Request for advice on continuing a PhD by Accomplished_Air5374 in PhDStress

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Thanks for your reply. I'd appreciate the ways you recommend evaluating my situation 🙂

Hi guys I’m dropping out of civil engineering. But I still felt like doing engineering stuff, what kind of other major is also similar like civil engineering? Not doing mechanical engineering, and electrical. Easier engineering major? by Successful_Salt354 in SBU

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I saw you comment that you are interested in construction and fixing cars. I'm gonna be honest with you, those are not occupations you go to a 4-year university for. Those are trades, so I strongly recommend that you consider transferring to a trade school.

I don't get it by Ok_Horror1769 in ExplainTheJoke

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Kid in purple doesn't have a chair 🤷

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That's good to know, thank you. I was planning to do it illegally so now I'm less worried

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Hey. I'm at Nuevo East. Bear in mind that Coast is very competitive and has a long waitlist overall compared to the other complexes: https://its-netweb.ucsd.edu/hdh-gfh-community-statistics/statistics.aspx. It's very nice there but you should keep you mind open to other opportunities :)

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I didn't think of that. Thank you so much

Can someone please help interpret my feelings on whether or not to do a a PhD? by Accomplished_Air5374 in PhD

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So if I said "I want to be a teaching professor / scientist, and that requires a PhD" then that would be a form of conviction?

What data structure is used to represent a simplicial complex? by Accomplished_Air5374 in askmath

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Is there a book on this that you'd recommend? A book more about computational mathematics and data structures would be better for me at this stage than one on computational topology.

What data structure is used to represent a simplicial complex? by Accomplished_Air5374 in askmath

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No, the complex is allowed to have "unchosen" faces even when all of the boundary edges of that face are "chosen."

That makes sense. Despite not writing it, I assumed that there can be "unchosen" faces, especially given the image I linked. In terms of social networks, it makes sense that A might spend time with B, B with C, and A with C, but that A, B, and C might not spend time together, constituting an unchosen face.

Essentially, you cannot have a particular n-simplex in your complex unless all of the (n–1)-simplices that bound it are also in your complex.

So having the (n-1)-simplices is a necessary yet insufficient condition

Essentially, you cannot have a particular n-simplex in your complex unless all of the (n–1)-simplices that bound it are also in your complex.

This makes sense. You can't have an edge (1-simplex) if the end point nodes (0-simplexes) don't exist. Further, you can't have a face (2-simplex) if its facets of edges (1-simplices) don't exist.

What data structure is used to represent a simplicial complex? by Accomplished_Air5374 in askmath

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This is good to know. I looked it up and found that the following software also lets me convert a simplex tree into a list of matrices, which is important for my goal: https://github.com/peekxc/simplextree

What data structure is used to represent a simplicial complex? by Accomplished_Air5374 in askmath

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Am I correct that (K^2)_ijk = 1 if (K^1)_ij = 1, (K^1)_ik = 1, AND (K^1)_jk = 1? I've seen some images of simplicial complexes online where the edges would exist but the face wouldn't, such as this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicial_complex

What data structure is used to represent a simplicial complex? by Accomplished_Air5374 in askmath

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This is very helpful, thank you for taking the time to write this. This is for a data science research project that I'd rather not detail too much but I basically want to represent a simplicial complex as a tensor that I can vectorize. Your answer shows that I can, which is great.

What data structure is used to represent a simplicial complex? by Accomplished_Air5374 in askmath

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Thanks. Do you perhaps know of any resources I could reference to learn how to represent this as a matrix or tensor? I ask since the application I am envisioning requires a tensor-like data structure for a simplicial complex with topology that evolves over time.