@0celo7 In the context of graphics, it's a DirectX technique that let's stuff look less "blocky" - it raises the amounts of polygons in a shape considerably
@0celo7 That is a method of enhancing the image quality of textures on surfaces of computer graphics that are at oblique viewing angles with respect to the camera where the projection of the texture appears
basically there are these corps called "recruiting agencies" aka (the not-so-endearing slang) "body shops". they are full of recruiters that only make $ by placing you. some of them will even occasionally finetune resumes. etc. the jobs will not always be the greatest or be long term (eg 6mos is a common length) but are "foot-in-the-door" type opportunities & can lead to more on occasion.
@vzn I am somewhat hesitant about taking 6 mos contracts due to having the family. I wonder if I chose a close-enough place, I could keep the wife & kids in NJ and live in a cruddy apt nearby
@KyleKanos you dont want to relocate family? there should be lots of 6mo positions in your neighborhood. in major cities. it also depends on how long you want to "hold out" for a great position.
I think starting out straight up as a contractor will be very difficult: The problem with a large codebase is that it takes a long time to get a good understanding of it and especially if you're inexperienced, it's even more of a hurdle.
For example the guy who did NumPy/SciPy runs a somewhat large data sciency consultancy (Continuum Analytics). Might be of interest to KK? Don't know about their requirements in terms of industry experience though.
contracting is common & large codebases are challenging but its "all part of the job". just working on some localized piece of a large app is common. its not about learning the whole app, only enough to do ones job.
@ACuriousMind Not even logged in to Steam...you're really serious about this project D:
@ACuriousMind If you're bored of doing QCD...please calculate the maximum energy that can be radiated away from the collision of two Kerr black holes. Assume their parameters are different and that they are in an initially axisymmetric configuration (so that there is no spin decay during the collision). Kthnx.
Let's assume spontaneously broken global $U(1)$ group. During phase transition global topological strings are formed. Why they have to be infinite or closed (there doesn't exist finite strings)?
Fields that have particles and antiparticles have two sets of creators/annihilators for them, like a complex scalar field that has $a,b$ and $a^\dagger,b^\dagger$, and the latter create particle and antiparticle, respectively
Well, there's not much going on, except that the mode expansion is $\phi = \int a(\vec p)\exp(\mathrm{i}\vec p\vec x) + b^\dagger(\vec p)\exp(-\mathrm{i}\vec p \vec x)$, and $a^\dagger \neq b^\dagger$ (which would be the case for the real scalar field).
Yaktrax advertises products intended to help with this, which might be less damaging to interior surfaces than crampons.
Keeping a low center of gravity can reduce probability of injury by reducing how far you fall. Positioning yourself so that if you do fall, a softer part of your body (like...
@0celo7 People who open vaults (relics of some ancient civilization, I think), fight the security systems, and grab whatever looks as if it can be sold
@0celo7 iirc, you can't use it for anything else, anyway. The loot is scaled to your level, though, so you should perhaps wait till you're high level to use it
@DanielSank personal blogs are difficult to gain readership but leaving comments/ links on other blogs esp highly trafficked ones is often an effective strategy to build up readership/ audience. links submitted to reddit, google+, facebook & other aggregators can generate significant traffic at times. however seems likely to me google would publish your writing in their corporate blog(s). iirc there has already been google blogging about the martinis lab acquisition, qm computing....
@Slereah very funny dude... (maybe jlo in front of a Dwave machine? now theres a meme!) btw what kind of coding do you work on anyway? re your thesis, bet/ surely it could be "pop sci-ized"... just imagine talking about it like michio kaku lol
@KyleKanos :D on your way. yeah you could just take your last est hourly rate and bump it say $5/hr depending on what it was around (if it was halfway competitive... you deserve a raise!)... the pay rate can be very tricky at times...
Though, of course, that statement was made before the 1990 Fortran standard was released where they eliminated the "yelling" version of the name for the more pleasant Fortran
re pay rates, there does seem some disconnect between academia/ industry. not sure of all the nuances myself. KK are you saying grad TAs were unpaid in your case? paid in tuition? not following.
@KyleKanos you are probably not exactly "entry level" (a relatively amorphous industry term anyway) but solidly beyond it because of all your programming experience. you have several years of fortran, large project/ codebase, teamwork, scientific bkg, masters thesis (sheesh trying to remember, or was it phd?), etc, that is all significantly past "entry level".
KK are you saying you did major coding work paid on level as a grad TA? that sounds kinda low to me, esp if code is integrated into "ongoing" pkg other than your own research (but alas maybe not an uncommon story in academia). afaik grad TAs main responsibility is typically teach/ grade. did you teach/ grade? coding on top of that ought to bump up the value/ rate.
Yes, most of my programming experience is through research at my MS/PhD programs. I was paid as a TA not an Research Asst, so I had to teach & grade introductory physics labs (mostly algebra based labs, but did some calc-based labs).
The relevant portion of my code is currently contained on my laptop & nowhere else (the two clusters it was on did HDD wipes for the June Top 500 benchmarking)
If someone requests it, I would probably pass it off. However, the algorithm itself is explained in a few places in the literature already, so it's not like it is some hidden nugget of gold.
ok. thought you might have made permanent/ integrated chgs on some large codebase utilized by other researchers (eg work on a library), thats more than mere personal research & closer to industry type work...
@KyleKanos ok! thats something to point out. esp if its significant amt of code. also any open source work is probably defn resume fodder. re "scooped" no danger of that after the research is over. if you integrate/ pass on the code its probably more "value"...
but also its quite common that devs work long on code that doesnt stay in "prod" or gets "shelved". happens to the best of em. battle scars.
there is a lot of coding talent showing up in this room and much of it is probably marketable. it helps to "spin it" in certain ways. youve already got good/ great instincts re communication/ ppl skills etc... think something will materialize.
@Slereah feynman path integral is from QED isnt it? it governs the way electrons/ photons interact?
"quantization ambiguity" makes it sound like maybe there is some question in "special situations" (even among experts) how to ("correctly") apply the calculation/ theory. somewhat like with black holes where there is much theory but some of it "competing".
@dmckee Indeed, some models predict half-lives up to a million years for new superheavy nuclei, and some even calculate them at around Earth’s age. - Wow.
Let's assume spontaneously broken global $U(1)$ group. During phase transition global topological strings are formed. Why they have to be infinite or closed (there doesn't exist finite strings)?
Yaktrax advertises products intended to help with this, which might be less damaging to interior surfaces than crampons.
Keeping a low center of gravity can reduce probability of injury by reducing how far you fall. Positioning yourself so that if you do fall, a softer part of your body (like...
So I found this user. His needs nuking. Can a mod do that?
