I FIXED MY CODE!!
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2017
- I AM NOW ON MY WAY TO COMPLETING MY THESIS!
As I talk about in the video, this is an issue which has afflicted me for over a year and put the PhD in serious jeopardy: it was that one wall that no matter what I did it stayed standing. Until about a month ago. Because then I had one of the most amazing days of my academic life. Now that this (and the other little coding problem) have been ironed out the data is starting to pour into my results chapter, which will be drafted within a week of uploading. With that completed that then leaves me with about six weeks to follow up on the work and add a final chapter, which if my cohort counterparts are anything to go by won't even take that long! It's all very exciting, but things are going to be very hard work from here on out.
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I am Simon, a fourth year PhD candidate at the University of Exeter. I upload videos on bits of science which are relevant to what I do, and sometimes just because they're really cool.
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I've been following you for quite some time now. I never really type any comments on UA-cam but I felt I just had to this time. First of all, congradulations on the working code!! I watched you struggle on this for months and while you were doing that I was writing my own thesis and struggeling. Every time I finished one of your videos I would get a boost of motivation and continue working. It got to a point where I also had a healthy habit of working and I finally finished it! I graduated some 3 weeks ago and I'm going to be a math and science teacher in about a month when schools start again over here. I just wanted to thank you for this great and amazing content and I hope you have a smooth ride from now on!
Wouter De Mol congratulations!!!!
That is so awesome, Wouter!
Woot woot!
Wouter De Mol Congratulations, mate!!!!!! Bet you are soo excited to start this new journey..!
I rarely comment on videos, but I have to say that your video really impressed me for your honesty. I've been following you for a while, and I just want to say that you are an amazing scientist. We, as an audience, felt your struggles as ours along the way, and I'm so glad you did it! You reminded us that is just a matter of hard work and never quit. I personally believe that you are smart, and it's incredible how we can all feel the same "failure feeling" at some point of our life, regardless of our previous results. So at the end of the day, I think there's only one and only rule: never give up. Congrats for your achievement and I wish you all the best for your vlogging/videomaker career.
Congratulations Simon. So happy for you!
Congratulations, Simon! I've been understanding your pains over the past year or so. Nothing is as gratifying as finally finding that one mistake in your code. Here's to hoping you can smoothly finish your PhD now!
Look at how happy you are at the very beginning :-)
I believe I will have the same smiley face when I finish my thesis.
Well done, Simon!
We are all proud of you Simon.
Honestly Simon I have been watching your videos for years and to see you so happy just made my day! congratulations if anyone deserves this success it is you!!!!☺
My favourite UA-camr of all time ... you are so honest you are such an inspiration we love you Simon thank you because of you I believed in myself after breaking down on my A levels year and now everything is going so perfect
Simon! This is so wonderful. Thanks for sharing, please don't feel embarrassed about sobbing in joy, because you deserve it. And congratulations.
This is AMAZING!
So incredibly proud of you, Simon. Can't wait to see the thesis fully completed!
Can you talk more about the mental health stuff in your 4th year? I feel like it's very common and needs talked about
Jbob Watch his draw my life video
Yes please
yes, please. During my studies of Geophysics and Meteorology I've encountered a lot of people having problems like that (including myself). It needs to be talked about!!!
I've been through it during my MS and heard of others being through it. It's one reason why MS and PhD candidates drop out... partly due to lack of support. I dropped out, but I do plan to work on a MS at another institution more suitable to my likes and background.
I am really glad for your good news, Simon! That's really encouraging news!
Congratulations Simon , been watching all of your videos for a long time now. Glad you made the breakthrough with the code :)
I was at work when I got a notification saying ''Simon Clark just uploaded a video "I FIXED MY CODE!!" and for the whole shift I was so happy for you it made my day! Glad to hear that after all these vlogs of code frustration its all over. It only gets better now!Ill be honest I originally subscribed for your choir stuff but I became so fixated in your coding dilemmas this video made me so happy. Congrats from Canada.
Congrats, Simon! On behalf of everyone here, we're very proud of you. You inspire all of us.
Best wishes.
It's great to see you in such a good mood having solved your coding problem. I'm happy for you. You're doing great, keep up the good work and I can't wait to see where you go after this.
Absolutely bloody brilliant! I'm so glad you solved it, even though i haven't been following you for long.
Still plenty of work to do though, so get in there!
I know this was almost a year ago but I'm currently binging your phd vlogs...I'm SO chuffed for you! Massive congrats, Simon 🏅
Congratulations Simon! Really really happy for you! And I'm so proud of you for overcoming such a massive thing in your life - you're incredible and definitely an awesome scientist. I've been watching you for a while, and it's been amazing seeing you and your channel grow ☺️
I've been following your channel for about a year now, and I know what its like to have code which doesn't work, and how satisfying it is to finally fix the problem. Congrats on getting the code fixed, and though it feels slightly odd to say, I truly am so happy for you!
Sometimes I have no idea what this guy is saying.
most of the time*
Lol don't wanna sound too dumb :D
Hey Simon, I have been following you for a while now, I have watched almost all your vlogs back to back. Even I want to become a scientist like you, when I was suffering from depression, your vlogs were used to be my daily dose of positivity! Congratulations on your success man! Simon, I want to let you know that you kind of inspire me, and I mean it. You are not dumb, you never have been. I admire you bro. :)
Congrats Simon!! I have only been following for a few months but I am very impressed with everything you have accomplished over the last 18 months!
Simon I'm so proud of you! This video is something I'll definitely use time and time again to motivate me to fight off my demons!
This means a lot to me. Especially when you talked about your last year at Oxford and how you struggled. I have been struggling in uni, although for longer. A lot of the time it seems like I will be stuck in this cycle forever, but you have shown me that it is possible to overcome. Thank you.
This finally showed me I'm not dumb.
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Simon smiling while smudging the ashes of his burned code on his face.
I hope this was intended, it was really funny. Congratulations you finally got the code working. I have followed you for quite some time now and I'm impressed how you never gave up and always found something new to try to fix your problems. After all this time you definetly deserved this win.
Simon, I can only imagine what kind of relieve you must have felt. Congratulation to you. Huge inspiration.
Oh my god simon!!!! As an undergrad I can't bare the comparison with you and all the sweat and blood u put into your code but it was soooooo good to watch your video.. Having some of those insecurities myself.. You are Hope!!!! And go get em!!!!!!!!!! Fingers crossed for you.. And YOU ARE a REAL scientist!!!! You can't deny it anymore!!!!!!! Wish you all the best. I have been following you since the beginning and I won't stop... in fact i added the video to my favorites and i will sirely he watching it several times through this year as I have my entery exams to engineering schools and research centers... You are a model and frankly HOW are you not more famous.. You are gold ❤️❤️
Simon, this video makes me so happy! Towards the end, though, I have to say I 100% needed this video. I'm doing my undergrad atm and I'm in a special degree program which allows me to tailor my studies to my own interests under supervision from my higher ups, and it allows me to study at a masters or doctoral level for my BA, as much as I want, or as little as I want. Being the ambitious kid I am, I took the "as much as I want" route. This is my final term, and I recently had a breakdown, too. My thesis is in a rarely touched upon field in philosophy, and PhD applications are around the corner for me (literally in a few months time, they are due). I ended up in the hospital and really really was thinking (still am thinking) of just leaving research and going to find a regular job after my degree. But this video reminded me that it is so so important to keep pushing because, just like you are a scientist, I am a philosopher, and I will get my work done, and it's just going to take time, work, and persistence (and a little more faith in myself). Thanks for sharing these videos, Simon. They remind me of just how human we can be even if we spend good portions of our lives in labs or libraries.
Oh sheeeeeet! My boy got it working - fucking well done to you sir! It's genuinely brightened my day to see that you did it! Major 🔑 👌
Congratulations, Dr. Clark =) I enjoyed watching this series so far. I look forward to seeing more of it in the remaining episodes and, perhaps, even more of this type of content after your PHD is over.
I am so happy for you. struggeling for months on end, and never giving up. shows a great mental toughness. proud of you, and keep the vlogs coming ;)
Simon!!! I've been following you on your journey as a highschool student and i want to say that I'm extremely happy for you. I watch your videos to find inspiration so a victory for you feels like a victory for me. Great job and good luck!
Congrats on your achievements, Simon! I've been watching your videos for some months now, and it is nice to see how your work progressed! You're not a failure! :)
That was an inspirational video. Well done Simon - you've done amazingly!!
amazing. absolutely amazing. congratulations Simon! you've inspired me to consider pursuing a PhD sometime in my career. just wanted to say thanks for these videos! they've greatly impacted me in a positive way!
MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS!!! you totally deserve it to work. I am super happy to actually see you smiling about it :D hope you have a (albeit brief) celebration!
The mix of the emotional/happy ending and the clips putting ash on your face made me emotionally confused. I was stuck between tearing up and laughing! But seriously, congrats Simon, I am so happy for you for fixing your code! It obviously meant so much to you, and that smile on your face at the beginning of the video was so nice to see 😊
Congratulations Simon!! Science is a wondrous subject and clearly very gratifying! Very happy for ya
Ahhh I'm proud of you! This was so sweet I had a tear too. It's an amazing accomplishment and a testament to your determination that you didn't give up :D
I’m rewatching these vlogs as an inspiration for what I hope to accomplish when I finally get to grad school and go for a PhD. I have just completed my second year of community college and I am what I would’ve felt was behind a few years ago, but now I feel like this is exactly where I needed to be academically and not rushing through it. Still love ya Simon, your videos have been one of my greatest inspirations in my academic journey and I look forward to learning more every day!
Well done, Simon. You're an inspiration to us all!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!. Super excited to know you are on the road to completion!! :)
Thank you very much for sharing this! I am a new subscriber here but I feel like this video helped me to better understand you as a person. It is truly amazing how patient and persistent you are, I mean spending 18 months trying to find an error in one program! That is actually quite inspiring :)
Well Done Simon you showed that never to give up even after things don't go to plan for a very long time, happy for you buddy!
Good to hear things worked out! I'm currently in a slight "played down version" where I've been building a code for the past 2 months and now finally getting somewhere with it! It's for an internship in Quantum/Classical dynamics and I've about 3 weeks left to get something of stub stance to show for the 3 months I've been here, and watching this just makes me wanna push it even more and do as best I can! So thank you ☺️
Wow!! Finally maaan I'm glad to see you happy. Congratulations.
I read this title and honestly got so so excited. Congratulations!!!!
Oh Simon I'm so glad that you solved the problem and what you said about it made me a little emotional because I really admire you. I'm not here from the very beginning but I follow you for a while now and it seems a little weird knowing that your PhD it's almost over. Good luck for everything :)
This video is so inspirational!! Im so glad you figured out the code! You are a rockstar physicist!
Congrats Simon Thanks for sharing. I am proud for you.
HUGE congratulations Simon! Seeing you triumph over the feeling of not being good enough for science really hits home. I will be beginning a PhD in Biomedical Engineering this fall and I feel the exact same way. You are a true scientist and a true inspiration.
Congratulations and well done, Simon! What remarkable hard work. I'd cry in the bathroom too. I am so happy for you!
I am so proud of you. Your endurance is admirable.
FINALLY YOU DID IT!🤓
Congratulations soon-to-be Dr. Clark! As long-time followers, we are immensely proud of you. Looking forward to all that you'll accomplish ahead. :)
I've watched your channel for about 6 months, the frustration you've gone through I've also begun to felt. So incredibly happy you've finally made it work. You deserve it... scientist
Bravo Simon, we're all really happy for you!
Regards from Singapore and Malaysia!
I wish all vloggers were at this level, you can actually learn new things from vlogs. Thanks Simon and congrats on fixing the code.. been following you for a while :)
Great work, and congratulations Simon. I've been following your channel for around 9 months now since I began looking into doing a PhD myself. It was great to get a real insight into what PhD life is like and I ended up applying for and getting my place which will start in October. Currently finishing my masters year writing code for audio feature extraction and classification neural networks after only really getting into code about 10 months ago... I feel the 'I'm just not good enough' voice fairly often right now. Great to see your hard work pay off, good luck with the thesis!
Congratulations Simon! Fantastic news on the code and it was incredible to see how much this PHD meant to you!
Haven't been watching for a while. Saw the title in my notifications and clicked on in an instant. Congrats Simon
CONGRATULATION SIMON!!! keep moving forward man!
Ive never been happier watching your videos, im such a proud mum!! You, sir, are a real, PhD certified, scientist. You deserve it more than anyone, i am so so proud of you! Love you xx
Holy shit Simon! Congratz! Was genuinely excited to see that title in my feed. Good luck for the final stretch of the PhD
ok mate I'm not going to lie, this was inspiring to watch. you are an inspiration. I have to admit I haven't been watching every upload. But you are amazing.. well done!
Thanks! And glad to have you around, even if not for all the videos :)
Truly inspirational, congrats on getting the code to work and having the realisation you belong!
Simon I'm so chuffed for you! I'm a postdoc in chemistry and honestly, I'm still waiting for my own self-fulfilling eureka moment... what success I've had has been little and often, which is nice but it's hard to notice that over time. A professor I met at a conference said that 'I have never met a lucky or successful chemist that hasn't worked hard'... I think you are the proof of that and it reminds me to keep going! Seriously, massive congrats and good luck with the rest!
I love that you finally figured it out! Congrats!
Congratulations Simon! You ROCK! Looking forward to see more C^3!!
Congratulations Simon!! I can't wait to have that moment that I truely feel like a scientist. Awesome :)
Amazing. I love your story Simon and you inspire me so much.
Congratulations! I know what getting some broken code to work feels like, but this has to be on a whole other level! Good on you for not giving up! Good luck with the rest of your PhD!
Congratz mate, i believe you can achieve anything if you work for it enough, You're a prime exsample
Wowwwww!!! congratulations!! I actually thought it was an unsolvable problem! Way to go!!
Congratz Simon! Huge fan here... I hope you the best!
Beautifully done video, Simon! Good luck with the rest of the thesis
Hey Simon I'm really glad you figured things out! I'm studying physics at university and have been through some tough times similar in nature to what you mentioned so I can empathise with you on that front. Sometimes you feel like you run into a wall that's just impossible to break through but, with perseverance, it crumbles.
Congrats Simon! Your videos really make the daunting task of achieving a PHD all the more achievable.
In the fairly distant future (4-5 years) I will be working on my own thesis and I really cannot wait.
Happy for you man, I get stressed programming too...I feel your pain! Never give up, success is too sweet.
i was following a few videos showing the probs with the code and its a thrill to see you succeed! much bless and good luck in the future! happy you succeeded! :D
Congrats Simon! I have just started my PhD and I have begun to understand what you went through! Can't wait for your "just done with my viva" video! All the best!
Dr. Clark :D Congratulations!!!!
woohooo!! so happy for you simon! i've been watching you from the start of your coding issues and im so psyched that you finally cracked it :) proud of you bro
I was waiting for your vlog all week!!
Congrats mate, your vlogs have been such an inspiration for me even though I'm only starting year 11 next year
Great job Simon! Glad that you finally conquered the code! Nothing feels better than finally overcoming a challenge that has plagued you for so long. Best of luck on the remainder of your thesis!
That's one boulder out of the way! :) Congratulations! It's been quite fun to follow the journey towards this... I can't imagine the sense of relief you must have felt when it finally clicked :D
This actually made me tear up. :') Thank you for being so real.
Thanks for being such an inspiration. I am still struggling with some issues from my bachelors degree and can almost see them when I star my masters. But you just showed me that we can overcome this :)
This video in general really made my day, it proves that no matter how steep the speed bumps are, there's always a little bit of hope in success!
PS: I am really happy for you, as i have been following your videos and even to the viewers it was a relief.
Awesome.
Congratulations!
Looking forward to more of your vlogs.
Although I have no idea what you were talking about, I am so happy for you!! I'm going to cry happy tears when my masters thesis is done as well
so happy for you man!! still waiting for this lightbulb moment in my PhD project - similar issues with douchebag code. this has given me a bit of strength to push through the shit, crippling self doubt and plethora of error messages. look forward to seeing the final result!
Congrats Simon... a year in the making, and well deserved.. :D
This one of the parts of programming what is such a beauty of the skill. Working on code, fixing it, finding the real bug why something does not work. If it then works, and you see a first good test result. Good luck with the last couple of months finishing it up! You can do this Simon!
Well done!!!! Also loved the 1812 Overture snippet also! :-)
I am so unbelievably happy for you Simon; I never once doubted that you would overcome this. In this vlog series you've always shown so much effort and dedication in your work and to see it pay off after the difficulties you experienced makes me just a little bit emotional too. I can't wait for you to get your PhD!
So, so, so proud of you Simon!! For your code AND for your individual growth:) DFTBA
Watching this video just made me wanna hug you haha. You are an amazing dude and you can absolutely be proud of yourself