Like, you get your chemsci pack, that requires chemically processing the oil (get that sulphur! get that lube! plastic! sulphuric acid! batteries!), with coal and water, copper, iron, and steel plates, in complicated, escalating logistics chains that loop into themselves (you wanna build an electric furnace to get steel fast? you need steel to build it to begin with!) and where the speeds at which each process operates are dramatically different (it takes .5 seconds to make a copper cable, and 3 seconds to make an electronic circuit, so one copper cable factory feeds six electronic circuit factories...)
Ugh, my head is hurting. I end up just running all over the place and hand-filling everything because I can dup an entire inventory in one go, but this gets unsustainable.
There's the new factory circuit mechanic at about level 3 (blue) but there's no explanation at all iin the menus on what it does, so I haven't tried it. Meanwhile the flying drones are the cutest things ever but I can't get them to feed the factories - instead, they bring me stuff and I have to hand-feed the plants.
Boy, I feel like I'm just constantly panicking.
Okay, how do I play this game like a Smart Boi?
How much more complicated does it get?
Will I get to build my rocket before the planet's resources are exhausted?
Have some of you managed to get jobs outside the country? And if so, do you mind sharing how you did so? After how many years of experience did you manage to do so? Which languages had you specialized in? Etc. Thanks
Edit: I hired a designer. Thank you for the interest!
Preface:
I posted a lesser version of this request approximately 8 months ago, but I was not able to continue with the process due to extenuating circumstances. I am posting my request again because the issues have been resolved and I am fully committed to the logo acquisition process.
Background:
My business provides therapy to kids between the ages of 2 and 17 and I'm looking for a logo to represent the chosen theme for the office, which is centered around space and science. The name of the company is Odyssey Pediatric Therapy. Tentatively, the request is for a logo to be designed using a rocket or similar with the rocket flying through, out of, around, or as a direct part of the letter O. The word odyssey is a primary part of the name and it would be great if the logo has two forms: a short/small/condensed version that can be used as an icon, header image, favicon, etc. and a long/large/expanded version which incorporates the whole name of the company. Here are some examples along with an incredibly bad drawing, contributed by yours truly, of a few ideas that have been swirling around in my head.
Background and Context:
This is the guide I created when I chose the name of the company:
Objectives for the name:
- Emphasize behavior
- Target parents of small children (2-8), but don't exclude older kids and teenagers
- Convey a positive tone
- Preferentially use a science word
- Emphasize that behavior is a journey, not a destination, which is why I'm seeing rockets in my head
Core values of the company:
- Patient first mentality
- Data and research driven methodologies
- Teach life skills
- Build confidence
- Value employees
Areas of interest for name inspiration:
- Classic literature
- Space/Astronomy
- Neuroscience
- Autism Spectrum
- Teaching
- Behavior Analysis
Slogan: Effective Therapy Starts With Effective Therapists
In this field, therapists are treated as hourly workers who often get no benefits. It's criminal how poorly ABA companies treat therapists considering how important the therapist is to the end result. Happy employees like to contribute and that makes it even easier to show them praise for their valuable contributions. It's a positive feedback cycle that starts with company owners offering good wages, benefits, and work-life balance.
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How easy is it to transfer to another school within Purdue? I know that Web Programming is in the Polytechnic Institute, and Computer Science is in the Computer Science department. I already finished one semester of college in Web Programming and Design.
If so, what do you do and what discipline do you incorporate?
I know it might be argued that most engineering would have some sort of regard to social sciences. I’m more curious about design roles that are explicitly and necessarily informed by social sciences.
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Neat design I came up with, and looks pretty aesthetically pleasing imo. Input belts are red circuits/ sulfur, and iron/steel, with the outermost belt serving as output.
Hello everyone!
I am a 22m from Slovenia and I need some career advice. Next year I will be finishing my Environmental science undergrad but I don't really know what to do next because I don't see myself working in a lab purely as a scientist doing research or something simmilar.
I have always enjoyed creating things and experiences, and I think I can come up with some pretty good and surprising new ideas. I made some short films and yt videos in highschool, I do photography, I love to cook and I also made a few things like movie props and a bit of kitbashing. I have dabbled in a few things but now I would like to begin to specialize and since I like to create things, I thought I would try to connect this passion of mine to my current studies.
My dream is to become a sustainable industrial designer. I would create things which could be easily fixed, recycled or composted. The products would fit well into a circular economy and would help to cut down on waste and change peoples view of the things they use. Some of them could also be made from not that widely used materials, such as invasive plants, mycellium (mushroom roots) and so on. I would also like to maybe do some computationally grown designs, and biomimetic designs in general.
It should be noted that as it stands now, I have absolutely no sketching skills or any other skills a designer would need. That is why I would probably have to do something like an undergrad to gain those skills first, but that would mean quite a large sum of money and another 3 years of my life.
As I said this is just my dream and I am aware that it isn't that well defined, and I also fear that my head is in the clouds a bit and I am dreaming of a life I could never actually achieve. This is why I thougth I would ask you guys if you maybe have any ideas on what my next step could be and to maybe set me down on solid ground a bit.
Any reply is greatly appreciated.
Hey guys I was wondering if anyone out there is/was a UI/UX designer. What did you major in and what do you recommend someone do to end up with this career path? I'm assuming it is CS but would electrical engineering be a good major as well? What kind of internships should I eye for, certs to get to get this path going for me. I am currently active duty and I feel the only thing I can do for now is to start knocking out school.
Hi there, I am looking for some suggestions on the courses I will be taking next semester. Any help will be appreciated!
Background: I am a master student and completed a bachelor degree in applied math and wanted to change my career path to be a software development engineer.
I am planning to take 6.004 + 6.036 + 6.046 with two other light data science classes next semester. (I am gonna pass and fail these two classes so as long as I pass I don't care about them anyway)
I am a little bit worried about the overall workload because next semester is gonna be my first semester at MIT, and I have NO prior experience to anything related to computer system at all. Presumably I will have taken three python classes and one data structure class using Java before the start of the next semester (including self-studying in this winter break).
Could anyone give me some advice about if the above schedule is doable? If not which two of these three should I choose? (I can accept both career paths as a data scientist or sde, but preferably sde)
Thanks in advance!
I have about 400-500 articles that I need the following information extracted from:
-article type (e.g. blog, research study) -Study design (e.g cross section) -specify if it’s qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods
- population (n)
Most of the articles are easily found on Google or Sci-hub, but I can also send a PDF of the articles as needed. I will send an Excel file with the article info, and for you to add the above data to the existing Excel file. Will pay through PayPal.
Hi, first I'll provide a bit of background, you can jump straight to the question if you want though
Background
I'm [M 25] a msc student in computer science, almost done with my degree.
Usually when I have worked on projects in jobs I have had, or while studying, we have most of the time not spent to much time worrying "how" we worked. That means not thinking too much about whether or not we were actually being agile, or if we worked more along the lines of a waterafall model. Mostly when we have not been specified anything, we just kinda worked, and spent most of our concerns on technical issues.
I have done a few courses though, where I have been forced to work along a specific framework, and then for example were forced to talk about our methodology. But to be honest, whenever I had to do these kinds of projects, they would always go a little worse. We would end up spending i large amount of our time worrying whether or not we agile enough, and using time being forced to read texts about how work in groups.
In short: it is my experience that spending time worrying about methodology, often just result in less time spent actually doing the project.
Which leads me to this semester. This semester I have needed to go through a course where I collaborate with people studying other degrees (business, UX) we have been given a project to do that has involved some programming from my side. Most of the course however has been spent reading texts on How to have a "design-oriented epistemology", and texts on design thinking.
But going through this course, I have spent SO much time talking about how projects should run, and how to work with people from other disciplines, but very very little time actually doing it. Actually the actual time I have spent actually collaborating has been almost none. And I really don't feel that I have learned anything, and I'm frustrated.
My question
This all leads me to my actual question. My former experiences has made me think that reading texts on different modalities in how to structure your work (design thinking, agile etc,) will almost always be a waste of time, compared to the time you could be spending doing actual work on the thing you should be doing.
So my proposition is basically that when doing a project, you should worry very little about your overarching methodology, and instead just
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Hello!
I'm currently in my second semester at a community college, studying graphic design. I've done some graphic design in the past, and am learning a bit right now, but some of the classes seem a little basic. Next semester's classes look a little more promising, but I'm still unsure of if I'll have the skill set required to join the workforce with these classes, and of course there's plenty of material online to learn, but I'm not asking for advice on that sort of thing -
I was curious if anyone else is in the workforce, employed as a graphic designer that got an Associates degree? Did you have to do a lot of learning outside of the classroom? Was your pay much less than peers who went to a 4 year school?
Would it be worth it to transfer to UTD from SMU as a senior? I would major in Cognitive Science and I want to become a UX designer after I graduate. UTD's program/networking for UX design seem much stronger than what I'm getting at SMU. At SMU I'm majoring in Creative Computation and minoring in cognitive science. The creative comp. department is really underdeveloped and I just feel like I'm not getting my money's worth. If I transfer, I would likely graduate a semester late.
My semester tuition and fees add up to $18k, which is insane because I will have paid $144k if I graduate from SMU. (I only came initially because I was doing pre-med and it's not a financial burden on my family). SMU doesn't seem to help me as far as getting a job as a UX Designer since I have to self-learn all the skills and network on my own. What I learn in my major is way less applicable than UTD's cognitive science major. On top of that, I honestly hate the student atmosphere made up of snobby rich white kids and don't have a very good social life. I have to commute from home anyway and I feel like I might enjoy the diversity at UTD more.
I don't know how much the prestige of graduating from SMU will actually benefit me or if it's even worth it. I also don't know if transferring would be worth the sunk cost of thousands of dollars and classes I've already spent at SMU.
I just really regret going to SMU and last January I heavily considered transferring to UTD, talked to advisors and everything, but stayed because I thought it'd be hard to adjust. Now I feel like I've wasted the past 3 years and thousands of dollars.
I'd appreciate if anyone could shed light on UTD for UX design and whether it would be worth it to transfer this late.
I'm 22, and two years away from graduating with a bachelor's degree in graphic design. I spent all the afternoon crying bc I simply can't do a logo my professor likes. I'm retaking this class bc I had the same problems last semester and I feel like it will happen again. So, if I'm gonna lose hair and have shaky hands form stress, should I do it for something more substantial than an useless degree?
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This market isn't running on randomness.
It's not a bunch of people randomly throwing darts to decide on trades.
In fact, for the most part, it's not even people.
It's estimated that 70-86% of the trading volume is actually done by bots.
https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2019/08/21/research-crypto-trading-bots/
How do bots work?
They do a lot more than set buy and sell limits, They actually do the analysis of the market data for you.
They do the job of a quantitative analyst. Those mathematicians on Wall Street who figure out how to analyze market data, use statistical analysis to evaluate risk/reward, and crunch that into a trading strategy.
There are also bots there just to influence the market. Sometimes created by traders. It's also suspected that many of the major exchanges use bots on their trading platform. And they are nudging the market and volume as well.
And yes, these bots all take into account support, moving averages, trends, and all that technical analysis that people assume is just astrology.
Call it self-fulfilling, but that's how the majority of the market is trading right now.
Who are these bots?
There's many popular bots for top exchanges like Pionex, Cryptohopper, Trality, Conirule, etc...
Anyone can create a bot. And if you have the money, you can get some really bright people to customize one for you. Whether you're a whale or an exchange.
But the important thing to understand is that there is a pecking order. People with money can potentially prey on the market and on weaker bots, with a more complex bot.
The Whales.
The whales have two advantages. Despite much higher market caps, the current trading volume still gives whales a big advantage at pushing the market.
On top of that, they likely trade with the better trading bots to begin with. And probably use a more Machiavellish approach. When you're at the top of the food chain, Machiavelism seems to be often the best approach to protect your power.
Keep in mind that since 2017, we've had CME futures, and a lot of different ways that traders can short the market.
Whales are no exception.
Why only wait to go up to make money, when you can make money in both directions? Cryp
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