risubramanian

In many parts of the country, heating plays a large role as well. Heating 100 units in an apartment building is going to be more efficient than heating 100 single family houses.

Premkumar Devanbu at UC Davis works in this area. I've taken his graduate course on the subject.

Europe doesn't have the same franchise laws as the US, and they still use dealers.

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

I'd use a separate virtual desktop for off-topic tasks, then just switch to that. Simple command in Linux, probably also in Windows

The SAT dropped the writing section a few years ago, and many schools don't care about the GRE writing score.

You joke, but I've seen several applications where I've been asked questions like "What achievement are you proudest of?" and "How would you contribute to the diversity of our team?".

Also cover letters cover some of this.

Actually, I wouldn't mind a standardized test like the GRE, where a good score might actually keep your resume from getting thrown out immediately.

The documentation mentions Mac support, but no Linux

Check out K, Q, and KDB

I use Google Play Books. There's no Linux client, but the browser works fine.

I wonder what he thinks about Julia. There are lots of projects to turn it into an "ML language".

The problem with that reasoning is that nearly every language with static typing also has some kind of type inference. You'll just wind up with a bunch of autos/vars.