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Sometimes math is bad and then sometimes you’ll come across a little guy like ŷ which is a predicted value and learn that it’s called y-hat. ‘Cause he’s got a little hat. And then math’s not so bad.

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refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

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“5 is an honorary even number” “3 is more odd than 5 but 7 is more odd than both” stop it stop it stop it. you are pitting beautiful women against each other when they should all be playing together happy. they can do anything

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Things that will make your computer meaningfully faster:

Replacing a HDD with an SSD

Adding RAM

Graphics cards if you're nasty

Uninstalling resource hogs like Norton or McAfee (if you're using Windows then the built-in Windows Security is perfectly fine; if you're using a mac consider bitdefender as a free antivirus or eset as a less resource intensive paid option)

Customizing what runs on startup for your computer

Things that are likely to make internet browsing specifically meaningfully faster:

Installing firefox and setting it up with ublock origin

adding the Auto Tab Discard extension to firefox to sleep unused tabs so that they aren't constantly reloading

Closing some fucking tabs bud I'm sorry I know it hurts I'm guilty of this too

Things that will make your computer faster if you are actually having a problem:

Running malwarebytes and shutting down any malicious programs it finds.

Correcting disk utilization errors

Things that will make your computer superficially faster and may slightly improve your user experience temporarily:

Clearing cache and cookies on your browser

Restarting the computer

Changing your screen resolution

Uninstalling unused browser extensions

Things that do not actually make your computer faster:

Deleting files

Registry cleaners

Defragging your drive

Passively wishing that your computer was faster instead of actually just adding more fucking RAM.

This post is brought to you by the lady with the 7-year-old laptop that she refuses to leave overnight for us to run scans on or take apart so that we can put RAM in it and who insists on coming by for 30-minute visits hoping we can make her computer faster.

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absolutely obsessed with the NASA eclipse broadcast where you spend over an hour with these very professional hosts presenting scientific facts and updates until the totality hits their location and they're reduced to screaming and hollering and incredibly human messes

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nasa: we're going to shoot three rockets directly at the sun during the total eclipse. for study and research purposes.

me: oh cool

nasa: we have named the rockets apep. this stands for atmospheric perturbations [in the] eclipse path.

me: oh cool

nasa: apep is also the ancient egyptian deity of chaos and darkness, who ceaselessly seeks to extinguish the sun. we launch these rockets directly at the sun in the name of apep.

me: oh... cool?

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SpaceX's 2nd Starship launch test l WatchLive

l John Kraus l Andrew McCarthy l SpaceX(3/4)

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I’ve decided to chase a dream.

I’ve been in engineering school for ages hoping that something would come along and spark an interest. That I would find a job that didn’t make me feel like I was just a cog in the machine, but that also made me feel like I was doing something worthwhile.

I love engineering, I love the problem solving, I love the science and the theory, the physics, the chemistry, I love making and designing things.

As far as careers go though… what? Few things are really sparking my interest. The idea of designing HVAC systems and appliances doesn’t really appeal. I’ve really loved the work at NASA, but the idea of a time limit on my enjoyment there doesn’t sound great either. It’s the pinnacle of “once you’ve been there 10 years you’ll be forced into project management or shot like a lame horse.” Grind culture, even in school, is rampant. It has to be, it’s grueling.

So if I want aerospace or transportation work where I don’t feel immense pressure, know I’ll still be loving what I do for my whole career, and have any semblance of job security, what do I do? NASA’s outsourcing half their cool shit to defense contractors anyway, and you won’t catch me dead working for SpaceX or Lockheed Martin.

In summary, I want to be an aerospace engineer but despise the idea of working in the modern late-stage-capitalist American industry, which only really gives me the illusion of job security, and even the illusion won’t last from the look of things.

Instead, I’m going to start building and repairing guitars and amplifiers!

I have the theoretical knowledge to be able to do it, I just lack the experience. So while I finish school (because I might as well, I’ve come THIS far), I’m going to start tinkering and designing. I have a couple project kicking around to mess with in the meantime while I decide what I want the sound and look to be.

Maybe someday I’ll open a storefront! The area where I live has plenty of spots lacking in music stores. We have some awesome stores, but there are plenty of areas that don’t. Of course if I did that, I wouldn’t be able to get by selling my own stuff, but that’s okay.

I want to make this my turning point. If I’m going to have a quarter-life crisis, then I might as well make something of it.

I’ve got a name picked out, but I want to have a better plan before I share it.

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f(x) tribute band called f'(x). you'd think the point would be to be derivative but it's actually quite easy to differentiate the two.

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Need to find a woke electrical engineer who will trans only half of my rs232 serial cable’s gender <- guy who has a male-male cable and needs a male - female cable

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Sometimes a success in the lab looks like an awe-inspiring display of the modern scientific method.

Sometimes a success in the lab looks like a small numbers FINALLY showing up in the software you wrote after three months spent learning to write serial drivers in 4 different languages, each presenting their own unique set of hoops to trip you up, until you finally go back to the first one you tried at the beginning and for some reason it just works this time. A success in spite of the fact that you’re writing code for a computer that hasn’t been connected to the internet since 2014, which you may still refuse to believe was 10 years ago.

They don’t make or provide documentation for any of the versions of the proprietary engineering software you’re using so you better go digging through the closet across the hall for the old printed users’ manuals.

You still don’t have the cables you need so you can’t plug the other half of your project in until you track down someone in electrical and annoy them until they try to strangle you with a usable length USB 2.0 Type B cable.

You still have to write the rest of the script, you still have to write the post-processing, you still have to talk someone.

All you have is four numbers on your screen, and it’s the biggest success in 4 months.

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Calling it, this is the fucking Information Age Collapse. Bronze Age Collapse 2.0. We have three or so generations of this shit while everything slowly breaks and then in 1k years archaeologists will be unearthing hard drives and cursing us for putting all our information in such shitty, easily degraded media instead of etching it into metal and stone like a sensible civilisation.

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this can't be true can it

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