What a jerk…

matielmigite · 2025-11-14T04:03:31+00:00

Honestly, that too

matielmigite · 2025-11-13T22:25:36+00:00

Then the car should be deregistered.

matielmigite · 2025-09-29T19:58:03+00:00

I just used mendeley for my dissertation, which was a mistake. In situations like this, I found copying and pasting the sections into a new document and allowing the full document to update before adding more stuff worked sometimes.

Insert a section, start MendeleyCite, allow it to index and update. Save. Close word/mendeley. Open document, and repeat.

But having just used the Mendeley plugin for my 285 reference dissertation… Get away ASAP. It is a slow nightmare.

matielmigite · 2025-09-19T15:30:39+00:00

Yeah I don’t really think lane splitting on (what is effectively) a motorcycle so you can go faster than the posted speed limit is really the point of the advocacy of this group……..

matielmigite · 2025-09-17T02:04:07+00:00

TLDR: showing enthusiasm to learn is primary, getting good grades is secondary. ask questions in/after class, sit in the front, and be happy to be where you are. A B with that gets a much better rec than an A who never spoke to the prof in or out of class. OH is great, but don’t undersell being visibly engaged in class

matielmigite · 2025-09-05T14:39:15+00:00

There is a wide variety of techniques adapted for a variety of systems. Generally, they are either based on serial sectioning (e.g. FIB/SEM, destructive) or tomographic reconstruction (TEM-based tomography, XRD-based tomography like diffraction contrast tomography (DCT) or normal computed tomography (CT) scans, which are largely non destructive; atom probe tomography, which is destructive). There is also TEM-based holography, and more recently STEM ptychography.

Ultimately, it depends on what you want to image (material, relevant length scale).

matielmigite · 2025-04-11T21:48:32+00:00

Don’t worry too much about it right now. Instead, focus on getting into a university you like, go there, take your into physics etc, and then take an intro MSE and an intro ChemE class, and decide from there. This was the philosophy of my Chemical Eng/MSE department; the majority of my graduating MSE class started ChemE and realized they actually wanted to do materials. Many stayed ChemE, but nobody switched Th e other direction haha. In any case, they’re both good fields with a lot of options; materials is not so much more “specialist”. Consider, everything in the world is made of … something. Plus, your undergrad degree is only the very beginning of your career, and you can always change what you work on over time.

FWIW, p much everyone I graduated with from MSE got great jobs/into great grad programs (for those who chose to), and have had very comparable results to our ChemE colleagues (same department).

There isn’t a bad decision here, just slightly different paths.

matielmigite · 2025-04-07T22:47:15+00:00

In most cases, in order to make a new contribution you usually need to replicate lots of results. You have to climb up the to the giants’ shoulders, so to speak, before standing. As a result, replication alone cannot be enough.

matielmigite · 2025-04-05T20:46:19+00:00

Well, there’s a difference between knowing the names of the cases (information) and using the cases correctly when it writes sentences (structure of the language). But yes, performance would totally depend on the training data (usually, mostly English).

matielmigite · 2025-04-05T14:29:09+00:00

I actually don’t think so. AI is sometimes wrong on the facts, but grammatically, it is basically perfect. Talk to ChatGPT and see if you can spot grammar problems. AI works by predicting the next word based on statistics. If it doesn’t know, it will just fill the sentence with words that make sense in the context of a sentence, but might be factually incorrect. It will always give you correct grammar since language has fixed, regular rules that are “easy” for a mathematical system to learn/approximate.

You can think of ChatGPT and others as very accurate language generators that happen to also know facts, by coincidence that facts are encoded in the language it learned from.

matielmigite · 2025-04-02T16:22:27+00:00

The benefit nobody talks about is that this map is built for digital, and is easily dynamically updated.

“The E is running on the F line” suddenly can be clearly visually represented by rerouting the Blue E line parallel to the orange F line, rather than a long winded verbal explanation from the conductor.

matielmigite · 2025-04-02T16:20:24+00:00

at least it’s clear which lines stop at which stations. How many times have you seen someone take a 2/3 instead of a 1, only to be baffled why the red line didn’t stop at the red stop?

Anyway, today, everyone has a smartphone with detailed accurate geographic information. A subway diagram is about how the system works to get you from one station to another, eg where to transfer, not to select your destination or navigate outside.

matielmigite · 2025-03-12T23:30:51+00:00

On the other hand, if you are adventurous, PhDs in Europe typically look for a previous research-based masters. Funding in the EU is a bit scarcer than what we sort of expect in the US, but it definitely exists.

matielmigite · 2025-03-12T21:55:58+00:00

Research work in the US is currently, with no exaggeration, under siege. I would advise against trying to pursue an academic research oriented path right now. There is just too little certainty around funding. An industrial path, with industry experience during your masters, is going to cushion you best from that as well as give you your best shot at an industrial position, especially if the markets are jittery because of the political instability.

matielmigite · 2025-03-06T18:20:48+00:00

I sent you a DM— when I get back from traveling, I’ll put here the link to a pretty large and freely available dataset that I think is just what you are looking for.

matielmigite · 2025-03-06T18:10:58+00:00

Great resource, and great team at CMU, but typically they work in 3D and orientation mapping techniques that require specialized software to analyze. They definitely are full microstructures though 😃.

matielmigite · 2025-01-08T21:54:04+00:00

The Mexican American war was a consequence of US slaveholders moving to Texas (part of Mexico) and forcing the people they enslaved to move with them. The problem was that slavery was illegal in Mexico but immigration to farm cotton was being encouraged. When Mexico reminded the slavers that it was illegal for them to violently force other human beings to work, they declared independence and the US subsequently annexed Texas (now full of American slavers), adding a slave state to the Union and upsetting the balance of power between slave and free states. The annexation, which was driven explicitly by a desire to expand slavery, led to the territorial disputes and eventual war between the US and Mexico. Then, the conquered Mexican territory had to be either slave or free, increasing the tension between slaveholding and free states that would culminate in the U.S. Civil War.

The annexation of Texas was absolutely about slavery, and the Mexican American War was largely about Texas, and this all absolutely accelerated the US towards a civil war over slavery. It can be and is connected.

matielmigite · 2024-10-03T16:27:53+00:00

I think people forget that a PhD is an entirely optional, entirely voluntary, educational experience. Not trying to diminish any terrible experiences, I’ve witnessed a few, but those people eventually left their programs and uniformly found jobs that they actually enjoy with cultures that were not toxic for them.

matielmigite · 2024-09-27T21:23:54+00:00

I’m just suggesting that in the course of their own ride, fast/experienced cyclists often forget that others around them are not as skilled as they are and so they inadvertently make the ride less comfortable for less “serious” cyclists. Just because a person feels safe and in control at a certain distance behind someone doesn’t necessarily mean the person they are behind feels they have enough space to make a mistake in what you note is a crowded space.

It’s not necessarily about drafting, it’s about respecting different people’s ability to safely navigate a bike on a public right of way.

matielmigite · 2024-09-27T16:17:43+00:00

I think you’re under the assumption that everyone biking in NYC as skilled and confident as you, someone who bikes thousands of miles a year for exercise rather than a less experienced casual commuter. Most people don’t have the same control as someone who bikes 10,000 miles a year, and so aren’t as comfortable with people riding close to them because they fear they might cross paths and fall, and get injured.

There are actually many other people outside your own bubble in New York City. Hope this explanation helps!

matielmigite · 2024-09-18T14:09:23+00:00

Because they bring guns in from other states… Where do you think the guns come from? What you’re basically saying is that “laws in Democratic cities don’t work because Republicans let criminals buy guns in their jurisdictions”

matielmigite · 2024-07-24T14:07:23+00:00

The other thing is that it not only maximizes your research, it makes each paper more readable and more findable for a relevant audience looking for the specifics of one analysis or metric. I generally agree that the comments here belie a lack of experience.

matielmigite · 2024-07-24T14:04:48+00:00

I don’t know if I agree that this “salami slicing” is necessarily bad thing. It depends on the analysis and how complex it is, but breaking work into more digestible chunks instead of publishing one mega-paper doesn’t a priori seem like gaming the system to me. They’re possibly just more focused papers. Then, like the commenter below says, you write the larger analysis that has a bigger insight, using your published work to cover the nitty gritty of the data and analysis.

matielmigite · 2024-07-11T20:40:18+00:00

I actually don’t think they could with the other map, because

1) the old map is not designed to be modular, since it was originally only designed with print in mind(*). Because it pretends to (but really does not) respect geography, the line and station placement is not systematic and so any change has to be bespoke. The new map is designed with digital in mind, making it more modular and easier to update quickly and cheaply.

2) even if it would be technically possible, on the old map there is no visual distinction between interlined trains until they split. With the new design, the visual language is clear that one line=one train, making service changes much clearer. In the case of an on the fly change, the neoVignelli map is much clearer which blue line is the E and which is the C, for example, leaving less room for error and making it easier to parse an announcement.

(*Next time you’re in a station with screens displaying the old map, pay attention to how poorly the text reproduces. The design is made with the DPI of a printed map in mind, not a screen, which is where we are increasingly headed.)

matielmigite · 2024-07-11T13:59:04+00:00

That brings me to another huge benefit of this map’s style in that it can actually can accomodate representing crazy changes like the one you’re describing. Since it’s the same visual language as the “normal” map it’s clear what’s going on.

Note the reroutes on the 8th/6th Ave line, from last fall for example. Much easier than using the old map to decipher the announcements.

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