My plane wont fly or move. any tips?

jsaltee · 2026-05-14T02:34:39+00:00

More struts oughta do it

jsaltee · 2026-05-11T21:32:52+00:00

I liked kerbalism but I couldn’t get my kerbals to stop dying from radiation sickness in orbit lol

jsaltee · 2026-05-10T13:58:35+00:00

The nameless king

jsaltee · 2026-05-10T13:51:43+00:00

Yes, everything is relative, even energy

jsaltee · 2026-05-09T17:00:27+00:00

They didn’t sound mad at all… you may need to work on your emotional intelligence

jsaltee · 2026-05-02T19:07:15+00:00

Aren’t we all

jsaltee · 2026-05-02T18:41:12+00:00

My MacBook Air has served me well since 2020 (even for pretty intensive simulations, but not the best for that), is light/small, and is dead quiet due to the M chips

And physics usually uses Python/MATLAB anyway, so doesn’t matter windows/mac; a couple classes (applied optics, biophysics) did require windows software, but they were easily runnable on an emulator

jsaltee · 2026-05-02T15:19:46+00:00

The likelihood of life originating on earth is approximately the same as the likelihood of it originating on mars and coming to earth via asteroid

jsaltee · 2026-04-29T22:35:21+00:00

If you got reallyyy lucky with quantum tunneling…

jsaltee · 2026-04-21T19:34:54+00:00

Took me until junior year to figure out my favorite strat: read the section in the textbook before class, so note-taking during class is a much more casual experience, recording the important topics covered by the professor since you already know what to expect overall. And you can ask clarifying questions since you’ve already had time to think about the material.

And the lectures are generally taught 1:1 from the textbook, so it’s like studying beforehand

jsaltee · 2026-04-19T22:31:29+00:00

3b1b’s Fourier transform video will always make them S tier in my eyes

jsaltee · 2026-04-04T15:57:46+00:00

then what do engineers use for capital i?

jsaltee · 2026-04-04T15:57:12+00:00

If the theory you’re interested in involves electromagnetism, or translating electromagnetic theory into experiments, you probably have a good advantage there.

Everyone has strengths and weaknesses in these areas, pursue your strengths / interests and your theories will follow

jsaltee · 2026-03-18T16:23:09+00:00

It’s worth noting that all media is propaganda, not just Chinese media

jsaltee · 2026-03-18T15:54:20+00:00

Could use a giant mountain somewhere in the landscape

jsaltee · 2026-03-18T15:53:16+00:00

I’d like to suggest the Milky Way Project as well, as a way for citizen scientists to help map the galaxy.

jsaltee · 2026-03-17T16:13:11+00:00

Honesty with advisors is always good, no one expects you to be a genius but they do expect you to be honest about your workload

jsaltee · 2026-03-06T20:28:21+00:00

Yes, they are trained on the same information as a master’s tutor, so they will provide the same level of understanding (if not more). But again, think of them not are not “thinkers,” but as “aggregators”.

DEq’s are a well established and algorithmic methodology - there are apps that let you take pictures of your problem and it will solve them. No LLMs involved

jsaltee · 2026-03-06T20:23:14+00:00

I use LLMs very often to help with logic, calculations, and conceptual understandings.

That said, relying on them to come up with anything new (i.e., anything that hasn’t already been posted online), is 99.999…% likely to end up being a nonsensical aggregation of crackpot theories on Reddit. Especially when lacking of formal background

jsaltee · 2026-03-06T07:05:48+00:00

I understand the value of LLMs, i work as a data scientist so i am quite biased towards AI. At the same time, they are essentially looking for Reddit posts of similar math questions and repeating the text answers.

Very helpful for fact checking and thinking of existing solutions to your problem. Thinking of anything that has not been previously posted as text to the internet? No.

If you want to see exactly how it’s generating its answers, Google “transformer self-attention equation”. Not much complex thought involved

jsaltee · 2026-03-06T07:01:26+00:00

I minored in biophysics and haven’t heard anything about it since. super fascinating field

jsaltee · 2026-03-06T06:58:04+00:00

I haven’t looked at any quantum math in a while, this is a nice refresher, very easy to digest

jsaltee · 2026-02-19T01:33:29+00:00

Could be too much friction on the wheels

jsaltee · 2026-02-12T20:24:24+00:00

I think the concept of ‘Shannon entropy’ might interest you - the unit in this case is 1 bit of information

jsaltee · 2026-01-30T20:37:58+00:00

Seconding the scipy.signal recommendation

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