Recent content by Floid

Many subjects are easier learned top down than bottom up. You don't start learning physics with quantum mechanics and build up to the algebraic generalizations of basic physics. For a true beginner, seeing progress right away gives more inspiration than covering a bunch of topics that they...

Given your user name your views are a bit ironic.

What I can agree with you on is that some course work encourages mastering plug and chug. I spent my entire undergrad "mimicking the form" and made pretty good grades at a hard school doing it. I could mimic the form on complex problems like using Gaussian surfaces for Emag problems like Zz...

That is true. I took the easy way out and didn't do a thesis but I also already had about 8 years work experience when I created my Masters. I would have preferred to do a thesis but didn't really have the time with work and other commitments.

To some degree a MS is just an MS. But a thesis does becomes something you can present to demonstrate your knowledge in an area in addition to your actual MS. That may or may not matter, but it can't hurt.

Agree, with above. If you have to ask what the scope of work for a consultant in a given field is you are ill prepared to be a consultant in that field. My suggestion would be find a job in that field and reevaluate your options after you have some experience with it.

There is plenty of work doing programming and statistical work but I don't think these positions fall under the title "intelligence analyst". The point of what I was saying is there is a disconnect between the job title the OP wants and what the OP actually wants to do and is more qualified...

The "10,000 hour rule" is part real and part hype. The reason it is part real: If someone spends 10,000 hours doing something the average person will be pretty good at it. If they happen to also be naturally inclined in that area they will be phenomenal at it. If they are naturally gifted in...

"I'm very interested in the field of intelligence analysis. Be it signal processing of a satellite image, writing software for a radar system, or working in the defense sector, I love all of this."None of that is really intelligence analysis. The data generated by those things are used by...

In general no not really. To expand on what ektrules pointed out though there are languages like Ada that are have features like strong typing to reduce bugs/errors and is supposedly structured to be more readable and therefore be easier to maintain and verify functionality. It is popular in...

How do you know the spacing, size, and location of the letters so that you can pick out mxn arrays that contain only 1 letter and not multiple letters, no letters, and partial letters? I think identifying a letter out of an image that is known to only contain 1 letter and noise is easier than...

If you are just going in as a freshman and have credit for all your Calculus classes you are already way ahead of the curve. It can't hurt to take a class that covers material you have already taken (ODEs) to give yourself time to adjust to college and then take PDEs next semester.

You can try. Depending on what your end goal is a NN may or may not help. In general what you would do is setup a NN with 10 inputs and 6 outputs. The number of intermediate layers and nodes in those layers you would have to play with to find what gives you good results. You would then...

I think there is a slight misconception thinking of the situation as either a short or an open. An open can have a potential difference but no current flows, a short has no potential difference but has current flow. In the R1 branch you have both no potential difference (because the two ends...

Well, the frequency is going to be dependent on how fast the for loop gets called. I left out the delay you had in your original program but if you need it for servo settling time then if you assume each iteration of the loop has a 15ms delay: 80 increments per cycle (from my code) * 15ms...