I've thought exactly that "writing is thinking" before as a reason to not let a LLM write for me. Then again, I've seen a counterargument [1] by someone who clearly heavily uses LLMs for writing (going by both their…
I assume this was supposed to link here: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117207849921390904 This was interesting as I had wondered whether Terence Tao realized that the Navier-Stokes Millenium Prize problem was kinda…
I haven't seen anything like this before, but I think it's a good idea. I would suggest starting it yourself and putting it on GitHub something similar so that anyone can submit more via pull requests.
I have a PhD in mechanical engineering. I would back up and instead ask whether getting a PhD is a good idea. Unfortunately, academia is a minefield. PhD students are largely cheap labor. Getting a PhD can be a valuable…
Location: United States (Open to any US location) Remote: Yes, open to remote, hybrid, or in office Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Fortran, Python (Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy), OpenMP, Git/GitHub, Linux,…
Some comments not addressing your question: I think you are holding climate science to a far higher standard than the other physical sciences. In the physical sciences, blinded experiments are rarely done. The need for…
Drag-and-drop of the PDF file worked for me in Zotero 9 (latest version). I never used this feature before. This would be greatly preferred to my earlier suggestion to get a LLM to generate a list of DOIs.
Zotero is not just a front-end to BibTeX. Here are some things I like about Zotero off the top of my head: Zotero integrates well with various online services. This I think is Zotero's most valuable feature. The simple…
> First I used Claude Code to generate all the BibTex files for the PDFs I think this has an unnecessary risk of hallucinated bibliographic data. For anyone doing something similar in the future, it would be more…
I would suggest looking at more powerful file managers. I use Midnight Commander, which isn't perfect, but is far more powerful than what is provided by default and is also extensible through things like its user menu.…
I think part of the problem is that the people hiring are looking for shortcuts and won't accept any approach that requires more than a certain amount of time. I've read comments about how X company got hundreds or even…
I'm a mechanical engineer who has written similar tools for work and hobbies. Producing pretty pictures does not mean that the model is physically accurate. Unfortunately, such tools seem be evaluated much more on…
Unfortunately, running an online forum has been a pain for a long time. You have to promote the forum to keep it active, deal with various bad actors (historically spammers, trolls, and black hats), maintain the forum,…
A spell checker, grammar checker, and tutor change a relatively small fraction of the writing, preserve the writer's style/voice, and rarely introduce errors that are hard to detect like hallucinations. A translation…
Recommender systems for papers tend to be pretty bad, so there's a lot of room for improvement. I'll use Semantic Scholar as an example. I have a bunch of folders in what they call a "Library" with recommendations…
I also use a unique email address for Hacker News, and I get no spam to that address. The (different) address I use for the HN jobs threads gets only spam, though.
I had a similar experience before [1]. I fully agree that too many interview tests select for dishonest people. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35496976
Unfortunately, when managers expect a certain throughput, solutions like this often appear. I saw similar systems when I was a patent examiner at the USPTO. From what I recall being told, the USPTO's "form paragraphs"…
Getting Western researchers to not ignore papers published in languages other than English is a serious uphill battle. During my PhD, I tried to do a truly global literature review of all languages. I tried to be a lot…
I don't think I experienced discrimination during admissions either. Off the top of my head, I don't know any US citizens who told me that they wanted to go to grad school but were unable to be admitted to a school.
As a US citizen with a PhD, I didn't experience any clear discrimination in favor of foreign students during grad school. I think the main reason so few US citizens get PhDs is because PhD "student" (they're actually…
Even if it wasn't a large size, it likely wouldn't be great. During my PhD on sprays, I did some (unpublished) experiments using isopropyl alcohol to reduce the surface tension. The nozzles I used were around 1 mm in…
Fluid dynamicist here. The word "compressible" has multiple meanings and this might be confusing you. You don't need compressible flows in the sense of high Mach numbers. There are other models where the flow is…
I've thought exactly that "writing is thinking" before as a reason to not let a LLM write for me. Then again, I've seen a counterargument [1] by someone who clearly heavily uses LLMs for writing (going by both their…
I assume this was supposed to link here: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117207849921390904 This was interesting as I had wondered whether Terence Tao realized that the Navier-Stokes Millenium Prize problem was kinda…
I haven't seen anything like this before, but I think it's a good idea. I would suggest starting it yourself and putting it on GitHub something similar so that anyone can submit more via pull requests.
I have a PhD in mechanical engineering. I would back up and instead ask whether getting a PhD is a good idea. Unfortunately, academia is a minefield. PhD students are largely cheap labor. Getting a PhD can be a valuable…
Location: United States (Open to any US location) Remote: Yes, open to remote, hybrid, or in office Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Fortran, Python (Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy), OpenMP, Git/GitHub, Linux,…
Some comments not addressing your question: I think you are holding climate science to a far higher standard than the other physical sciences. In the physical sciences, blinded experiments are rarely done. The need for…
Drag-and-drop of the PDF file worked for me in Zotero 9 (latest version). I never used this feature before. This would be greatly preferred to my earlier suggestion to get a LLM to generate a list of DOIs.
Zotero is not just a front-end to BibTeX. Here are some things I like about Zotero off the top of my head: Zotero integrates well with various online services. This I think is Zotero's most valuable feature. The simple…
> First I used Claude Code to generate all the BibTex files for the PDFs I think this has an unnecessary risk of hallucinated bibliographic data. For anyone doing something similar in the future, it would be more…
I would suggest looking at more powerful file managers. I use Midnight Commander, which isn't perfect, but is far more powerful than what is provided by default and is also extensible through things like its user menu.…
I think part of the problem is that the people hiring are looking for shortcuts and won't accept any approach that requires more than a certain amount of time. I've read comments about how X company got hundreds or even…
I'm a mechanical engineer who has written similar tools for work and hobbies. Producing pretty pictures does not mean that the model is physically accurate. Unfortunately, such tools seem be evaluated much more on…
Unfortunately, running an online forum has been a pain for a long time. You have to promote the forum to keep it active, deal with various bad actors (historically spammers, trolls, and black hats), maintain the forum,…
Location: United States (Open to any US location) Remote: Yes, open to remote, hybrid, or in office Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Fortran, Python (Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy), OpenMP, Git/GitHub, Linux,…
A spell checker, grammar checker, and tutor change a relatively small fraction of the writing, preserve the writer's style/voice, and rarely introduce errors that are hard to detect like hallucinations. A translation…
Recommender systems for papers tend to be pretty bad, so there's a lot of room for improvement. I'll use Semantic Scholar as an example. I have a bunch of folders in what they call a "Library" with recommendations…
I also use a unique email address for Hacker News, and I get no spam to that address. The (different) address I use for the HN jobs threads gets only spam, though.
I had a similar experience before [1]. I fully agree that too many interview tests select for dishonest people. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35496976
Unfortunately, when managers expect a certain throughput, solutions like this often appear. I saw similar systems when I was a patent examiner at the USPTO. From what I recall being told, the USPTO's "form paragraphs"…
Getting Western researchers to not ignore papers published in languages other than English is a serious uphill battle. During my PhD, I tried to do a truly global literature review of all languages. I tried to be a lot…
I don't think I experienced discrimination during admissions either. Off the top of my head, I don't know any US citizens who told me that they wanted to go to grad school but were unable to be admitted to a school.
As a US citizen with a PhD, I didn't experience any clear discrimination in favor of foreign students during grad school. I think the main reason so few US citizens get PhDs is because PhD "student" (they're actually…
Even if it wasn't a large size, it likely wouldn't be great. During my PhD on sprays, I did some (unpublished) experiments using isopropyl alcohol to reduce the surface tension. The nozzles I used were around 1 mm in…
Fluid dynamicist here. The word "compressible" has multiple meanings and this might be confusing you. You don't need compressible flows in the sense of high Mach numbers. There are other models where the flow is…
Location: United States (Open to any US location) Remote: Yes, open to remote, hybrid, or in office Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Fortran, Python (Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy), OpenMP, Git/GitHub, Linux,…