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I have worked in two industries that hire a lot of ex-military with essentially a high school level of education. The first is nuclear power. A lot of the people working in the con…

I work in high frequency RF (10s to 100s of GHz). You can use mixers[0] to down convert higher frequency signals and make measurements at lower frequencies. [0] http://rfic.eecs.be…

Macronutirent. Basically it means one of either fat, protein or carbohydrate. Many diets will have you set a calorie goal, and then suggest a guideline what percentage of your calo…

Another great and well sourced guide is 4chans /fit/ sticky[0]. [0]: http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html

>Thus we loop over each item in the class dict and only append them to the list if they are not callable (i.e. not methods). Pretty slick and it doesn’t require any imports! But th…

This looks like a great service that i didn't know about before. Definitely going to be getting one more user. I wish we could use something like this at work. Since most of this i…

Usually you are trying to catch neutrons in a lithium blanket, and using the fission products to extract energy. At least that is what they are doing at ITER. The electromagnetic e…

For more math oriented challenges (more project euler like), check out the monthly IBM 'I ponder this'. These are usually quite challenging, but the problems are interesting and so…

Plasma breakdown. The voltage across the gas eventually accelerates electrons fast enough that they can ionize atoms when they collide, and an avalanche occurs creating a plasma an…

Im going to let someone give a better response for some of these, but i will touch on a few. 2) The dot product can be thought of the projection of one vector onto another, or: If …