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,…
I keep some old forums online. These forums are either simply archives or dead at this point. Unfortunately, bots have been hitting these forums hard, so I added Anubis for phpBB [1] to them. Anubis eliminates the vast…
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,…
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.
Are you loosely paraphrasing here? The closest thing I could find by Scott Adams was "Whenever you have a lot of money in play, combined with the ability to hide misbehavior behind complexity, you should expect…
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
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 think the type of speed that you're referring to is different from the type of speed the linked article is referring to. I'm not sure what the best way to distinguish the two is. With slow software, you're presumably…
One approach for testing with multiple compilers that I use on some Fortran projects (where testing against multiple compilers seems more common than in C) is to use a variable from the command line to specify the…
I had a similar setup in 2023, but the computer was reformatted after I moved. I wrote a HN comment about the setup before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37792204 I liked it and intend to use a similar setup in…
My PhD was in mechanical engineering. I don't want to get more specific than that on the subject in case it identifies the lecturer. I guess I used the phrase "lecturer" to distinguish him from my PhD advisor.
Thanks for the reply. You're right that the data for this is very fragmented. Victor was looking at Crossref metadata. I think he always had what he was doing on Codeberg, though I'm not sure. I was looking at arXiv and…
Have you all considered adding scientific articles to your bibliographic database? Finding existing translations of scientific articles can be a real pain. I know because I spent a lot of time doing that during my PhD…
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,…
I keep some old forums online. These forums are either simply archives or dead at this point. Unfortunately, bots have been hitting these forums hard, so I added Anubis for phpBB [1] to them. Anubis eliminates the vast…
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,…
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.
Are you loosely paraphrasing here? The closest thing I could find by Scott Adams was "Whenever you have a lot of money in play, combined with the ability to hide misbehavior behind complexity, you should expect…
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
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,…
I think the type of speed that you're referring to is different from the type of speed the linked article is referring to. I'm not sure what the best way to distinguish the two is. With slow software, you're presumably…
One approach for testing with multiple compilers that I use on some Fortran projects (where testing against multiple compilers seems more common than in C) is to use a variable from the command line to specify the…
I had a similar setup in 2023, but the computer was reformatted after I moved. I wrote a HN comment about the setup before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37792204 I liked it and intend to use a similar setup in…
My PhD was in mechanical engineering. I don't want to get more specific than that on the subject in case it identifies the lecturer. I guess I used the phrase "lecturer" to distinguish him from my PhD advisor.
Thanks for the reply. You're right that the data for this is very fragmented. Victor was looking at Crossref metadata. I think he always had what he was doing on Codeberg, though I'm not sure. I was looking at arXiv and…
Have you all considered adding scientific articles to your bibliographic database? Finding existing translations of scientific articles can be a real pain. I know because I spent a lot of time doing that during my PhD…