oh jeez

dba moved my table and my tableau dashboard broke

problem is, I've forgotten how the joins worked...so I now need to figure out how to reproduce that data source...

uhhhhhhhh

oh yay, tableau allows me to just replace that data source by dragging another table over it

seems legit

I've seen a lot of job postings listing tableau experience. Is it the type of thing I could sit down for an afternoon and figure out?

Also have you heard of a company doing systems monitoring with ML? I was trying to find it, but forgot who was doing it

I have not heard of such a company

Tableau is just data visualization

it's one of those things I think it'd be best to just play around with it and make graphs until you figure out the functionalities

hmmm my brain needs better indexing for search

and ahh doesn't sound too bad

it makes some pretty graphs

but I'm not too happy with its "intuitiveness"

egtheory.wordpress.com/2018/11/10/russian-heuristics

also, it's really dumb that tableau tries to redo all the connections at every refresh

and won't let me cancel them nicely -.-

@bolbteppa not sure what the question is, you mean the new Meissner-Nicolai theory?

If you have a function like tanh that has some vertical asymptote, would you say that value is in the range? Like do you have $\tanh: \mathbb{R} \to [-1, 1]$ or $\tanh: \mathbb{R} \to (-1, 1)$?

@Johnrennie you there ?

@vzn yeah

Does anyone know the answer? physics.stackexchange.com/questions/441381/…

@bolbteppa almost )( nobody has spoken positively of Tenev-Horstemeyer here other than me (to say the least; there has been very strong criticism/ pushback). the Meissner-Nicolai work/ innovation has pros and cons. its a different angle. if physorg had written on Tenev-Horstemeyer, youre right, it wouldnt be much different.

arxiv is full of hundreds, thousands of papers full with speculation. how to separate the needle in the haystack? signal in the noise? only time will tell™ the future is already here its just not evenly distributed™ the pioneers are the ones with the arrows in their backs™

its all about kuhnianism + human unpredictability + bias. yes, popsci coverage (where physorg is close to that) can help build momentum around a theory. why did physorg pick one theory over another? its the collective id in play so to speak. also... the truth is out there™

::X files theme plays::

@ACuriousMind since you are the moderator, I must respect your authority. But give me the possibility of telling you that the questions that I have made were absolutely related in order to understand the physical meaning of that potential. I haven't asked unrelated questions. On the contrary, the additional questions were useful to understand my difficulties with that kind of theories.

@newUser Oh, I understand that you ask all these questions to a specific end. But what matters here is whether they can be answered separately - if they can, they should be asked as individual questions.

@ACuriousMind I have edited the question

@ACuriousMind I am pretty sure that if you answer one question, all the other answers follow immediately. This is the reason why I have just wrote a single post.

@ACuriousMind There's DiFrancesco at a french lab

Gonna try to apply there :p

Didn't know you were into CFT :P

I'm into CFT over web development

hell I'm even looking into stat mech thesises

@Slereah Saclay is very far from Paris. Get used to walk a lot :D

Hell I went to Saclay for my software engineering degree

I've been there before

Also I don't live in Paris at all

So the issue is more getting a flat there

are you going to apply for post-doc?

Though so far the first problem is just getting a thesis at all

Just a doc for a start!

It's not looking that good

Trying to find a theoretical physics PhD that will take me and is financed isn't easy

I have spent some times in Saclay, if you need any suggestion...

Well, if you need a PhD student :p

I'm there!

I am still a PhD student eheh

You can delegate some of that work onto me :p

Pyramid scheme PhD

What are you doing your thesis on?

ahah

different topics, from EFTs to EW phase transitions

this is why I am studying cosmology from Weinberg's book

@Slereah only one advice. Look for young researchers

EW?

@newUser I'm not in a field where I can really ask for a specific kind

I've got to cast a broad net

@Slereah electroweak, I'd guess

The guy who answered me for a thesis is also an electroweak thesis

it's not looking so good

@Slereah Yes, Electroweak

@Slereah It depends. The topic is too vague

edpif.org/fr/recrutement/prop2019/Prop_LPTHE_ANTONIADIS.pdf

this one

He is asking for quite a level though

oh wait, different thesis I'm thinking of

@Slereah Antoniadis is not young at all eheh

it depends on what you want to work on

So far he's the only one who answered with something other than "No thesis!" though

Also I'm not young either

I am an old man now

how old?

32

RIP me

it is not a problem at all

you have to be motivated ;)

You can say that again when I actually found a thesis :p

@vzn ahah

@Slereah Did you ask Anton.. about doing it

I did

No way

Well, depends what you mean by "doing it"

What happened

If you mean the thesis, yes

"Thank you for your interest. The problem with my thesis proposal is that it requires a good knowledge of some theoretical courses that you may have not taken: advanced QFT, supersymmetry and supergravity and introduction to string theory (besides particles physics of the Standard Model end Beyond, GR and cosmology). If you think you can compete for a fellowship in EDPIF, you can send me a detailed CV with grades of the last years and a list of corses that you have taken."

You mean the phd or an msc

It's not looking too good

PhD

Already got a master

Ah

Have you done any of those before (on paper)

Well not in class

My master wasn't that great on theory

Mostly basic QFT and cosmology

I did do some stuff on my own, though not a lot of SUSY

Sent him a mail with what I did, though I'm not holding much hope

Especially if I have to compete for financing

@Slereah Where are you from?

Lille right now

Unfortunately there ain't nothing good there

So, are you looking thesis in France?

have you tried abroad?

France and Belgium

I challenge you to find me a places that teaches a sugra course

Well his university, I guess

He's at the ENS

He is not at the ecole polytechnique anymore?

Lemme check

Is there like an msc course on it there

lpthe.jussieu.fr/spip/spip.php?page=member167

there

Let's see the courses

It's apparently associated to la sorbonne

@vzn the point is you really have no idea either way, whether the Tenev stuff is any different from the Nic stuff, I really have no idea why you wouldn't end up espousing the idea in that article as the real answer to everything - the only difference I can see is a completely arbitrary anti-establishment variable :p

phys.ens.fr/spip.php?rubrique342

I think it's that one

See there isn't even a susy course there

Might be in " Advanced Topics in Quantum Field Theory "

moodle.polytechnique.fr/enrol/index.php?id=3447

'This course will cover a selection of advanced topics in quantum field theory (anomalies, instantons, monopoles etc...).'

Different title course, same lecturer, probably same course

Man I really shouldn't have stayed in Nantes for my master

Our school sucks

'one example for physics beyond the standard model : supersymmetry' in the SM course, but it would be almost nothing on it I'd say

Between now and starting time one could prep as if they were doing a course on these things

Well I told him all I did and that I was willing to brush up on it during the lead up to the 2019 PhD season

Not much more I can do

Yeah

I should probably buy that SUSY book you recommended

Get the Demystified one

Do the more advanced one later

amazon.com/Supersymmetry-DeMYSTiFied-Patrick-Labelle/dp/…

the hell is that cover

Your future self super-fied

God I hope not

Still got a bunch of leads

Plus really

PhD season for 2019 is all the way up to october 2019

So I'll be at it all year

Funding season isn't though

Tell me about it

After X-mas your best chance goes, but then ads will still come up with funding so it's up to chance offerings

Yeah

but then again even before it is quite up to chance

(I'd read responses like that as insurance on their side and as an opportunity to assuage worries about lasting/coping)

Theoretical physics isn't really a field with a plethora of easy to get thesis

@vzn that Nic article is different from almost everything else in that it claims to get gravity into the sm, in a completely different league to (what you think is) some alternative classical way of viewing classical GR

phys.org/news/…

It's too bad doing a thesis on classical GR isn't really a thing anymore

More my thing

Gotta throw in all that quantum

Cosmology would be a sneaky way to do that no

@bolbteppa definitely do have an idea, others dont have same ideas, or have few to no ideas... have outlined the thinking behind it in here + my blog repeatedly, it falls on deaf ears :P :(

I don't even think you can do theoretical cosmology these days without a hefty dose of QFT

either that or you just do a lot of experimental stuff

findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=103029

unisa.edu.au/Research/Research-degrees/Scholarships/…

Thanks

London's not too far I suppose

Can go back home on the weekend

imprs-gcq.aei.mpg.de/9150/potential-phd-projects

'Conservation laws for linearized gravity on black hole spacetimes'

'The Willmore functional and related functionals in GR'

'Global numerical evolution of radiative asymptotically flat spacetimes from Cauchy data'

'Critical behaviour and cosmic censorship in the gravitational collapse of axisymmetric matter fields'

Nice but Munich's a bit far from me probably :p

Well I can try I suppose

Loads of potential ones anyway

It's quite a bother that I bought a flat really

Feels annoying to have to leave it behind

Could rent it out

Yeah I suppose

@vzn ideas that make sense and can be justified, I've really tried to explain the fatal (basic) flaw with your ideas and no response

Munich professors have the tendency of nonreplying.

They all do

but y'know

As I said

Gotta cast a broad net

Though if I'm looking far abroad

Maybe I should try to write to the few guys I actually have read their papers

I read Giulini's paper but after writing to him, he doesn't reply me.

Fewster's in York

That's not toooo far

Hawking's not too far either but he is also dead

you'd still have to read his huge book

Hawking didn't write a huge book

only to then get silent guidance :p

You're thinking of Ringstrom

Fuck Ringstrom's book is huge

@bolbteppa That's not a book

It's a compilation of articles!

Hm, Ringstrom is in Sweden

is reading professors' papers helpful in contacting professors? I find professors wouldn't reply my questions in their papers via email; maybe they lack time. Only my MSc advisor has done that.

@CaptainBohemian It depends

I wrote a few people about their papers

Response rate is about 50%

@Slereah I mean whether they reply you about the specific questions in their papers, not whether they will give position.

I repropose the question... :D if anyone knows the answer... physics.stackexchange.com/questions/441381/…

That is what I meant, yes

At the end of the day, your best chance is reading or knowing some of their papers and writing based off that

or applying to a place which accepts general applications (e.g. oxbridge, usa) and seeing what happens

@Slereah really? they bother to reply you with detail answers with math by LaTeX?

Well I mean, don't expect a full paper as a reply

But they may answer specific questions, yes

Krasnikov, Geroch and Ellis did

I will jot down these names Krasnikov, Geroch and Ellis for the possibility of sending them emails with physics questions.

Geroch was pretty nice

I read the papers of a Munich professor and even posted a question issuing from those papers in physics forum but nobody replies me.

about Higgs mechanism for gravity

hey nice

Fewster has a PhD program thing

"PhD supervision is available in any of the areas listed above, or more generally in quantum field theory in curved spacetimes."

I'm sending him one

You're touching 'the quantum'

Eh that's fine

hey do you know about I. E. Irodov's thermodynamics book

I have the russian but couldn't find any english translation

do you know if there is one?

@Blue thanks! That's what I suspected, but wasn't entirely sure. I suppose it's similar to a function being undefined for some point in its domain and having an asymptote

@bolbteppa ("finding a way to agree") we agree there is some flawed thinking going on :P

Physics is hard man

hmmm speaking of blind spots, lets count how many phds with topnotch credentials endorse ideas you/ others snap dismiss/ reject... oh nevermind, whatever™...

@Blue Can you recommend any other currently studying for ipho and resnick and its derrivatives are boooooring

@vzn This Tenev stuff is fatally flawed :p, there's a big difference, why would you choose it over the article I sent which is not so inherently broken

(lol) lets see, a few names off the top of my head: t' hooft, susskind, bush, couder, wolfram, feynman, fredkin, tenev + horstemeyer, bell... etc

Are tests and olympiads super common in India or am I just getting sampling bias from being here? I don't remember anyone really doing those things when I was in high school. I was one of the few people who even took the ACT

They are pretty common in India but I am not

that's right

That's going to take a lot to get right in my head with Blue being from India and Yellow being blue

:D

that's the point

but why does it matter we might just be bots :D

If you guys are bots, you should sell your technology to Amazon so my echo can actually answer questions :D

I can finish irodovs electromagnetism book in a night

such an easy read

it looks fine

not like griffiths tho

I personally like griffiths better but irodov has great problems and a smooth flow

it is a better fit for olympiad study

do you guys know of any books which is the goldstein of electrodynamics

will check it

I've liked the parts of Jackson that I've had a solid understanding of at the level of Griffiths since he mentioned some mathematical details that Griffiths left out. I felt like I was lost at sea when looking at some stuff in Jackson that I didn't have earlier knowledge of though

i know but goldstein is a great book

I didn't know anyone that took it and never really heard of it until some math YouTube channel (3B1B?) mentioned it

that's usually the way with grad level stuff

Though my high school was terribly weak in math/science now that I look back at it. Sadly it was by far the best high school around though