tcpekin

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by tcpekin 7mo ago
Does anyone have a keyboard suggestion that is multilanguage and has a comma on the top layer? German without a comma is, troublesome.
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by tcpekin 1y ago
Satellites are also a big use case.
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by tcpekin 2y ago
This is not a superalloy (i.e. turbine blade material), just a strong normal aluminum alloy that can be additively manufactured.
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by tcpekin 2y ago
This is not a medium entropy alloy, it's a standard alloy in terms of the ratio of components, which forms medium entropy intermetallic precipitates which gives the alloy it's properties. Intermetallic MEA is an odd term I'm
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by tcpekin 3y ago
Feel free to reach out to the email above, I think it's one of the most interesting jobs I could have gotten coming out of a postdoc due to the mix of physics and real world, technically interesting problem solving.
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by tcpekin 3y ago
I don't speak for the whole company, but in our project we are heavily Python based, Julia might be used by the central research team or something though.
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by tcpekin 3y ago
Here are some example positions: https://zeissgroup.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Jena/S... https://zeissgroup.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Jena/Q... https:/&#
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by tcpekin 3y ago
Carl Zeiss SMT/SMS | Jena/Oberkochen/Rossdorf & remote, Germany | Multiple Roles | Full-Time | Hybrid (some onsite required) | English, some German very helpful | https://www.zeiss.de/semiconductor-manufac
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by tcpekin 3y ago
Grad students at Cal cost a professor ~100k a year, and then leave after 2-5 years with any optimizations they might have personally made. They also only work 6-12 hours a day, and having been said grad student, get mind numbingly bored aft
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by tcpekin 3y ago
The others might move wafers 24/7 but they don't have three shifts of R&D scientists and engineers working to continuously analyze the results/improve yield/performance 24/7. TSMC does.
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by tcpekin 4y ago
I worked as a grad student in LBL/UC Berkeley for 5 years. At the time I didn't want to make a career of it, but if I had to go back to a national lab, that might be the one. The culture was department dependent, but at the Molecu
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by tcpekin 4y ago
I am 99% sure I know him - shares your same first initial? Tell him hello from me (TC Pekin), I always liked talking to him during some down time, and the feeling was mutual. As a grad student I always liked talking to him and hearing about
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by tcpekin 4y ago
I've made a website that does very rudimentary simulation of transmission electron microscopy diffraction patterns, as a tool for myself and other researchers. Was a big leap for me learning how to do so, but it's been fun (and fr
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by tcpekin 4y ago
I agree with this, my alcohol consumption has really tailed off after I started training for a marathon. It is impossible for me to actually train hungover and the required amount of training just so you can finish is 4-5x a week.
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by tcpekin 4y ago
I'm a researcher, so I do move/access a lot of data locally (10s of Gbs, not Tbs usually). Lots of Jupyter/IPython interactive workflows. Starting to run some more web development stuff/Docker containers.
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by tcpekin 4y ago
Mac M1 Air | 16 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | Purchased Dec 2021, used daily since === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) Critical W
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by tcpekin 4y ago
Whoops sorry for the late response - somewhat yes. You can configure a Jupyter workflow to work like this, but I don't find that I, or many other people do, as it takes more discipline to not hop around cells. One of the main differenc
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by tcpekin 4y ago
The way I get around this is to start an IPython interpreter, and run .py files with `run -i file1.py`. This loads things into memory in the interpreter, and then I can run file2.py with the actual analysis, and iterate with file2.py until
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by tcpekin 4y ago
Mind boggling pictures - really shows just a tiny part of the scale, and just how manual the whole process still is. I can't imagine the difficulty of trying to upgrade systems that are 30-50 years old and maintain compatibility.
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by tcpekin 4y ago
Is that correct? I am a postdoc at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and I'm at the TV-L 13 level, Stufe 3, which is ~3300 post tax.
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by tcpekin 4y ago
This happened to me with a 8+ year old account. By no means was I a power user, maybe having only bought a few things over those 8 years. I go to sell a pair of shoes, the leather type being `Waxed Flesh` somewhere in the description, for l
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The aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi’s paradox(arxiv.org)
2 points by tcpekin 4y ago|0 comments
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Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine(newyorker.com)
113 points by tcpekin 5y ago|387 comments
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Scan of the Month – Instant Cameras(scanofthemonth.com)
1 points by tcpekin 5y ago|0 comments
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by tcpekin 5y ago
I guess this is expected, but still disappointing. Unlimited upload was what first got me to buy the original Pixel. I have been using the compressed photos for a while to save on space since upgrading, but didn't really know exactly h
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by tcpekin 5y ago
Congrats to Josh for a 7 figure payout - I just hope it remains as barrier-free as it does now.
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by tcpekin 5y ago
Does anyone know who is behind this site? I couldn't find anything poking around, and for such a cool website to (in my mind) blow up so suddenly is very surprising, with very cool content as well. I'd be interested in following a
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by tcpekin 5y ago
Why is this compiler optimization beneficial with -ffinite-math-only and -fno-signed-integers? From if (x > y) { do_something(); } else { do_something_else(); } to the form if (x <= y) { do_som
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by tcpekin 5y ago
The number of available valence shell electrons, not the atomic nuclei is typically the controlling factor for macroscale chemical properties of elements. This typically is in balance with the nucleus' positive charge, but does not hav
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by tcpekin 5y ago
Postdoc in Materials Science/Physics currently at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. I guess it's tech adjacent, but I did my PhD at Berkeley which exposed me a lot to tech and therefore this site.

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