Toolbox of a Computational Physicist

[@fernandaestrada23]

Ohh, thanks for your existence, I'm from mexico and just finished highschool and I want to be a computational physicist

[@GregWintherArtist]

You can do it!

[@rafacoreman4728]

que macizo

[@luisvillarreal3413]

Ñ computational physics

[@guillermovital3231]

I’m currently a physics undergrad with a MacBook Pro 13’ (2015), and looking for a new laptop. I wasn’t sure whether to get a new one or a pc with Linux, but your video helped me immensely, due to the fact that practically everything needed by a computational physicist can be achieved with a MacBook . Keep up the good work!

[@jsjsjjsshw]

I'll be a physics undergraduate this Fall . Which laptop do you suggest for me ? My budget is around $800-1300 .

[@guillermovital3231]

@@jsjsjjsshw, it depends on your needs. Perhaps, during the first two years you wont require a really powerful computer. At least on my university, we just did some basic code on C++ and Python. My (biased) suggestion, is to get a refurbished MacBook Pro 14” M1 Pro, I have seen it as low as 1200 USD. Specs wise, don’t get anything lower than 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of SSD (the more RAM, the better). If you can get the 1 TB version which has more GPU Cores, better, especially if you intend to work with Machine Learning. I have work with LLM , multiple versions of Neural Networks and it has worked fantastic. However, for the LLM I have not trained them in my computer, for that you’ll require a desktop computer (or cluster if available) with Nvidia Graphics, particularly if you work with transformers (generative AI). Hope this helps. If you ever need some help, feel free to reach! All the best.

[@mwambamukukamk9059]

You should start writing computational physics programs on youtube I cant find anyone doing that here E.g Gaussians' Elimination programmes Simpson rule Euler

[@przeciag]

>I see vim >I like video

[@higormonteiro7636]

I just found out your channel and it's really good! I am close to finish my masters in Comp.Physics/Network-Science and I am seriously considering a PhD in your field of study (a little biased for ML I hope) so your channel suited perfectly for me. I am gonna explore more your channel from now on. Keep it up the amazing work :)

[@motherboardbroken2305]

I wish the bgm was toned down. but thank you Greg, I wonder waht your opinion is, in this day and age

[@chenghaozhang9689]

Great video. I am also a graduate student working on computational physics and I like your channel!

[@66-desaikrunal71]

Thank you for this video.

[@zmaz3898]

please sir, teach computational physics bacis

[@namanvats9547]

Thanks !!!! ! You helped me alot in this video !!!

[@GregWintherArtist]

Glad to hear that!

[@mohammedaugie2942]

Thanks.

[@baki4457]

Please dont add music to background

[@abilfadhlurrahman3568]

keep up the good work fam

[@AliHashmi87]

It will be great if you can do tutorials for C++ for physics/engineering. Developing some cool project and as a means for the audience to learn. There isn't any material that I found on KZbin

[@GregWintherArtist]

I have been wanting to make something like what you are talking about here for a while now, but I am assuming that it will be a very large undertaking. Don't worry, though. It will happen - hopefully sooner rather than later.

[@thewryneckarchivist]

@@GregWintherArtist Nice!

[@kakimaki4322]

5:05 macbook pro 16 enters the chat

[@fernank017]

I think that windows now has some linux compatibility with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2).

[@GregWintherArtist]

Very true. I tried it a while ago. Definitely a step in the right direction, but still somewhat lacking imo.

[@fernank017]

@@GregWintherArtist out of curiosity, what makes Linux so appealing for dev work?

[@GregWintherArtist]

This is somewhat difficult to answer briefly. To be clear, Linux is not best for every type of development. If you are developing games that are meant to be predominantly usen on Windows, for instance, you would develop on Windows (Unreal/C++, Unity/C#). The main benefit and driver of Linux, in my view, is the open source philosophy and community. There are thousands of free tools available for free which you can modify if you'd like. This also includes Linux itself. GNU/Linux is not one OS, but thousands. It has spawn several other systems, which in turn are open source. Android is a good example. Usually the community will be very helpful in your endeavours as well.

[@pubgplayer1720]

Bro what are you doing with a Mac go and get yourself a proper powerful PC with nvidia card

[@GregWintherArtist]

When I was shooting this I was using a GPU cluster with 12 Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 TI. Powerful enough for ya? You can’t fit that in a personal computer. You never run heavy jobs on your pc, you start them remotely at a super computer somewhere.

[@pubgplayer1720]

@@GregWintherArtist That's so cool. That's sooooooo powerful! Bro I admire you. So do you know any physicists who actually have any powerful PCs or do they just code on their mac and render/run on supercomputer?

[@tiddlywinks497]

@@pubgplayer1720 Way late but gaming gpus aren't well optimised for computational mechanics. You don't really need a powerful PC, as long as queues aren't massive for the cluster, and besides it'll run far, far faster. You're usually just running stuff from a Linux terminal on the cluster and opening it back up on your laptop to view the results.