• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    Back when I was working on my (never completed) dissertation, I would sometimes call up televangelists’ hotlines and talk about my research. It was pretty amusing how they would initially try to steer the conversation to the God stuff but then give up as I kept relentlessly returning to my subject. Eventually they were reduced to “uh huh … uh huh” but they couldn’t just hang up on me because they weren’t allowed to. I actually worked through some problems this way.

    • ysjet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      9 months ago

      In programming, this is called ‘Rubber Duck Debugging.’

      The televangelists, in this case, were the rubber duck.

  • montechristo@feddit.orgEnglish
    0·
    9 months ago

    I work on quantum systems coupled to noisy environments (noisy as in causing random fluctuations). Atoms coupled to a light field are my specialty. Anyway, I just got invited by a predatory journal in the field of acoustics, vibrations and noise?!

    • humblebun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I left science a long time ago and recently got such an invitation from a Q3 engineering journal on aerodynamics (I worked on quantum systems as well, hi).

      I took 3 books on aerodynamics and wrote a paper citing and compiling the texts; adding some chatgpt noise. Really nothing new, just some intermediate equations. The reference section contains these 3 books and 4 recent papers for the introductory part. I sent it several days ago and am awaiting the review.