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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I remember looking into and applying for SBIRs many years ago. My comments reflect the programs as last I interacted with them, so they may be dated in understanding. There are many issues, not the least of which are the very long lead tim
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Well, for those of us in the Physical Sciences, winning NIH grants isn't quite what we aimed for ... but your point is valid. For any of the granting agencies, NSF, NIH, DOE, DOD, etc. your grant is loaded with overhead/indirect
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
This. Exactly. I took my Ph.D. and joined industry rather than try tenure track lotto. Back when I was thinking on pathways, I was a fresh faced noob with a few papers to my name competing against senior scientists with decades of publicat
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
$_ =~ s/was a/is a/g; There, I fixed it for you. Seriously, I see so many ways of re-inventing these wheels, written in the fad languages/systems d'jour. Perl works very well, for a large subset of tasks that are c
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Me[1]: Ph.D. Theoretical/Computational Physics in mid 90s[2], working on simulation of semiconductor defect states, formation and migration energies. Went commercial rather than academic, as the job market was insanely crowded, and I
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
[ghost of tenure track searches past] The physics job market has been, and will remain in a "rough place". As with all things, it is who you know. If you want to stay in the field, network like mad. Get people to know your name.
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
The lack of a guiding theory has been something I've talked about with regard to big data and ML in general. This said, if you look closely at the math behind ML, it looks, not to surprisingly, like statistical mechanics. So if we tak
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
> But even 20 years ago, the guidance was to look for jobs in finance or computers. Yeah. I keep kicking myself for not taking the Wall Street guys who called me more seriously. That would be one important message I'd like to send
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
That sucks. When I graduated (mid 90s) I had heard of some pre-tenure profs in physics working as waiters over the summer to make money.
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
The two body problem (2 professionals in academia finding jobs close to each other, for some value of close that is reasonable for daily life) is famous in science in general. It is, unless one of you has a Nobel Prize, unsolvable without
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I know what you mean on keeping the physics part alive. I've written a bunch of code for doing simple molecular dynamics and varying the interaction types. I've also gone off and discovered I like number theory. None of this pay
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Nice! Will check it out!
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A bunch of things about this I've not seen discussed in detail, and they are important. What we know: 1) The company changed the compensation model for patents, and now have lost contribution from one of their most prolific users of th
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
What is interesting to me is that Fortran is still relevant 62 years later. It's changed, dramatically. I taught myself Fortran 77, then Fortran 90 in grad school. F2008 looks quite good. If it had a REPL, it could be a very intere
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I remember seeing the VAXstation GUI bit in late 88 or so in grad school. It was weird interfacing Fortran and C calls back then. I forgot the name of the interface, but I remember that creating a window to start working in was a very long
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Understand that "news" is a filtered set of "information" packaged for maximum impact in minimum time. For those in the "news business" they are there to get eyeballs, clicks, etc. for profit or world view sup
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
This. On the network. This. For you young whippersnappers (say up to 35), get out, talk to people. Get known. Go to conferences. Establish a reputation. For you older folks (36+), you might not believe you have a network, but LinkedIn
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
FWIW, the adjunct role is very low pay, for quite a bit of work. They pay you for contact hours. 2 lectures per week is 2-4 contact hours. They don't pay you for time grading, traveling, answering questions/office hours, etc. I
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I've tried using paraphrases like this "but it does tend to give you skills. Skills that were acquired over a long career. Skills that make them a nightmare for obscure bugs." It falls flat, and all I get quizzical stares.
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Glad to hear that, as a "mature" PhD
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No. Worse, this makes, exactly, the case for Julia[1]. Julia has llvm integrated within it for code gen. So, there's no actual need to start playing with lower level code, unless you really want to. From a programmer productivity sc
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Hmm ... I remember when Perl was king and Python was the shiny new thing. I watched Python supporters belittle Perl as "line noise" and other quite silly descriptions. They were all proud of "there is only one way do to it&
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I am not sure why the above comment is being downvoted. I remember ... early 90s ... when the Superconducting Super Collider was being proposed/started in Waxahachie Texas. The original claim to the broader scientific community funde
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I got fed up with being the family windows support guy. It was really bad when my wife's laptop could not do basic DHCP correctly at $dayjob-1 office. She and daughter had problems with printing, networking, security ... it was horri
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
It was Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow's name on the paper ... I heard a story that they invited one of the authors just to get the A, B, G first letters of authors last names.
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[paraphrase] You keep using that phrase "no abuse". I do not think it means what you think it means ... [/paraphrase] Single paraphrased/modified quote from a movie, meant to mock the abuse that has, and surely will, ha
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
[humor] Given the "quality" of reporting in most of the publications here, we should be thanked for that outcome [/humor] More seriously, GDPR should not extend beyond its jurisdiction. It does though, and there are consequ
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
One way to "fix" this, unfortunately, is the same way some firms "fixed" their non-GDPR compliance. Block European users. More specifically, block users coming from IPs known to be located in Europe. Fundamentally, law
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I wrote mine before word was really a thing. I used LaTex, and had to create my own style setup. It wasn't too difficult. I had programs generate EPS documents for inclusion of figures, resize jpg/png images, run the multiple p
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Another person who wrote about this stuff, was Richard Feynman. His first wife, Arlene, had non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. He has a fairly long section of "Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman" on this. He talks about what they went throu

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