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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.
recent activity (255 total)
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If you earn an american salary, by that I mean from an american company and in USD, you'll have no problem living comfortably in an upscale neighborhood i.e. the safest and with lots of amenities…
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1. Finish my academic duties (masters degree). 2. Get a job, start a small side business, grow my online presence. 3. Get the hell out of Latin America, this continent is far too violent.
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Fictions is, in my opinion, the best. Second that comes close is The Aleph. They can be found in a single volume, at least in Spanish.
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Interesting, do you have a source where I can get deeper into the application of splines to reilroads? Specifically, how to arrive at the jerk minimization problem. All things railroads are too descri…
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Hello, I'm a Chilean descendant of Basques. I've a question regarding basque culture and heritage (of which I unfortunately know too little). Have basque authorities contemplated the declini…
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Great! Hughes, Oden and Babuška are three of my heroes. My work is in FEM, specifically, the theory of Mixed Finite Elements and Eigenalue problems, to which both Babuška made important contributions.…
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I just started reading SICP yesterday after being convinced by PG's essays [0] and I would suggest just looking at the solutions, since the first chapter relies heavily on number theory concepts,…
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I live in next to Argentina (Chile), and every time I hear a story on their economy I am reminded of the fact that reality beats fiction. Apart from the chronic currency devaluation, the illegal but u…
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The book of Spitznagel, even if it's about investing, is a great introduction. If you're aiming for something more broad, the Incerto series by Taleb has much more than you need but it sets …
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Mark Spitznagel wrote a superb book on austrian investing [0] (risk management with an austrian perspective, so not exactly the same). Personally as a mathematician, I prefer this to the economists wh…
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You can keep telling yourself that, or read the proposal for constitution which I as a chilean proudly rejected.
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https://archive.is/sPaSE
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The premise is that any real number is non-negative when squared, so integration of a squared real function must yield a non-negative number. What is done next is that we now f(x)^2 is greater than a …
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I saw this problem and it immediatly took me back to my undergrad days in which I had an optimal control class, where one of the topics studied is minimizing expressions of this kind by abstracting th…
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RE the last point, I read somewhere that concealing 'bad' data led to provinces overreporting their total fertility rates (low birth rates have been an issue in China for awhile). It was rec…
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A few weeks ago I discovered Franklin.jl ([0], [1]), a static site generator that lets you render math easily, and I chose it because the alternatives either took too long to appear or are slow or tak…
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I could be wrong, but I think the story was contained here [0], where a chilean programmer was targeted through a LinkedIn face account set by north korean hackers. [0] https://www.newyorke…