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Reply to comment by hasbrochem in by !deleted1759

I'm not really sure how long it'll take. I have experience with python but only for analyzing and visualizing data that already exists in big catalogs. Simulation isn't something I have ever done before.

I expect writing the program and getting it to provide useful data will be the longest part. The other parts being 1) obtaining the necessary mathematical and conceptual background and 2) writing the thesis (which I should do in conjunction with all other parts) and 3) preparing for my defense.

The foundational paper I'm working from used MATLAB, which I have only used briefly, years ago, for an undergraduate class. My python experience comes from a previous research project.

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Reply to comment by hasbrochem in by !deleted1759

I appreciate the offer and may take you up on it.

The length is just "adequate to fully realize your project." Most in my department are 40-100 pages.

I am computationally analyzing the behavior of ions making up ionic currents in neurons and their effect on the water molecules they are surrounded by during MRI sequences. The mucky math is magnetohydrodynamics.

I have yet to write any code for this. Once I have a framework for how to simulate all that I need to figure out the math and how to turn into python code.

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Reply to comment by hasbrochem in by !deleted1759

Motivation/discipline keeps me from working on it. Since I'm not held accountable day to day I put it off over and over.

Another issue is that I underestimated how challenging some of the mathematics would be. It's overwhelming and that prevents me from seeing a good route to completion.

I have also worked myself into an unproductive sleep schedule. I stay up super late, until like 5am. I have to TA around 11am and so after I'm done TAing around 2pm I come home and sleep until like 7pm, then I stay up until 5am again.

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Reply to comment by Bandit in by !deleted1759

They are "aliens" from other realities on The Wick. We gave them some bad dreams so they'd come to our Universe. (From the novel Anathem by Neal Stephenson) I highly recommend it!

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I've spent about 5 hours in the last 5 months on my thesis and haven't told anybody. My committee knows I don't plan to present it until Fall 2019 but they don't know that I've done almost nothing.

I've finished all my coursework so I can't be a teaching assistant after this semester, which means I don't get paid anymore. Because of this I'm moving home. TAing is a great gig where I only have to work about 12 hours a week but get paid enough to live alone in a small apartment. It's set up this way because I'm expected to spend the rest of my week on my thesis. Unfortunately I didn't take advantage of this and have just been bumming around.

I'll have to get a regular job now which means less free hours for my thesis. This makes me afraid I'll never finish it. Moving back with my parents should help in this regard because they can help keep me accountable. The problem is I actually have to tell them how far behind schedule I am.

I want to finish it, the topic is interesting to me and it will help me do the things I want to do with my life. I just can't seem to execute. Thanks for reading.

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I think there is some reasonable discussion being had in the comments of the post your old post linked to.

I'm going to call the post you were unhappy with post 0 and your old post post OP.

I think the characterization that it is only white people whining about feeling uncomfortable is dishonest. There are reasonable comments about the unpalatability of the messaging being used by anarchists. Abrasively informing a struggling white man that somebody else would have it even worse in his situation will never make him sympathetic to that truth.

The comment in post 0 about W.E.B. Du Bois and the concept of "the wages of whiteness" is very interesting a great foil to those who think privilege is a new creation of young liberals. That information can be used to make people more receptive to the idea of privilege, people who may enter that thread because they disagree with the concept of privilege.

Post 0 and post OP have good faith, informative comments. I'm curious why you are proud for disregarding it full of fascist sympathizers.

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