drail
@drail@fedia.io
Just a guy, bout to get my PhD in experimental particle physics. I like hockey, basketball, DND, science, and audio equipment.
Go Nuggets! Go Avs!
Migrated here due to ongoing issues on kbin:
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- Comment on LaTeX Master Race 4 months ago:
Not to dunk on word, if I need slightly more flexibility than a native .txt reader, it will do in a pinch. That being said:
Word: Oh, you want a table? Good luck getting your excel sheet to cary everything over properly, and god forbid you change a formula. You want to write it natively in word? Lol no.
Latex: tabularx goes brrrr
Word: Equations? Have fun properly tracking equation numbers and manually formatting your text to center justified every time.
Latex: $ $, /( /), and \begin{equation} go brrrr.
Word: Figures? Hope you anchored everything properly, it would be a shame if your entire document layout got shifted...
Latex: What the fuck is an anchor? top, here, bottom, those are your option. Add an exclamation mark if you're feeling spicy.
- Comment on LaTeX Master Race 4 months ago:
My former colleague and I both decided on the same template for our dissertation, but hers looked wonky with the default margins. Sacrificing that lamb to have slightly tighter margins was worth it, even if the eldritch ramblings keep me awake at night.
- Comment on LaTeX Master Race 4 months ago:
I did all my Quantum Field Theory homework in Latex, the professor required it. My classmates would write everything out by hand and then transcribe it, meanwhile my officemate and I could think/write/math in Latex, so we only had to write our homework once. The prof lifted the requirement halfway through the semester after everyone else complained, but I never looked back.
The only thing that prevented a 100% Latex-only semester was the goddam section where we had to draw Wick diagrams. There just wasn't a reliable way to draw them on my computer, as the Feynman diagram tools stuggled with the nuances of Wick diagrams. I still included the hand-drawn versions as figures in Latex, but it felt like cheating.
I did figure out how to write the Wick's theorem bracket notation in Latex though (not that I'll ever need to again), so that made up for it a bit. I wager that I spent more time researching obscure Latex packages than actually solving the problems that semester.
I love Latex so much, I even made a template for generating profesional looking DND item cards for my table that I submitted to overleaf:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/d-and-d-item-card-template/ndfdspmmxnrn - Comment on Do a PhD, they said. 6 months ago:
My boss read the first chapter I turned in, decided I know what I am doing, gave me some basic feedback, and has completely checked out since then lol.
- Comment on Do a PhD, they said. 6 months ago:
I am half way done with mine, which means I only have 3/4 left to write, then I will be 90% done.
- Comment on The Nuggets got smacked in the mouth at home. Tonight they returned the favor in the Twin Cities. 7 months ago:
That is what I keep saying! The team I like should just play amazing basketball every time and then they won't lose! I am waiting for my offer from the Denver coaching staff to bring this kind of advice.
- The Nuggets got smacked in the mouth at home. Tonight they returned the favor in the Twin Cities.fedia.io ↗Submitted 7 months ago to nba@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on [Game Threads] 04 MAY 2024 - PLAYOFFS RD 2 DAY 1 7 months ago:
Good lord, it is a slugfest already. Seeing these teams both be under 50 at the half was not something I expected, but this us a gritty, grimy game
- Comment on THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENTION 7 months ago:
Thanks! I absolutely pinched the style/format from your Suns post, but I thought the recap+outlook style was a really neat element in an elimination post to make it more than just a brag as a nuggets fan.
- Submitted 7 months ago to nba@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Jamal Murray hits insane game winner vs Lakers to eliminate them from playoffs!! 7 months ago:
Ayo, can I post the 'Eliminated from contention' post for the lakers? Don't wanna step on mods toes if that is a mod privilege.
- Comment on Jamal Murray hits insane game winner vs Lakers to eliminate them from playoffs!! 7 months ago:
This was a game winner to win the nuggets first round playoff matchup, which is always a big deal, but there are three things that are particularly impressive here:
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Jamal Murray was injured coming into this game, so the fact that he held strong through the game, played great basketball, and hit the game winner is impressive.
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The degree of difficulty on that shot was massive. Going left and shooting right requires perfect balance, focus, and contortion to get the shot off properly. Murray used this to catch the Lakers' Austin Reaves off guard and get a clean look, leveraging a difficult shot against an even more difficult to defend attack.
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This is the 2nd game winner Jamal Murray has hit this playoff series, both of which were highly difficult shots. Big time shot maker making big time shots.
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- Submitted 7 months ago to nba@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on [Game Threads] 29 APR 2024 - PLAYOFFS RD 1 DAY 10 7 months ago:
Jamal Murray has ice water in his veins. Good god that man is a big time, big moment shot maker.
- Comment on 🚨 NBA Bans Jontay Porter 8 months ago:
Man, the Porter family is the worst combination of unlucky, injury prone, and self destructive. MPJ's injuries, Bri and Cierra's injuries, Coban with the DUI/Vehicular Homicide, and now Jontay with a betting scandal.
- Comment on [Game Threads] 25 MAR 2024 8 months ago:
Hell of a win for my birthday, love seeing the young guys get good run and watching Jokić feast! Got a vintage nuggets mountain logo hoodie, a throwback Alex English rainbow skyline jersey, and a 23-24 city edition flat-brim to watch the game in full drip.
- Comment on How to NGAF 8 months ago:
You smoking chicken dick if you think I'm frying fried fuck
- Submitted 9 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on puns 9 months ago:
Neutrello sounds good, but it is actually pretty...
weak
Rimshot, crowd moans
- Comment on puns 9 months ago:
In physics- Like "quart" with a k
In the Joyce novel- rhymes with park. - Comment on puns 9 months ago:
Gell-Mann said it sounds like "quart", Joyce rhymed it with Park, it is a silly word and the pronunciation is as fluid as you desire.
- Comment on puns 9 months ago:
Physics is a mixed bag with this stuff. Gell-Mann came up with the name quarks after a line from Finnegan's Wake because Joyce referenced them as coming in three. It was a nonsense word inserted just to rhyme with Mark, Park, etc, so its pronunciation in physics isn't even correct, but it was fun and physicists were just having a good time with it.
Three quarks for Muster Mark!
Sure he has not got much of a bark
And sure any he has it’s all beside the mark.Then we got the strange/charm and top/bottom (which was originally the beauty/truth, so bullet dodged there) so the quarks really got all the fun names.
Neutrinos (my field of study), had so much potential for fun, stupid naming that was squandered. The neutrino was originally proposed with the name "neutron" by Pauli, but then the actual neutron was discovered and observed first, so the name got pinched. To remedy this, the electron neutrino was dubbed "neutrino" or little neutron (they didn't know that other flavors of neutrino existed). Meanwhile, the muon neutrino was originally supposed to be the neutretto (before they realized that the neutral leptons were related by the different particle generations), so we could have had a world where each generation of neutral lepton was just another combination of neutron + diminutive italian suffix.
- Neutrino
- Neutretto/neutronetto
- Neutrello/neutronello
Then, when the mass eigenstates were confirmed, we could have diversified and gone with big suffixes to indicate that neutrinos have mass.
- Neutroni
- Neutrachione/neutronachione
- Neutrozzo/neutronozzo
But noooooo, particle physics decided to just give neutrinos the lamest possible names, electron/muon/tau neutrinos for flavor states and m_1/m_2/m_3 neutrino for mass states. I am ashamed of my predecessors for what they've done.
Don't even get me started on the J/Psi debacle...
- Comment on its me, weird barbie 9 months ago:
As one of the most senior grad students in my dept, holy fuck this hits hard.