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Re:Ask HN: Best Board Games of 2022 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:22PM (#33991496)
Also be sure to consider its bigger brother, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea (2021).
Re:Ask HN: Good Book on Stochastic Differential Equations? on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:16PM (#30188089)
Glad it helped. :)
Re:Ask HN: Good Book on Stochastic Differential Equations? on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @12:54PM (#30181196)
I am not an expert in SDEs (my background is machine learning) but if I wanted to dig more into the subject, this is where I personally would start. Code [1] and pdf [2] for the book are available.

Simo Särkkä and Arno Solin (2019). Applied Stochastic Differential Equations. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK.

[1] https://github.com/AaltoML/SDE

[2] https://users.aalto.fi/~asolin/sde-book/sde-book.pdf

Re:Introduction to Julia – Part 1 on Friday July 11, 2014 @10:49AM (#8020363)
Direct YouTube links (pyvideo.org loading is slow at the moment)

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWkgEddb4-A

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3JH5Bg46yU

Re:A Guide to the Good Life on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @10:31PM (#7433456)
I recently read the Gregory Hays translation [1] and thought it was great. Meditations was Marcus Aurelius's "notes to self" and the Hays edition captures this informal nature. It makes for an easy and delightful read.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-New-Translation-Marcus-Aur...

Re:Godot Engine open sourced on Monday February 10, 2014 @12:36AM (#7209337)
Re:Atomgrads on Friday June 07, 2013 @11:43PM (#5843658)
Most of these cities (e.g. Zheleznogorsk [1]) seem to have a stylized atom as part of their coat of arms. I wonder if it was common practice in the USSR to incorporate similar symbols into the coat of arms of other newly founded industrial cities?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheleznogorsk,_Krasnoyarsk_Krai

Re:Resurgence of Neural Networks on Friday March 01, 2013 @08:18AM (#5304054)
For a (slightly technical) in-depth guide to training RBM's: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/guideTR.pdf

It discusses how to choose a learning algorithm, selecting hyperparameters, number of hidden units, etc.

Re:Ask HN: Which developer laptop should I buy? on Sunday January 20, 2013 @04:47PM (#5088391)
I got my x220 refurb last spring for under $700. I love it -- very portable and the battery life is ~6-7 hours. I run Arch Linux [1] and haven't had any issues, so you should be good to go with Ubuntu.

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/

Re:Ask HN: Which linux distribution are you using? on Sunday December 30, 2012 @02:50PM (#4986856)
Arch with xmonad as my window manager (http://xmonad.org/)
Re:The Power of Concentration on Sunday December 16, 2012 @12:02AM (#4927391)
I've found "Mindfulness in Plain English" to be quite helpful. http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
http://www.memrise.com is another spaced repetition alternative to Anki. You'd need another tool to practice your grammar, but for vocab alone it works great.
Re:Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? on Thursday February 02, 2012 @10:05AM (#3542928)
For #1, the yy command will yank the entire line (including the newline). Try using y$, which will yank from the cursor to the end of the line (not including the newline).
Re:Things Highly Productive People Do on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @05:48PM (#3354085)
This is why I'm such a big fan of the pomodoro technique: the majority of these 7 things are taken care of automatically.

1. Tasks are already broken down into manageable chunks

2. There is no multi-tasking during your pomodoro

3. No distractions either

4. Ok, so I actually check email at the end of every pomodoro and not 2-3 times a day, but close enough

5. This is the one that is not really handled by the pomodoro technique

6. I plan out all my pomodoros at the start of each day

7. I get up and walk around for a few minutes at the end of every pomodoro

Re:Why I take sketch breaks instead of surfing the Internet on Friday October 28, 2011 @12:49PM (#3169016)
Agreed. The pomodoro technique is great for keeping your breaks time-bound. I often just walk around the office for a few minutes and refill my water bottle, etc. Gives me a chance to stare at something else than a screen.