So. Finally creating accounts on instances other than M.S.
Let's get started with #introductions:
I'm an university student studying what I'm good at but not passionate about, interests include (but are not limited to):
#robotics
#ai
#machinelearning
#transhumanism
#neurobiology
#psychology
#energy
#linux
#wordplay
#puns
I love having witty conversations, and I have been called "that snarky son of a bitch" on multiple occasions. I take that as a compliment.
@rivertzlec
Oh no! What are you studying then?
There is always a way to combine your own field with any of the topics you mentioned. For me, AI and robotics are now at that stage that combining them with whatever field is pretty cool!
I work at a uni where w have a digital productions lab. The team is led by an architect, and has people from mechanical engineering, computer science, business administration and industrial design.
@pkok
Chemistry at the moment, looking for other options. Although now that I've been at this for a while I feel like nano- and metamaterials research could open some interesting approaches to implanted technology and the whole transhumanism stuff, however far off in the future that is. Will have to put some thought into my studies, see if I can combine these.
@rivertzlec
Oh but material sciences is exciting, also without the link with biological systems, I think!
For instance, in our lab we are looking into novel ways of 3D printing. Filling up a 3D hull with a raster of precisely positioned medium is time consuming. Besides, no one cares about the exact layout of the inside (is it squares? honeycombs?), but its functional properties (how strong/heavy/... the print is). One way is to compute how the material is "curling up" naturally and what kind of properties a messy inside would give. That's a lot of computation for which right now we lack the domain knowledge about materials.
