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2,238karma·255submissions·May 27, 2020
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Miguel Bustamante R.
Applied Mathematician working in high-tech engineering. Specialized in Finite Element Analysis, Continuum Mechanics and Geometric Modeling.
Interests: Multiphysics, Manufacturing Robotics, Electronics, Computer Algebra.
Personal site: under construction.
From Santiago, Chile.
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4409. Amazing how can you tell the approximate year by how the women are dressed, an exercise I hadn't done conscientiously before. Thanks!
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My trick was searching +"index of" on Google or something like that, I could find all sorts of books that way. What were your tricks?
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While agreeing on the cost of living, I have to say that the number of engineers will not be growing too much (I say this as a latin american engineer): Most latin american countries are below the rep…
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Even more, several aviation reports use both. METARs use feet for cloud altitude and meters for visibility.
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Can I ask you a couple of questions? I am in a patricular situation, I'm a mathematician who does FEM and I think my training has been too abstract. My most recent work involves programming cus…
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Exactly 6 six years ago I was there taking a course on Real Analysis by Gustavo Moreira.
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Anything that isn't scalable. Taleb writes at length about this difference in The Black Swan , categorizing professions in which there are winner-take-all effects (Extremistan) and low variance,…
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https://archive.is/NeU6q
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Latest UN projection was adjusted so that by the end of century they would 100 million less people, again from a downward adjustment three years ago. They will experience a modernization unlike the …
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Learning tensor calculus. It's extremely powerful: it is easier to derive relationships in physics (continuum mechanics, thermodynamics, relativity), mathematics (differential geometry, linear al…
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I grew up in Santiago, Chile, a city with a population of 7M and lived and went to school in the very center of it. Today I have nothing that resembles a social life and school was torture (never bull…
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Taleb's got lots of very critical thoughts on banking in general and bailouts in particular [0]. In a reddit thread he said he's got no banker friends (considers it unethical). He champions …
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Interesting is that the children of immigrants adopt the reproductive habits of the native population, so their total fertility rate as a group drops below replacement from one generation to the next …
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Please do, I've been interested in this field for a long time (if you don't want to share it there is my contact info in my profile).
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https://archive.is/MpnGG EDIT: Mentioned in the article is the reduction of cohort size, which will be a worsening problem in the coming decades. Related articles [0], [1], [2]. [0] …
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Can't imagine the fate of all the fish, what a tragedy.
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https://archive.is/r05hh