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I thought this was going to be an interesting article. Then I read >At first glance, this is sound—even admirable—advice for aspiring business leaders. But a closer look at Klarman…

I took two semester of graduate level applied analysis. The reals still don’t make sense to me. Those were definitely the hardest classes I’ve taken.

Everything has an impact. The ultimate act of conservation is suicide. Few are that committed. We are all hypocrites.

The revulsion a lot folks express at one based indexing is always bizarre to me. I write code in c, python and matlab. Switching between these is really not that hard. The two inde…

The article may be old, but as if 6 months ago (the last time I tried Julia), the complaints about the jit were still valid. Typing something into the repl with a syntax error took…

I used to smoke a bowl almost every night. I quit because it had a number of affects on me I didn’t like: (1) it made me sleep poorly. (2) it made me paranoid/anxious, as in I woul…

This xkcd provides a surprisingly effective metric: https://xkcd.com/1301/

I think HN follows the aesthetic, to a good extent, of a sparse text based doc page. Those kinds of sites rank high in my personal trustworthiness rubric. The more something has be…

Also in EE, and I don’t know anybody using SNOPT for solving any kind of optimization (of which there are many).

My field is control systems. Every academic I know, and every paper I’ve read which mentions a software stack, uses matlab/simulink. Simulink appears to me to have no good alternat…

It seems to me that one of the difficulties we have with making robots is trying to model them too closely after ourselves. We don’t have a humanoid maid, but we do have a roomba; …

I agree. I print or buy the book for anything I want to read in depth. The ease of sticking a finger or scrap of paper between pages for easy reference is vastly underrated. Also u…

Two pieces of software I’ve had to work with for the last five years are matlab and labview. Say what you will about matlab, I think the documentation is the best I’ve seen anywher…

I always see people say how great gmail search is, as does the author in this article. This befuddles me. Gmail search often leaves out results I know are there, and sometimes come…