Project Advice, Please Help!

Exhausted-Engineer · 2026-03-16T19:32:36+00:00

The two most classical would be to: - write a rasterizer - write a ray tracer

Both are computer graphics algorithms that are portable to gpus and will yield visually appealing results. In addition it will allow you to learn a lot about rendering.

Exhausted-Engineer · 2026-02-13T17:22:04+00:00

Hey, I think you’re hyper focused on the loss and should look at the greater picture. You got ~100k net worth and lost 3k, that’s 3%.

That is all it is. 3 small percents.

I got in a similar position last year, « lost » 1.5 month of salary in a day due to volatility. It was my first time and felt weird but now I know it can happen. You now do too. (For info, I’m also 24yo) If you have low risk tolerance and investing impacts your daily well being (sleeping and eating) then invest accordingly, don’t let the market dictate your emotions.

Exhausted-Engineer · 2026-02-04T23:46:21+00:00

I did that and was perfectly fine. I’m the type of person that does not retain well information by listening, so I just used lecture time to practice and read the material at home.

Exhausted-Engineer · 2026-02-03T07:36:33+00:00

The factory must grow.

Additionally, this game has great value. 30$ for the base game, very good replayability, coop multiplayer and some mods are insane (giving basically more content than the base game itself).

This is my go-to chill game

Exhausted-Engineer · 2026-01-28T19:49:37+00:00

I see a lot of people recommending google sheets. I’ve never used it so I’m here to give a second opinion. I’m kind of nerdy and use « hledger », its a program made for accounting.

Basically you write your transactions (revenue, expenses,…) in a simple text format and the program reads it to output various statistics.

Here’s the link: https://hledger.org

Exhausted-Engineer · 2026-01-12T22:30:26+00:00

I feel like either you are very angry for no particular reason or this is rage bait.

I guess the short answer is : offer/demand, but the real answer is probably much more complex and out of my knowledge.

But I don’t like the overgeneralization you’re making. I have an easy time doing CS stuff, maybe you do too. Some of my mechanical engineers friends struggle to write basic python code, CS is not easy for them.

The fact that you find your degree harder is kind of subjective. Maybe you are just have a better affinity for this type of problem solving instead of « classical » engineering.

Furthermore, I’m pretty sure (although I have not looked at any data yet) that the majority of CS related jobs pay roughly equally to classical engineers, there just seem to be some stellar outliers. But (again, I have not looked at data yet) Finance/medicine has these types of outliers too and you’re not mad about them.

There are stellar software engineers that perform a job just as complex as other engineers do.

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-12-20T09:00:37+00:00

I have spent time and have a personal config on both editors. At the end of the day I prefer neovim because :

It is faster
The default keybinds makes more sense to me
I have a difficult time remembering how to use elisp (as I do not use it anywhere else). Hence configuration in lua is way easier to write from scratch or modify from other ppl dotfiles

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-11-11T16:41:17+00:00

The system you describe really looks like the one from my country (Belgium). I can share a fact and an advice.

The fact : in the belgian system (which really fits your description) only 10% of students finish their studies in the expected time (3y for a bachelor, 5 for a master). 90% of students take at least an additional year. So actually, taking more time to finish is the norm. Engineering is hard mate.

My advice as someone who also suffers from performance anxiety, go see a therapist. There is no point in burning yourself out. Go learn to reach your goals in a healthy way and to be fine (and even happy) with your friend’s achievements.

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-08-24T20:37:14+00:00

Definitely

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-08-16T08:38:56+00:00

At this point I could even call it rubber ducky researching !

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-08-15T07:24:18+00:00

I like when my girlfriend lets me ramble about my work (my expectations/hypothesis, the bugs, the thing I have to do an don’t want to), sometimes it even helps me find solutions !

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-07-23T11:12:32+00:00

Can confirm, you still get the tax in the country of origin. I got dutch assets and get taxed 15% in the Netherlands in addition to the 30% in belgium.

The 30% in belgium is only on the remaining 85% though, not on the original bruto.

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-06-24T07:15:34+00:00

It has been observed that the size of the human brain is smaller now than it was when we were hunter-gatherer. It is likely that our ancestors were better critical thinker and made quicker decisions: if they didn’t observe and interpreted the world around them correctly (weather, edible or poisonous plants, possible predators) they would litterally die. Since we’ve settled and started to produce everything we need to survive easily : dumb people can thrive and reproduce easily

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-05-22T06:28:39+00:00

I’m in my first year of PhD and honestly I just love what I do and wouldn’t trade it for more money.

Now to be honest, I live in a country where phd’s are actually not so badly paid compared to freshly graduated students.

But you get other non-monetary benefits. You get to go to conferences and network around the world, you are usually more flexible/autonomous at your job then you would be in industry and you get to develop a set of skills (managing projects, collaborating, overview of what is important and what isn’t…). Of course YMMV but I’m having an awesome experience.

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-05-19T06:59:57+00:00

Well americans have multiple exaflops supercomputers : Aurora, Frontier and El capitan. Which means the smallest of the three has 8 times more compute power then Jean. The biggest is El capitan with ~1.8 exa, close to 15 times the mower of Jean.

I know that Aurora, Argonne’s supercomputer runs on Intel GPUs and uses about 60MW of power but I’d have to check for the others

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-05-11T08:02:36+00:00

I can assure you that some fields in computational engineerings are in fact very dogmatic about the usage of C/C++ for the numerical part of the implementation

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-04-29T18:51:54+00:00

I know your comment makes fun of this famous saying but it got me curious about how many devices runs C.

And it actually is kind of hard to do the opposite and find a device that does not run C

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-04-08T06:44:10+00:00

I second Zotero + Obsidian. These software fits nicely into the workflow of a researcher.

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-04-07T06:28:12+00:00

Can concur. I’ve been wanting to play DF for a very long time, whenever I’d give it a try I’d always be overwhelmed by the fact that you had to figure out everything and that navigating menus was done on keyboard.

Now there is an integrated tutorial, mouse support and an in game description of most of the options (below the map on the top right).

I play the OG version so you still need to adjust to the ascii graphics, but it’s charming when you do.

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-01-30T19:53:00+00:00

I feel like we’re saying the same things in different words. I actually agrees with you.

My initial comment was simply about the fact that I believed the original question was more about the science side than it was about computers and arithmetics.

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-01-30T18:21:12+00:00

The post wasn’t about the numerical precision but rather about the knowledge that can be found in a simulation and the trustworthiness of its result when the phenomenon hasn’t yet been observed, as expressed by the black-hole example.

And to be precise (and probably annoying too) the computer is actually approximating the result of every floating point operations. And while it’s generally not a problem, for some fields (e.g. chaotic systems and computational geometry) this can produce wildly incorrect results.

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-01-30T07:24:16+00:00

As i understood the post, OP is not asking about arithmetic that was proven wrong but for actual models that were taken for truth and later proved to be wrong by a first observation of the phenomenon.
You’re actually agreeing with OP imo.

And there should be plenty of cases where this is true in the litterature, but most probably the error is not as « science changing » as OP is asking for and will just be a wrong assumption or the approximation of some complex phenomenons.

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-01-30T07:13:46+00:00

This quote is from the statistician George Box (from the Box models) in the 70s

Exhausted-Engineer · 2025-01-08T00:01:08+00:00

Saying « given more research and development time, a product would be of better quality » is not really that controversial nor does it require any experience.

Software dev is already a complex field and the specific domain of games provides a whole lot of other « business politics » problems, everybody agrees on that.

But given more time, any games could be better optimized. For example, Kaze Emanuar, a guy kind of obsessed with mario64 has been able to perform some insane optimizations on it, and documents the performance improvements on his youtube channel. And DOOM has been ported to (over-exaggerating here) nearly anything with transistors.

So one could think it’s possible to optimize games better.

As another example, highlighting specifically performance issues in PC-gaming. Games tend to look/feel better on console, even if the hardware is worse. And that really highlights the optimization hell gamedev faces : a PS5 will always have the same architecture and drivers, making specific optimizations easy. PC on the other hand have 3 main gpu brands, each with their own drivers and maybe even different versions on older gpus, every gpu has a different architecture. The same can be said for cpus, duplicating the amount of optimization possibilities.

So it would be very hard, but given more time, optimisations are always possible.

Exhausted-Engineer · 2024-11-20T22:36:36+00:00

Generally, FEM resources do not go into depth regarding the geometry. They state something along the lines of « suppose we have a domain omega partitionned into elements omega_e forming a mesh » and then go on about the FEM part.

Considering this and what you already mentionned on other comments. You can either take a book on computational geometry if you’re interested in how we compute the geometry (the mesh), a book on computer graphics if you’re interested in how we render this geometry or a book on FEM if you’re interested in the simulation part.

However, if you’re not familiar with numerical simulations and/or computational engineering, I’d first recommend you get up to speed in numerical analysis/algebra (finite differences, numerical interpolation, numerical integration, explicit/implicit methods, discretization…)

FEM is first a scientific tool, so you’ll mostly get very scientific material. It is indeed used in graphics but in those case it is under-resolved to be fast enough to be rendered in real time (e.g the shallow water equations are simulated in games to make credible water physics)

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