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by peterwoerner 6y ago
It is true for me. My employer charges the government $142/hr for my time and pays me $43
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
The laborers don't make $70 an hour, that's what the project bills their rate as. They make closer to $20, the difference accounts for management salaries, times when the buisness has to pay the employees when they don't hav
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
This kinda thing is prevalent in academia, it is probably totally useless and at best so incomplete as to not tell you anything. There is a lot of research going back to the 1930s solving this problem--how do you estimate energy potential b
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
I don't understand why you need "machine learning" for that. The engineers already have fea models which they build reduced order dynamic equations out of. By monitoring the response, you can estimate the damping factor rel
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
It also affects us subconsciously even when we make a conspicuous effort to ignore it and are cognizant of the underlying bias.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Unless you manually do the work which fires do of clearing out the brush, dead limbs and damaged trees yourself.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
I have a public electric company in upstate new york. They have more reliable service and cheaper prices. They come through every year and butcher all the trees to prevent ice storms from knocking the power out. Highly recommended 5&#x2F
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
I don't, but I suspect that they aren't asking for advice on how to find work.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
You can think about this purely within a tech space as well. If you are a UI designer, a little bit of knowledge about web developer can help you make UI choices which work for both the customer and for the developer. If you as a developer
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
In general you should not expect more than help getting the first interview from your network. With that being said, I have heard stories from older engineers in my large company that they skipped fizz buzz type questions for people with a
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
I am sceptical that you are going to find customers who are going to pay for using multiple solvers especially since they use the fortran routines on the back end and most fea solvers have been heavily verified by e.g. nafems. That said it
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Usually its 99.7% percent of the time: three standard deviations.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Yea, from the conversations I have had with the guys over at hypermesh, their tools are way more developed than the stuff MSC and Siemens put out. I am not well versed in the ANSYS or Abaqus.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Couple of comments. Seems like you are just comsol. As someone who does this 50+ hours a week in industry (although only structural modelling but frequently coupled with optics/heat transfer/) and is reasonably well versed in the
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
You mean like FEMAP or Hypermesh? Granted they are geared towards structural mechanics, but they will write input files for a host of solvers including ANSYS, ABAQUS, NASTRAN, MARC and LS-DYNA.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
I mean yes, but also in mechanical engineering communities (and maybe others) we don't typical think of physics simulations in the way you do--it is well understood as a FEA tool which solves the shit we learned in undergraduate or a u
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Many white collar workers who aren't programmers. I am a mechanical engineer doing math modelling so I can theoretically work remotely. I make about 100k/year, 15k is a years worth of savings or a years worth of overtime (post t
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
My village has their own road building and repairing department--mostly used for repairing. It's called the department of public works. We have our own utility company too. Both of those end up being cheaper than the having private
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Also, you can use data to schedule the maintenance when the probability of someone ordering ice cream is low. That 21-25% downtime results in significantly fewer people wanting ice cream not being able to get it.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
It's technical advertising and probably they wrote it as part of a bigger project which a customer paid them to do it. If you wrote the white paper which was used to teach the officer. The officer is going to assume technical compete
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
I think my dad had the benefit of being in areas where no tourists go (industrial areas). So foreigners were a curiosity rather than a nuisance.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
My dad said when he went to France for work (outside of Paris), they were no longer embarrassed by their poor English, once he shared his abysmal French.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
I used to eat about that much a day when I was running twice a day (and I was losing weight while doing so). Michael Phelps was known for eating 10,000 calories a day.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
New Orleans is even worse because the Mississippi ought to be changing course so it moves through downtown. They have an extensive series of levies to prevent this from happening.
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
It's also based on simulations. They army corp of engineers runs simulations to figure out where the flood planes are and also where they can dump water in the case of flooding. Saved new orleans about 10 years ago from being complet
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
I didn't say that it was the only part of the job, just that it was the most important thing. Hopefully you have some knobs you can turn. At my current company if people can't deliver you try to hook them up with more mentors an
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Isn't that what much of the health care system is? Maybe I am overly cynical, but it seems we can't/don't fix underlying issues as much as treat symptoms. I really only have a third grade understanding of this stuff (w
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Thanks!
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
Thanks
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by peterwoerner 6y ago
The #1 job of a manager (in all fields) is to keep his people working. It doesn't matter if it is engineering, manufacturing or the local burger joint. A managers #1 job is to keep his people working.

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