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(January 15, 2016 at 8:16 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Programming of algorithms to process data out of nuclear fusion related diagnostics...
I've done tomography of the plasma column mainly to determine where inside the vacuum vessel the plasma is and to send out a control signal to push the plasma a bit further to the middle.
And I've been doing reflectometry of the edge of the plasma, for these past 2 years, to obtain neat electron-density profiles... of which the diagnostic generates some 100 thousand for each 25 second pulse... here's a sniff:
That's the temporal evolution of an H-mode plasma with two different types of ELMs (Edge Localized Modes), the first is triggered by a pellet of deuterium injected in the plasma; the other is a standard spontaneous ELM.
(you can tell it's H-mode because, in between ELMs, the profile is quite steep and then plateaus)
Plus, I get to play a bit with this sort of toy:
On the far left roughly at middle height, there's a yellowish speck. That's the antenna that emits and receives the microwaves that allow me to generate the plot above.
Wow. You must be insanely smart to get a job like that >.>
LOL... why? you jello?
Honestly, I don't know why some people say I'm smart.... I'm not... I'm just normal.... I guess... and I sometimes feel incredibly stupid next to some people who are not considered all that smart... so... I don't know.
But I do like doing what I do and the end result is usually quite decent!
I guess it's just because nuclear fusion is usually associated with super smart peoples xD
I think it'd be a cool job though
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. For if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes unto you."
(November 14, 2018 at 8:57 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Have a good day at work. If we ever meet in a professional setting, let me answer your question now. Yes, I DO want fries with that.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
(November 14, 2018 at 8:57 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Have a good day at work. If we ever meet in a professional setting, let me answer your question now. Yes, I DO want fries with that.
(January 14, 2016 at 4:38 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Email from client at 1:48 PM: Hey, are you there to talk?
My email reply: ...yes
Any bets on whether she actually calls?
Noon the next day?
Close! She called around 2:15. Good conversation. She wants me to essentially rebuild the site and add e-commerce capabilities to it, which is something we've discussed several times. Looks like she's finally ready.
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