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Every institution with a big enough research budget gives SBIR grants. I got money from NASA last year (project didn’t work out, unfortunately).

The SBIR program is essentially what you describe… though with a research bent. Virtually zero red tape with a Phase I grant (apart from the application itself).

I still have a some un-assembled Whitewings on my bookshelf! The book that came with it was pack full of design details.

I’m guessing Brian Eno.

The “dust” from a whiteboard is worse, imo. And I used to like clapping the erasers!

My dad still whines about Peter Frampton due to his time on a submarine in the late 70s. Could only take so much vinyl out to sea and I guess shanties were out of fashion haha.

I personally tend to listen to full albums repetitively. Lately it has been Billy Cobham’s Spectrum and some Khruangbin albums. I also play drums and tend to study the same handful of songs for a few months at a time. Ok maybe I’ve been meditating on Stevie Wonder’s Superstition for over a year haha.

I love that joke. I will also mention Terry Riley.

Gawker was bought during bankruptcy. I don’t think there was any new content for many years.

Since Weinstein was mentioned, I have to admit I read Gawker and therefore was not surprised when hearing the allegations against him in the broader media because Gawker had been writing about him for years. They made some big, obviously embarrassing decisions (especially Denton’s stance on outing people), but imo got it right much more often than they got things wrong.

arXiv link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02798

Funny because an Oxide co-founder is Jessie Frazelle.

I was a bit disappointed when I found out Chick Corea was a Scientogist. He and Edgar Winter played on some terrible albums.

Any sort of plugin architecture, e.g. VST audio plugins. Often there's an interface which you could implement directly, or you could inherit from an abstract class which provides some common functionality. I like this because it stresses that deep hierarchies aren't necessary to be useful. Also, if you're refactoring and see a "switch on type" then a little bit of inheritance is probably OK.

I admit I taught intro to C++ and used shapes as an example. I spent a few weeks building a little "ASCII render" thingy with a 80x30 "canvas" where each character is a pixel. Then you could place Shapes on the canvas and the shape would decide whether a given pixel was contained() inside of it.

I remember my first OO class where the car analogy was proven to be bad using the existence of the El Camino.

Columbia Journalism School… my perception is that it’s like Stanford in the startup world. (But I’ve never been to either.)

Reaper provides a stand-alone bundle of plugins they distribute with their DAW.

https://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/

I’ve worked with people who stick to “only one return statement per function”. Super annoying.

Also, it seems like the author might not be aware that the FT of a Gaussian is another Gaussian. I implemented this method (Timmer and Konig) a few months ago, and I think there are some other statistical tricks that work out nice for Gaussians.

Here in Pennsylvania, the official state police history describes the origin of the force as a replacement for coal company police, who were a little too brutal in their union breaking.

Re: Kennington… I check in every year or so to see his progress.

For those interested: topology.org

Nice! I actually attended there as an undergraduate many years ago. Prof Bui still remembered my name, even after my military -> industry -> academic -> industry journey. As in most institutions I've been in, if they're already familiar with your work then there's little process for getting an adjunct position because of the demand (as explained in the article). Just don't expect interesting courses right off the bat.

I do have to warn you, if you're not already aware... all those articles about lack of student engagement due to pandemic are horrifyingly correct. I started adjuncting as the pandemic hit and it seemed like each semester was worse than the previous one. I just finished up my last course and it was such a slog. People barely show up, are completely silent when they do. A root canal was more fun.

That said, it's a great feeling when you really make a connection and I hope to return to teaching sometime in the future.

I will put my psu address in my profile, if you want to connect.

Adjuncts where? I was adjuncting at PSU Harrisburg campus last year while working on a startup… $5k/class and you have to work your way up to get a consistent course load. I believe that salary applies across the entire Penn State system.

There are some professors who earn much more than average, mainly in medicine, economics and engineering from what I’ve read.

Startup idea didn’t work out (and it’s stressful), so I’m back to being a working stiff.

This rocks. I wood chipped a portion of my lawn and now grow fruit/berries there. Every morning after the kids get on the bus I walk around, pull some weeds and dig into the chips and dirt to see what's going on down there. Very relaxing.

This article and tiktok make me want a microscope.

What is dynamic typing but lazy static typing?

> I just don’t give a fuck about impact or convincing others to work on my idea.

Then you're talking about a hobby project.

/seinfeld Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Thanks, I had the same thought when I reached the word “lazy”.

The paper also describes function contracts, which I think simply ensure that the return types and argument types conform to a specification. This isn’t lazy, per se, but in a dynamic language you can’t check those things until you call the function. But isn’t that an obvious point?

> I was 13. Not much came out it but some very strong words from a local magistrate, who ultimately they showed clemency.

Same thing happened to a friend. After that, I got into music and developed a more "healthy" approach to the internet... using it to learn about synthesizers and download the occasional cracked plugin.

The housing situation has become insane since I left!

Phished credit cards? For a long time a silly credit card generator got past whatever simple check was performed when an account was created, allowing you access for a week or so until I guess an actual charge attempt was made. (This must have been around 1994 or 1995).

At my institution the 9-month pay was less than $25k per year (from 2010-2016) with subsidized housing (still pretty expensive) and family on MediCal when my wife worked part time.

How are you going to replace 50 TAs with full time employees? Class sizes were already 700 students in basic calculus and up to 300 in engineering calculus.

Did you talk to students in biological or other lab sciences? At my PhD institution the materials science students were paid a lot more (and barely taught) because they essentially had a 9-5 job with plenty of overtime.

(Compared to the math department where people would surf between commitments.)