I use the dark mode plugin for firefox so that there’s less eye strain at night times. But, since the new UI change of firefox, there’s flash of white light before the dark mode kicks in, even when the firefox theme is set to dark.
Here’s a poem I found in the front matters of a book on Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics for FEA. Had a resonating effect on me!
Linearization is a way to approximate a non-linear function around a point. In the blog post, I’ll show an implementation of best linearization of an equation around a point using Newton-raphson method. Before proceeding further, please note the following.
Newton raphson is better suited for monotonic functions or in the regions where monotonic behaviour is seen.
This post is meant as an introduction into a simple graphical optimization problem using Python. Consider a simply supported (Euler) beam of uniform rectangular cross section. The objective is to minimize the weight of the beam. Breadth (b) and depth (d) are variable.
My primary use case of ffmpeg had been to reduce the size of the downloaded online lectures. The output format did not actually matter for those videos as it seemed that the humongous file size of Powerpoint screen recording seems to be due to absence of proper encoding (not sure though).