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Re:Intel CEO: Patches will come to 90% of chips in the next week
on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @06:52PM (#16111305)
Stuxnet?
Re:Ask HN: Who hires mathematicians?
on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @01:15PM (#15863412)
If you want something that is mostly "doing mathematics", i.e. thinking about Galois groups, differential geometry, or the Riemann hypothesis, that is pretty tough. Many jobs have interesting mathematical content, but to get them you will probably need to convince the prospective employer that you can handle the non-mathematical content, which likely means writing non-trivial computer programs. The one exception that I can think of might be entry-level actuarial positions.
At this point, a lot of people decide to get a masters degree in operations research, statistics, or computer science. But don't completely give up and get an MBA. :-)
Re:Gonum – Numerical Computing for Go
on Thursday September 21, 2017 @04:48PM (#15307212)
"By default, blas64 and lapack64 call the native Go implementations of the routines. Alternatively, it is possible to use C-based implementations of the APIs through the respective cgo packages and "Use" functions."
Performance comparison? Algorithmic equivalence? How close are the results numerically (e.g. how do they compare on badly conditioned matrices)?
Re:Out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest
on Monday July 31, 2017 @01:24PM (#14894030)
tl;dr: if we assume deleterious effects from CO2-driven global warming and discount effects from long-term storage of high-level nuclear waste, nuclear is safer.
Re:What was it like to self-learn programming before Stack Overflow? (...
on Monday May 15, 2017 @05:31PM (#14345302)
In the Dark Old Days, there was more specialization, so you could (and were expected to) become deeply knowledgeable about a few things, e.g. Cobol programming on OS/360. The computer vendor usually supplied everything, including the OS and the one language you used, and decent manuals were expected.
Re:My New Year’s Resolution – read a research paper every weekday
on Thursday December 29, 2016 @03:45PM (#13279980)
Andrew Ng on this topic:
"...if you seriously study half a dozen papers a week and you do that for two years, after those two years you will have learned a lot."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/13/andrew-ng_n_7267682...
Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless
on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:31PM (#12687196)
I find the MBTI incredibly useful. When I meet someone I immediately figure out what their MBTI type is. That saves me enormous amounts of time later on---I don't have to pay close attention to what they say or do. I just rely on their MBTI type. Sometimes I don't even bother listening to them or asking their opinion, which lets me use the time to think about other things, like HN. I used to use their astrological sign, but that required asking for their birthday, which was awkward, especially when I didn't get them a present.
Re:Four months with Haskell
on Monday June 13, 2016 @12:53PM (#11895357)
"more determined" -- you've obviously never dealt with Haskell tooling. :-)