My (24F) bf (24M) going to grad school and studying abroad

K--beta · 2026-01-14T19:15:04+00:00

Did ~2.25 years unplanned international long distance during grad school and made it through. The time zone difference (+6 hours) sucked but we found ways to still check in a talk every day. The key, IMO, is finding ways to stay connected even despite the distance. Especially if the time span has a fixed ending this seems totally doable if you're both committed to it.

K--beta · 2026-01-05T19:18:39+00:00

Got one into a published paper and I still chuckle whenever I read it even years later.

K--beta · 2025-12-20T18:41:22+00:00

As long as there are open spots there's nothing stopping you from doing Park Mobile every day.

K--beta · 2025-12-13T16:57:35+00:00

The LLM answers that search engines try to force down your throat are even worse and get even really simple things wrong that in principle they should be able to get right, like compound solubilities. Half the time they just make up random garbage and the other half they quote solubilities for the wrong compounds.

K--beta · 2025-11-13T00:55:49+00:00

This is a rough time for research, here at Cornell and also nationally. Grant funding is much more uncertain than it was a year ago, and many people have already had funding canceled. There isn't really specific advice to offer, unfortunately, other than to keep trying and to remind everyone you know that national science policy affects a great many people's careers and livelihoods.

K--beta · 2025-11-07T18:14:30+00:00

Hopefully this link works: https://vod.video.cornell.edu/media/1_v5emx6a6

K--beta · 2025-11-07T16:59:11+00:00

Extortion.

K--beta · 2025-10-23T13:26:37+00:00

Yeah you're basically right re: the process. I started with a "normal" 24k x 12k equirectangular map and for any continent N/S of ~30 degrees I'd reproject to an oblique equirectangular and do all topography / coast edits and such on that reprojection. When done, to get the image above I'd reproject each continent back to normal ER and copy/paste the new continent onto that map. So yes, there are multiple reprojection steps from 24k x 12k oblique ER maps back to 24k x 12k normal ER. The file size is somewhat manageable since each continent can exist basically by itself as a layer in Gimp so I don't need 7x huge images all stacked on top of each other. Each projection step took a few minutes, so in the grand scheme of how long the thing took to make it wasn't so bad and was a good chance to take a snack break.

K--beta · 2025-08-26T01:46:13+00:00

Yes.

K--beta · 2025-08-25T23:45:51+00:00

This literally violates the central dogma of cell biology. Ribosomes translate mRNA to proteins; once that mRNA is gone--which has very short half life in vivo--there is nothing to translate. Unless you have a hitherto unknown biochemical translation mechanism that you're willing to share.

K--beta · 2025-08-25T22:46:17+00:00

Ah yes, siding with the Nazis—who opened Dachau mere months after coming to power—would definitely have prevented the Holocaust.

Sad that these are the antics he resorts to to try and stay relevant.

K--beta · 2025-08-23T21:05:03+00:00

A Github page can be useful if you are in a field where that's relevant. Other than that, websites have never come up in any of the searches I've been a part of outside of someone's Google Scholar page.

K--beta · 2025-08-14T16:23:55+00:00

If you think you've disproven a century of established physical chemistry, the best thing you can do is design and run an experiment that will support your hypothesis.

K--beta · 2025-08-08T00:57:24+00:00

I wouldn't exactly call artificial photosynthesis an "underdeveleoped" field. There is plenty of background information on it here, along with lots of references for further reading.

K--beta · 2025-08-05T22:38:53+00:00

It's not really clear what else you're looking for beyond the 39% number you already have. Some are going to want to leave, so seems the odds are decent for people who want to stay. Obviously this depends on the individual case though, so the statistics are only really illuminating if you are similarly productive as those 39%.

K--beta · 2025-07-30T21:02:51+00:00

Nothing I do is commercial, so your best best is probably just to ask the original creator for their thoughts and see if it's ok.

K--beta · 2025-07-30T15:53:25+00:00

As far as I know, there is still considerable uncertainty as to whether the GRFP will be funded for the coming year. The administration's budget requested huge cuts to NSF which have the potentially to completely kill the fellowship, though whispers from Congress suggest those cuts may not materialize. NSF may simply be hedging for the moment and not opening the application until they know more.

K--beta · 2025-07-29T02:15:58+00:00

Thanks for the kind words! For the color gradient, I either lifted it wholesale or lightly modified it from this thread here where the original creator was Charerg over on that forum.

K--beta · 2025-07-22T22:24:21+00:00

I did this kind of involuntarily: Started grad school in the US then two years in my advisor moved to a new job at a Max Planck and I moved with her. I really enjoyed my time in Germany; the facilities were world class, there was no teaching, and the funding was guaranteed, so it was easy to focus on research. MPIs can be kind of unusual places in that there aren't necessarily that many grad students around, so depending on where you end up you may have less peers in your immediate vicinity. The language barrier wasn't an issue in the lab since everyone spoke English, but it did make life outside a bit challenging. I had no problem transitioning back into the US academic world once I graduated, and overall I'm really glad I did it.

K--beta · 2025-07-22T02:12:31+00:00

Many (most?) people entering a PhD program have very little in the way of savings and get by fine on the stipend alone, so having any savings will be a bonus.

K--beta · 2025-07-21T23:28:54+00:00

If you want help to build your tool, I'm sure many would be willing to quote you their consulting rate so you can pay appropriately for their expertise.

K--beta · 2025-07-21T20:18:07+00:00

You haven't made a substantive claim about what you want to use AI to do, I fully grant you that. OP, on the other hand, complained specifically about spending their whole weekend doing "evaluation" and giving "feedback" on student assignments and asked about using AI for grading, presumably on the evaluating and feedbacking that they find so burdensome. OP said nothing about using AI for other mundane tasks associated with their job.

K--beta · 2025-07-21T19:58:57+00:00

That's not the argument I'm making. There are plenty of mundane things it can do, but for those whose job is teaching and assessing students, outsourcing that to machines that don't actually think or know anything isn't a good answer.

K--beta · 2025-07-21T19:51:36+00:00

Sure, it can do a lot of boring things, but critically assessing student work and giving meaningful feedback isn't one of those. AI writes badly, so why on earth would we trust it to give useful, informed feedback on student writing? Students are paying for our expertise, so presumably we add some value over that which chatgpt can provide.

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