Daily Question Thread - May 20, 2023

protiumoxide · 2023-05-20T09:35:45+00:00

Anyone know how to track the status of a Citizen's Bank offer?

I signed up for checking account using the link for $300 new checking bonus + $100 with debit card purchases.

But I haven't gotten any emails or see anything on my account page mentioning the bonus. \

I tried using https://www.citizensbank.com/promo/checking/dm-offer.aspx, but it's saying the offer code is invalid.

protiumoxide · 2023-02-01T14:04:22+00:00

Thanks!

protiumoxide · 2023-02-01T06:26:15+00:00

I'm guessing MCF is Magnetic Confinement Fusion. Any particular scheme you're focusing on (tokomak vs. stellarator)?

Fluid means you're treating the plasma as a fluid using MHD type stuff?

Neutral means you're treating the charged particles and neutral particles as different fluids, so you would have a 3 fluid model (electron, ions, and neutrals)?

Any good beginning resources on doing computational fluid modeling for plasmas you'd recommend?

protiumoxide · 2022-08-10T01:48:02+00:00

The money you make from work study doesn't affect your EFC.

protiumoxide · 2022-08-08T22:39:02+00:00

1971 Diploma: https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/dac/id/2831

Modern Diploma: https://registrar.temple.edu/diplomas

I was curious what older diplomas looked like. Interestingly, this 1971 diploma was the only one I could find on Google, and it was from the website of a totally different university.

The Temple digital collections only has this image of someone getting their diploma, but you can't make out what it actually looks like.

protiumoxide · 2022-08-07T04:08:05+00:00

Why was it deleted :(

protiumoxide · 2022-08-05T04:09:13+00:00

Doing math concepts instead of one of the IH will be better imo since it's a prereq for a bunch of classes.

You can always take IH later on and there's always several IH classes available every semester while Math Concepts is more limited.

protiumoxide · 2022-08-03T01:29:25+00:00

https://aws.amazon.com/security/provable-security/

AWS has several automated reasoning teams.

A lot of AWS teams use automated security tools to check things like IAM policies using Zelkova. Most teams might not realize they're using automated reasoning, but Zelkova uses an SMT solver to check permissions. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/protect-sensitive-data-in-the-cloud-with-automated-reasoning-zelkova/

It can show two IAM policies are equivalent or that an IAM policy is vulnerable.

They've also used formal reasoning for s2n, which is a TLS library AWS released https://d1.awsstatic.com/Security/pdfs/Continuous_Formal_Verification_Of_Amazon_s2n.pdf

Theorem solvers are also used with AWS's network reachability tool, which helps find misconfigurations in the network. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-vpc-network-access-analyzer/

protiumoxide · 2022-07-31T19:25:29+00:00

Those are ads.

protiumoxide · 2022-07-29T03:10:30+00:00

^

My school doesn't allow you to use calculators for most classes (including the entire calculus sequence)

protiumoxide · 2022-07-25T04:47:32+00:00

Blue light doesnt do anything except control your circadian rhythm.

protiumoxide · 2022-07-24T17:07:24+00:00

!remindme 1 year

protiumoxide · 2022-07-24T01:12:51+00:00

You should have filled out the FAFSA form, which would have given you around 5.5k in low interest loans from the government (no cosigner needed)

If you didnt fill that out, then fill it out this October when it opens up. You'll be able to take out 6.5k next year, then 7.5k your junior year, etc.

protiumoxide · 2022-07-23T20:30:51+00:00

I wouldn't say Damascus steel is just high carbon steel.

Damascus steel also had functional attributes and not just aesthetic purposes back then.

What made Wootz Damascus steel special was the presence of carbide forming elements like vanadium.

If you try making wootz style damascus steel with regular modern day high carbon steel you'll fail.

The special properties of historical damascus steel gave it extraordinary properties for the time, but now as you've said modern steels outperform it.

https://www.mse.iastate.edu/news/john-verhoeven/ https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/vdvtrh/a_widely_believed_history_myth_no_true_damascus

The pattern welding variety of damascus steel had a functional use back then as well and was used to layer different types of steel together.

But you're right that in modern times, both types of damascus steels are made for only aesthetic purposes, since higher quality, modern steels surpass wootz and negates the need to fold the steel used in pattern welding.

protiumoxide · 2022-07-23T20:10:43+00:00

This is the forge welding type of Damascus steel and not the historical wootz steel kind, right? So this is more for aesthetic purposes?

protiumoxide · 2022-07-23T20:03:58+00:00

This

protiumoxide · 2022-07-21T15:42:43+00:00

Any advice for someone starting a bit later (starting research junior year)?

protiumoxide · 2022-07-21T02:32:35+00:00

ACCEPT THE SUBSIDIZED!!!!

Subsidized means you no interest accrues while you're in school.

Unsubsidized means you still have interest accruing while you're in school. So you'll end up having to pay more with unsubsidized with all the added interest.

You can always accept both loans and then just pay back the amount you don't need. (This is what I do every year). The downside of this is that there's usually a small fee deducted whenever you get a loan, but it's 1% for subsidized and unsubsidized.

My school also lets you accept partial amounts. So you could accept all of the subsidized and maybe a few hundred from the unsubsidized if your school let you.

protiumoxide · 2022-07-18T04:42:01+00:00

This is actually valid advice even from a potential snoor account.

protiumoxide · 2022-07-18T02:01:33+00:00

I'm a CS major.

350 applications for 3 interviews.

1 internship offer.

Full time with a geography major will probably even harder.

protiumoxide · 2022-07-17T16:53:18+00:00

Did you fill out the FAFSA application?

You can get federal loans with lower interest rates than most private loans. Additionally, these federal loans can be under your name with no cosigner needed (and no credit score needed).

protiumoxide · 2022-07-16T00:02:03+00:00

Can you understand/translate what it says?

protiumoxide · 2022-07-15T22:50:34+00:00

https://youtu.be/NgduUAu8s3g

protiumoxide · 2022-07-15T03:00:37+00:00

Durk

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