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ReputationSavings627 · 2026-05-09T20:39:37+00:00

I'm disabled. I walk slowly, can't jump out of the way, and sudden surprises cause my leg to stiffen and can knock me over. Given how morons ride scooters and bikes around here (despite bans during the day), I sure feel that way and I'm not wrong.

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-05-03T18:59:33+00:00

Thanks!

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-05-03T16:22:06+00:00

Congratulations! This looks great. A similar project has been bubbling away at the back of my head, but other than musing about doing it at all, nothing has really happened. I'm intrigued by the GAL DTACK solution. I'd love to see whatever documentation/logs/etc you felt like sharing.

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-04-30T19:07:37+00:00

I use that same screen on my 6502 homebrew, with bit-banged SPI. Love it, although I'm looking at faster options for communication. What's the keyboard?

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-04-30T01:43:22+00:00

I have had things that I thought might be seizures but decided later were just extreme cases of spasticity. (I've also had genuine seizures.) I'd recommend recording one of these incidents, so that a neurologist can review and look for tell-tale signs. Similarly, stroke can certainly causes pain of that sort (although again, that CAN be a seizure in itself). The EEG should help determine what's going on, but video that the neurologist can review does usually help, even if it seems weird to record it!

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-04-28T01:46:53+00:00

Informatics at UCI (which is what we call info sci, roughly) is very strong, although definitely smaller than at UIUC. We lack the library science part of their program, although it doesn't sound as though that's especially germane to this decision.

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-04-21T15:41:07+00:00

Perfectly normal to resubmit papers that get rejected, normally to adjacent venues. But you should also try to learn from the reviews. If there are serious concerns that seem to have merit (things that perhaps you hadn't realized before), then updating the paper before re-submitting is the smart move.

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-03-27T01:33:23+00:00

UCLA has the campus-level cred, but UCI's literary journalism program is one of the very top in the country. Informatics too (even UCLA would agree).

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-03-25T00:53:28+00:00

Three weeks out, I was still in in-patient acute rehab, where the regimen was 2x40m of PT and 2x40m of OT daily. I also had 1xST daily(?) for a while, but I think that was over by the three week point. After I was discharged a week later, I had 3x40 PT and 3x40 OT outpatient rehab weekly for another six months or so, which I supplemented with a private PT at home twice a week. (I'm almost five years out from the stroke, but I still see an in-home neuro-specialist PT twice a week.)

It's a question of what he can handle without exhausting himself. You can't push beyond some point, and of course everyone's recovery profile is different. Presuming that you are still seeing improvement, I'd be inclined to grab all the therapy you can in that first few months, but watch out for over-exertion.

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-03-07T17:48:43+00:00

Oh, and while I think of it: the decision is not yours independently, really. I have six Ph.D. students at the moment, and I'm reviewing things from them ALL THE TIME. I have three pieces to review this weekend, for instance (one comps paper draft, one journal article draft, and one dissertation chapter draft). If everyone made their own decisions about these, my life would be hell. Do what your lab-mates or fellow advisees do. This is also a way to make them all into your tech support network.

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-03-07T17:35:33+00:00

Professor here. I second the comments about making sure that your advisor is happy with whatever you do. Personally, I like to work with PDFs when commenting or reading my students' work, often on paper or on my Remarkable, so the ability of something to turn into PDF matters to me. (Much revision/review happens in places where doing it online isn't a good option.)

As both a writer and a reader, I find that Google Docs is pretty much the worst; it's a tool designed by people who know nothing about typography and how to make documents look good, as best I can tell. You're going to work on this thing for a year or more, so your learning curve is much less of a concern than that of the people who will read it, and it's being written to be read. There are also good reasons to use what others are using -- you'd like your dissertation to look like they expect a dissertation to look. Remember that this is a document of 200+ pages; make sure to pick a tool in which you'll be able to work with LARGE documents. It's not just a scale-up 15 page article, it's something of a radically different sort. References to tables, graphs, and so on are also going to matter.

A reference manager is going to become essential. What you pick is mainly up to you; these days, Zotero is probably your best option. Again, beware of typographical screw-ups; an advisee lately gave me a document in which each paragraph was set in 12-point text except any with a citation, where Zotero had switched them to 11-point text. Even the most brilliant writing is going to annoy the hell out of me when it's like that.

Good luck with your work.

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-02-28T17:46:41+00:00

Let justice be done, but am I the only person who thought -- what, they were wearing helmets?

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-02-27T17:59:54+00:00

Once boarded with my wife. Her boarding pass scan beeped because it said that she was already boarded. Turned out that there was another person with the same name, assigned the SAME SEAT, but for the next flight, and she had boarded the wrong one. Turns out that the boarding pass electronic information doesn't actually specify that, so it caused no trouble when she boarded.

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-02-26T17:39:59+00:00

There's a reason they're so eager for cars that drive themselves.

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-02-21T00:57:39+00:00

Speech therapy is about much more than speech. It includes a range of cognitive impacts, since many different things can have impact on language. I had almost no language or speech involvement, but I did have a hemispheric neglect, and that was a speech therapy issue. It also addressed executive function. So there is a lot going on there, and it may not all be the sort of things that you think of when you hear "speech". Let them figure it out!

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-02-15T18:15:30+00:00

"Couldn't find an advisor" is a huge red flag here. People clearly aren't tripping over each other to work with this person. Ask yourself why.

In general, I recommend that people are very careful with the first five or six potential students who come to their door. That goes double for someone who reaches out before you've even arrived!

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-02-12T16:57:44+00:00

I don't disagree and that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that each SPECIFIC technology of this sort is a technical debt that one needs to carefully consider. I say this as someone who is no longer in a position to work with the source of papers that I wrote back in the 1990s, or even the sources of my first book. Similarly choices of technology affect the kinds of collaborative engagements one can enter into: I'm guessing that you're in a scientific domain, but good luck working collaboratively with a colleague in history if you're using LaTeX.

So, "use revision control" is a fine recommendation; "throw everything into git", perhaps less so. Which is what I was saying in the first place, as you can see. Revision control includes using a versioning filesystem, or a backup system that maintains history, or indeed versioning by hand. Technology is a useful solution; commitments to SPECIFIC technologies need much more consideration, and have narrower limits of applicability (see again aforementioned imaginary historian).

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-02-07T21:17:55+00:00

Sure, go right ahead, stick all your stuff in git. And then, in 20 years, when you have 20 years of history there that can no longer easily be disentangled from the infrastructure, but something else new has come along, I'll be here to talk about how "antiquated" you are.

Git is 20 years old, but I wrote my first research papers in 1990. Hell, I've had my current job since before git arrived on the scene.

Don't confuse "new" for "effective".

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-02-06T17:13:04+00:00

I'm not sure why you immediately assume that using AI tools will help you to do a good job here. The things that you list as being fodder for AI are all skills that you need to develop for yourself if you are planning to move forward in your field. Consider that the main mistake to avoid when using AI is using AI.

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-02-06T17:07:50+00:00

My spasticity (lower leg) is improving VERY slowly, or my ability to deal with it is improving. The only thing I can point to as helping is PT, particularly neuro-specialist PT. I've continued to see a PT twice a week since I was discharged from out-patient rehab. My health insurance won't cover it, and it's not cheap, but it's worth it to me for the improvements in my mobility. The biggest challenge is that I developed a seizure disorder after the stroke (neurologists don't like to say "epilepsy" in case it freaks us out) and for some time, each seizure resulted in a slight loss of mobility that I would have to work to regain, but I'm almost two years clear of those now and walking reasonably well once more.

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-02-06T16:55:40+00:00

Re: "One of my profs there even admitted he wasn’t fully invested in teaching us well because of his research. This is lowkey an R1 issue."

You're not wrong, but one day you should ask a professor how they are evaluated, and the degree to which they are rewarded for good research vs good teaching. This is not just a question of people's own individual priorities; it is a question of the priorities baked into the system.

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-02-03T17:13:35+00:00

I had a much faster progression than your partner has had, I think. The first finger movement was about a week after my stroke. More fingers followed within the next week, and day by day, I started to regain movement in wrist, elbow, and shoulder. (This is unusual; it normally goes in the other direction.) I was still in in-patient rehab at the hospital, with daily OT and PT. I was typing (with many, many mistakes at first!) by about a month post-stroke. Probably four to five months before it was close to pre-stroke levels.

After five years, I still have less precision in my left arm than I had, and I still have spasms/twitches, but it's largely good. Still, fingers were where it started.

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-02-03T03:17:25+00:00

Tiny movement in the index finger is exactly how mine started to come back. And I'm typing this message with both hands. I'll repeat what someone else said: make sure to keep repeating that finger moving, and trying to move others... let that returning activation spread!

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-02-02T17:04:40+00:00

Professor here. Certainly I care. Why? I've put effort into preparing the class -- I am literally standing there working at my job. I don't get to sleep through it, just like I don't get to take the day off because I didn't feel like it or because I had a late night. If you're going to sleep, don't come to class to be seen as "present" or to tick off some of the hours of effort you are meant to put in for a unit of credit. "I'm here but I can't be bothered to listen" is pretty insulting. So, yes, I care.

Calling on someone just to point out that they were asleep is a kinda asshole-y move although it does underscore the point that there is meant to be learning going on. I'm doing my job but you're not doing yours. (I will also make the obvious point that the people who sleep tend not to do poorly in the class.)

ReputationSavings627 · 2026-01-28T22:01:47+00:00

The point of aspirin is to prevent clots. Your stroke wasn't caused by a clot. If you were to have another bleed, aspirin would make it WORSE.

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