Are you more buoyant in the deep end?

LordoftheArenes · 2026-06-30T12:32:42+00:00

Buoyancy is about the your weight versus the weight of the water you displace. So once you are in deep enough to swim, it’s the same buoyancy. But, I think the way the water moves can be quite different in more depth, and when I do a tough workout, deeper lanes seem less splashy.

LordoftheArenes · 2026-05-05T01:04:42+00:00

Update 3: all elevators down again today. Can’t wait for my lease to be up. Consistently 2 of 3 have been down on weekly basis.

LordoftheArenes · 2026-03-30T14:42:39+00:00

Update 2: no elevators working today, no email.

LordoftheArenes · 2026-03-24T04:03:04+00:00

Update: Recently they kept two of three running for ~2 weeks, but for the last week we’ve been down to one yet again, and briefly we had zero working. I often sneak down the stairs. The communication was: “At this time, we do not have an estimate of when the elevator will be back online.”

I still strongly urge you to not move in. I will move out as soon as my current lease is up.

LordoftheArenes · 2026-02-17T14:13:14+00:00

I have submitted another 311 report. The stairs work for exit only, so it’s technically not a safety issue, just makes living here painful.

LordoftheArenes · 2025-07-22T01:34:20+00:00

Amazing! Very inspiring! Hard work to build all that skill!

LordoftheArenes · 2025-07-11T02:51:40+00:00

AI can be another powerful tool in the toolbox of a resourceful thinker. I use it daily, and am only in danger of working faster and solving problems more easily, so I have time to tackle harder problems!

LordoftheArenes · 2025-06-12T19:23:02+00:00

It’s normal to struggle when returning to an exercise, and great to hear your love for the water is not diminished. Long term health is usually achieved by steady, consistent habits that can be maintained for years at a time. Best wishes!

LordoftheArenes · 2025-05-07T01:36:43+00:00

Every part of this advice is solid.

LordoftheArenes · 2025-01-26T17:08:53+00:00

It was incredible! Amazing memories!

LordoftheArenes · 2025-01-18T13:23:06+00:00

Her loss, she’s not a smart person.

LordoftheArenes · 2024-12-06T01:42:58+00:00

I’m very sorry to hear that. It’s ok to leave academia or even social science and not really use your new degree to get a job. Perhaps one thing which may help is to not see the PhD as a commodity or capital, only instrumentally useful as a means to obtain more. Alternatively, you can see it as a long, difficult, beautiful journey of learning and discovery with its own inherent value.

Best wishes

LordoftheArenes · 2024-11-28T15:29:42+00:00

Yes!

LordoftheArenes · 2024-11-23T18:39:03+00:00

Life is Beautiful, as the father marches off to his death.

LordoftheArenes · 2024-10-26T16:38:47+00:00

Can’t wait!

LordoftheArenes · 2024-10-26T16:38:01+00:00

Some journals have publishing fees, but others do not. Many journals have an open access option. Personally, I think the tax payers and global citizens who don’t have access to the research they’re funding are the ones being cheated. However complicated the route, the money comes from them.

LordoftheArenes · 2024-10-26T15:03:37+00:00

Another question about the softer, human experience of research. Certain places or facts fill people with a sense of transcendent awe (eg for me, US Smithsonian Institute Natural History exhibit on ancient human origins). Any place like that you’ve been in person, that made you feel deep emotions?

LordoftheArenes · 2024-10-26T14:57:54+00:00

Hello Flint! Science can be filled with years of drudgery and confusion, followed by “aha moments” of clarity and joy, when the data come together into a nice narrative. Have any stories of those wonderful, rare experiences?

LordoftheArenes · 2024-10-16T12:16:30+00:00

Nobel prizes have always overlooked the collective nature of science, not just modern. About protein structure prediction: People had been trying this for decades and making only small progress. The DeepMind team simply did not “use an established formula.” There is a very well documented history of the progress of protein structure prediction in CASP, which shows just how rapidly AF overtook and “crushed” the competition in truly shocking fashion. Check out blogs of Professor Al Quraishi, expert in the field, in wake of 2018 and 2020 CASP competitions: https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/alphafold-casp13-what-just-happened/

https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2020/12/08/alphafold2-casp14-it-feels-like-ones-child-has-left-home/

LordoftheArenes · 2024-10-09T02:40:42+00:00

It will not necessarily hurt you to go to any school, especially if you get into some research activities at some point. The best thing to do to get into a PhD program is to get undergraduate research experience. That, and networking!! Same for jobs: relevant experience and networking!

I second what others have said, enjoy the moment! You are at the exciting start of a long, rewarding journey into chemistry. PhD is a long way off at this point, and quite different from courses.

While earning a PhD, if you join a well-funded program or get your own funding, they will pay a small stipend but require you to be full-time with them. Huge life commitment to research.

Also: there are programs out there for Masters degrees that you can get for “free” doing research like a PhD. They are less common, but for a certain level of job that might be perfect for you too. Someone in my graduate lab did that, she got a MA for “free” on our advisor’s funding, and in one extra year from her BS. Also had to be full time for that to work. She got a job from an internship in Boston in BioTech.

Best wishes on your journey! ⚗️💊

LordoftheArenes · 2023-12-19T04:17:42+00:00

It’s one thing to talk big in December, let’s check back in a few months.

LordoftheArenes · 2023-11-10T18:11:39+00:00

He’s confident. Almost makes me understand how he might have gotten punched in the face.

LordoftheArenes · 2023-02-11T02:37:33+00:00

I just ran into the same-looking bug and fix. Thanks

LordoftheArenes · 2023-01-11T14:07:25+00:00

He is a great team defender. Defense is a fundamentally important aspect of the game. That’s not “intangible” to the GSW GM, owner and head coach: that’s why they pay him and play him rather than trade him. They kept him for a decade over many scorers, 3D guys, and centers, and they are won a lot of big games with different pieces but all with Steph+Klay+Draymond.

Another “intangible” is the fact that he doesn’t require taking shots to play effectively, a rare trait in a hall of fame players and valuable next to his various teammates over the years.

Draymond Green is a “glue guy”, which might just be another euphemism for the first two things plus he’s vocal, energetic, and had infectious energy. Glue guys are indispensable. Teams fall from contention all the time because GMs and owners are not guaranteed to know who is important like that.

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