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Just finished "Structures" by J.E. Gordon.
I loved it! Should be mandatory reading for anyone building real things in the real world.
It's a first principles look into why structures fail (or don't).
Here are my (unedited) notes:
▸ elasticity is... See more
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Matthew Frederick • 101 Things I Learned® in Engineering School
When a force acts repeatedly on a structural member, and at a rate that matches its natural frequency, the member’s response is enhanced with every cycle.
Matthew Frederick • 101 Things I Learned® in Engineering School
Để giải thích lý thuyết kết cấu của dầm công-xôn (Gerber), người ta đã thực hiện một màn trình diễn bằng con người. Người ngồi ở giữa đại diện cho tải trọng. Cánh tay của những người ngồi hai bên tượng trưng cho lực kéo tại các kh:ớp nối. Các thanh gỗ thể hiện lực nén ở phần dưới, còn những viên gạch đại diện cho các điểm neo tại trụ cầu. Các chiếc... See more
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Pierre
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How to become expert at thing:
1 iteratively take on concrete projects and accomplish them depth wise, learning “on demand” (ie don’t learn bottom up breadth wise)
2 teach/summarize everything you learn in your own words
3 only compare yourself to younger you, never to others
Andrej Karpathyx.com
One of the greatest overviews of moats
The Taxonomy of Moats by @ganeumann https://t.co/AoW6AoOziy
A useful measure of a beam’s efficiency is the ratio between the distance it spans and the amount of material it uses.