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hutchphd reacted to boneh3ad's post in the thread Do engineers working on high-tech applications make approximations? with
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"...truth ... is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations..." - John von Neumann, 1947 -
hutchphd reacted to Baluncore's post in the thread Do engineers working on high-tech applications make approximations? with
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Welcome to the "cult of the imperfect". Everything mechanical that is available, is only ever the third best. We are working on an... -
hutchphd reacted to Baluncore's post in the thread Do engineers working on high-tech applications make approximations? with Like.
Yes, always. There is usually a design code, that is a set of tables or simplified equations that will give reliable solutions...
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hutchphd reacted to Baluncore's post in the thread Do engineers working on high-tech applications make approximations? with Like.
Perfection is the enemy of progress.
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hutchphd replied to the thread Technical Analysis on Titan Sub (Titanic Sub).I think it unlikely that any known hull material could have contained the colossal ego of Stockton Rush, a walking rebuttal to the...
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hutchphd reacted to jedishrfu's post in the thread How Vulnerable Are Large Language Models to Malicious Data Poisoning? with
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https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-size-doesnt-small-malicious-corrupt.html The researchers were able to poison an LLM with only 250... -
hutchphd reacted to Astronuc's post in the thread Coccidioidomycosis, deadly fungal disease, no effective cure with Informative.
https://grist.org/health/valley-fever-arizona-fungus-climate-change/
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Say we have a transverse wave, moving in the +x direction, along a string. There are 2 very different types of graph and it’s easy to...
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Don't assume that EEs know much about this subject. It's a broad field and most don't ever deal with power distribution. Even if they...
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hutchphd replied to the thread Question about bonding ground and neutral.The neutral current path offers a very low resistance path for the current, and so most of the power follows this path. The local...
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hutchphd reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread I Question about Parallel Transport with Informative.
It depends on what "in the same direction" means. Parallel transport is one way of defining what "in the same direction" means...
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hutchphd reacted to Janus's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with Like.
In other words, kids shouldn't be allowed to be kids. And I question whether you'd get that much of an improvement. I think it would...
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hutchphd reacted to sevensages's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with Informative.
What would help those students would be to put them in special education. We have had special education for students who cannot learn...
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There are lots of materials you might run across that naturally have non-orthogonal basis to describe anisotropic behavior like strength...
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hutchphd reacted to russ_watters's post in the thread AI and Ethics in Journalism: The Sports Illustrated Scandal with
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I was talking about the articles. [edit] Eh, maybe I wasn't. I don't even remember anymore. Point taken though. There's probably a...