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[–] sga@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

thankyou for encouraging. I will try out a bit. next thing to decide is topic to begin with, and how/where it would happen.

[–] sga@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Imagine you are the one deciding, what medium would you prefer?

What i have been thinking is essentially a online meeting, like jitsi meet, which may be simultaneously casted online, or just recorded, and uploaded afterwards. people in meet would be able to ask, and hence it would be interactive. Whenever i have done courses, i have had like a billion questions, and if i do not ask, i do not understand, so i would not want anyone else to not be able to ask too. live chat is also interactive, but there is always a delay, and writing your doubts, is sometimes hard (you sometimes are so confused you do not know what to ask), so meeting helps with that.

in any case, if you need any help (for example course work or books), feel free to message me.

 

I have been wanting to do some educational stuff. my primary reason is to revisit stuff that i have learned and am forgetting, and additionally documenting it better so i can reference it in future. I am targetting more for under grad/grad level stuff. Topics would be mostly what i have studied - engineering, material science (thermo, properties, physics, synthesis, structure and shape, charecterisation, etc), maths, physics (mechanics, optics, qm, quantum optics), simulations, biochemistry (beginner), and more. I also may occasionally do some tech related stuff.

I can by myself restudy all this. but thing is that I am lazy and easily distracted. It would be great if i can cover stuff with someone (in interactive manner).

Why do I not find some kinda study buddy irl - I do not know how to do that.

Why I am hesitant/or have not started yet - it is because primarily laziness, and alsothat tons already exist. there is online college courses, which are better than what i could ever produce. I am also not a entertaining kind, and not that good of teacher, so i do not know what i can potentially add to what is existing.

I have also thought of doing some other medium. For example website. I already do maintain one repository of sorts, by my irl identity. but i do not see anyone randomly stumbling on it. I can also record lectures, and post them somewhere, but then I am definitely not doing anything better than any institute.

[–] sga@piefed.social 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

well i have learnt something, thanks. i usually just unitalicise names (so here, that would be moon and me, but not N, kg, m). I have seen units italicised a lot (professor notes, even papers), so i assumed it was accepted. i have seen normal ones too, and bold also (that is usually for vector quantities i think).

[–] sga@piefed.social 0 points 1 day ago

if i remeber correctly, it just slings most of fast moving things around (roughly equally in all direction), and only slow moving things actually hit it.

slung out of the system.

that seems a bit too strong for jupiter, that seems more like suns behaviour

Jupiter's pull is so great, compared to earth, that the ones that do get past or then pulled more towards the sun.

this seems correct.

but i have not actually done any courses on celestial mechanics, and mostly basing on yt videos that i watch, so you maybe are correct on this one.

[–] sga@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

but jupiter also slings a lot towards earth too

[–] sga@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

they kinda are not. it is most likely typeset in latex, where in equation mode all letters by default get italicised. and it is kinda accpeted as appropriate typesetting.

[–] sga@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

what do you mean by efficient. I am using niri right now, and i do not record increased power/cpu/gpu usage as compared to sway.

[–] sga@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

and this is what a war crime is

[–] sga@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago

I remember their appointment from brodie's video on this, and iirc, they were someone who has been in community for ~20 years, and they also had some kind of vision disability (not 100% sure), because of which there was hope that gnome would do more investments on accessibilty front. Which to gnome's credit, they have the best among other wayland folks, but this feels to sson. if it had been a year or 2, it would have made sense (they already were an old person, so time was not favoring them), because it is reasonable for such posts 2 change in that timeframe. the previous director also left in 5-6 months, then this person in 4, it really speaks something about gnome's board

[–] sga@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

sorry, i am making a unrelated comment here, as i am moving instances, needed to comment somewhere to interact with this account