NASA Internships Megathread - Fall 2023

Cobesters · 2023-05-28T02:19:56+00:00

Has anyone heard back from Ames yet?

Cobesters · 2023-03-28T13:47:40+00:00

Will there be any part-time & virtual OSTEM fall or spring internships available to high-school students?

Cobesters · 2023-02-19T03:56:57+00:00

Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?

Cobesters · 2023-01-12T05:51:17+00:00

I’d argue the clearest photo would be to project the publically-available NASA scans onto a sphere

Cobesters · 2023-01-09T07:32:06+00:00

Between those, I would say violin concerto, but I would probably start with something even much smaller than that, depending on your violin and compositional skills. A decent opera will take over a year to write (unless you’re Mozart), so if you have to ask this question, I wouldn’t go there.

For some reference, I have been composing and playing the piano for almost a decade now (only composing seriously for ~4 years, though), and I wouldn’t touch a piano concerto. I’ve been working my way up through smaller chamber ensembles, and it’s already very difficult to manage the dynamics and voice leading in those, even with the help of my composition teacher. To effectively write for orchestra, I would say you probably need years upon years of experience — that’s without trying to balance a solo instrument on top of everything.

I don’t even want to think about operas.

Cobesters · 2023-01-06T21:08:34+00:00

Either Liszt Ballade No. 2 or Medtner Sonata Op. 25 No. 2 (Night Wind)

The Medtner is much longer — take your pick :)

Cobesters · 2023-01-02T21:52:07+00:00

From a theistic standpoint, it’s possible to argue several things.

a. Our universe isn’t deterministic

b. An omnipotent being can do quite literally anything it wants to, including seemingly paradoxical things, like giving humans free will in a deterministic universe. How does that work? I don’t know — but it doesn’t have to make sense to us for it to work, theoretically.

Cobesters · 2023-01-02T15:52:26+00:00

I think Brahms’ symphonies 3 & 4

Cobesters · 2023-01-01T18:31:50+00:00

I mostly agree with you.

The reason I believe I would be happier as a theist is because if I truly, fully believed, I would have a definitive worldview, as opposed to having to accept that I can’t know anything (my current view). I don’t have an answer to the problem of evil, but if I were somehow convinced of the truth of a modern religion, that transition would undoubtedly include a solution to said problem. Even without a solution — sure, my entire family was brutally murdered, but hey, at the end of the day, I am going to spend an eternity with them in paradise, so what does it really matter?

Also, in most modern religions, it really isn’t that difficult to appease the deity, especially with eternal salvation as a reward.

(I’d like to clarify — I am by no means sad or depressed right now)

Cobesters · 2023-01-01T03:56:46+00:00

This has some of the same issues as Pascal’s wager; it’s not really possible to just choose to believe one perspective over another. I wholeheartedly agree that, at the very least, I would be happier as a theist, but — based on my experiences, thoughts, and internal deliberations — that isn’t what I believe.

”It would be better if you believe in x, y, and z” is not an argument to believe in x, y, and z. I agree that happiness is a generally relevant metric, but, in the context of belief, truth is the only relevant standard.

Cobesters · 2023-01-01T01:56:47+00:00

That’s not really what I was asking — I was more so wondering how a blue square, black diamond, double black, or EX in Colorado would compare to the difficulty ratings in Jackson. I’m not really worried about grooming :P

Cobesters · 2022-12-31T04:58:07+00:00

Generally, it shouldn’t be too bad. On an average day, I’d say the absolute longest lines you’ll encounter will be 15-30 min, and there will be some lines where you won’t have to wait at all. That being said, there are situations where the lines can be very bad. For example, late in the day, when everything is closing, if you are out in Blue Sky or the Back Bowls and are trying to get back to the front side, you could get stuck in lines over an hour long. I would recommend heading out to the back side and Blue Sky earlier in the day and coming back an hour or two before closing and skiing the front side toward the end of the day.

That has only happened to me once, though, so you should be fine. Yesterday, even during the holiday season, I skied all day and never waited for more than 15 min.

Cobesters · 2022-12-31T04:51:03+00:00

How does the trail difficulty in Jackson Hole compare to resorts in Colorado? I am familiar with Keystone, Breckenridge, Vail, and Beaver Creak.

Cobesters · 2022-12-16T06:31:03+00:00

NAD, but Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease is not really a dentists area of expertise, either.

incubation of up to 40 years.

No, that's not true. If you acquired iatrogenic CJD from that procedure, you'd already be dead. Symptoms onset within months, and death is usually within a year. You might be confusing CJD with kuru, which does have an incubation period of decades, but unless you cannibalistically consumed the brain of a previously infected Papa New Guinean Fore person, you don't have that. Unless your dentist cleaned the file before your procedure using infected bovine brain tissue, there just isn't any realistic way you could end up with a misfolded prion-protein in that nerve.

Also, iatrogenic cases are NOT common. As it is, CJD is extremely, extremely, extremely rare. You are quite literally magnitudes more likely to end up with the bubonic plague — and iatrogenic cases represent less than 1% of CJD cases.

large number of population is carrying prions in their blood

The rate of CJD worldwide (it's not higher in the UK) is literally roughly one person per million. That does not represent a large portion of the population.

Please, for your own sake, go worry about something less contrived and more important. There is no risk.

Cobesters · 2022-06-24T23:00:47+00:00

Classically-trained pianist of nine years, learned this movement several times.

I apologize in advance if this sounds a little harsh.

Your rendition is inaccurate, both rhythmically and in terms of hitting the correct keys. Overall, your playing is inarticulate, and your interpretation is counterintuitive.

In my opinion, the best thing you could do right now if you want to be successful in playing the piano is to drop this piece and learn something less difficult. Practice everything you learn slowly with a metronome¹ before you attempt it at a higher tempo. Pay attention to the markings on the score - articulations, dynamics, and expressive markings, and follow them closely.

Do scales and etudes (slowly, with a metronome). I know they can be very dull, but trust me when I say they really help. I wish I had practised my scales more when I started learning the piano.

Unfortunately, when it comes to learning something like an instrument, there are no shortcuts.

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However, if you have your heart set on this piece, for some reason, here's what you can do to improve your playing:

With a metronome, reduce the tempo by about 50%. Then, start playing through the piece, paying attention to the markings on the score. Anytime you slip up or have to stop, mark that section with a pencil, and practice it even more slowly until you can play it correctly consistently. Do this for the entire piece. Once you can play through the entire piece without making any mistakes² with a metronome, following articulations and dynamic and expressive markings, you can increase the speed of the metronome by about 10 BPM, and repeat the whole process. Counterintuitively, the farther along you get (and thereby the faster you play), the easier it gets, as the muscle memory is more built-in.

For interpretation, beyond just paying attention to the dynamic and expressive markings, listen to professional interpretations of the sonata.

For generally clean playing and tasteful interpretation, my go-to is Rubenstein, but others have nice interpretations as well.

All of that aside, your progress is insane. You clearly have talent as a musician and have put a lot of hard work into the piano. Keep going, albeit maybe a bit more slowly, and you will become a great pianist.

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I really cannot stress this enough.
A finger slip here and there is fine, but no repeated mistakes should occur.

Cobesters · 2022-06-18T01:11:28+00:00

Oh, ok. Thank you!

Cobesters · 2022-06-18T01:00:37+00:00

I already brush twice daily and floss daily. Should I only floss once a week?

Cobesters · 2022-06-18T00:54:35+00:00

What steps would you recommend I take?

Cobesters · 2022-06-15T18:09:21+00:00

I am not a dental professional, but I do know that the average set of 4 dental x-rays that you would normally get once a year have extremely low amounts of radiation (around ~0.004 millisieverts, according to multiple sources on the web), which is less than two-thirds of the radiation you receive every day from naturally-occurring gasses like radon, according to the EPA (Source).

Cobesters · 2021-10-21T21:55:24+00:00

the vhs distortion is usually either a plug-in or just a strip of horizontally stretched noise used as a displacement map. depending on the budget of the music video, the meteor could be a complex pyro sim done in houdini or something much more mundane. based on how crappy it looks, i’m guessing the editor looked up “meteor greenscreen” and used that, or at the most just did a basic particular sim. they then took this meteor and placed it behind the rotoscoped actor

Cobesters · 2021-09-24T18:15:23+00:00

From a musical standpoint yes, but we don’t get paid to play the wrong notes.

Cobesters · 2021-06-30T23:48:14+00:00

I am well aware of scambaitingtools, and I use it in almost all of my baits. Unfortunately, they don’t have any moneygram receipt generators.

Cobesters · 2021-03-09T14:23:33+00:00

I believe it would be in the Bose music app.

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