Tristan Melton
@tristanmelton.com
Graduate student studying integrated photonics. SoCal Tekken FGC!
Webmaster of https://www.socaltekkenlocals.com/
https://tristanmelton.com/
Webmaster of https://www.socaltekkenlocals.com/
https://tristanmelton.com/
Looks like I'll be defending my dissertation in May/June.... now to wrap up last bits and pieces and start preparing!
January 16, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Looks like I'll be defending my dissertation in May/June.... now to wrap up last bits and pieces and start preparing!
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Scientists, when do we start lobbying for #Bluesky to implement native LaTeX support?
#science #physics #mathematics
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#science #physics #mathematics
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November 22, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Scientists, when do we start lobbying for #Bluesky to implement native LaTeX support?
#science #physics #mathematics
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#science #physics #mathematics
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I asked once whether beets are more or less purple than turmeric is yellow.
Chemist friend was around and 15 minutes of calculation later we determined turmeric is more than 100x as yellow as beets are purple.
Chemist friend was around and 15 minutes of calculation later we determined turmeric is more than 100x as yellow as beets are purple.
January 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I asked once whether beets are more or less purple than turmeric is yellow.
Chemist friend was around and 15 minutes of calculation later we determined turmeric is more than 100x as yellow as beets are purple.
Chemist friend was around and 15 minutes of calculation later we determined turmeric is more than 100x as yellow as beets are purple.
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Today is the last day you can post this picture
December 31, 2024 at 8:02 AM
Today is the last day you can post this picture
Added leaderboards (regional and global!) to tekkenratings.tristanmelton.com !
Also ported the setup over and now also live is 2xkoratings.tristanmelton.com !
Also ported the setup over and now also live is 2xkoratings.tristanmelton.com !
December 29, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Added leaderboards (regional and global!) to tekkenratings.tristanmelton.com !
Also ported the setup over and now also live is 2xkoratings.tristanmelton.com !
Also ported the setup over and now also live is 2xkoratings.tristanmelton.com !
After several weeks I'm finally done scraping all the rest of the world's Tekken 8 tournament sets.... now just to do a little data cleaning!
December 26, 2024 at 5:46 PM
After several weeks I'm finally done scraping all the rest of the world's Tekken 8 tournament sets.... now just to do a little data cleaning!
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🎢 A Merry Physmas to All! ⚛️
December 19, 2024 at 8:00 PM
🎢 A Merry Physmas to All! ⚛️
Only 197 days of data left to scrape......
December 16, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Only 197 days of data left to scrape......
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For friends, I'm losing my job, so if your company is hiring please let me know! Think people manager with technical skills. Happy to talk details in DMs about the 9-5
December 9, 2024 at 12:51 PM
For friends, I'm losing my job, so if your company is hiring please let me know! Think people manager with technical skills. Happy to talk details in DMs about the 9-5
Made some more progress on tekkenratings.tristanmelton.com ! Now with match history and rating-over-time plots. I think I'm almost at a point where I can spin it out and start advertising it on Reddit / other places, or add in EU / other regions. Or, I can add a search-by-username.... Unsure.
December 8, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Made some more progress on tekkenratings.tristanmelton.com ! Now with match history and rating-over-time plots. I think I'm almost at a point where I can spin it out and start advertising it on Reddit / other places, or add in EU / other regions. Or, I can add a search-by-username.... Unsure.
It's always a good feeling when the phenomenon you find appears in the simulations as well 😎
December 4, 2024 at 4:40 AM
It's always a good feeling when the phenomenon you find appears in the simulations as well 😎
Added some global statistics based on the Tekken 8 tournament glicko2 ratings I've calculated to TekkenRatings since I can't do any lab measurements while I wait for a SSA to arrive...
December 3, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Added some global statistics based on the Tekken 8 tournament glicko2 ratings I've calculated to TekkenRatings since I can't do any lab measurements while I wait for a SSA to arrive...
First version of my Tekken 8 offline rating system is built! It can be found at the link below - just put in your user slug (from your start.gg profile) and click submit, and your glicko2 rating and deviation will pop up. I've scraped most of the past year's tournaments (only in the US for now...)
December 2, 2024 at 3:56 AM
First version of my Tekken 8 offline rating system is built! It can be found at the link below - just put in your user slug (from your start.gg profile) and click submit, and your glicko2 rating and deviation will pop up. I've scraped most of the past year's tournaments (only in the US for now...)
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Post this to scare anyone born before 2000
November 28, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Post this to scare anyone born before 2000
The backend of my Tekken Offline ELO system seems to be working.... I have to manually tell it to update the database for older matches with a walking time window and still need to automate current tournament runnings but so far so good.
November 26, 2024 at 8:44 PM
The backend of my Tekken Offline ELO system seems to be working.... I have to manually tell it to update the database for older matches with a walking time window and still need to automate current tournament runnings but so far so good.
Found some low power four-wave-mixing in some short (~few mm) SiN waveguides. The kicker is I'm seeing it between two completely separate lasers over a broad wavelength range. Only thing I can come up with currently is some gain seeding between the two lasers but currently a little stuck.
November 24, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Found some low power four-wave-mixing in some short (~few mm) SiN waveguides. The kicker is I'm seeing it between two completely separate lasers over a broad wavelength range. Only thing I can come up with currently is some gain seeding between the two lasers but currently a little stuck.
Made some progress with MariaDB, but still learning all the conventions and best practices. Hats off to y'all that do this every day!
November 21, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Made some progress with MariaDB, but still learning all the conventions and best practices. Hats off to y'all that do this every day!
Making some initial progress with querying the start.gg API. At the moment, I'm simply querying for 4 (random?) past tournaments within the US that contain Tekken 8 events and filtering out only the T8 event, grabbing the entrant's associated user ID (constant across all events) and their sets.
November 20, 2024 at 7:15 AM
Making some initial progress with querying the start.gg API. At the moment, I'm simply querying for 4 (random?) past tournaments within the US that contain Tekken 8 events and filtering out only the T8 event, grabbing the entrant's associated user ID (constant across all events) and their sets.
November 20, 2024 at 1:44 AM
Won my very first Tekken local!
November 16, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Won my very first Tekken local!
Decided I'm going to try and jump back into my love for coding and work on a glicko2 rating system for start.gg Tekken tournaments! My plan is to help tournament goers be able to compare their results on a more quantitative basis, as event-to-event skill won't always be equal.
November 15, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Decided I'm going to try and jump back into my love for coding and work on a glicko2 rating system for start.gg Tekken tournaments! My plan is to help tournament goers be able to compare their results on a more quantitative basis, as event-to-event skill won't always be equal.
FYI for Southern Californa Tekken mutuals - I have made a website for easy access to the locals across the whole SoCal region (and for search indexing, since Discord can't be indexed)! Let me know if your local is not listed and I can work to add it to the calendar!
socaltekkenlocals.com
socaltekkenlocals.com
SoCal Tekken Locals
socaltekkenlocals.com
November 15, 2024 at 7:17 AM
FYI for Southern Californa Tekken mutuals - I have made a website for easy access to the locals across the whole SoCal region (and for search indexing, since Discord can't be indexed)! Let me know if your local is not listed and I can work to add it to the calendar!
socaltekkenlocals.com
socaltekkenlocals.com
I'll be posting about my research field (integrated photonics) and Tekken! Let me know if anything sounds interesting to you!
November 15, 2024 at 5:11 AM
I'll be posting about my research field (integrated photonics) and Tekken! Let me know if anything sounds interesting to you!
Moving over from the (now dead) bird app to here!
November 15, 2024 at 4:30 AM
Moving over from the (now dead) bird app to here!
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i'm debuting a new show on @fgcradio.bsky.social tonight starting at 11PM ET.
if you're not listening, you'll miss it.
if you're not listening, you'll miss it.
Fighting Game Community Radio
radio.fgcast.com
October 29, 2024 at 12:57 AM
i'm debuting a new show on @fgcradio.bsky.social tonight starting at 11PM ET.
if you're not listening, you'll miss it.
if you're not listening, you'll miss it.