…
There's an excellent docuseries adaptation of the book on PBS: https://www.pbs.org/show/story-cancer-emperor-all-maladies/
When my son was about 5 months old, he was crawling in the bathroom floor while I was getting dressed in the adjacent walk-in closet. He was playing with the closet door and closed it. I didn't think much of it, but…
Also, there is evidence that there might be some hidden meta-language on humans as well from studies on how bilingual people/polyglots speak, code-switch, translate, etc.
My favorite at this moment is Worldle, the geographic analogue: https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
I grew up consuming movies and TV shows with subtitles so it has never bothered me. My theory is that if you're not used to them, then they are really annoying. Most of my American friends do not like them. There is…
It depends a lot of the problem. For a general least squares solution of the Ax=b problem, is your A matrix dense, sparse, structured? Do you need to solve it very accurately or just approximately? Are you going to be…
They are indeed concise and beautiful, but some of the implementations I checked are quite naïve. They're great for academic purposes and for some simple problems they will work just fine, but I would advise against…
When progress bars are not useful it is because the underlying problem is hard to extrapolate faithfully. If you are doing just a few tasks where each one takes a significant different time to execute, it will be hard…
I immediately thought about that episode as well. We need to prepare for the future of fake news on steroids when this gets even better. It's really scary.