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Gustephan

@ Gustephan @lemmy.world

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  • I've legit been thinking about this since i posted the comment lol. I think the target area should probably be a minimal regular hexagon, but I honestly dont have the mathematical chops to figure it out myself or to know which would be more interesting.

    Intuition tells me to either try to reduce the problem to like convex hull or figure out a reasonable way to generate random packings and just monte carlo it a few million times for a close to optimal solution. A reasonable way to generate random packings feels like it would be way harder to implement than it sounds

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  • I wonder what the optimal packing of 17 hexagons looks like

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  • I used to maintain an excel database along with an ecosystem of internal engineering tools in excel/vba. I worked in a vault, and one day I asked my isso if I could get python on some of the machines in my lab. A full 1.5 years later they got back to me that some security office was finally ready to consider my request and sent me a bunch of paperwork to fill out to justify why I needed python. And separate copies for each individual library I wanted to come with it. Needless to say I went on continuing to maintain my excel database and toolkit

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  • YouTube. Straight up. When I learned to code my yt search history was a million different versions of "how to

    <do thing>

    in python" for months. I also really liked the "Computational methods for physics" textbook (you can find the pdf for free on cambridge website), but that book is written for an audience that knows near graduate math but starts praying if their advisor asks them to write a program

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  • That might be the stupidest thought terminating cliché ive ever heard. The virtue of the tool absolutely does matter. I'm not out here trying to metaphorically mine iron with a pickaxe when we have metaphorical excavators available, and no amount of expertise will allow somebody to be more efficient with the pickaxe than any random novice with an excavator.

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  • Old people and technology man. My advisor during my masters was an absolutely brilliant woman; she's one of the people who has been basically defining the field of data science since the early 90s. The first time I ever published with her, I sent my first draft and her response was "can you convert this to docx? I don't know how to work with tex." I still think she's one of the most brilliant people I've ever known but damn did it hurt to work on Microsoft word documents with her

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  • I don't think this is loss. I'm ready to eat crow if I'm proven wrong, but I think the real joke is the amount of time people will spend staring at this image and trying to figure out how it's loss

  • Study (N=16) finds AI (Cursor/Claude) slows development

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  • Study (N=16) finds absolutely nothing because their sample size is too small to meaningfully substantiate any conclusion.

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  • Like its a drag race

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  • Ever seen a Japanese sports car go from 0 to 6 in 15 seconds? Honk at me when I'm on the line and the light just turned green and I'll show you

  • Absolutely Legend

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  • You sound more like a Rage Tuned File Monster, or rtfm for short

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  • I'm one of them, haha. My archives are nice and organized, but anything related to a current project I'm working on either lives on the desktop or lives at ~, depending on which machine I'm using. Automated output type files go into a structure (like any kind of processed or cleaned data), but figures? References? Drafts? FFA on the desktop. For whatever reason I just cannot function with an organized workspace

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  • Seriously, why would anybody bother putting their papers in a folder when the desktop is just right there?

  • when you work in an interdisciplinary institution:

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  • At least the program can run in polynomial time. They tried to do the same for yall stamp collectors moms but quickly realized that problem was NP hard!

    (Perfect, no notes)

  • when you work in an interdisciplinary institution:

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  • Nonsense. An astrophysicist wouldn't be caught dead hanging out in public with their dealer and somebody who thinks counting past 1 is pointless.

    (/s but also shit talking is fun so pop off if this made your blood boil and you've got a witty retort)

  • [ExoComics] Tag!

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  • But barrel, how am I supposed to baselessly feel superior to the people around me if I'm not enforcing arbitrary language rules despite knowing full well what people mean when they talk about there new haircut or or use new words like startup? I don't care about effective communication, I care about an artificial hierarchy that I can place myself near the top of.

    (/s)

  • smash!

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  • She got blue, I'd let her smash

  • Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug

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  • "Everything I don't like is ai"

    Grow up. The imgflip watermark is clearly visible in the meme, and it's an ancient meme format.

  • Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug

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  • Euclidean geometry enjoyers in shambles