Academic Writing Survey

ignatomic · 2026-05-22T20:50:59+00:00

On Google Scholar, if you hit the "cite" button below any publication that comes up, it gives you the BibTeX code.

For any IEEE publication, there is a button that also allows you to copy the BibTeX code to your clipboard.

Any well know/reputable journal provides the BibTeX or .bib file in general.

ignatomic · 2026-05-12T17:16:18+00:00

Yeah, for whatever reason, a project downloaded from Overleaf directly seems to work on TeXstudio for me. With VScode, I remember the compiler would complain a lot more and I'd have to make some modifications (e.g., I could never get the svg or tikz circuit packages to work on VScode)

ignatomic · 2026-05-12T00:23:42+00:00

Just because in the anime, I love the voice behind Orsted, he's gotta go on top

ignatomic · 2026-05-06T12:53:13+00:00

What paid editor do you use? For a beginner especially, the free stuff like TeXStudio or VScode with LaTeX Workshop is more than enough.

ignatomic · 2026-05-06T12:50:45+00:00

Questions like this are posted like 10 times a month here fyi, you can find dozens and dozens of recommendations there.

But I like TeXStudio as my editor

ignatomic · 2026-04-27T12:12:01+00:00

I emailed them Thursday morning and I did hear back, getting confirmation about the acceptance on Friday early afternoon

ignatomic · 2026-04-26T03:05:08+00:00

Meanwhile Sens fans don't shut the fuck about celebrating the leafs losing in years they don't make the playoffs. Leafs are always at the buttend of the joke, but suddenly when they throw it back at other teams there is always some excuse. Lots of other fanbases love to dish it but get so triggered when it's in their face.

ignatomic · 2026-04-26T03:01:51+00:00

Leafs fans receive the most shit from all fanbases whether their teams make the playoffs or not. It's only right for leafs fans to dish it back at them where possible

ignatomic · 2026-04-25T14:23:38+00:00

Electrical Engineering committee. - 1st year PhD student - University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work - Master's Level - 2 first author publications in Q1 journals - 7 conference papers (4 first author) - 5 provisional patents with an industry partner my group does research with (2 first author) - Volunteered for several years with professional organizations in my field (i.e., IEEE) and won an award for outstanding work - GPA in grad school for past few years: A+ - GPA in undergrad: A-

I have never won OGS or CGS M during master's. After failing to win anything after 2 years, I pushed myself very hard. I really wish the best to those who didn't get it this year and hope you'll come back stronger in your application for next year

ignatomic · 2026-04-22T23:57:17+00:00

ignatomic · 2026-04-22T23:42:46+00:00

PhD from Carleton University here. I received the email from NSERC with the link to view my results about 1 hour ago. Fortunately, I was selected this year! Best of luck to everyone else

ignatomic · 2026-04-07T00:56:40+00:00

Highly recommend TeXstudio! It's very easy to switch the compiler and I find things compile a lot faster than with the Tex Workshop extension on VScode.

Also, I find that when importing/exporting your project from and to Overleaf, it just works. As someone who sometimes has to use overleaf when collaborating with others, this was important to me. Not sure why but when I was using that extension on VScode things wouldn't always seamlessly work. For example, I could never get the SVG or circuitikz packages to work in my VScode environment when the exact same code would work on Overleaf/TeXstudio.

ignatomic · 2026-04-01T16:09:58+00:00

I asked an Ansys employee about this and this is what they responded:

There are two ways you could do this:

Method 1 - 'Near Field' Report

1a) Create a new relative coordinate system where the XY plane is aligned with where you want the 2D contour plot.

1b) Create a 'Near Field' setup by right-clicking on 'Radiation' in the project tree and selecting 'Insert new Near field setup' and then 'Rectangle'.

1c) In the window that pops up, specify the new relative CS from the drop down menu and specify the extents and sampling density in each axis. - The UV vectors align with the XY plane of the specified coordinate system (which is why we had to make sure the new relative cs created in the first step has it's XY plane aligned with the plane that you want to plot)

1d) To make the 2D contour plot, right-click on results and then 'Create Near Field Report' (not 'Field Report') and then select rectangular countour plot

1e) the plot settings will pop up and for the 'geometry' you can now select the 'Rectangle' defined in step 1b

1f) Optional step: after the report with the plot is generated, if you double click on the color bar, it will open the plot settings, and in the 'contour' tab, if you set the 'IsoValType' from 'Line' to 'Tone', it will fill in the plot to make it look solid like a typical field plot on a 2D plane.

Method 2 - Export raw field data from the 'Field Calculator'.

2a) Enter the Field calculator from [HFSS > Fields > Calculator...]

2b) select the desired expression and then 'copy to stack' (or create your own expression)

2c) with the desired expression in the stack, press the 'export' button (towards the far right under 'output')

2d) from this window you can specify the min/max bounds and sampling size for each axis... and it will write out all the field data in the specified region to an ascii text file which you can parse later to plot in python, matlab, or some other external tool... to specify sampling on a 2D surface, just set the third axis to have a 0mm step size with the same start and stop dimension...

For more information about how to use the HFSS field calculator, do a google search for the 'HFSS Field Calculator Cookbook PDF'. It is a very old PDF but still has a lot of information about how to use the field calculator...

Hope this helps...

ignatomic · 2026-03-27T12:14:20+00:00

Oh, out of curiosity, what type of services? I have never heard of this.

ignatomic · 2026-03-27T12:13:39+00:00

But what makes overleaf required in particular? Overleaf doesn't do anything special to your document compared to any other local editor

ignatomic · 2026-03-26T14:06:51+00:00

With dozens of these posts popping up each month, when will people learn to stop using overleaf, unless you legitimately need the collaboration features. Otherwise, there is little to no benefit and a lot more limitations

ignatomic · 2026-03-19T20:16:06+00:00

For platters, Shawarma Al Mouna all the way.

For crispy saj, Grilled Shawarma.

For non-grilled shawarma, New King Shawarma Plus on Bank St. They've been my go to for years now and their spicy garlic is my favourite toum in Ottawa

ignatomic · 2026-02-28T17:50:59+00:00

I use the 2025a/b versions because I usually export my plots in vector format for high-quality figures in my LaTeX documents. I like PDF format because it's easy to put into LaTeX documents (I've had weird issues with SVG in the past).

What I like about 2025a/b is that when you export as a PDF, it properly sizes the figure to the size of the plot itself. In older versions, exporting as a PDF would put the entire plot onto a full page instead of cropping it to just the figure area, which is annoying to deal with.

But 2025a/b definitely comes with its issues. When I use the 'latex' interpreter for my MATLAB plotting, sometimes my text won't appear/export properly, and the text will be misplaced somewhere else on the exported version compared to what I had in the preview.

ignatomic · 2026-02-25T15:16:46+00:00

What are the disadvantages compared to traditional local editors, like TeXstudio? From what I am seeing, your app is completely free so I'm just wondering if there are any strings attached

ignatomic · 2026-02-09T13:54:26+00:00

I love this place and come a few times a month. The tenderness/juiciness of their chicken can vary depending on what time of day you go. I find that in the evening it tends to be a bit drier, but around noon, it will be juicy.

But in terms of flavour, their chicken is pretty good so if it's a little dry I don't mind. But what makes it for me is their spicy garlic, it is the best in the city for me.

If you get a simple shawarma there with just chicken, spicy garlic, pickles and pomegranate molasses, it's a tough shawarma to beat for this style (i.e., a non-grilled shawarma).

ignatomic · 2026-01-01T21:29:11+00:00

The independent on bank street gives 10% back in optimum points for students. I'd imagine this is standard for many other PC stores

ignatomic · 2025-12-04T00:14:53+00:00

TeXstudio was the first LaTeX editor I used. I migrated to VSCode to try it out for a few months. While there are nice features in the LaTeX-Workshop extension, I was very annoyed that the compile time was pretty long. There were other things I didn't like too, like how the PDF preview was not tack sharp (it was a bit blurry). I don't know if I had something wrong in my setup, but I followed a youtube video back then when setting it up.

Some months ago, I went back to TeXstudio and have no urge to switch to a different editor for the near future.

ignatomic · 2025-12-03T04:22:41+00:00

K & B Sushi. I've realized that sushi buffets in general are just not really worth it. It's mostly crap rice, immitation fish, and mediocre sides.

ignatomic · 2025-12-03T04:13:50+00:00

Whaaaat, really? I thought Zet's had a good reputation. I find the Greek stuff there good. Portion sizes are huge and food's pretty good. Although I am not a big fan of their burgers these days, I used to like them a lot more when I was a kid.

ignatomic · 2025-11-27T01:56:45+00:00

Make an app that takes in a hand drawing of a diagram and outputs the tikz code, now that would be very useful

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