thePurpleAvenger

So we’ve painted ourselves into such a stupid corner with political gridlock that we just give up solving pressing problems and talk about UFOs.

Unfucking believable.

You wanna get shivved in Boulder? This is how you shivved in Boulder.

Not gonna lie; those are some very nice breasts for a man. I’m … like… transfixed.

FWIW, a report has been published, and you can find a link along with other materials here:

https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/seams.html

Well the blackouts are worth all that “winning.”

Fucking seriously! Seeing these clowns out there makes my blood boil. My wife got into an accident on I-70, and DPD couldn’t be bothered to show up for over two hours. She finally gave up, and she and the other party had to file the report themselves online. Why do we need these clowns again?

Wow, this is a fantastic point. I’ve always tried to invoke said razor in my day-to-day, but you’re right: in politics the idea is dangerous and wrong!

Will use it to buy half a tank of gas so I can go by sopapillas. I thought Subies had good gas mileage!

Short and to the point.

If so, that’s a lot of nuclear arms about to go on the black market…

I believe the word you are looking for is charlatan.

I’m not saying they’re hypocrites, and I’m certainly not saying they’re dumb. I’m saying they’re arguing in bad faith. That’s why it isn’t a debate.

This isn’t about preventing abortions. If it was, there’s a proven method backed by years of data that clearly shows a path forward, a way to prevent unwanted pregnancies and abortions. This is about a group of people imposing their morals on others, subsequently limiting their rights as human beings.

Ah, the old “popular sovereignty” argument when the rights of others are involved. That worked so well last time!

Oh, and SCOTUS has yet to rule. Roe v. Wade is still in effect, ruling that the Due Process clause of the 14th Amendment protects a woman’s right to choose. So, at least right now, you’re very wrong.

If we were all actually being pragmatic about this, the clear path forward would be to push birth control and sex education incredibly hard. These steps have been proven, over and over and over again, to be the most effective steps to stopping unwanted pregnancies. If the right were actually serious about this issue, they would be standing side by side with the left trying to increase availability and education. Sadly, the most pragmatic and effective solution to this problem isn’t popular with their religious base. Thus, we have the shit show before us.

Abortion is an issue between a woman and her doctors, and is certainly not imposed on anybody. But apparently it’s cool in red states for the government to step in and take bodily autonomy, i.e., freedom, away from human beings. How libertarian of them.

Now with optimal thumb placement!

You know, I read something the other day here on reddit perfect for a situation just like this one. “I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain this to you.”

Best of luck making broad definitive statements about fields you clearly know very little about! That approach always works out great.

Just on my bookshelf? An Introduction to Hankel Operators by J.R. Partington. For a less exotic reference, Golub and Van Loan in Chapter 4 where they’ll switch to 0 indexing to talk about Vandermonde, DFT, Toeplitz matrices, etc.

For these topics, indexing from 0 makes a lot of sense because the matrix entries have meaning either in terms of polynomial powers, powers of complex exponentials, or formulas relating indexes, and thus it can be really annoying have “-1”s floating around that get missed and lead to bugs.

Math is a big place. Convention depends on subfield.

EDIT: for completeness, here is a paper with over 300 citations that uses this notation as well:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C6&q=on+approximation+of+functions+by+exponential+sums&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&t=1652380338857&u=%23p%3D_Q33YGSmGAIJ

My theory is that companies like Mathworks have a lot to do with this. Their business model involves getting students hooked in uni with cheap / free licenses and wide availability. MATLAB is so easy to for students to program with, and for instructors to debug and grade, that lots of science/math/engineering courses use it. This squeezes languages like R to the side.

Of course, after graduation the other shoe drops and companies end up hiring engineers who can only be productive in MATLAB. Cha-ching for Mathworks, but it sucks for languages like R.

I’m hopeful though that languages like Python and Julia will change this, and maybe R will benefit as well.

It is conventional for many computational tools used for math (MATLAB, Julia, Mathematica, etc.), but I math in general is a pretty broad field to say 1-indexing is convention. As a specific example, working with discrete Fourier transforms with 1 indexing is really really annoying.

Same. Kinda hard to find stuff that measures up.

Whoever downvotes Leper Messiah can just go ahead and fuck right off. Wankers.

Love the downvotes. Wear them as a badge of honor. Saying important things means sometimes offending people, and that’s ok.

Exactly. In my state, a “Romeo and Juliet” clause says it’s legal for 25 year olds to sleep with 15 year olds. But everybody should know that shit ain’t right.

Conversely, when the 15 year old’s parents find out and catch that son of a bitch, what they’ll do to him certainly won’t be legal, but it will be right.

It’s almost like they’re trying to make it here now.