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Re:Ask HN: Novelty addiction is ruining my life and career. What shoul... on Sunday December 13, 2015 @07:35AM (#10726185)

Looks like you have to adjust your mindset (definitely not easy but probably achievable) or, if you are confident enough, to adjust your career. For example you can write articles and do workshops/lectures. Third option (more EU one than Swiss :) would be to postpone the decision.

Re:Schwarzenegger: I don’t give a damn if we agree about climate change on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:58PM (#10692638)

I really wonder. So much money and freedom was spent and 7 millions of people are still dying? Smart choice would be Termination, not Terminator.

Re:Computer science is now the top major for women at Stanford University on Sunday October 11, 2015 @04:37AM (#10368566)

As a foreigner, I guess it is similar to importance of a labor in previous socialism. Maybe there is some "The Part played by CS majoring females in the Transition from Ape to Man" on the way. Who knows :)

Re:From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities on Saturday September 26, 2015 @06:19AM (#10282689)

It is done because of data that it brings. Not because of deviances of House of Commons members. Moreover, in western countries like UK it is quite difficult to be classified as deviant.

Ask HN: Mathematically demandig areas in IT

Posted by j-l- on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @04:56AM
from the ask-hn dept.

What are the most mathematically demanding areas in IT? Answers can contain field description (SW devel - gis/graphics/radiocommunication), problem description (interpolation), key math abilities (convolution, impulse response), basic literature (wolberg - digital image warping; pharr & humphreys - physically based rendering), reference/notable (but preferably lightweight) implementations...

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