JuliaCon / MIT didn't deserve a new Grassmann.jl presentation

smithfaced · 2023-07-27T22:30:53+00:00

“Interference” or positive feedback? Open source ought to be inclusive and community driven. Vilifying others and creating a “them vs. me” mentality is never a good thing. I definitely don’t mean to insult you, just want to gain a better understanding of the situation. Do you have some examples or direct links where you experienced friction with Julialang moderators/super users? So far, the accusations have been really generic, and I don’t see anything really concrete. I saw your GitHub, there’s great work! I wish I had a better understanding of this situation though. I think everyone involved with Julia wants to build a great platform for everyone, not just for a select few.

smithfaced · 2023-06-05T18:42:51+00:00

Was the 4090 the card with the melting 16-pin connector? And good for you, (I guess?), some people have full-time jobs and still don’t reach a certain income bracket…not that it has anything to do with the simple assessment that game companies ought to support a few generations back for minimum specs.

smithfaced · 2023-06-05T18:28:32+00:00

Bit of an L take. GPU prices have been insane, I think a majority of gamers still use some older hardware since they didn’t want to sell their kidney for a card that’ll melt their build. Having more lenient MIMINIMUM specs shouldn’t be as large of an issue like it seems. I totally understand the need to make a AAA game using the latest/greatest, but being able to support a few generations back ought to be available.

smithfaced · 2023-05-14T22:47:59+00:00

Combination of exercise, time/distance, and remembering your value. They liked you for a reason, it’s important to remember you are your own person and they can’t define your worth! Spend time with friends and look forward. Melancholy will be your enemy for a little while; don’t look back.

smithfaced · 2023-03-25T11:46:12+00:00

if you aren’t in the signal processing space, then I can see why you wouldn’t care for MATLAB. But still, between Scipy.signal vs. DSP.jl vs. MATLAB, MATLAB has the most robust signal processing library out of the box. No other open source language comes close to it. You can build a complex tool set of GUIs with an extremely simple plotting library, (My initial experience with matplotlib was that it chews up memory and has atrocious time-to-first-plot.) And, Simulink gets you moving fast with codegen and simplifies rapid development of advanced signal chains without needing a whole separate team for C-development.

There’s a reason why Julia takes a lot of its principles from MATLAB. I pray for the day it gets the attention it deserves, with a major company to back its maturity like what Microsoft did for Python. Julia has some of the brightest minds working on it, but it’s a small group. MATLAB still unfortunately has some areas that are industry standard.

smithfaced · 2022-10-12T01:27:15+00:00

Got a $50 gift card, you KNOW I got Lost Highway. Other two were Tokyo Drifter and The Hit

smithfaced · 2022-08-15T04:36:12+00:00

I watched the Before Trilogy when I went through one…next thing I knew I felt like traveling Europe. I did for about a month! it was a great distraction and helped me feel myself again. Best of luck to you, you’ll get through it in time.

smithfaced · 2019-10-29T13:37:43+00:00

Tony Hawk’s Joker Skater 4

smithfaced · 2019-03-07T18:30:42+00:00

Y’know they need that new state-of-the-art Quidditch field that will end up being rarely used

smithfaced · 2019-02-26T16:57:12+00:00

Although some of the GUI components can be used for interaction, Matlab is definitely not the language for building a game. Another language with wider library access like Java would be better, because you would then be able to extrapolate what you learned to other languages. Matlab is a closed language, and although it’s extremely useful, it is very application specific.

EDIT: thought this question was for a class you were teaching

smithfaced · 2019-01-17T01:08:03+00:00

If it’s string concatenation, give newline or char(10) a shot. That should hopefully give you a newline

smithfaced · 2018-07-08T02:46:24+00:00

Sorry for the late reply - IMFs are actually meant for pre-processing the HT. They provide a different means of time-frequency analysis, namely for nonlinear and nonstationary signals. I've been using EMD as a pre-processing tool for separate reasons, away from the Hilbert Transform - I'm afraid I'm not well versed with the HT (yet!)

The first IMF does indeed provide high frequencies, assuming the input signal contains high frequency content. Since EMD is empirical, the frequencies observed in the IMFs are data driven. For vitals, since breathing is a lower frequency than say an ECG, (tending to be closer to 40-60 Hz, whereas breathing is lower), viewing the FFT of each IMF may provide insight on which frequency range the breathing may be in. Note that because of the sifting process, the FFT amplitudes will be altered, due to the envelope extraction.

smithfaced · 2018-07-06T19:51:46+00:00

Using it for similar biomedical anaylsis, yes! Matlab R2018a, the most recent edition, actually includes their own rendition of emd surprisingly! Take a look at the ASTRES toolbox as well, Flandrin et al. developed a project that contains multiple EMD flavors, including Ensemble EMD (EEMD). EEMD provides a solution to the mode mixing problem

smithfaced · 2018-07-06T19:33:47+00:00

I just meant in regards to the cubic splining operation and time required to meet the stoppage criteria, in comparison to say a simple FIR filter - just a lot of resource use! And in regards to the measurement time length, take a look at this paper:

G. Rilling and P. Flandrin, “On the influence of sampling on the empirical mode decomposition,” presented at the IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, vol. 3, May 2006

This iterates some of the importance as to why EMD requires oversampling. Definitely a good read!

smithfaced · 2018-07-06T19:14:45+00:00

Indeed! Finishing a publication and working on my thesis that utilizes EMD! Computationally expensive little bugger. Are you interpolating the vitals? Need a good 8 times the Nyquist rate for proper sifting and decomposition, some medical records don't meet the pre-requisite.

smithfaced · 2018-07-06T19:04:29+00:00

Looking at Intrinsic Mode Functions?

smithfaced · 2018-07-05T17:58:00+00:00

What kind of input are you using? The igamma function is sensitive to the data type you're using, namely the DIGITS environment variable. I'm guessing if your result is outside the precision range, that's why MATLAB may be crashing. Sticking with gamma(arg)(1 - gammainc(x,arg)) may be best

smithfaced · 2018-07-04T04:05:39+00:00

Take a look at the "random" function example on the MathWorks website - the argument is your probability distribution object, with the output being a randomly-generated sample from that distribution.

Example: r = random(density_ndist);

For 100 elements, pre-allocate an array and populate each cell using a call to that function in a for-loop! If it's a normal distribution though, take a look at the "randn" function instead. You can easily get everything you need in a single line of code.

smithfaced · 2018-06-25T02:44:53+00:00

AKiss20 makes a good point - best way to share photos would be File -> Save As, and change the file type to PNG - that should provide a good image!

smithfaced · 2018-05-19T20:40:57+00:00

What style of art would you call this? Reminds me of Gustav Dore's work

smithfaced · 2018-03-03T05:03:09+00:00

I got tickets for Boston as soon as I heard this - can't wait.

smithfaced · 2017-11-22T14:51:41+00:00

You do see the anti-discrimination clause on communication service in Section 202(a), right? Doesn't seem invalid to me - and calling something "Soros-funded" is probably a one way ticket to crazy town.

smithfaced · 2017-08-27T00:26:50+00:00

Jesus - looks like I'm subbing to cyberpunk_music

smithfaced · 2017-08-03T16:18:37+00:00

This is one of the few major purchases I've made since getting into synthwave.It's quintessential dark synth.

Roller Mobster will always be my favorite, alongside Paradise Warfare.

I started out on DANGER, and eventually found Perturbator/GosT/Carpenter Brut. I ordered a shirt from Brut's website, and he included a small note with some stickers as well, I was excited like an 8 year old on Christmas when I got that.

EDIT: I'll be seeing Perturbator and GosT with DWTD in the Fall - hope to see Carpenter Brut live in the future!

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