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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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As native Spanish speaker, I confirm the closeness to Italian and Portuguese. Particularly in scientific literature, I can read words in Italian/Portuguese and the sound I hear in my head is in S…
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Pretty accurate, at least for the 15 or so surnames I searched. All branches of my family, except one, come from Spain. I rearched most of the surnames and was able to get information on many (Basque,…
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I personally don't know if there ever was a video of the impact other than that of the security camera [0]. I think of two reasons: the Pentagon is not NY, which is a highly populated area in a d…
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It's hard to believe, but new media of the September 11 attacks (and the towers before) comes out all the time. This includes rare pictures and videos. There are YouTube channels [0] specifically…
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Yes, burnout is something very real. Especially regarding disciplines so close to academia, as is the case of math. Even some of the most prominent mathematicians of the 20th century (e.g. Jean-Pierre…
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Seconded, it barely rains now and it has plenty of trees and parks (in the east side of the city though).
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I lived in Antofagasta from age 2 to 4 and visited many times during my teens, one of the most beautiful sightings is the flowering of the desert. Very hard to forget those vast patches of purple.
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I'm interested in knowing more about this, could you provide pointers to more information? I will be moving to the northern hemisphere after finishing my academic duties, and in my possibilities …
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If I remember correctly, according to Leonard Mlodinow's Feynman's Rainbow , Gell-Mann wrote that in Feynman's obituary for the Physics Review. It "raised quite a few eyebrows&quo…
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Numerical solutions of PDE are hardly studied in a typical technical education in calculus (it requires more theoretical machinery) or statistics (PDEs in statistics is somewhat narrow and specialized…
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It is easier to study from a theoretical point of view (easier that the heat or the wave equation: [1], Ch. 2), and it's easier to implement a solving method. When you are learning the finite ele…
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Also, WWII accelerated many discoveries in several areas of mathematics (in America, at least): statistics, optimization, control, numerical analysis. To such an extent, that many of those discoveries…
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I somehow get a feeling that if the prospects were actually good in any sense, colleges would advertise them whenever they had the chance (is there even reliable information about how salaries are dis…
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I think that the (engineering and computing) technology version of the concept may be best exemplified by unix and Fortran/C/C++. At least in my field, Numerical Analysis of PDE, we encounte…
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As usual, the replies are attacking an oversimplication of the concept of the Lindy effect, and that reaction in part may be because Skallas indulges in oversimplification himself. The condition of so…
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The term measurable is referring to "measurable functions" in measure theory, which correspond to functions verifying that the pre-image of any measurable set belonging to the sigma-algebra …
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While I can't give the exact prerequisites, I know that all of the things that appear in the paper relate to: (1) Linear Algebra (2) Optimization Theory (Convex Analysis, non-convex optimizatio…
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This also happened in Chile, although from the article it seems it was not as prevalent as in our neighboring country. (In Spanish) 11 chinese fishing ships spotted in chilean waters, 70 (!!!) of th…
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In Spanish there is a saying that goes: A hungry man thinks more a hundred intellectuals.
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I am actually thinking of starting a math blog where I have to use extensive use of mathematical symbols. Using computer modern would also be nice. My idea was to keep the blog as minimalistic as poss…