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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I’m not sure I buy that. It’s not exactly a non-restrictive phrase in this case because the sentence “I like how someone did so with poor grammar.” does not seem like the original intent. You can shoehorn that argument I suppose, but it certainly just looks more like an errant comma.

    If I were to guess, I think OP thought they had an adverbial phrase (I think that’s the right term) that needed to be set apart with a comma, but, in actual fact, it both was not and did not.





  • There are 2D monitors though.

    You can project a 3d object into 2d space and you can do the same with 4d into 3d, but collapsing more than that generally loses too much information. Edit: If you include movement you can reduce this effect somewhat depending what you’re doing.

    Your portrait is now just a colored line the height of your subject, and this “4D cube” doesn’t mean anything because it looks like a 3d cube with a smaller cube cut out of the middle of it. Unless you’re really into geometry I guess it you dropped a /s.




  • More than you would think. Most people don’t show up to ask to do research in my opinion. I got my first one by literally walking up to a Prof after class and saying “I like this. Do you know anyone who does research like this?”. He said “me”, gave me a test project, and I worked for him for like almost 20 years.

    I should say I also did this my freshman year (the year before the story above) and I got referred to a different guy in the department where I worked for a summer but it didn’t work out for either of us. Turns out I’m more engineer than physicist, but it was good knowledge.

    Edit: To be more direct about numbers, you’re right there’s not a spot for everybody or even half, but when I was in undergrad way less than that even went looking for research, they just did the job fair every year mostly and were students the rest of the time which was… not as reliable a strategy we will say.



  • This advice won’t be helpful to you unfortunately, but if there are students reading, the answer as others have said is already being connected. A key way to make this happen is through research with faculty followed by (potentially) internships and then full time offers. If you just show up and kick ass every day for 3 to 5 years and even get a 4.0 GPA the market will still be very tough.

    Bonus points though which might help OP: anything you can do that narrows the pool helps you. For example, if you’re a white bread american dude maybe look for a job that requires getting a clearance, if you’re mandarin Chinese maybe look for something that requires some translation or speaking, etc. You may not be the best programmer or the best salesman, but you might be a top tier salesman for programming tools.









  • Hot take:

    This article is probably on to something for guys who knee-jerk say that tofu is bad, (that disgust reaction also maps pretty nicely to conservative vs liberal views as a fun extra fact), but also… tofu is fine.

    It is not great, it’s not bad, it’s fine. There are a few dishes I prefer it, and I like fish tofu and soft tofu for hot pot, but generally it’s fine.

    What I really think is that this article is picking a fight, and that’s cool with me because tomorrow night I’m getting a dry aged wagyu ribeye for my birthday. I feel a little guilty about it, but I feel the same amount of guilty as I feel sorry for the insecure person who wrote this article as a burn.

    🤷🔥



  • I’ll add the book to my list.

    I am not suggesting by the way that words should never change in meaning. Rather, I don’t think that the default mode shouldn’t be “ah well whatever, let’s just add a new colloquial definition”. The dictionary can chase language, but maybe it shouldn’t go at exactly the same pace that people say things on tik tok.

    I came across a word I had never seen before this week in a book I’m reading (“schismogenesis” which is apparently a common word in anthropology, but not for engineering) and I immediately had a working definition. This is the reward for learning to me. I have another friend who did similar schooling and he is of the opinion that knowing “$5 words” is stupid and is reading the same book as part of our book club. I can’t imagine what it must be like for him to read a book and constantly feel like all you’re getting is the gist. The dumbing down of language eliminates nuance because the real depth doesn’t come at the 4th grade reading level it feels like descriptivism wants to sink to.

    I don’t like flattening out language to meet the least common denominator.