I just downloaded the book and glanced over the content. While I've a physical copy of the book by prof. John Tskilis, I will use this as a reference. I'm particularly interested in chapter 9 that deals with the applications in Python.
I'm not surprised. I've seen all kind of shit working for enterprise clients. Only one of them adhered to very high standards and had processes for everything. They were a military contractor and most of the clients were ex-military.
You'd be surprised to hear how many big organisations still use Excel for their reporting needs. I used to worked at a company with 35000 employees. Their payroll reports were generated using a MS Access database and reported using Excel. It was a massive manual job every week as they'd weekly, fortnightly and monthly payroll cycles! It's very easy to lose files and/or make an error in the calculations. But nobody bothered to change it.
You're right that I wouldn't have been a great sitter. Primarily because I don't understand them enough. Also psychiatric help is proven and should be the first step in dealing with mental health issues. There have been studies on the use of mushrooms to help in these cases. Some of those come from prestigious unis. However, only a trained psychiatrist can help a person prepare and go through such experiences. I'm not the right person. I'd be just helping someone get high on an illegal substance. As a friend I advised him accordingly with best intentions.
Thank you for the comment. I don't know much about it. I actually have three friends who're going though it. One of them is seeing a psychiatrist and is coping well. The second (who called me) has been self-dosing on these natural medication. And third one has been hit the worst. He is alone and can't access proper treatment. He doesn't talk to many people due to anxiety issues. And he is outside my lockdown zone, so I can't even visit him, unfortunately. I make sure that I at least text them every once in a while to find out how they're doing. I'll read through the guide and see if I can do more to help.
Wow.. Already been downvoted. I think my advice wasn't wrong. Going through such experience with someone like me who doesn't understand it can be risky. Hence, I suggested to see a psychiatrist.
I got a call from a friend today, who is dealing with depression. He has ready many such articles and has been microdosing on psilocybin mushrooms. He wanted my help to be with him as a sober person when he goes through the experience. I had to say no. I've two simple reasons.
1. Mushrooms are illegal in Australia. I don't want him or I to be part of any illegal activity.
2. Even though he argued that the big pharma wouldn't let this happen etc, modern medicine has saved so many lives that we at least should try to understand it better. I requested him to see a psychiatrist and go through therapy. Talk to the to professional and seek natural alternatives to prescription medicine, if available.
I could be wrong in my opinion. As a student of statistics, I'd love to read some study results on the effect of psilocybin before believing this.
I've reported his video as a spam. He is promoting his fraudulent methods to teach people how to get a free t-shirt at the cost of the wonderful open source software community. I wrote the following in the details of the spam report. To be honest, I don't think he is a bad person. He probably didn't think that his video would cause this. But as a decent human being, the least he could do is take down that video.
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This video is promoting and teaching people how to get a free t-shit by showing them how to do spam pull request. These requests have flooded real world open source projects on Github. This is ruining the community's efforts.
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This looks brilliant. This can be very useful to grasp the concepts of probability and statistics in a visual way. I've been struggling to understand some of the concepts and I hope to use this as a supplement. Although, I don't believe it can replace a university course or a proper text book.
If it's mostly reading something or media consumption on the move, even an 11 inch screen is good enough. I'd rather have an iPad pro or the new Air. Granted the iPad OS is sort of restrictive and still doesn't allow any interpreters or compilers etc. But it's still very functional and compact. But that's just me. Although I must admit that the higher end Lenovo laptops are very well built.
I'm really apprehensive of any folding screens, mostly because of their durability. I don't see a need for it. Innovation is great, but does this really help with anything? Can anyone please tell me why this would be great a choice over a Thinkpad Carbon or something equivalent?
Yes, you're right. I overreacted. I was thinking about applying for a masters of science in Statistics. I'm doing an online course from MIT to earn some credits. I could use these at RMIT and Deakins for advanced standing. I was interested in applying at Melbourne Uni just because of their ranking. However, after doing some of those courses from MIT, I'm finding it really hard to do it with a full time job. Let's see how I go. :)
WOW.. That's terrible. I was thinking about applying at Melbourne Uni for a graduate course in sciences department. I've to admit that I was attracted to it mostly because of the uni's global reputation. It's very expensive. Now I'm reconsidering. Just because someone is an expert in a field doesn't give them the right to be abusive. There are plenty people who're outstanding in there field of expertise and are also very nice and humble people. I don't understand what people get from such behaviour.
This article seems to talk about one particular professor, if I'm not wrong. Does anyone know if the majority of the advisors at MIT behave like this? Has anyone else on this forum had any experience like this? I'm sure if the advisor is an influential person who brings in a lot of research money, the administrators would try to ignore these complaints. I recently read about a case in Melbourne Uni. The professor was accused of sexual harassment and the uni only gave him a voluntary retirement and protected him from prosecution.
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That is interesting and ground water levels are already pretty low in India. Many cities are suffering from water shortages. We were only told about the problems from an engineering stand point.
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Absolutely. I remember listening to a podcast on technological advancement in Israel and it was fascinating. When the nation was still in its infancy the whole land was nothing but a desert. Israeli scientists found out ways to irrigate the land and turned it into what it is today. India lacks behind in semiconductor fabrication. However, India is one of the top five countries when it comes space exploration.
Intel had plans to setup a fabrication unit in India a decade and half ago. I was doing my undergraduate degree in electrical engineering back then. During our industrial training program we were told that India loses nearly 50% of energy in transmission loss. It's both due to a combination of theft and poor quality infrastructure. Voltage at the sockets can vary anywhere between 160 to 250 volts, whereas the recommended voltage is 240 volts. Many households use stabilisers or UPS for expensive appliances. We were told that the absence of quality electricity supply was the biggest reason why Intel chose Israel over India. It's important to be independent in chip designing but it's also a lot more important to have a stable grid that can supply the infrastructure for such delicate manufacturing process.
Yes, that's the hope. Less than 20% of the electricity is produced from renewable sources in my state (Victoria, AU). If the number of EVs increase that's just going to put more pressure on the grid and will require burning more coal. I don't know if the pollution from cars is worse than burning coals in a power plant. I'm guessing it's not. I'm hoping for hydrogen as the future. There is company working on Hydrogen here. Even Toyota and Honda have been working mostly on Hydrogen not battery based EVs. I've nothing against Tesla. In fact I admire Elon Musk as an engineer. But given the choice I'll probably go with Hydrogen fuel cell cars if it can be made readily available like Petrol.
I don't know what percentage of electricity generated in California comes from renewable energy. If it's not 100% renewable then the EVs won't be Zero-emission either! Let's not even talk about range anxiety, charging times and long queues at the charging stations during a long weekend. If Hydrogen can be manufactured/extracted efficiently, that's definitely going to be a lot better than EVs. At least there won't be millions of used batteries to be disposed.
Thank you for the explanation. Yes, I'm brown. :) Although I know a little bit about US politics, I don't know much. This was clearly a case of misunderstanding on my part. Cheers.
Thanks mate. You've to be too careful these days I reckon. My housemates and I had loads of fun calling each other names. They would call me curry muncher and I called them unseasoned chicken wings and we laughed it off. I don't see any problem there. They've helped me whenever I need anything and I'd do the same for them. I think that matters more than any of these new age safe space thing. But I guess not everyone has thick skin! Cheers, dude.
I probably should stop commenting on these forums. I meant Aussie housemates when I wrote white housemates. I didn't have any ill-intentions while writing it. My only intention was to share the common name of the plant!
The tree is called Gympie gympie in Australia. As an immigrant in Australia, my white housemates educated me diligently about the dangers of hiking in the Aussie bush. Except for drop bears every bit of education I got is true! :D
From what I've heard, the locals didn't trick them. One captain apparently had to do his business in the bush and used the leaves to clean himself. He was just unaware.
It depends on what and how much one is learning from it. I once interviewed a guy for an ETL developer role. He was supporting an ETL application. In four years, all he had done was restart the application in case of any issues and it somehow worked for him. I've seen my fair share of such cases.
Come on mate. He is at least a proper engineer. He builds stuff himself. No project gets delivered exactly on the promised date. There is always a delay. That's normal. I'm a petrol head (read idiot) and I don't like Tesla cars. But I'm fascinated with engineering and I do appreciate Elon Musk. He is bloody awesome.