I'm missing:
"Understanding Analysis" S. Abbott - great book on the foundations of Real Analysis, esp. for an honors course
"Introductory Functional Analysis" E. Kreyzig
"Commonly used" depends on who you ask. I use it all the time to help me look up units. It may not be 1000 calls/day, but it's still useful. Also the #/calls can be expanded with enterprise Mathematica.
Attended his defense of this, it was a ton of fun! "Defending the thesis"-slide had Joe, sword in hand, defending the thesis against a comic-styled dragon.
Nice site. On the front page it would be nice to see what it looks like after a couple of weeks using: will the user see a "heat map" of activities done/not done?
Discoverability of functionality in the system, and common ways to put things together, is an important topic. We (I'm an employee) are constantly improving our documentation system to make it easier to see what's there. With over a hundred thousand examples there's a lot of ground covered but more initiatives in this area are rolling out.
Regarding the competitiveness of the US car industry: Vaclav Smil makes a slightly different case in "Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing", where he points out that "For too long the machines stayed too large, too inefficient, and, on average, too unreliable." Add two oil crisis to that, quality problems and high prices and you get a perfect storm.
The NUMI story from This American Life was a great listen.
> Estonia has quite a few disadvantages - a tiny home market, a winter that seems to go on forever (although the weather was lovely for our visit), and poor connections with the rest of Europe.
The weather? Sweden and Finland both have longer winters and it has not stopped them.
Poor connections? Estonians are everywhere (London, NYC, SF) and their tech companies are all "global first", with investors from around the world and targeting the global market directly.
Yes CloudAMQP is such a service. It includes a free plan. If you are going to use Celery and CloudAMQP, I'd advice using the recommended settings[1], otherwise Celery will produce a large number of connections + messages.
Interesting footnote: "The UT Austin Office of Technology Commercialization is actively negotiating license agreements with multiple companies engaged in a variety of battery-related industry segments."
I recommend the book "The Powerhouse: America, China, and the Great Battery War"[1], it goes into some detail about the legal issues around (one) li-ion design and Thackary's work with/without Goodenough and attribution.
StreetScooter started as a research project at the RWTH Aachen University, spun out as a startup, and was later acquired by Deutsche Post[1]. Hoping Germany can produce more such startups!
Go with a hosted solution: CloudKarafka, Aiven, Heroku Kafka, Eventador are all available. First one has a free plan too. Disclaimer: I work with CloudKarafka.
1. Yes you can say that Modelica has some heritage from ACSL. (See https://www.modelica.org/publications/papers/esm98his.pdf) but the short story is that some simulation language creators decided to form a uniform modeling and simulation language together instead of working on their own initiatives, resulting in Modelica.
2. Not really. Usually modified versions of DASSL/CVODES and friends are used by Modelica tools. In Cellier and Kofmans's book on simulation QSS gets prominent display and some of the research at Berkley Labs has been using QSS to some extent, but it is far from mainstream.
Didn't Joe Armstorng use this to DJ at a Erlang User Conference? Can't find it now, but at least there is this talk from a years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SUdnOUKGmo
Yeah we hear you regarding AWS IOPS: for some type of loads and smaller plans we need to offer an alarm + an easy way to scale IOPS. It is something we're working on.
