Scientists Shout Out!

[ceratitis]

I work with the title "research scientist" in the finnish state research center. The team I work in does reliability and decision analyses. I mostly do reliability (or risk) analysis for nuclear power plants. I've got a masters degree in operations research.

And hell yes I answer "scientist" when someone asks me what I do Never seems to impress the ladies ..

does this make you a reliable person ?
since you're into nuclear stuff i sure hope you dont up.
Z

 

[Numion]

does this make you a reliable person ?
since you're into nuclear stuff i sure hope you dont up.
Z

It doesn't make me anything

I'm not in a position where I could make monumental mistakes. Mostly the stuff is small adjustments to test intervals or targets, to achieve greater level of safety, or to achieve the previous level of safety with fewer resources.

Love it or hate it, nuclear power is likely going into a renaissance. Finland is making a significant opening in Europe with the Olkiluoto 3 unit now under construction. It's even going (IIRC) to be the most powerful reactor in the world at 1600 MW.

 

[Simplicity]

Scientists do not "shout out" unless the word is "Eureka!"

(I'm another physics dude, btw.)

You clearly have never listened to MC Hawking's "The Brief History of Rhyme".
That guy is one crazy gangsta.

 

[Fenris]

Alright brain boys (and girls): Who here knows R? I am having a devil of a time running it. Trying to get a LIMMA analysis going on a chip and I am having no luck. Anyone have some help?

 

[dinsdale]

Ph.D. in Chemistry (which is what I listed), though my main interest/research is in medical imaging

 

[fuindordm]

Alright brain boys (and girls): Who here knows R? I am having a devil of a time running it. Trying to get a LIMMA analysis going on a chip and I am having no luck. Anyone have some help?

I didn't parse that at all. What's R? What's LIMMA?

Obviously, I will be of no help to you... but I'm curious.

Ben

 

[Ferret]

Physics ftw!

I do both physics and chemisty at my secondary school but I much prefer physics to chemistry....

 

[Fenris]

I didn't parse that at all. What's R? What's LIMMA?

Obviously, I will be of no help to you... but I'm curious.

Ben

R is a free statistical computing package that is used for many things. In my case I am using the bioinformatics functions to analyze 30,000 genes across two genotypes, 2 tissues, and 4 time points. So 240,000 individual pieces of data. In triplicate.

LIMMA is a software analysis tool that helps make multiple comparisons that avoid the type II errors associated with making multiple, sequential pair-wise comparisons.

http://www.r-project.org/

 

[freebfrost]

I'm currently working on my M.S. in physics at the University of Louisville. My thesis will focus on the HeII Gunn-Peterson effect, so I'm learning the ropes of observational astronomy. I'm going to be applying to PhD programs this fall, and that means retaking the GRE! Ugh!

Hate to inform you Carp, but I've been asked to sit in on your thesis, and unless you publically acknowledge that the sun *is* on fire, well, then I'm going to have to hold it against you...