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by tcpekin 7y ago
On the other hand, almost everyone I know who does scientific python in grad school loves miniconda...
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by tcpekin 7y ago
Having moved continents last year, I think this is very apparent. European morning stores are the day/evenings of the US, and then like you say, between 2 and 4pm the active stories are more highly variable, as the US wakes up.
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by tcpekin 7y ago
This looks to be a setting you can change in their "Other Settings" page.
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by tcpekin 7y ago
I ended up using google keep as my most stripped down notetaking app that can can sync between devices.
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by tcpekin 7y ago
I'm in the same boat, but I use miniconda and install the individual packages I want as I need them, which helps minimize the size. For doing scientific analysis, it is really nice to have (basic) environment which has the basic requir
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by tcpekin 7y ago
I think your point was very well made, but to satisfy the people who comment on the energies required for phase change etc., you could just change it to very small temperature delta/difference, and be perfectly fine.
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by tcpekin 7y ago
It is dangerous to speak to others allusions, but I believe both that HN moderators/YC had nothing to do with the strength of the thread, and also that YC or YC affiliated companies occupy more of the HN consciousness than other compan
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by tcpekin 7y ago
I do scientific programming in both Python and Matlab. The two things that to me are major benefits of Matlab are the ease of setting up your installation, and the documentation. The Matlab documentation is amazing when compared to the nump
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by tcpekin 7y ago
Some interesting quotes (can be found in other accounts as well): For Mr. Cook, the focus on Asia “came down to two things,” said one former high-ranking Apple executive. Factories in Asia “can scale up and down faster” and “Asian supply ch
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by tcpekin 7y ago
Isn't that the idea behind (academic) conferences? Bringing together everyone in a field to meet new people/network, and also learn from talks and poster sessions is the motivation. There is something I've found fundamentally
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by tcpekin 7y ago
What is a turrent? Tourette?
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by tcpekin 8y ago
Technical PhDs are funded positions via grants, you most likely cannot just search for available scholarships. Very few technical PhDs are on scholarships, as they're usually more complex than just being funded by your advisor. The typ
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by tcpekin 8y ago
I did Denver -> SF this past summer and it was absolutely unreal. I was extremely happy I did it, the sights were gorgeous, and it was an awesome time to just sit and think while some of the West's most gorgeous scenery passes by.
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by tcpekin 8y ago
That's a pretty good question, so I looked things up a little. Casting, especially on pieces this big, is difficult. It has problems with chemical segregation due to temperature gradients in the material, as well as porosity from the d
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by tcpekin 8y ago
I'm a fairly recent PhD, but on the whole I had a very positive time. It took some time to figure out what I wanted my research to be, and that was the most stressful part (first two years/in conjunction with a Masters). After tha
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by tcpekin 8y ago
Yeah, that doesn't help the huge collection of papers I already have. And I often find that the web extensions previously broke, haven't tried it recently. Just being able to download the pdf and have it auto watch a folder/i
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by tcpekin 8y ago
This thread has convinced me to try to switch, but one thing that I love in Mendeley is the ability to watch a folder, and have any pdf in that folder automatically imported into my account, which then gets synced across devices. That, and
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by tcpekin 8y ago
What form of entertainment or sport can you not reduce like this? You could say something in the same vein about jogging, watching TV, cycling, organized sports, etc. I'm American and going swimming basically means to go nowhere for as
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by tcpekin 8y ago
Very cool tools/perspective, but I think we have pretty different workflows/setups. I love not struggling to install TeX or its packages, and for me Overleaf has taken care of so many things that to reproduce it on my own seems mu
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by tcpekin 8y ago
I used Overleaf for my PhD thesis without any issues, including a lot of figures, etc. In fact, I almost only use Overleaf when it comes to LaTeX - it takes care of most of the pain points and is a great service that I pay for.
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by tcpekin 8y ago
Yeah, not the OP, but if I had sensitive information I don't know what I would do. I know this sounds shill-like, but I absolutely love Overleaf for Latex. It has every package you need, decent templates that you can then customize, an
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by tcpekin 8y ago
I have had the exact same experience as the OP and if you can convince several PI's with better things to do than reinstall a new version of Word, people at other institutions without MS Office licenses using Libre Office and others wh
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by tcpekin 8y ago
Wow, this document is fascinating.
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by tcpekin 8y ago
The definition that I have always stuck with is that a sandwich has leavened bread on two sides of whatever is in the sandwich. Therefore, hot dog is a sandwich, a taco is not, etc.
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by tcpekin 8y ago
Here they are - they're definitely irreverent, but I find myself strongly agreeing with everything he says. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n2RlMdmv1p25Xy5thJUh... https://www.youtube.com&#
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by tcpekin 8y ago
Having spent a decent amount of time learning to be a programmer while doing scientific image analysis in Matlab (shudders from the real programmers), and with a decent amount of time spent in Mathematica as well, I just can't seem to
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by tcpekin 8y ago
Fun idea - very back of the envelope math is if you could convert energy into strictly breaking CO2 bonds, the amount of energy it takes is 805 kJ/mol (from Google). WolframAlpha says this is roughly the caloric content of a biscuit, o
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by tcpekin 8y ago
This film is truly something else. Few documentaries have been as impactful to me as this one.
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by tcpekin 8y ago
There's also UCLA and USC in there before the Chargers...
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by tcpekin 8y ago
I use Matlab over Python for scientific computing mainly because the documentation makes everything easier.

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