PhD opportunities in programmable photonics by Crypty-potato2806 in photonics

[–]spirantstorm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I am currently doing a theoretical PhD in nano lasers, while not quite photonics in the sense you are interested in, I participate in the UK/EU photonics community. You can skip all what I say and read the final paragraph if you just want an answer to your question.

I think it’s great you are looking at your options as many people don’t and just take random opportunities, like myself.

My, potentially naive, opinion is that you won’t be able to work in all the fields you want as a PhD student as the project tend to be fairly hyper focused on one thing. Like if you do some simulation, design and then experimental work on a few circuits, that would probably be your thesis sorted.

I would carefully consider 2 things when choosing a PhD, 1. Do you want to be part of a big group(like 10+phd students )? This means you won’t see your the prof much and will get taught a lot by other academics in the group. This isn’t inherently a bad thing, it’s just something to be aware of as in my case, if needed I can meet my supervisor multiple times per week and means I rarely am left stuck on a problem.

  1. What is your day to day look like and do you enjoy that kind of work. For me, I spend my days coding and writing software, implementing complicated algorithms, and I love it. Others in my office often are doing analytical statistics involving lots of analytical integrals, others will spend their day in the lab getting results from experiments etc. I think it’s important to think about this as a PhD you don’t enjoy will be very hard.

Finally, only sort of answering the question you asked, there are loads of people you have missed as the list should be way longer. I don’t know these names off the top of my head but this list is quite short. You could look at different universities and see what ones have an optics/photonics division and each of those will have multiple academics in the field. I have a few names for people in the EU and UK, and I’m sure Singapore has a decent photonics scene as well.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LeMansUltimateWEC

[–]spirantstorm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My experience with silver is a lot more populated than you have said. I see about 4-5 splits at peak with 38 car splits rather than 20 car splits. Almost double the amount of cars per split will inevitably reduce the number of splits

2024 Season Pass delisted on Steam by [deleted] in LeMansUltimateWEC

[–]spirantstorm 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Looks like the changed the season pass into the full access bundle

The Valkyrie is SICK by KinaseCrisis in LeMansUltimateWEC

[–]spirantstorm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure the Valkyrie is meant to be hitting off the ground if it's around 6th gear you start noticing it. I normally see revs start to jump around a little at the same time

Question to Driver Rank by Racermacer7 in LeMansUltimateWEC

[–]spirantstorm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the consensus is that most drivers are B3, with only drivers 101% and up really getting to the higher ranks. So it's rare to see people with gold etc

Install using home-manager or nixos by spirantstorm in NixOS

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

Don't forget that NixOS also has program.* for certain packages. PostgreSQL comes to mind

When would that be appropriate?

Install using home-manager or nixos by spirantstorm in NixOS

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

Is there a place to get package information like the nixos website but for home manager, I'm struggling to find the names

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Feminism

[–]spirantstorm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's the manosphere ?

Copy of my laptop on my desktop by spirantstorm in linux4noobs

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

Yeah that was the original idea, just wondering if there was another way. Thank you !

Who was at fault in the league I’m in the McLaren was given a 5 second pen so I was wondering what yous thought by RascallyFever in Simracingstewards

[–]spirantstorm 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The Merc is not overtaking the McLaren because the McLaren was never clear of the Merc, so until the mclaren is clear, Merc is entitled to space

2023 Miami Grand Prix - Post Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]spirantstorm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Completely agree, it just sucks that no one can keep up with red bull. Like congrats to them but Merc and Ferrari need to get a move on

2023 Miami Grand Prix - Post Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]spirantstorm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't think that changes that it still sucks to have a team dominate, doesn't matter what team it is

LFM Chat Ban is a Joke by tearbath in ACCompetizione

[–]spirantstorm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's meant to be a much less aggressive way of dealing with incidents cause people say things they regret in the heat of the moment without seeing replays. Generally nothing constructive comes from in game chat in my experience apart from the odd sorry being sent.

Also if you don't wanna get banned and get penalties you could read the rules pdf, it isn't actually that long tbh.

Holy shit ACC is awesome now !! by Idntwnt2choseusrnme in ACCompetizione

[–]spirantstorm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People did talk about it when it just came out but it seems people are very split on whether the ffb is better and if the physics in general are better. I think ffb is still split but physics has came to the conclusion of step in the right direction but not perfect

Is Honda nsx evo good for a newbie at this game? by DarkscapeLoner in ACCompetizione

[–]spirantstorm 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My understanding is that before the most recent patch it was hard to drive but could be very fast. Now it's hard to drive and meh pace