toddm

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by toddm 4y ago
In my opinion, you should not be using AI or apps or anything other than a text editor and TeX/LaTeX to advance your skills here. My suggestion is to assign to yourself a research topic and write a paper just as you would if submitting
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by toddm 4y ago
I'd be remiss not to mention the quite-excellent Iron Maiden song of the same name, featuring some dialog from the show at the beginning of the song. Rock on.
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by toddm 4y ago
Wargames. Event Horizon - not quite AI, bit a great representation of what's promised by the technology and what's actually delivered.
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by toddm 4y ago
My CV is 7 pages long. In my case, the ~30 years of experience I've had as a software developer, data scientist, assistant professor, and quantitative researcher - not to mention my refereed publications in several computation-heavy ar
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by toddm 4y ago
This resonates so strongly with me. I'm a modeler and best described as a lifelong scientific programmer. I'm much, much better at doing the specialty science I was trained to do and have done than write unit tests (for Jupyter no
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by toddm 4y ago
Market participation is voluntary and the individual has every opportunity to allocate their money in any way they want. The stories are sad but should be educational and not reinforce moral hazard: your money, your investment, your risk to
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by toddm 4y ago
The event you refer to might have been the cause of mass extinction at the end of the Permian period, but only because the magmatic flow cooked enough carbonaceous material to raise the temperature of the Earth significantly due to increase
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by toddm 4y ago
Yes, you are correct. The difference between andesitic and rhyolitic classifications is based on silica content. Andesitic is the midrange member of the continuum from rhyolitic (silicic, explosive) and basaltic (mafic/ultramafic, more
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by toddm 4y ago
Almost exactly the same process. For the PG (Professional Geologist): https://tbpg.state.tx.us/licensing/p-g-licensure/p-g-licensi... and, for the GIT (geoscientist-in-training): https://tbpg.state.tx.u
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by toddm 4y ago
You're correct, it's not a reasonable generalization. See my reply above. The essence of my answer is based on the way things were in my graduate programs at my university when I was in school there; and some observations from so-
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by toddm 4y ago
I should clarify that the M.S. is available in some departments as a terminal degree, or is awarded along the way towards a Ph.D. upon completion of coursework and admission to candidacy (oral/written exams), as is the M.Phil. The main
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by toddm 4y ago
Good question. It's specific in my case to the school/department that awarded it. When I earned my M.A. at the University of Texas at Austin in 1995, the M.A. was the option for coursework and original research in the form of a th
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by toddm 4y ago
You are correct. The volcanoes in the Hawaiian chain are so-called mafic volcanoes. In general, volcanoes are classified as silicic or mafic. The silicic ones contain more gas and tend to erupt explosively; the mafic ones, more lava floes.
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by toddm 4y ago
Looks like a Laudromat.
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by toddm 4y ago
Note that this building is also known as the HQ for Lumon in the show Severence: https://www.fastcompany.com/90762774/jessica-lee-gagne-sever...
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by toddm 4y ago
That's a great model and I wish you and your team success!
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by toddm 4y ago
This sounds a lot like intrade.com, which was popular among my coworkers and myself in the early aughts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrade
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by toddm 4y ago
But you didn't fix anything, least of all Mopac: you reported an "oversight" - one of probably 100,000 here in Austin - that was corrected. And it's on Braker, not Mopac. To truly "fix" any of the transportatio
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by toddm 4y ago
Health and fitness. Get certified (about $500, NASM or ACE) and become a personal trainer/group fitness coach/similar. I haven't done this myself but it's at the top of my list when the time is right.
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by toddm 4y ago
This is the best summation. Period.
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by toddm 4y ago
I'm in my 50s and have only seen the wine/beer/spirits crowd throughout my various jobs. I'm in the casual weekend wine/beer part of life now. Smoking (cigarettes) was common to see 25 years ago, but now I might see
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by toddm 4y ago
I'm in every "data science" field except the one I want to be in (computational chemistry/drug discovery). Absolutely true that I would have still gone the way I did anyway. Although there wasn't access via the Inte
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by toddm 4y ago
That's very disheartening to hear. I can't help but wonder why anyone would go into a graduate program today, given the conditions you describe and the seemingly widening perspective that graduate degrees aren't worth it. Per
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by toddm 4y ago
Yes, I absolutely think that it is incumbent that adults who pursue graduate degrees do a perfunctory bit of research on their career options and what they can expect upon entering the job market.
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by toddm 4y ago
I did a Ph.D. (chemistry) and a M.A. (geology), both at UT-Austin. I have absolutely no regrets, and knew fully what I was signing up for, unlike many people who are featured in articles like the one referenced here: that is a little puzzli
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by toddm 4y ago
@JamesianP - You're exactly right about the heady requirement lift. And there are plenty of widely-defined computational chemistry jobs, especially when you throw in the bio- prefix. As for the adjacent niche bit, right again as you ar
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by toddm 4y ago
@deskamess - I believe a Master's is the minimum buy-in, and Ph.D. is preferred. My Ph.D. area is quite narrowly in theoretical chemical physics, but was all heavy computation and focused on quantum and classical dynamics. The areas of
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by toddm 4y ago
@anpat - Thank you for that, looks interesting!
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by toddm 4y ago
I'm trying to get back into my chosen field, specifically in computational chemistry and drug design. It's rough sledding as they say, since I am an older candidate who is hardly up to speed on where things are now vs. circa 2005.
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by toddm 4y ago
My parents were both elementary school teachers. I was born in 1969. My dad had a 40-year career teaching science to 4th, 5th, and 6th graders. Think model rockets, aquariums, microscopes, chemistry sets, rock collections, and all the wide-

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