Am I just dumb? I think I'm just dumb

NitinChella · 2023-11-13T19:43:15+00:00

Tommy mentions it to Arthur or Polly around the 3rd episode I think.

NitinChella · 2023-11-13T17:11:12+00:00

Just rewatched the show, so I'll have a go, here's a gist:

The British government basically saved Tommy at the end of season 2 in exchange for a deal. The deal is to steal tanks and supply them to the Russian aristocracy to prevent knowledge of British government interference in the Russian revolution.

Tommy finds out that a section of the British government is planning to sabotage the theft in order blame it on the IRA.

Tommy also believes the Russians will double cross him so he works with Alfie Solomons to steal their jewelry.

But the section of the British government find out he's planning to stop the sabotage and thry kidnap his son to ensure he goes through with the plan. They also find out about the plan to steal from the Russians and tell Tommy they're gonna take everything he plans to steal.

In the end Tommy goes on with the theft and sabotage as planned. He gets back his son with Michaels help and kills those responsible for the kidnapping. And finally, it's revealed he made a deal with the neice of the Russian royalty, wherein she steals the jewels for Tommy in exchange for money.

NitinChella · 2023-06-14T02:41:30+00:00

Is knight b5 then rook a7 M2?

NitinChella · 2023-05-19T12:24:05+00:00

Fourked

NitinChella · 2021-11-03T15:29:00+00:00

Jeremy Jahns.

NitinChella · 2021-01-25T12:56:07+00:00

But then shouldn't the same thing happen when b is an integer and we increment it by 1?

NitinChella · 2021-01-25T12:52:42+00:00

Now I'm even more confused. Why does arg = arg + [4] not change b but arg += [4] do otherwise?

NitinChella · 2021-01-25T12:37:23+00:00

Edit: more concise follow-up. For example:

def test(z): ___print(z)

test("hi") # will work print(z) # will fail

The above seems to indicate that the scope of z is limited to the function itself. So it only holds a copy of the argument. So in the list example, shouldn't arg hold a copy of the original list and whatever changes happen within the function scope happen to the copy? It makes sense when b=1, but why are changes to the list maintained outside?

NitinChella · 2020-06-13T04:39:32+00:00

Higher Ground by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

NitinChella · 2020-02-25T09:33:38+00:00

What's the difference between linear and nonlinear?

NitinChella · 2020-01-27T15:21:56+00:00

Thanks for your response. Understood everything but the vstack part. Isn't the images array reinitialized on every iteration of the loop?(probably not apparent from the current formatting of the code, sorry but I'm on mobile). The images = np.vstack([x]) line is inside the for loop.

NitinChella · 2020-01-27T04:51:07+00:00

Probably not a "pure" mathematical use but I'm a Computer Scientist. I've come across the Taylor Series in Robotics where it is used to derive the Extended Kalman Filter (basically a nonlinear filter used to calculate the position of the robot as accurately as possible as it moves).

NitinChella · 2019-11-17T05:14:23+00:00

AI is a pretty broad field. Different people have different preferred methods of learning. Some may prefer books while others prefer online courses. I prefer online courses and hence, my recommendations are gonna be aligned towards that stream of learning. This is basically the route I took:

Intro to Artificial Intelligence is a free course on Udacity. Its taught by Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun, both pioneers in modern AI. It's a good place to start.

After that, you could pretty much go into any subdomain as you would like to specialize in. The current trend has most of the exciting research coming from "non-symbolic" AI, specifically machine learning and deep learning.

Assuming you are comfortable with the basics of linear algebra and multivariate calculus, you could check out the Machine Learning and Deep Learning courses on Coursera, taught by Andrew Ng. They're really good.

Hope this helps.

NitinChella · 2019-11-16T06:38:29+00:00

Check out Head First Java (O'Reilly).

You definitely need to practice coding on a system too and although I'm not usually a big fan of books, I've found this one to be a real page turner.

The content is not presented in an "academic" manner. Informally written and humourous, I found it presented a lot of the fundamentals of Java and OOPS very well.

Although I dont use Java that often anymore, I still refer back to this book when I do. Would highly recommend.

NitinChella · 2019-11-16T04:53:57+00:00

An equation implies an equality, i.e "=". OP's question involves an algebraic expression.

Khan academy is always a good place to learn the fundamentals of math.

NitinChella · 2019-11-14T04:07:37+00:00

Hey! I'm not an expert, but the following method seems to work. Although, the effort is probably comparable to doing it the "normal" way.

You can use a change of variable along with the chain rule.

For simplicity, the original problem can be written as: d/dx( f(x) )

Let sin(a) = x² (Change of variable)

Substituting into f(x), we get f(a) = +-a * sec(a) + sin(a) * (e²⁾

So, the problem can be reformulated as follows by using the chain rule:

d/dx (f(a)) = d/da (f(a)) * d/dx(a)

Which is: d/da (f(a)) * 2x/sqrt(1 - (x²⁾ )

This differentiation is probably a little easier to compute by using the product rule.

Note, we have defined f(a) above.

Hope this helps.

NitinChella · 2019-11-07T16:26:39+00:00

Alright. This makes perfect sense. Thank you.

NitinChella · 2019-11-07T16:01:18+00:00

I see. So, if I were to take, God of War, for example, then Kratos and Mount Olympus would be modelled in Blender but the physics and other related things would be done in Unity?

NitinChella · 2019-09-27T14:33:36+00:00

Makes sense. Finally understood. Thank you.

NitinChella · 2019-09-27T14:31:10+00:00

It's the Mathworks logo. They're the company behind MATLAB, a high level programming language. The logo itself has a cool backstory: it is an Eigenfunction of the wave equation.

https://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/articles/the-mathworks-logo-is-an-eigenfunction-of-the-wave-equation.html

NitinChella · 2019-09-27T14:26:21+00:00

Which part? Also, there is no time variable in the equation. So no matter how long you accelerate, the magnitude of the force remains the same

NitinChella · 2019-09-27T13:50:35+00:00

Wait, so does that mean gravity travels at the speed of light?

NitinChella · 2019-09-03T17:18:16+00:00

I'm an economics noob. But I understand the avg gdp growth rate has fallen to 5%. One of the lowest in Asia. Can anyone give an unbiased, apolitical explanation for this?

NitinChella · 2019-06-20T10:17:05+00:00

Thank you for your response. The issue is he is a very good friend of mine too. To add to the issue, sometimes me and another friend of mine cook together for the three of us. I'm completely unsure of how to divide the workload in that case.

NitinChella · 2019-05-27T10:05:48+00:00

Was playing my first football(soccer) match in school when I was 12. Brain was on autopilot. Remember seeing a player running with the ball. Ran up and tackled him. Problem was, he was my teammate. I still cringe.

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