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WHATS THE BEST RIGOROUS PHYSICS TEXTBOOKS , MORE PRACTICAL AND APPLIED PROBLEMS THANK YOU

What kind of an astrophysicist are you?

Informative and entertaining video Thomas, thank you. It seems to me (for what it's worth) that this is the type of thing you can do that differentiates you from other content creators - blending something that we might all be familiar with (coding) and how it applies to your particular area of interest. We might not all do simulations of the Inter Galactic Medium but most of us have tried to create a visualisation to communicate information from a bunch of seemingly random data. I don't fully understand what you do but I enjoy trying to wrap my head around it. Thank you.

I use obsidian - nvim - todoist with a spot of notion... but the other apps ive found to be amazing and powerful are logseq and tana. If obsidian didnt exist and was so integrated with my vim workflow id use logseq or tana for sure. If anyne asks me my advice in what note taking app to use i tell them logseq or tana (they are probably better out of the box than obsidian) obsidian is more powerful (arguably) but takes a lot of tinkering and steep learning curve

I use todoist and integrate it with google cal, which is integrated with notion cal, and i get reminders on my smart watch+ phone when todos are due. I have it mapped to hotkey on my linux so at the drop of the hat i go super+t and then q write my task and the date or time i need it done then super+q to exit and carry on and it reflects across my calender apps and notification system. happens almost at the speed of thought. its the best thing ive found for managing tasks, but i do have a task system in obsidian but that usuall jsut like if i want to achieve soemthing whilst im working that only related to work or study

I am 16 year old am from India and have read many books on physics like six easy pieces, Black hole by Brian cox, the god equation, for the love of physics, generate relativity, through two doors at once,a brief history, alex adventure in number and more. I also want to become an astrophysics there aren't a lot of college in india that have good physics courses I am thinking of studying abroad I don't know the process so it would be great if you would help me a little physics is litteraly everything to me

overleaf or vim tex is what I use.

Very straightforward and clear. Thanks 👍😊

vote reform. All other parties will have open border policies which will bankrupt the country from benefits for the boat people. Taking away university funding.

Great video Thomas, learnt a lot, in particular i didn't know about a lot of the GB green policies on education!

17:26 this should be treated with more skepticism, this is a five year aim and one that has occurred under the current government. It's also not 6,500 more tecahers, its 6,500 new teachers which means that the amount of tecahers won't even increase by 6,500 due to retirements, and people leaving the profession.

Excellent video!

Great video! Really clearly laid out and informative

love a mention of obsidian. I use it on a regular basis for purposes

Also thank you for not calling IDEA "IntelliJ", and referring to the suite as the Jebrains suite, I'm an utter pedant for that xD

Have you tried out any AI integrations in py charm like GitHub Co-Pilot? I've been trying out Jetbrains' AI assistant + Supermaven for Python, works soooo nicely. Can send you some screencaps of the kind of stuff it's giving :)

Migrated from Notion to Obsidian as I have a more privacy oriented approach. Both of them are awesome. I work better with less apps - so if you want to condense them, look for plugins in Obsidian - should work for to do lists, as well as planners (kanban is a possibility).

Can (or have you) you do a video on how you use Notion? Maybe a deep dive?

zotero is nice, but sometimes folder can be beneficial too since I need to reconstruct my idea and collect and delete papers I think useful

I too graduated in Astrophysics way back in 1978. I was offered a place to read Natural Science at Cambridge, but it didn't feel right for me. St Andrews was right. Spent 4 years in Andrew Melville Hall (in fact, I had the same room throughout, and how many students can say that), was in lots of societies, made some lifelong friends and ended up with a very successful career. And now St Andrews is ranked no 1, above Oxford and Cambridge, in the Times and Guardian rankings. I've been in other universities, but St Andrews is head and shoulders above the others. I'm planning a return visit next year for my 70th, and I hope to do a pier walk for the last time. St Andrews is such a magical place.

You should do an update but using VSCode.

ooh the colours are moving this time... so cool!

Very interesting video as always. I was wondering if you are ever planning to make a video talking about how you believe AI will change the way we do scientific research and what the impact will be on the job market. Would love to hear your thoughts about this

As a fellow PhD student I'm really looking forward to your video on how to make a good visualisations!

Would you like to mention which languages you are using for astrophysics calculation? C, C++, Julia, Rust?

Very cool! What laptop do you recommend for an upcoming STEM student? I’m eyeing the Framework laptop at the moment. 🧑‍💻

Looking forward to more coding videos!

After years of reading climate science books, and learning more about climate change issues, while changing various jobs in IT I've recently thought of combining the two, and I've started learning Python. Think it will be much easier to transition into anything science related, as long as I'd be able to code well. Your video is just what I needed!

My original/current background is in software development (Java), teaching myself Python. I'm studying Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, and want to pursue this for my career 2.0. What resources do you recommend for learning the astronomy pieces of Python?

Very interesting video. I am just finishing my GCSEs, looking forward to physics and hopefully later astro. What did you do to make your nice animations? Was it something like Manim for the one with the file size comoparisons at the start?

Any reason that you don't use Lyx software? may be you're promoting that online tool? just curious

As a ms word user (and it's good), the equations are worst with MS Word. TBH it's sh!!t

I'm about to accept an offer for the exact course you are on at St Andrews. Any tips?

I’ve got an offer for astrophysics and since I have got a college that I didn’t even select for at Durham I’m now trying to pick between those two and bath. How do you find the astrophysics course?

Really good video, well done!

Loved the visualisations and editing on this one!

Sorry you missed them! I was visiting my family in Pennsylvania, where it was raining the whole time :(, Had I been home in New Hampshire, I would have been able to see them. I saw people just outside of Boston posting videos of them!

The images from Tasmania's Aurora australis were amazing.

I live in Victoria Australia and there were reports of Aurora australis as far north as QLD but i missed not happy about that

I know its a really awkward question... But do the toilets in the dorms or private rooms have jet sprays attached? Or do they prefer wipes?

I use Zotero which I picked up in my masters - I switched to Mendeley for a few months at the beginning of my PhD but it kept crashing and needing me to log in multiple times a day which was super annoying, so I switched back. I love the PDF annotation tools in Zotero, as well as the browser extension 😍and the integration with Word and Overleaf! I would recommend "Better BibTeX" if you've not got it already :) The only thing I wish that was included was a button you can press to see papers that are read/unread natively instead of having to track that separately.

This was a very useful video! I use mendeley and the great thing about that is that not only can you export your references as a .bib file for use in LaTeX, it also has a MS Word extension (not that I use word of course 😂)

Oh man, that's taking me back a few years. I remember using Zotero when I was writing my master's thesis back in 2018. I wonder if I kept my reference library somewhere or if I ejected it into the ether once I was done with it 😅

I know this video is for undergrad but I’m looking into doing a year for post grad and I’m between here and London and I’m stuck.

Some (hard) Feedback: I am a computer science student from Vienna, but interested in most STEM areas, so I am here for the science videos. There are certainly *some* People interested in astrophysics PHD vlogs, but I assume their number to be quite limited. If I see a PHD vlog video my brain is like BORING! and I scroll on, especially since your PHD VLOG titles and thumbnails are not exactly interesting. Example: "Back in the office... where were we?! - PhD Vlog 7" - This is really hard to read, I had to read it like 3 times until I figured out what the salad of w's and e's means. (I am also currently not planning on doing a PHD in any field). What I would be interested in watching are videos that summarize certain aspects of the process of getting a PHD: What exactly is a PHD? Are there lectures+research? Just research? DO ECTS still exist in PHD-land? You mentioned funding? I thought uni costs money, except if you work there? How does the process of doing research actually work? Track your time for a year + then tell us, on what you spent most time - Do you mostly read research papers? Mostly write? Mostly analyze/collect/...data? How did you get to the topic you are currently researching? What are the steps between start + finish? Did you have to apply to use some expensive science thing (i.e. Hubble/James Webb/...)? If so, how was the process of applying to do the research? Why did you decide to get a PHD? Further Ideas/recommendations: Maybe create a Patreon where people can vote on video ideas -> Free de-selection of boring topics + might make you a few bucks. Alternatively create a Telegram group, some subreddit, ... where you throw in video ideas so people can give feedback on whether they would watch, maybe give them title and thumbnail (or even let them pre-watch the private vid before publishing it) and ask for feedback on better title + Thumbnail, video ideas in general and so on. Watch Simon Clarc's video "I don't think I can keep doing this." and maybe talk to him. He did a similar vid a while ago and changed the kind of content he makes. In the 8 vids afterwards he made on average 197k views, in the 8 vids before that there were only 45k views on average. It has improved A LOT, in my opinion.

I've never seen you before, but you've just come up on the top 10 videos. Keep chipping away.

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I've enjoyed the vlogs, but I think your new approach will better draw people in. Looking forward to still seeing vlogs on your conferences etc though!

I have really enjoyed your vlogs but completely understand your decision. Looking forward to your future videos!

Vlogs isn't why I subbed, I'm sure it's the same for many others.