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tomtranter

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About tomtranter

Physicist, coder.

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    Agents don’t need sound effects. But I do. I made a tiny Python “music alert” for when my agents finish running: original dual-track chiptune jingles with a properly raunchy bass l…

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    Comment #41102714

    My biggest frustration as an academic was reproducibility of papers I was reading. The pdf is such a useless medium for information transfer and the academic publishing industry is…

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    Comment #41096762

    Also good point on degradation. Physics based modelling is invaluable for debugging this. PyBaMM does have quite a bit on degradation yes. Here's a good notebook to start with http…

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    Comment #41096745

    Good question. I would say anyone developing new materials in a lab would benefit from the kind of physics-based models we have in PyBaMM. Organizations is a pretty broad term but …

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    Comment #41096017

    Yeah I thought so but like most legends contains a kernel of truth and is certainly worth remembering for the lesson. Reminds me of the midwit meme https://www.ycombinator.com/libr…

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    Comment #41095714

    PyBaMM predates ChatGPT. But we're emulating cyclers which are fairly basic tbh. I'm exploring ways of using LLMs to improve the experience. ie Cycle my NMC-Gr 18650 with a CCCV at…

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    Comment #41095562

    For anyone interested in the performance requirements for electric flight, alluded to but not explored in the article. This is a great open-access paper about it https://pubs.acs.o…

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    Comment #41095542

    Hahaha. No marshmallow instructions for us yet but some people are using PyBaMM to model thermal runaway. We don't use an LLM but I guess could in order to catch more edge cases. T…

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    Comment #41094327

    Related topic there is this example combining PyBaMM and pints for sensitivity analysis. Which should definitely be done first before delving straight into a DOE https://github.com…

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    Comment #41094231

    I used Hall effect sensors for a project and found they needed a fair bit of calibration. Shunt resistors also did the job with fewer problems but this was a 16p2s module.

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    Comment #41094221

    Hopefully. The thing that makes most sense is two-way charge points but for whatever reason these aren't that common

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    Comment #41094200

    Nice! I love the simple approach like the story which I'm not sure if it's true or not that NASA spent $$$ developing an ink pen that would work in zero-g and the Russians used a p…

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    Comment #41094153

    Yes completely agree. This is one of the things that PyBaMM doesn't do for you out of the box. I could have extended the article in many ways to cover all the optimizations you cou…

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    Comment #41092944

    Fantastic! I will now enter the rabbit hole

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    Comment #41092874

    *NO LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS WERE HARMED IN THE CREATION OF THIS CONTENT*

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    Comment #41091846

    Every blog should be able to have pull requests eh

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    Comment #41091841

    Amazing thanks, my vscode spell checker missed that because of the *Ba*

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    Comment #41091802

    Yeah thanks for the extra insight. On the modular modelling system bit, this is something we're not particularly good at telling people or highlighting. You can solve any PDE you w…

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    Comment #41091759

    Great concept. Now I want an e-bike even more. Yeah I'd be happy to chat. My contact details are in the readme.

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    Comment #41091711

    Yes this should be possible. I think the main constraint would be keeping the cell chemistry the same so that OCP is similar. I've been playing with a pack model of cells with mixe…

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    Comment #41091647

    haha - indeed

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    Comment #41091612

    Thanks for the advice, I have followed it