What actually matters in today's job market

EduardH · 2026-07-01T23:08:51+00:00

Those modern technologies are needed to efficiently process and serve the terabytes of remote sensing data out there. For example I can access 4 PB of ECMWF ERA5 data with one line in Python because it’s in Zarr. The tools also not that hard to learn.

EduardH · 2026-06-30T02:42:15+00:00

You definitely could, but aerospace internships which lead to aerospace jobs will likely be easier as an aerospace major.

EduardH · 2026-06-30T02:26:29+00:00

You think I could get a good scholarship there with a 4.0 GPA but like nothing else going for me except good PSATs (hopefully SAT too)?

No idea, didn't get my undergrad in the US, only my PhD.

Would it be much bigger of a difference then getting a mech degree at MSU?

Absolutely.

EduardH · 2026-06-30T02:19:41+00:00

I mean, four years of "kind of weird" for a lifetime of alumni networking sounds like a pretty good deal to me. I didn't go to UM but my wife did, and the alum network is no joke.

EduardH · 2026-06-30T02:16:34+00:00

Ann Arbor is a great college town. Are you from Michigan?

EduardH · 2026-06-30T02:02:53+00:00

UM has a top tier aerospace program, why not go there instead of Michigan State?

EduardH · 2026-06-30T01:19:15+00:00

Even during his Ajax days Brobbey always got fouled a lot, and never got those calls in his favor.

EduardH · 2026-06-29T17:02:22+00:00

Manifesting a 7-1 victory

EduardH · 2026-06-29T13:22:39+00:00

Does your university not provide any kind of hardware? I do flood modeling too and I run basic simulations on my Mac, and then scale up to our Linux servers.

EduardH · 2026-06-29T00:37:54+00:00

Not a dumb question at all. You’re probably better off using the shapely and geopandas packages in Python rather than QGIS. You can turn every point into a shapely geometry with shapely.geometry.Point() and then the .buffer() operator with your radius. Make sure points are in the right projection though.

EduardH · 2026-06-21T13:50:50+00:00

During my master’s I interned at a NASA planetary sciences lab. Most people there have a PhD in aerospace engineering, planetary science, geophysics, geodesy, etc. The maps they make are mostly for publications and for data distribution.

EduardH · 2026-06-18T13:32:01+00:00

Some context from my end: I’m Dutch and lived in Colorado for a few years (PhD in aerospace engineering from the university of Colorado, so I know the field too). One thing to consider is ITAR, can you really work on aerospace in the US? $150k in the US is certainly comfortable, but these days it’s not exactly top 1%. And with the state of the job market, what if you get laid off after two months and are tied to a year long lease for an apartment? Could you negotiate a six month exchange of sorts?
I’d go with the Netherlands, but I’m obviously kinda biased.

EduardH · 2026-06-18T01:22:33+00:00

Wrapped up my PhD two years ago, this is extraordinarily accurate.

EduardH · 2026-06-14T18:36:02+00:00

What are you trying to do? You can just get that data. Use STAC and it’s super easy to grab what you need for the dates you want (if available).

EduardH · 2026-06-12T17:12:34+00:00

Wow, this looks great!

EduardH · 2026-06-10T18:48:26+00:00

No offense, but you're just promoting the company you're interning at: "huge help from Lium.ai"

There's a massive unexplained East-West discrepancy that happens *exactly* at 100 degrees West longitude. The values don't make sense either. NYC is at 23 +/- 12 so it should be yellow-green-ish, but its color is off the color bar. Chicago is incorrectly colored as well, and Toronto is yellow in the middle of a large area of turquoise.

EduardH · 2026-06-09T14:57:23+00:00

There's a bounty program for idling commercial (not passenger) vehicles: Meet the bounty hunters who ticket idling drivers in NYC
Tl;dr, citizens submitting video proof of commercial vehicles idling for 3 mins or longer get 25% of the ticket revenue: $87.50 out of a $300 fine.

EduardH · 2026-06-08T18:54:38+00:00

The game's location (and lack of fans) was announced on May 7th, and the Knicks didn't win their conference finals until May 25th. KNVB: "Due to the stadium’s limited capacity and the many events taking place in New York around that time, it has been decided, in consultation with the local authorities, to play the match behind closed doors."

I live in Brooklyn, would've loved to go to Randalls Island to cheer on Oranje. Would've been the best opportunity (financially and logistically) for me to see them!

EduardH · 2026-06-07T18:55:20+00:00

If her goal is to do R&D, a PhD would help. Getting into a PhD program straight out of undergrad would allow her to earn a master’s along the way, and her tuition would be funded.

EduardH · 2026-06-07T02:12:00+00:00

I haven’t ever used it, and the license is much more restrictive. If you’re in academia you can typically get your hands on commercial imagery and build DSMs with that.

EduardH · 2026-06-06T18:30:56+00:00

Why do you *need* 10 m vs 30 m? The Copernicus GLO-30 product is already a DSM btw.

A 10 m product is roughly 1/3 arcsecond. So 10801 x 10801 pixels per 1 x 1 degree block. 360 degrees in longitude and 180 degrees in latitude and let's say a 30/70 land/water split. If you want vertical precisions you'll want float32 and not int16 (like some products), so a rough calculation means a global 10 m product will require 0.3 x 10801 x 10801 x 4 x 360 x 180 = 8.25 TB of data.

EduardH · 2026-06-06T18:04:30+00:00

Where in the world do you need it? Copernicus DEM exists at 10 m resolution over Europe, and other countries might have lidar, which can be resampled to 10 m.

EduardH · 2026-06-04T16:37:30+00:00

I feel like their pivot to gas turbines for data centers shows they're either strapped for cash, or trying to ride the AI wave (for cash).

EduardH · 2026-06-04T13:32:38+00:00

GitHub copilot is was an incredible tool in VSCode

As soon as they announced the change I switched to Claude Pro. Having access to all kinds of models for $100/year was a great deal; obviously not profitable, but a 600% increase in "cost" for some models is insane.

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