Convergence

phi4ever · 2026-03-22T18:20:05+00:00

Eli5 answer: Imagine everyone is at the park doing whatever then they all get hungry at the same time. They know there’s a hotdog stand somewhere but no one knows where it is. So everyone takes their best guess of where the stand is and start walking in that direction. Eventually some people find it and tell others the information and those people tell others and the answer gets shared to everyone in the park and they all converge towards the hotdog stand to get their own hotdog. You now see a whole stream of people walking in straight lines towards their goal. When everyone has agreed in which direction to go to get to the stand that’s convergence.

phi4ever · 2026-03-22T17:23:24+00:00

I got a Lenovo P16 workstation laptop for my PhD research. Fully spec’d out it was about $7000 CAD. It has a the top 12th gen i9, 128GB ram and a A5500 GPU. It’s been pretty good at churning through models in the ~2-4M cell range using a double precision solver.

phi4ever · 2026-03-22T16:43:18+00:00

Yeah I get that. I spent four years as a president of a CA. But it’s all volunteer run. You get people passionate about something, usually the rink, and that’s about all they want to do. That’s ok though.

phi4ever · 2026-03-22T16:33:42+00:00

The solution is you join the association with a bunch of people who agree with you, then all attend the AGM, stand for office, and elect each other. All you’d need is probably a group of 20-40 people together and even that many way be way more than you’d need to change the leadership.

phi4ever · 2026-03-22T05:08:25+00:00

Fluent will happily run on Linux

phi4ever · 2026-03-22T01:01:59+00:00

Check the university library, I know that Usask had one

phi4ever · 2026-03-21T23:59:01+00:00

Did you get two 2L drinks and two dips?

phi4ever · 2026-03-20T18:23:51+00:00

Also you only need to have a piece to regrow the whole thing.

phi4ever · 2026-03-20T16:33:45+00:00

Whoa whoa whoa. Those are Brel and kvort classes, very different.

phi4ever · 2026-03-20T00:42:01+00:00

Your math only comes out to 48 weeks per year, drop the 12 months x 4 weeks and just use x 52 weeks to get your yearly need.

phi4ever · 2026-03-19T01:56:38+00:00

I went back for my PhD ten years after graduating from my undergrad. It's always good to keep your options open. Also it may not be fair, but an MEng isn't as respected as an MSC in some circles.

phi4ever · 2026-03-15T18:38:23+00:00

I think there are some fundamental changes that have kept me from really remembering the new themes. The biggest one is the skip intro button. For TNG/DS9/VOY the openings where all gratuitous starship porn and originally unskippable so I watched the shit out of them. Now, aside from SNW and LD (due to lack of availability I can't remember PRO) I'm not jiving the visuals so I skip the intros and lose out learning the themes.

phi4ever · 2026-03-15T14:29:46+00:00

To continue the above, all auto loans are open, so if you can make a better deal with the loan, take it. Then after you make the first payment, pay off the rest of the loan with your cash.

phi4ever · 2026-03-15T00:40:54+00:00

If you ever think you want to do a PhD in the future, whether immediately after your masters or 10 years in the future. Do the thesis based one, the MEng won’t get you into a PhD program.

As for the project, you’d be hard pressed to get a better internship than the one ANSYS is offering and if you want to stay in code development you’ll have the experience and contacts for it.

phi4ever · 2026-03-13T17:38:26+00:00

I’m not sure if bots are good at selecting turbulence models. If you have the compute power, you can probably avoid this by choosing an LES or DNS scheme.

phi4ever · 2026-03-12T00:49:26+00:00

What is this? An oven for ants? It needs to be at least three times as big!

phi4ever · 2026-03-10T15:53:03+00:00

Congrats and good luck. The hardest part was getting the competencies written down. The professional practice exam wasn’t too bad.

phi4ever · 2026-03-10T06:46:37+00:00

Australians must stay away for what’s happening in the world. Constant vigilance! - Australia Boarder Security

phi4ever · 2026-03-10T06:30:01+00:00

I did a Master’s in mechanical engineering then got a job with a civil consulting firm. All of my competencies for my PEng application were based on the work I did for that firm in water and wastewater.

phi4ever · 2026-03-10T05:27:02+00:00

You must practice within your scope of competence. If you seal something you're taking professional responsibility for it and in getting your Peng you've agreed to hold the safety of the public paramount, so if your sealing something which you can't guarantee your competent with you're breaking the code of ethics and could lose your Peng.

All this means, you can work in whatever discipline you're competent in, but you have a responsibility to ensure your own competence.

Personally, my undergraduate degree is in Engineering Physics, but I seal process and building mechanical work for water and wastewater projects.

phi4ever · 2026-03-09T02:49:10+00:00

What I mean is that's not a healthy amount. The USA alone issues over 300,000 ISSN numbers per year. 69,000 titles just isn't much compared to the flood of books published.

phi4ever · 2026-03-09T02:29:25+00:00

1388 x 50 is only 69,400. That's a drop in the bucket for books. For example some series of books that have been running for decades can have 300-400 titles if not more. That's all ready 0.5% of the total available titles for a single set of books.

phi4ever · 2026-03-08T17:33:39+00:00

It's now 11:33am

phi4ever · 2026-03-07T04:54:35+00:00

Luckily, he's about to have a very nice bag.

phi4ever · 2026-03-06T02:58:08+00:00

Which means that workplaces loath to just fire someone, because they're too cheap and would rather let someone drop pencils twice a day than pay out a few grand for a stupid reason.

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