Recent content by diegzumillo

You are right. It did not occur to me this was important information. But if anyone's curious, I did get a job as a developer! :) Good benefits and decent starting salary. I still feel bad about leaving the academia, and hopefully I can still integrate physics research in my life. For anyone...

(parachuting in this conversation) I believe chirality would be an issue in this universe.

Hi all In my country, and with the pandemic aggravating affairs, an academic career seems unlikely for me at the moment. It's what I have been preparing for, I finished my PhD and started looking into post doc positions nearby, but no luck so far. So people advised me to try becoming a software...

Sigh. Sometimes I hate my ADD-riddled brain. I'm staring at your code, then at my code, then at my plot, then at your data, and I could not understand why we were getting different results. In my laziness I did the fit without using the actual numbers, but their indices instead! since I was...

(I had a gif of Mike Myers saying "ONE MILLION DOLLARS" but it was causing problems to post it here.) Anyway, a million. I know, I know, in the realm of number theory this must be laughably small.

That's unexpected. I got some really specific numbers in there and I can't find a good fit with just that integration constant. I wonder if that fit I got only works for that range I used.

Nice! The expression is definitely recognizable. The differences come from counting all factors, not just the unique prime factors. Do you have any more theorems in that hat of yours that could include multiplicities as well?

Hi there, bored physicist here. I wondered about factorization so I made some plots and a model fit to satiate my curiosity, but it only made me more curious. Now I just want the answers! I didn't know which prefix to use. "Hobbyist" seemed more appropriate but we don't have that so I went with...

Maybe you're right but I do see other equally competitive fields with a more exciting online presence. Computer science, for example. They can keep their work under wraps and still engage the community about recently published works, sharing opinions and stuff like that. Or, even more useful, to...

No, it's Brazil. I didn't mention because I was more interested in online solutions. Brazil is a large country with lots of physics departments scattered around, but none near me at the moment. That mirrors my experience as well. I guess one of the contributing factors is that physics is a...

Hey, I figured the general discussion would be the most appropriate place for this discussion. I finished my PhD a couple years ago and moved to my original country. I still keep in touch with my previous adviser as we are still working on my thesis research, which is great. However, because of...

Interesting. I keep hearing that physicists are hired regularly by all kinds of companies, but only hearing about it. For what it's worth, I worked with models beyond standard model, running lattice simulations and studying effective models, that sort of thing.

I hear you. At least in physics, whenever self teaching any subject (and even when taking a course) I rarely manage with a single source. And when choosing alternative sources I try to pick different approaches to the same subject, that is why I asked for those extremes. But I am in unfamiliar...

Exploring other fields also interests me. I got my feet wet on machine learning already. But I really don't know how to break into the industry itself. Every position requires things I don't have yet, like experience or specific diplomas. Thanks for the suggestions though, I really appreciate it.

Hi, I am a physicist interested in going through a basic analysis course. The real line, open sets, that whole thing. On my own, so I need a good selection of bibliography, ranging from those that are good references but too dense to actually read to those that are very pedagogical but tend to...