and other _major_ European languages.
WTF?
Albanian is spoken by like a million people. It's one of, if not, the poorest country in Europe.
Sorry but that doesn't count as major. IMNSHO the major ones are English, German, French, and Spanish in no particular order.
Also, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, and Thai does not count as European languages.
Inductive coupling is not a "loss". If you remove that coil you're not "losing" anything anymore. It's just a way of transferring energy via EM fields. Oh, you thought that the energy actually travel inside the wires? Not so. Go read up on your EM theory.
Taxes in the EU are higher but not that much higher. Assuming you're moving out from CA you're taxes are already pretty high from an American standpoint and the cost of living is astronomical. I used to live in Sweden and I payed less than 1/3 for an apartment 3 times bigger. So what if I make twice as much money here? Take that into account.
I'm not sure if you will be covered by any medical insurance if you move over as a temporary worker. If you're not make sure your employer pays.
All in all: Yes you might end up paying for something you don't use but your quality of life might still be higher.
If you want to have a good time though, move to Tokyo. Getting laid was never so easy... (Damn, that's what I'm waiting for. One of those relocation calculators that take into consideration how many single women there are)
As an antenna engineer I use GA's all the time to optimize antennas, filters, polarizers, transitions and other microwave related stuff. The reason it works so good for these problems is that the search space is huge and filled with local minima. I have found that it's always a good thing to use a simpler algorithm such as a hill climber or some sort of gradient based method to really squezze the last few tenths out of the cost funtion though. GA's are great in finding areas of interest but converge very slowly. Especially considering that electromagnetic simulation is very expensive in terms of memory and CPU.
Of course we run all our optimizations on a Beowulf!
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and other _major_ European languages. WTF? Albanian is spoken by like a million people. It's one of, if not, the poorest country in Europe. Sorry but that doesn't count as major. IMNSHO the major ones are English, German, French, and Spanish in no particular order. Also, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, and Thai does not count as European languages.
Inductive coupling is not a "loss". If you remove that coil you're not "losing" anything anymore. It's just a way of transferring energy via EM fields. Oh, you thought that the energy actually travel inside the wires? Not so. Go read up on your EM theory.
Taxes in the EU are higher but not that much higher. Assuming you're moving out from CA you're taxes are already pretty high from an American standpoint and the cost of living is astronomical. I used to live in Sweden and I payed less than 1/3 for an apartment 3 times bigger. So what if I make twice as much money here? Take that into account. I'm not sure if you will be covered by any medical insurance if you move over as a temporary worker. If you're not make sure your employer pays. All in all: Yes you might end up paying for something you don't use but your quality of life might still be higher. If you want to have a good time though, move to Tokyo. Getting laid was never so easy... (Damn, that's what I'm waiting for. One of those relocation calculators that take into consideration how many single women there are)
As an antenna engineer I use GA's all the time to optimize antennas, filters, polarizers, transitions and other microwave related stuff. The reason it works so good for these problems is that the search space is huge and filled with local minima. I have found that it's always a good thing to use a simpler algorithm such as a hill climber or some sort of gradient based method to really squezze the last few tenths out of the cost funtion though.
GA's are great in finding areas of interest but converge very slowly. Especially considering that electromagnetic simulation is very expensive in terms of memory and CPU.
Of course we run all our optimizations on a Beowulf!
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