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CoilKid

12:34 AM

@DaveCoffman man, that guy in the linked question is a [insert bad name here]! wow...

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Kyle Kanos

2:05 AM

@DaveCoffman Yes, you can click Flag at the bottom of the post & then select from the menu--in this case, a message to moderators (last option) would be the best bet.

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Kyle Kanos

3:07 AM

@waffle: o/

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

Hey @KyleKanos :P

Kyle Kanos

How goes it?

Haven't seen you in a whiles

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

Yeah... Well, most of the time, I can't get into hbar with my mobile network

Sadly, I don't think I'll get my broadband (I lost my hope in it)

Kyle Kanos

Awww

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

I've fixed my dialup (again), and I think it'll last for a few weeks (so, I'll be around) :)

@KyleKanos: How you doing?

Kyle Kanos

3:11 AM

Doing good

I've discovered that BoxLib is a lot easier than I first thought

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

Still in CFD, or job changed? :D

Kyle Kanos

I'm still in grad school doing computational astrophysics

I'm studying, though, to pass an interview for computational finance

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

Ah, oops... yeah, computational AP!! Pardon me, I forgot... :D

@KyleKanos finance? what are you gonna do there?

@KyleKanos (discovering through google)

Kyle Kanos

@Waffle'sCrazyPeanut Yep, it's an interesting field. I'd basically do Monte Carlo-Markov Chain simulations of options (stocks, bonds, etc)

Then see if a particular put/call is worth the investment

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

Nice! Interesting... :)

When's your interview? Tomorrow?

Kyle Kanos

3:16 AM

January

I have to self-learn Stochastic Calculus

I'm sitting in a probability models course

Which is actually very interesting and I think I'd be doing better than all the mathematicians in the course if I were actually taking it

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

Hah!!! :D

Kyle Kanos

A physicist gave a talk last semester about how many physics majors (at least at the BS level) don't necessarily want a PhD (and most don't get one either)

That we ought to be tuning our degree programs for those students who don't want the PhD

He did some research (not serious one with surveys and stuff, just talking with HR reps from major companies) and found that most companies preferred physicists over postition-majors (e.g., CS majors for a computational job)

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

@KyleKanos agreed...

@KyleKanos I don't understand - physicists over majors?

why so?

Kyle Kanos

So for a job in geology, they often prefer physicists than geologists because physicists can do the job just as well and pick up the techniques faster

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

This reminds me of a question (asked a few months back), where John Rennie answered, "A physicist can survive almost any job in the planet" (something like that), which is quite true! :D

Kyle Kanos

3:23 AM

Seemed to be the case more so for science-minded fields (lab sicences, engineering, etc) than not (e.g. law)

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

yeah...

@KyleKanos: Now, I wonder why you're looking for another job when you've got comp. AP?

Kyle Kanos

a few reasons

(1) I've got 4 kids and a faculty job here in the US starts around 55k, which is unsustainable with that many kids

(2) Research lab jobs are far & few between (but post-docs aplenty), and the ones that are available are across the US from family

(3) Post-docs are too temporary (2-3 years) to get, despite it leading to higher-paying faculty jobs

I'm already 31, I don't want to be getting my first real job at the age of 40

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

I understand... :D

@KyleKanos: Do you have opportunities? I mean, the job you're looking for - do you get it often? Or, are they rare?

Kyle Kanos

From what I understand, in order to get a job in finance you have to know someone who already works there

I am fortunate enough to know someone who already works there (he's my brother in law)

So i'll be getting the call for the interview

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

Lucky you! :D

Kyle Kanos

3:32 AM

I am lucky in this respect!

Hopefully I can impress them!

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

Good luck! :P (... on your interview too!) ;-)

Kyle Kanos

Thanks

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

So, I have an interesting exam tomorrow - "High Speed Aerodynamics"

I didn't care about that subject since the college started (as I was indulged in Classical Mechanics), but now I seem to like it...

Kyle Kanos

High speed aero...sounds interesting

Like Mach speeds, or still subsonic?

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

@KyleKanos No, always supersonic...

Kyle Kanos

3:37 AM

Fun fun

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

Honestly, it looks like supersonic flows have got more affinity for me, compared to subsonic & (boring) incompressible ones...

Kyle Kanos

Ouch. 390 lbs lineman hit a 200 lbs running back and concussed him

Clemson vs Florida State football game

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

You're watching football?

Kyle Kanos

Yep

American football

Not Soccer Football

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

@KyleKanos Oh, heh... I don't think I'll be able to differentiate one football from another! :P

Kyle Kanos

3:39 AM

American Football allows the use of the hands!

And they have pads on

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

Oh, that one... Yeah, I've seen that. :)

Kyle Kanos

(shoulder & chest pads, Soccer uses shin-guards)

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

(Well, I should admit that I'm not a great fan when it comes to sports) - So, I guess you'll have a million "sporty" things to convince me :P

Kyle Kanos

American Football is the only sport that I actually pay attention to

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

Yeah, I've eavesdropped you people chatting about that here once in a while... :)

Kyle Kanos

3:46 AM

Kickers are amazingly bad at their jobs at the college level

Clemson's kicker missed two field goal attempts from under 30 yards

Should be easy at that range

Now they're going to over-time because of that.

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

Hehe :D

@KyleKanos: You play football?

Kyle Kanos

Never, actually

My parents didn't want me to play in high school because of possible injuries & insurance

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

Well, you're at least good at criticizing it! :P

Kyle Kanos

It's not criticizing, it's point out facts! XD

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

Yeah... (like this one)

4 mins ago, by Kyle Kanos

Should be easy at that range

Kyle Kanos

3:50 AM

That's a fact!

The professional kickers (who come fro the college ranks) have like a >95% hit percentage!

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

Oooooohh...

@KyleKanos: You don't deal with subsonic flows in AP, right? Because, last semester, I had low speed aerodynamics. It was a horror! I really didn't like it very much...

Kyle Kanos

In that range, I mean

Actually, Supernovae are quite supersonic

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

(full of assumptions & stuff) - had to memorize a lot (I miserably failed memorizing that lot, that's why I hated it!

Kyle Kanos

Alright, game's over

Clemson lost

Heading to bed now

Gotta be up in 7 hours

Goodnight!

Waffle's Crazy Peanut

@KyleKanos I'm about to have my breakfast! :D

@KyleKanos Good night! :)

C'ya around later...

@KyleKanos finally....

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Physics Meta

5:25 AM

Q: Nav buttons (Questions, Tags, Users...) styling seems screwed up

The styling on my navbar buttons is a bit off. The font is a bit strange and the highlighted area overlaps the sort-by tabs. Mucking around in the DOM/Style inspector, if I uncheck the font-family property of .nav a it is magically fixed. I've hit Ctrl-F5 (cacheless refresh) to no avail. Not su...

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dmckee

8:27 AM

I'd like to direct the attention of the assembled throng to

A: What is the minimum distance between two opposite point charges

What we know is that the electrostatic force does not work nearby the nucleus. The interaction between the positive and the negative charged particles stops at some distance, where Quantum Mechanics describes it. These distances for small orbits are well studied. To calculate them is much more di...

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soumyadeep

11:14 AM

@Danu Hmmm:)).The first time i read it i was like -Bang-Whats this?!

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ACuriousMind

12:36 PM

@dmckee "The interaction between the positive and the negative charged particles stops at some distance"...what?

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CoilKid

2:53 PM

@KyleKanos Are you active?

dmckee

3:07 PM

@ACuriousMind Well, there are a couple of ways to be generous and say that the poster has not expressed him- or herself well, but the question needs a better answer one way or another.

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