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    41 Years old looking to go back to school to receive MS. Looking for advice!

    The only scenario I would go back to school is if my employer was paying for it AND I was specifically doing research/thesis on a topic that the company wanted research on. As an owner now, I would treat you the same as a 24 year old masters graduate when you come out of the master program, as...
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    What is the ten worst advise AI has given to an engineering question

    There are some YouTube videos out there that I watched when I set my first one up, but I have found trial & error and asking ChatGPT itself to be the best way to figure these out. You can tweak the instructions and sources overtime to improve the results, and even have ChatGPT create the...
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    What is the ten worst advise AI has given to an engineering question

    I have the GPT's instruction set to always provide direct links to the referenced code/document, which I verify before finalizing anything. It occasionally hallucinates, but I find when you tell it to provide its source, it hallucinates much less.
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    What is the ten worst advise AI has given to an engineering question

    @Overseas_Engineer The time savings are pretty significant. Recently I had it draft a letter for me for a field issue and site all relevant codes. It asked me some clarifying questions, then drafted the full letter in the tone I asked it to. This I also used deep research mode for it to search...
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    What is the ten worst advise AI has given to an engineering question

    I get very accurate responses from my trained GPTs on highly complex questions with text based answers (I don't ask a LLM to do math nor do I ask excel to draft me a letter). I wouldn't expect the free version of any general AI software that was trained on all the internet to give me good...
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    Digital Seal and Signature

    Does this matter if you place the seal in CAD and publish to PDF? Or only if you place as stamp or image in the PDF?
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    Typical Details

    For most of the data that would change in a standard detail or note, I don't make that decision in AutoCAD. We use sheet sets, and all variables that are subject to change in a detail or general note are setup as a SSM field. We make all the decisions for these notes in Excel (where we have...
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    Digital Seal and Signature

    Is there any legal ramifications of not applying a digital signature to electronic submissions because the AHJ won't accept the security on the PDF (while also only accepting electronic submissions) even though the board/state requires it? I'm just curious if anyone has had an issue play out...
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    Digital Seal and Signature

    I know this topic has been discussed before, but I would like to see if the opinions have changed in recent years. What is your practice for digitally sealing documents? For my particular case, I had been applying a photocopy of my seal with signature to every page, then additionally applying a...
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    Insurance Limits

    I carry $2M/$2M. I do a lot of DOT work. A lot of the contractors doing those jobs require this amount, even if the DOT does not. Most of my commercial clients only require $1M/$1M.
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    Question for California PEs: PE as RIC for a Business — Legal and Compliant

    @dgengineering are you currently employed by a company as a W-2, and trying to do some moonlighting, or are you currently not employed by anyone (other than your own business/yourself)? Trying to run a company as an EIT in the engineering space will be near impossible for many reasons, aside...
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    Modular Block Wall With Geogrid Into Bedrock

    Agreed, pins would be a bad idea. If external/global stability allows it, I recommend wrapping along the rock face like this: And if external/global does not allow it, anchors should be attached to a pipe and the geogrid wrapped around the pipe like this (substitute concrete anchors for rock...
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    Modular Block Wall With Geogrid Into Bedrock

    If global stability and seismic will allow it and you have fully stable bedrock, you can reduce your grid lengths as low as 0.3*H. NHI/FHWA has a great guide on Shored MSE (SMSE) walls: FHWA SMSE If you are reducing below the typical lengths (<0.6*H), I typically lap geogrid up along the rock...
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    ChatGPT - Nice!

    I think this risk overstated especially if you are using a paid version and elect for it not to train using your data. It would be no different than storing your files on Onedrive/dropbox/Shareppint, etc. (actually if you read their terms and conditions, paid ChatGPT may be a safer place to...
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    Tips on cold emails?

    @timlodge the 80/20 of SEO is provide valuable content consistently (once a week or bi-weekly), make sure that content is "tagged" correctly, then post it everywhere (facebook, LinkedIn, or whatever are your main social media). I used some of the free wordpress tools to make sure I had a meta...
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