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Disappointed that it's missing name of a yacht or catamaran I once saw on trailer parked by roadside in 1980s Queensland: Blue E. Zarzoff

DS comes out (one of, or) the most successful quant fund in China. They don't strictly need any kind of subsidies. FWIW they have a funding round planned (kerfuffle about leaks fro…

Are these tippy top-secret Skunkworks Final Boss Wunderwaffen with you in the room right now? More and more there seems to be some wishful thinking that the USA has another hidden …

Workplace metrics and surveillance... What could possibly go wrong? That being said, more than one (female at that) doctor has told me in confidence and based upon their observatio…

Very good. Thought-termination achieved. Branch pruned. Back-tracking... Now where's my pony?

I forgot to mention the converse also applies. Mathematicians talking about stuff we engineers learned the paint by numbers way makes our heads hurt!

December/January 1987 I was doing a vacation EE internship in a power station in Australia. Some of the Hitachi mini computers still used core RAM. This was in an all Hitachi Heavy…

Back in the day you'd go into an electronics store and there'd be books containing just 555 circuit recipes. Not to mention the magazine articles. And every EE student back when we…

The world would be a much sadder, drearier place without the 555. That's the nostalgia part out of the way. Really it's such a useful almost universal lego block of a component tha…

Back in the 1980s2H there was a brief fashion trend of woollen knit sweaters with IC mask type patterns. Guessing related to designers playing around with design software and knitt…

Plot twist: He's a Haskell guru juggling hylomorphisms blindfolded.

Undergrad. Mid-late 1980s. I wasn't making point about mathematics qua mathematics. Was thinking that if I were doing EE undergrad today, I'd use SageMath or Mathematica to crunch …

True dat. But you see there's this thing called 'Engineering Maths'. Apparently it's really bad for real mathematicians' blood pressure.

Of course!

When I did EE, didn't have access to any kind of computer algebra system. Have 'fond' memories of taking Laplace transform transfer functions and converting to z-transform form. Ex…

Apple: Hold my beer!

Bingo. We certainly learned about Cooley-Tukey in undergrad back then. That power station was 100% Hitachi Heavy Industries turnkey. The control rooms had Hitachi mainframe and som…

In the late 1980s I did an electrical engineering internship in a coal-fired power station over summer vacation. The gas furnace igniters ran continuously, but how do you detect pr…

My first thought was to upload the PDF to Qwen3 and ask it to reimplement in Python using NumPy, Astropy, etc. Have to work on the day job, but could be some educational fun learni…

Indeed. She called him a “queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples” after Ulysses.

Jingle. Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway makes for a nice stream of consciousness study in contrast.

Anyone seen Jorn Barger lately?

Who wouldn't pay more to not have to interact with an unknown human?