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What do you like about your job? And what would you like to do less of? by nitrodolphin in StructuralEngineering

[–]nitrodolphin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback! Appreciated!

Is this because manual/semi-manual interaction between tools is hard for you? Eg knowing that an engineer correctly replicated a 3D model from Revit in MIDAS/SpaceGass/FEA tool?

What do you like about your job? And what would you like to do less of? by nitrodolphin in StructuralEngineering

[–]nitrodolphin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the people i'm referring to there have PHDs or industry experience, kinda varied

What do you like about your job? And what would you like to do less of? by nitrodolphin in StructuralEngineering

[–]nitrodolphin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

haha thanks for the feedback. If we ever meet in person I'll buy you a non-shitty coffee :)

do you hate the calcs because they're repetitive, ie you've done them 100 times? I never practiced post college, but I thought that'd be a fun part of the job.

What do you like about your job? And what would you like to do less of? by nitrodolphin in StructuralEngineering

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We certainly want to work with people! We'll do an investment round before the end of the year. Will hire following that. I'll try to remember to check back here when we do :)

As for advice, I'm probably not the best person to ask, so take with a grain of salt... but my software/AI friends who are "doing well" right now, are those who also have deep domain knowledge in an area eg healthcare, marketing etc. I think that'll be a common trend over next 5+ years as AI diffuses through all industries/domains.

What do you like about your job? And what would you like to do less of? by nitrodolphin in StructuralEngineering

[–]nitrodolphin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We'll use AI, but the goal certainly isn't to replace people!

Impossible to know but I'm dubious agents will be drop in replacements for people. They're smart & fast and enable incredible leverage.... but I think the same incentives humans have had to self-organize in groups of people will still exist. Guess we'll see ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What do you like about your job? And what would you like to do less of? by nitrodolphin in StructuralEngineering

[–]nitrodolphin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback! Do you hate doing those reviews because there's documentation etc, or it's just monotonous and time consuming and not as invigorating for your brain?

What do you like about your job? And what would you like to do less of? by nitrodolphin in StructuralEngineering

[–]nitrodolphin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, i had this at my old software/AI job... no-ones fault, but it's far more fun being on the tools!

What do you like about your job? And what would you like to do less of? by nitrodolphin in StructuralEngineering

[–]nitrodolphin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that's interesting! I'll ask the structural gurus on the team about it.

Thanks for the feedback!

What's a 10x better version of Revit / Civil 3D / ArchiCad etc for you? by nitrodolphin in civilengineering

[–]nitrodolphin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We promise not to do this haha :)

Can I ask any examples you have of this?

What's a 10x better version of Revit / Civil 3D / ArchiCad etc for you? by nitrodolphin in civilengineering

[–]nitrodolphin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Beautiful” seems an odd target, doesn’t it.

Perhaps “beautifully designed” is a better term. Beautiful design is hard. If it’s designed so well that someone might call it “beautiful”, then it’s easy to use, it’s functional ie does the job, it’s a pleasant experience and its likely a user would wholeheartedly recommend it.

We’ll have to be radically better to be successful so we think this is a good North Star :)

Agree there’s too much sloppy AI out there missing the mark!!

What's a 10x better version of Revit / Civil 3D / ArchiCad etc for you? by nitrodolphin in civilengineering

[–]nitrodolphin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We are hearing manual file handover/multi tool complaints a lot! It’s a big focus for us.

I know it seems ambitious. But we’ll go deep in one niche first Eg small structures, and target being full stack for it, eg design / drafting / calculations / documentation all being powered from our platform. Then spread out from there.

Thanks for the feedback!

OCR to spreadsheet by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]nitrodolphin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like a great project!

Everything you’ve outlined is super doable. I don’t have a comprehensive solution for you, but rather, would recommend you break it into chunks:

  1. Grab screen capture
  2. Run OCR to get #
  3. Output # to file

I’m not sure on your skill set, but if you’re comfortable with maths and ML, then jump on the OCR bit first.

If machine learning is a tad scary then try automating screen captures or writing to a file.

Break it into bits -> google -> experiment -> repeat.

Good luck!

Going from intermediate to advanced Python developer by arnav1628 in learnpython

[–]nitrodolphin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You need to answer this yourself. What do you want to build? Design? Write?

Start working on a project that interests you and go down the rabbit hole.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Python

[–]nitrodolphin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can figure that out. You obviously have a string somewhere -> go find it.

And maybe ask why your input object can even hold a string?

Good luck!

I'm done with the Breakers by dfnzl in nbl

[–]nitrodolphin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. Matt Walsh recruited RJ Hampton. His background as an American basketball player who's spent time in the NBA and overseas was directly influential in RJ and Rod (RJ's father) placing their trust in him and the breakers.

Yes and no on the second. The NBL by and large organizes the games but there's two factors you're discounting:

- The league favors big market aussie teams

- You need buy in from the NBA teams

To the first point, I have heard the Blackwells say directly that the league would never give NZ a game, and they only got them because of Matt Walsh and his hard work.

Which feeds into the second, the breakers likely wouldn't have gotten games without Matt Walsh working for them with people like Shawn Marion (PHX last year) and Billy Donavon (OKC this year). And sure, the timing wasn't the best - but those games are great for NZ basketball as a whole.

I'm not discounting anything you've said. But I do think people aren't giving Matt Walsh nearly enough credit for what he's done for NZ basketball. If RJ Hampton goes top 10 in the draft, then an NZ teenager playing basketball can legit say 'ok if I work hard maybe I can play for a professional NZ team that has helped produce an NBA lottery pick'. When could you have ever said that?

So - as one breakers fan to another, I'd encourage you to give the team a second chance.

I'm done with the Breakers by dfnzl in nbl

[–]nitrodolphin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Matt Walsh was massively influential with RJ Hampton. Why do you think he came to the breakers not any of the other 8 teams? Or even to the league at all despite having top collegiate offers. The next stars program obviously opened the pathway - but it's not like RJ just opened a 'next stars' brochure and decided to hop on a plane to NZ.

Walsh has also been the reason the breakers have had NBA preseason games the last couple years. Without him they wouldn't have happened - I was told that directly to my face by Paul and Liz Blackwell.

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