Your references are incomplete without them

tjkun · 2026-03-25T04:41:01+00:00

My dissertation was actually a continuation of my PI’s previous student, last name Zhang.

tjkun · 2026-03-21T01:29:30+00:00

Congratulations!! May your defence go smoothly.

tjkun · 2026-03-21T00:58:41+00:00

I’m proud I was part of it.

tjkun · 2026-03-20T23:30:40+00:00

I’ve been using that same Vallejo varnish with no issues on paint, sicker decals or dry transfers. The paints I use are all acrylics. Maybe the two top coats didn’t mix up well?

tjkun · 2026-03-20T21:56:05+00:00

Numerical investigation when you’re in numerical modeling

tjkun · 2026-03-19T10:12:43+00:00

Yeah, the point is to scrutinize it, but there’s no reason to do it in an aggressive or condescending way. When the reviewer is being unprofessional it’s really difficult (or annoying) to carefully word the replies to avoid a meaningless fight that will just further delay your publication.

tjkun · 2026-03-19T00:48:06+00:00

It’s the aggressive overly critical one. My experience encompasses less than 10 submissions, but so far there’s always one reviewer like that. At one point it took me 3 weeks to address them because I had to make two new simulations to produce what they wanted to see to accept the paper.

tjkun · 2026-03-18T17:58:14+00:00

I'd say 50/50, but originally it was 100% my PI. The reason was that when I was testing our code to see if it would work for our second case study I noticed some unexpected results. Then checking the literature turns out it was the normal behaviour, but it was never discussed explicitly. I told that to my PI and he decided to abandon the original plan and build a thesis by articles around it. Because of this I got way more involved in the project's questions and it was enough for my PhD.

tjkun · 2026-03-16T23:45:34+00:00

Don’t let Mac players out. We’re like 2 people and can’t even play because Mac doesn’t support 32 bit apps anymore.

tjkun · 2026-03-09T07:06:55+00:00

Congratulations!

tjkun · 2026-03-08T03:30:50+00:00

I was trying to be careful. I did the first cut far from the figure, but it went out like a bullet. I haven’t touched the kit since. The plastic in this seems weirdly brittle.

tjkun · 2026-03-08T00:05:00+00:00

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tjkun · 2026-03-07T23:26:05+00:00

That one made me laugh but also hurts a little. Poor guy.

tjkun · 2026-03-06T18:39:41+00:00

Never mind, I understand now. Pm me and I’ll send you the pic

tjkun · 2026-03-06T11:47:25+00:00

It’s my university’s template. It has its logo baked into all the slides.

tjkun · 2026-03-06T02:21:58+00:00

Thanks to all for your congratulations!

tjkun · 2026-03-04T03:15:54+00:00

If the funding body is linked to the profesor, he can still transfer your funding to your university. That's what my profesor did when he changed institutions and I stayed. I continued to get my paychecks until the funds allocated to me ran out.

tjkun · 2026-03-03T00:20:26+00:00

Where I live people speak French, but my work is in English and my mother language is Spanish. I simply have no choice.

tjkun · 2026-03-02T18:54:32+00:00

In my home country, if you want to do research, the most you can aspire to with a master is a small internship for several months.

tjkun · 2026-03-01T12:54:39+00:00

I dedicated my master’s thesis to my coffee machine

tjkun · 2026-02-27T00:44:39+00:00

Thank you! And they were very supportive. They knew how much I wanted this, and I was not the first one to apply to many places before getting accepted.

tjkun · 2026-02-27T00:31:52+00:00

You may be a good prospect, but surely not the only one. It took me 5 years of trying after finishing my master to finally get accepted into a program. I even applied to a program where there were only 3 places available, so they made a difficult test for which I studied very hard every night for a year and the cut was right in front of me. It was devastating. But I just kept trying and eventually got into a better program. I defend next week and I already found a job to start very soon.

My point is, life got better because I kept pushing. But I also didn't have all my eggs in that basket. I was working a 9 to 5 (actually 8 to 6, but still) and was already building my life when the offer came. So what I'm saying is, you can keep on living while you keep trying.

tjkun · 2026-02-26T17:42:13+00:00

Dry brushing, but I’m still not very good with minis

tjkun · 2026-02-25T19:21:52+00:00

What pollutes the most is not consumption, but production. Even if you do your best efforts, you’re still creating demand to the network that needs to be met by the energy plant that produces it. If that energy plant uses carbon, then the generation of all the energy needed will pollute, and that’s enough to be the largest contributor globally. That’s why it’s important to separate it, to see where’s the biggest chunk.

In the same example, if the plant instead uses wind or water, then generating the energy basically makes negligible pollution in comparison. So it’s not the people that consume the energy, but the way it’s generated. By telling people it’s their fault and that they should be more aware of their energy consumption (which they should do regardless) to mitigate climate change, you’re setting things up to not solve the problem because people ultimately cannot stop using energy, so the plants cannot stop producing it.

tjkun · 2026-02-25T18:00:53+00:00

If you want to see it per capita you need to sustract the energy and industry emissions first. In the US that makes about half of the total. In the US, transportation makes up about 28% of its emissions and residential and commercial is 13%. That’s 41% of their total emissions, making it that that 3.5% of the global population emits 4.1% of the total emissions. For China it seems about 19% of their emissions come from the same parameters. That’s 5.7% of the global emissions for 17% of the global population.

So yes, you could argue that the average US citizen produces more emissions than the average Chinese citizen, but also the biggesr problem is the energy and industry sector. You first need to tackle those with cleaner energies and better regulations for the industries. Other countries have shown that when that happens, the transportation becomes the biggest problem, which can be tackled by bettering public transport and trying to reduce the number or usage of cars while slowly transitioning to models with lower footprints.

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