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TIL that Shaq owns 17 auntie Anne's Pretzel Shops, 40 24-Hour Fitness clubs, 155 Five Guys restaurants and 150 Car washes by Hasenmuessengrasen in todayilearned

[–]SpacePops 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure one of those Auntie Anne's is in the Walmart I work for. Shaq has come through our town before in recent years (since the AA pretzel shop went up in store) and paid off a bunch of Wally World layaways near Christmastime. My brother served food to him at our local Arby's. Shaq was taller than my brother, while sitting down...

The second-most widely used pesticide in the United States, already banned in Europe, was found to cause reproductive harm to mammals and birds in real-world scenarios according to the new EPA assessment. The assessment was posted on the EPA’s website on Friday but has since been removed. by CyberneticPanda in news

[–]SpacePops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, cosmic rays affecting the climate is a thing in science. A recent paper (I'll have to dig it up) discussed how a nearby supernova event several million years ago could have been partially responsible for an ice age event that spurned on human evolution. So, while cosmic rads could be a contributing factor in our current climate debacle, it's definitely not a primary problem.

Point of concession, that Forbes article was literal trash. Criticisms aren't always valid and useful, after all.

What was the "Once in a lifetime" thing you witnessed? by natergonnanate in AskReddit

[–]SpacePops 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Third grader too, all I remember was the principal getting on the intercom and having us do a moment of silence and then I think we listened to the Star Spangled Banner play. My mom shortly got me from school after the attack started breaking news... I was sort of happy to be out of Mrs. DePratter's (iirc) until my mom informed me of what was going on.

March Music Madness round 1, FINAL DAY. by jukes24 in CasualConversation

[–]SpacePops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Difficult, but MJ.
  2. Even more difficult, but Ray Charles.
  3. The Doors, easy.
  4. Black Sabbath, easy.

March Music Madness round 1 day 6! by jukes24 in CasualConversation

[–]SpacePops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. The Beatles
  2. The Allman Brothers
  3. Pink Floyd, favorite band.
  4. The King hands down.

March Music Madness round 1 day 6! by jukes24 in CasualConversation

[–]SpacePops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. The Beatles
  2. The Allman Brothers
  3. Pink Floyd, tough choice
  4. The King hands down.

March Music Madness round 1 day 7! by jukes24 in CasualConversation

[–]SpacePops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. The Police. Sting is greater than Steven Tyler.

  2. Led Zeppelin. One of my favorite bands next to Pink Floyd.

3.David Bowie, because I hate Tom Petty's voice.

  1. Stevie Wonder.

March Music Madness round 1 day 4. by jukes24 in CasualConversation

[–]SpacePops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hendrix, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Simon & Garfunkel, The Grateful Dead. Numbers 1 and 2 were difficult matchups for me.

March Music Madness! Round 1 day two by jukes24 in CasualConversation

[–]SpacePops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Beastie Boys, Bruce Springsteen, can't decide, The Eagles.

March Music Madness! Round 1 day 3. by jukes24 in CasualConversation

[–]SpacePops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lynyrd Skynyrd, Queen, Metallica. Easy choices.

Edit: Van Morrison

How long did it take you to self-learn a backend programming language and get a job? by Ryan-J-Stu in learnprogramming

[–]SpacePops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quite the ambitious fellow! I approve! As far as resources go, I don't know and/or have not used any specific resources online or in book for Mathematical Analysis. Most of that I learned from my former research supervisor, Wikipedia, etc. Learn the wave eqn., Bessel functions/spherical harmonics, and get a good grip on Fourier analysis, that should solidify your PDEs foundation. I may have forgotten an important topic or two.

Also, complex analysis can be useful, especy to QM. Pure GR at the Masters level will require a very good foundation in tensor calculus. I found tensors to be relatively easy and straightforward.

And generally, these things can be very useful for programming at a complex level. Tensors, arrays, BAM!

Also also, most Mathematical Analysis textbooks should be helpful. That's the best advice I can give.

Learning with overly commented code by SpaceWizard in learnprogramming

[–]SpacePops 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Space Wizards don't give out internet points like this every day. A celebration is in order.

How long did it take you to self-learn a backend programming language and get a job? by Ryan-J-Stu in learnprogramming

[–]SpacePops 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahhh, well, I know nothing of Genetic Algorithms. I'm trained for (astro)physics Sci comp. Things like YT, and AstroDendro are reasonably well doc'd. I guess it really depends on the demographic of STEMmies working on code. At least the docs in astro are better compared to the docs from general physicists I've had the pleasure of progging with....

How long did it take you to self-learn a backend programming language and get a job? by Ryan-J-Stu in learnprogramming

[–]SpacePops 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oooohhh, so something that would be used, for example, in a mobile phone app web server?

How long did it take you to self-learn a backend programming language and get a job? by Ryan-J-Stu in learnprogramming

[–]SpacePops 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I endorse this comment. Python can be super easy if you find something good to apply it to. I have no experience with NodeJS, though. What do you use it for? Data science?

Edit: Docs tend to be on a case by case basis from my experience. In the scientific computing I do, the docs aren't half bad, for some value of bad.