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DaWei · Apr 28th, 2006, 6:40 PM

The logic may be fine, but the timing is somewhat off. Come back for the printout after your vacation in a galaxy far, far away.

grumpy · Apr 28th, 2006, 6:56 PM

For some reason, this reminds me of a guy who was a year into his PhD when I started mine. His thesis was concerned with modelling climatic patterns during a particular interval in the Permian period (ballpark 250 million years ago). For this work he employed a rather large bit of Fortran code that took a pile of data and crunched it. A large part of his time was spent chasing down access to spare cycles on supercomputers, setting the software running and interpreting the reams of data coming back. He then found an anomaly in the data coming back which turned out to be caused by a small error in the coding of one of the inner loops of the program ......

nnxion · Apr 29th, 2006, 8:37 AM

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Originally Posted by grumpy

For some reason, this reminds me of a guy who was a year into his PhD when I started mine. His thesis was concerned with modelling climatic patterns during a particular interval in the Permian period (ballpark 250 million years ago). For this work he employed a rather large bit of Fortran code that took a pile of data and crunched it. A large part of his time was spent chasing down access to spare cycles on supercomputers, setting the software running and interpreting the reams of data coming back. He then found an anomaly in the data coming back which turned out to be caused by a small error in the coding of one of the inner loops of the program ......

I may hope it didn't ruin the first year of his PhD.

What was your thesis concerned with?

grumpy · Apr 29th, 2006, 9:12 AM

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I may hope it didn't ruin the first year of his PhD.

No, fortunately. Most of his work in the first year (as in a lot of PhD projects) was building knowledge of the problem domain. He picked up the error in the code (which was something he was provided with) through analysis.

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Originally Posted by nnxion

What was your thesis concerned with?

Broadly, geophysics and geostatistics. More specifically, numerical stability of some techniques for seismic signal processing and of some techniques used for estimation of spatial distribution of minerals in ore deposits.

Jessehk · Apr 29th, 2006, 9:19 AM

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Originally Posted by grumpy

Broadly, geophysics and geostatistics. More specifically, numerical stability of some techniques for seismic signal processing and of some techniques used for estimation of spatial distribution of minerals in ore deposits.

We have a doctor among us!

grumpy · Apr 29th, 2006, 10:11 AM

If it hurts too much, take an aspirin and lie down, Jessehk. Oh, bugger, I'm not allowed to prescribe that......

DaWei · Apr 29th, 2006, 11:51 AM

We non-docs go ahead and prescribe, anyway. On the other hand, you can do as my daughter and get a medical degree as well as another non-medical degree.

grumpy · Apr 29th, 2006, 6:26 PM

I'm just imagining the result if your daughter became a surgeon. Medicos, when they complete PhDs, revert to calling themselves Mister. Introducing your daughter as "Mr <her name>" would be a novelty.

Historically, some English king had his life saved by a medico in the middle ages, and decided to award an honoury title of "doctor" to all medicos. Before that, the only way to be called "Dr" was to have completed PhD studies. That left a problem for people who did PhD's in medicine (presumably studies involving advanced use of leeches amd similar things in those days) as they no longer had a title to distinguish themselves from garden-variety medicos. So, PhDs in medicine now refer to themselves as "Mr".

One reason why people with PhDs sometimes accuse medical practitioners of not being real doctors.....

DaWei · Apr 29th, 2006, 7:30 PM

She got the medical degree (a DDS) first, but the Ph.D is medically-related, also. I just call her 'dinkbutt', but I may try the Mr. thing and see how it flies

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grumpy · Apr 30th, 2006, 1:24 AM

Hmmm...... women like to cause pain to men, and a female dentist ....

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grumpy Programming Guru Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 1,207 Rep Power: 5	I'm just imagining the result if your daughter became a surgeon. Medicos, when they complete PhDs, revert to calling themselves Mister. Introducing your daughter as "Mr <her name>" would be a novelty. Historically, some English king had his life saved by a medico in the middle ages, and decided to award an honoury title of "doctor" to all medicos. Before that, the only way to be called "Dr" was to have completed PhD studies. That left a problem for people who did PhD's in medicine (presumably studies involving advanced use of leeches amd similar things in those days) as they no longer had a title to distinguish themselves from garden-variety medicos. So, PhDs in medicine now refer to themselves as "Mr". One reason why people with PhDs sometimes accuse medical practitioners of not being real doctors..... Last edited by grumpy; Apr 29th, 2006 at 6:54 PM.

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