User talk:Sbyrnes321

How to Cite Your Shockley Queisser Curve

Hello, I want to use your SQ curve as seen in this link in my publication and I want to cite you. How can I do that? For the time being, I will mention your website, the Wikipedia link, and your name, is that correct? The citation will appear as: Byrnes S. Shockley Queisser Full Curve [Internet]. Wikipedia. [cited 2024 Jan 17]; Available from: https://sjbyrnes.com/misc.html. Please tell me if you want it to appear differently. AmrShalaby92 (talk) 16:32, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

It's ultimately your call, but I would recommend linking to either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ShockleyQueisserFullCurve.svg or https://github.com/sbyrnes321/SolarCellEfficiencyLimits/blob/master/sq.ipynb , rather than to sjbyrnes.com which is not a good archival link because I reorganize my site now and then, and also that page doesn't directly have that curve anyway. --Steve (talk) 16:39, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the prompt response.

Okay, I will use both the Wikipedia and the Github links. AmrShalaby92 (talk) 18:13, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Data source

Hi, i was wandering if you could share what data set you used for the awesome Shockley-Queisser limit graphs? I want to re-use this data for a graph with different markup 87.212.32.53 (talk) 15:26, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

I suggest to use the code at https://github.com/sbyrnes321/SolarCellEfficiencyLimits/blob/master/sq.ipynb - it might take a few hours to run, but then you’ll have regenerated the data, and you can plot it or export it however you want. --Steve (talk) 17:33, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Benford's Law log graphs

Hi. I think there is a problem with the graph you made to illustrate Benford's law:

BenfordBroad

A broad probability distribution on a log scale. The total area in blue and red are the relative probabilities that the first digit of a number drawn from this distribution starts with 8 and 1, respectively.

I don't think the part in bold holds. The x-axis is log, so it's a mistake to take areas at face value. Don't you think? André Neves (talk) 12:10, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

There used to be an explanation but apparently someone deleted it. See footnote 11 here: https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Benford%27s_law&oldid=867001766 Copy ↓

"This section discusses and plots probability distributions of the logarithms of a variable. This is not the same as taking a regular probability distribution of a variable, and simply plotting it on a log scale. Instead, one multiplies the distribution by a certain function. The log scale distorts the horizontal distances, so the height has to be changed also, in order for the area under each section of the curve to remain true to the original distribution. See, for example, [1]. Specifically: $P(\log x)d(\log x)=(1/x)P(\log x)dx$."

--Steve (talk) 13:00, 30 December 2024 (UTC)