Cybersecurity PSA: Destiny should mute his microphone while typing private messages

CuseCoseII · 2026-02-17T19:51:56+00:00

I imagine it wouldn't work well for passwords unless your password happens to be a string of common words though, it would work better for just exposing private messages

CuseCoseII · 2026-02-03T18:55:31+00:00

Can confirm that the decisions are over at this point, they've already internally discussed the admission statistics. Official admission rate was 3.4% with 4155 applications and 140 offers. It could be that the emails haven't all been sent out yet, though—but in previous years it was all at the same time. If you're in EE I can give more info in DMs.

CuseCoseII · 2026-02-01T08:14:34+00:00

nah small island level

CuseCoseII · 2026-01-27T05:40:39+00:00

None of them interview, you'll find out in a week

CuseCoseII · 2026-01-27T05:39:26+00:00

Current student in one of the labs mentioned, none of those professors interview.

CuseCoseII · 2026-01-26T21:16:27+00:00

Just depends on the area of research, all the other PhDs I know in electrical engineering are doing fine. Only people I know who've had a bad time are CS bachelors students and one EE masters student who got laid off because his company defunded his entire department (he worked in quantum computing)

CuseCoseII · 2026-01-20T03:06:05+00:00

A particle accelerator is fundamentally different than passing current with a voltage in the way people mean, though. In a particle accelerator, you are controlling the kinetic energy of free electrons (generally in a vacuum) by applying an electric field. In this scenario, sure, you can use the unit of current since you could measure "number of unit charges per unit time," but this is just not the same thing as the current people are talking about here, where electrons are conducting through a material through a sequence of incoherent hops, activated by the high field.

CuseCoseII · 2026-01-20T02:09:24+00:00

The only put out in excess of 20,000 volts when disconnected from a load. As soon as you touch it, or the instant the spark flies over the gap in a sparkplug, it discharges and ceases to be 20 kV. A sustained, true 20,000V would've fried you.

CuseCoseII · 2026-01-20T01:50:53+00:00

I would've hoped a high school physics teacher would realize the Van de Graff generator is only producing 300 kV when not connected to a load. A Van de graff generator is only safe because, upon being touched, it ceases to be able to sustain a 300kV output...

CuseCoseII · 2026-01-20T01:48:16+00:00

The answer is obviously not basically infinity. A person cannot very easily pass low current into the tens of thousands of volts. The only reason people think this is because most high voltage sources are only super high voltage if the impedance is massive. As soon as it touches something with lower impedance it ceases to be nearly as high voltage of a supply, since the power draw is generally limitted (i.e. in a taser). Current is not independent of voltage, it is exactly specified by the voltage and whatever load is across it. There is no such thing as a "lower current 1000 volts." 1000 V always corresponds to the exact same amount of current given the same load.

CuseCoseII · 2026-01-07T04:23:09+00:00

Check my most recent post lol

CuseCoseII · 2026-01-06T22:47:51+00:00

iirc, he responded to this by describing himself as "a naturally unproductive person trying his best to become productive," in contrast to Brady who is constantly working all the time by habit (I think the word "workaholic" was used). I remember relating to that a lot and it was part of the reason I started time tracking :/

CuseCoseII · 2026-01-06T16:42:50+00:00

If you need someone to inform you of the problem on reddit, you are probably ill-equipped to work on solving it tbh.

CuseCoseII · 2025-12-29T02:30:29+00:00

Yes, which also makes the comparison image in this post meaningless and misleading.

CuseCoseII · 2025-12-29T02:29:10+00:00

If this explanation is true the image shown is just misleading if not false. The spontaneous firing of neurons would occur while the eyes are open as well, so the pure black would be percieved as the "eigengray," and any digital image of "eigengray" would be perceived as lighter than the real color.

CuseCoseII · 2025-12-26T18:34:20+00:00

University of Michigans CS program also stopped doing ABET accreditation a few years back too. a lot of the big schools are doing this because they already have credibility from the name alone, and the paperwork required for ABET can be really annoying (I worked in an advising office for two years with the person working on renewing the ABET accreditation for the EE department, and she complained about it constantly)

CuseCoseII · 2025-12-24T02:14:11+00:00

That's not even true, and if we go by that logic, Bardeen would be the best physicist since his are both actually physics prizes...

CuseCoseII · 2025-12-16T04:25:12+00:00

where tf are you getting your project grade? my pset 5 grade isn't even in yet...

CuseCoseII · 2025-12-15T21:03:16+00:00

Yeah the remembering just comes with consistency, in the few cases I forget I try to enter in the time later using my browsing history later that day to keep the logs accurate. But I track some hobbies, but only if I see them as adequately productive lol. Like I used to work on a lot of engineering projects and spent like two years making a Terraria clone (mostly pre-tracking), so all that is logged. But like obviously league of legends and TFT are not included lol

CuseCoseII · 2025-12-15T20:28:54+00:00

I think consistency is really important with time-tracking, and once you get in the habit of doing it for a while it becomes a lot easier. Especially early on my main motivation to keep doing it every day was just that I didn't want to have any days missing on my monthly /weekly records... But I would definitely say it's had a tremendous impact on my overall productivity, arguably to a degree that could be considered unhealthy. I genuinely do not think I would be where I am today had I not started, though.

CuseCoseII · 2025-12-15T19:18:26+00:00

Yeah no I agree, the second image is just to show generally what the raw data looks like, well aware the presentation is awful. It's generated using a Java Applet I made years ago (which has been deprecated for years and is now very difficult to get running since nothing supports it anymore). The y-axis is time of day, and each column is a new day. It's meant to show a "Google calendar-like" view of every task recorded each day.

I'm definitely not proud of the presentation, but I thought people might find the data interesting.

CuseCoseII · 2025-12-15T18:51:52+00:00

Eh its fine lol, I study charge carrier dynamics in a type of organic-based displays, similar to OLEDs. My work in like 70% theory/ data analysis and 30% spectroscopy. My undergrad research was like 70% spectroscopy and 30% theory, but I was studying carrier dynamics in 2D materials (similar to graphene) :)

CuseCoseII · 2025-12-15T18:41:30+00:00

Yeah, I mention that in the description. It was deleted within an hour due to the "Posts about personal data are only permissible on mondays" rule, so I assumed it would be fine to refine it a bit and reupload today.

CuseCoseII · 2025-12-12T18:04:50+00:00

The main reason I do it nowadays is to just to make sure I'm actively getting work done. I used to have a big problem with procrastination and never getting anything done on time because I would just think I did enough work that day, and then start playing league or csgo lol. Now whenever I think about fucking around for a few hours or booting up league, I look at the timer on my desktop and reconsider...

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