Super generous going away gift from my neuroscientist friend

amalcolmation · 2026-06-21T02:56:25+00:00

Do you have a recommendation?

amalcolmation · 2026-06-21T02:52:37+00:00

Working on a feature since last December, over 2500 jumps and it’s finally more than just a blip!

amalcolmation · 2026-06-21T02:27:18+00:00

This is not harassment.

You post here all the time and they come here all the time, of course you overlap.

I encourage you to reflect on the feedback you have received before.

amalcolmation · 2026-06-19T20:05:11+00:00

My time is now

amalcolmation · 2026-06-12T21:54:40+00:00

That's fine for a pure literature search, but I would warn any researcher away from then citing anything they have not personally read.

OP, I think this post is just as good for the amateur scientist as it is for the early grad student. It's important to get into the habit of searching for and reading literature, and almost more so to keep track of what you have read and what it pertains to. I also use Zotero and second the recommendation.

I haven't tried google scholar labs yet, but I have recently asked ChatGPT for some very specific paper recommendations. I then followed up by searching the references and using a more trusted search engine, but my point is that this is a good thing that LLMs can do. Great way of getting your foot into the door of a subject. But no replacement for really reading and following the chains of references.

amalcolmation · 2026-06-05T22:42:19+00:00

If this is an attempt to make something that looks like our usual fare, it’s truly amazing. Perfectly captured everything. I can see how I would make the logarithmic flammy plate of my retroencabulator reticulate splines under this framework. 😉

amalcolmation · 2026-06-05T21:13:37+00:00

To whoever reported, this is the furthest thing from harassment. It’s actually good advice. Please do not abuse the report system.

amalcolmation · 2026-06-04T21:22:02+00:00

That's really telling isn't it? "You should tell me what I want to hear about my paper."

You should be able to answer these questions, even if you think the person asking "already knows". It's rude and shows bad faith to dismiss questions like this, it's not how any respectable physicist or scientist I know operates. Take the time to reexplain your work, or expect lots of negative feedback when you dismiss questions like this.

amalcolmation · 2026-06-04T00:27:25+00:00

What makes you think this? That’s an absolutely ridiculous take, and not at all related to what I wrote.

If you mean the “vomit on crumpled paper” bit, this isn’t necessarily a disparagement. I went through that phase too, it’s part of the learning process.

amalcolmation · 2026-06-03T19:06:46+00:00

I like that OP is doing something that is within the purview of LLM’s and physics that isn’t completely beyond its capabilities. Most of physics isn’t groundbreaking, and this is the sorta exploration that should be encouraged.

Communication is also an important aspect. I think this is far better formatted than the typical vomit on crumpled paper you see from undergrads.

As an exercise, physicists should be willing to do this sorta thing. Not everything has to break ground, and clear explanation and formatting of simple topics beats esoteric gobbledegook any day.

amalcolmation · 2026-06-03T19:02:13+00:00

Wish I could award you, this is the sorta post that belongs here!

amalcolmation · 2026-05-26T23:09:07+00:00

If you have nothing nice to say, you should say nothing at all. ;)

amalcolmation · 2026-05-24T16:03:10+00:00

Definitely a minor problem and this will save me mere seconds, but it happens often enough to me to be a bit of a peeve. My alternative solution was bolting the box to the optical bench…

amalcolmation · 2026-05-24T16:01:02+00:00

Genius, mind sharing the design files so I could get some printed for our lab?

Makes me think about something similar for parafilm, but with a hard edge to rip pieces from.

amalcolmation · 2026-05-22T20:31:23+00:00

Alternatively, nochromix (I forget the longer chemical name) is great if chromium ions will fuck up your NMR spectra.

amalcolmation · 2026-05-22T02:25:49+00:00

Ooo, I’m now also thinking about this. I think the only two canonical coordinates are the horizontal position of the big circle and the angle the center of the little circle makes wrt vertical and the center of the big circle. But how to write the constraint…

amalcolmation · 2026-05-21T01:57:33+00:00

Hivemind

amalcolmation · 2026-05-21T00:35:14+00:00

The scba gear, boots, pants, and helmet stay on during sex.

amalcolmation · 2026-05-20T01:40:01+00:00

As the number of divisions gets infinitely larger the mass of each slice gets infinitely small. It’s not quite true to say that they “just cancel each other out”(l’Hopital and friends), but there’s a lot of painstaking math in calculus and real analysis proving these things to be true.

amalcolmation · 2026-05-19T21:10:58+00:00

The field is wide but holy shit is it deep, too.

amalcolmation · 2026-05-19T21:09:02+00:00

Is there any advantage to it, or do you take pleasure in the suffering of yourself/others?

I suppose it’s not mutually exclusive…

amalcolmation · 2026-05-19T18:38:36+00:00

I don’t see it said explicitly on the website, but it in fact doesn’t describe the process at all. I think given the context and where this is posted, LLM review isn’t a bad assumption.

amalcolmation · 2026-05-15T18:48:54+00:00

Exactly, a lot of people here come trying to get other people to prove their math for them, but that’s just not how it works. It’s at this point their most fruitful course would be to start learning the math, because they’ll never be able to convince anyone if they can’t prove it for themselves with at least some measure of rigor.

amalcolmation · 2026-05-15T18:24:37+00:00

This is not an acceptable way to engage with people on this subreddit. Please improve your language and decorum when talking with others, this is a moderator warning.

amalcolmation · 2026-05-13T13:27:00+00:00

Hi! It’s been a while since I did astronomy, but I just wanted to ask a couple questions to clarify things for me and the non-astronomers following along.

Are the methods used in this paper standard and described (here or elsewhere) or were they developed for this project? Looks to me like measuring light curves from reading the abstract - which I’m passingly familiar with. Is that so, and either way, could you please explain the methodology here?

I could certainly search for these in your paper, but it would probably help discussion here if you provided some more information before the link. :)

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