2cynykyl

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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
I'm glad the GP pointed this out, because nobody talks about it. The "PI" of a lab is manager, so these issues are like an accountant embezzling money without the manager knowing. Maybe the manage should have put better proce
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
> I was trying to be funny. You succeeded!
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
I think the point is that people were breeding rats so that they could make more money. Then when the ended the 'program', the rats just got released, making the problem worse, no?
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
Cannot agree more! It's a new product made by Posit, who are behind R and RStudio. I think it pulls together Knitr and a few other technologies. Features: * It has a "blog" mode for listing posts in order, pulls out thumbna
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
I think the discussions around this issue (in this thread and elsewhere) are missing a key point: The vast majority of academic research is conducted by graduate students working toward their PhD. For instance, the word "student"
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
I know you're just font as an example, but doesn't your markdown editor also shove a font in your face? You can adjust default behavior in Word just as well as in another editor. Anyway, to work within your analogy, I would say t
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
You are probably the only person I've heard that liked the old mathtype editor :-) The new editor is terrific because you can use just type the equation in latex format (e.g. A_c = \pi R^2 ). Then you hit the space bar and it converts
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
Good point, sigh...this is so true. I have created a 45 minute tutorial of 'how to use word properly' to address this exact pain point. I send a link to my students if their first draft commits any 'sins'. BTW, when I
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
From what I can tell, Quarto is essentially an installer for Knitr/R, that also comes with a bunch of goodies, like when working in VSC (or Rstudio) it auto-suggests cross-references to content in the document, like figures/chapte
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
I also use Word for all my writing too, so wanted to defend you. People (tech people at least) have lost sight of the fact that writing should happen in "word processing software", and Word is the best-in-class. To people who sa
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
Having just spent many months in Japan, I can confirm this...the paper work was so involved it could have been satire. To change our address on our residence cards we need to do 'move out' paperwork in the old ward and bring that
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
Think about it the other way...what would happen if they didn't cheat? Imagine spending 6 of your prime years in a lab doing experiments that refused to work...your hypothesis is totally wrong, etc. It is not hard to imagine a stude
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
This is a great point about differentiating between filler and seminal papers. And I actually think the word filler is spot on for two reasons. Firstly, this reminds me of a blog post about what it means to get a PhD [1]. The problem with
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
The statements made in the original post are so foreign to me. It sounds like the author is digging really deep to try and say something nice about the peer review process. To be fair, it might be true for CS where they are stuck in the
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
and thank you for this!
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
Professors are basically CEOs for deep-tech start-ups (at least in science and engineering). Yes, they know the theory, technology, tools, etc, (from their own time as PhDs and Postdocs), but they need to delegate much of the work to their
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
I'm turning this concept into my new life motto, thank you! (Not that I needed it, I'm already so anti ads). Anyway, if you ever remember the source please post it back here.
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
This is exactly what a phone addict would say. Besides I was obviously referring to the type of content consumption enabled by phones, not the phones themselves. Unless by scrolling you mean reading Hemingway on your Kindle app, then I sta
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
I need to disagree with this strongly (I'm an engineering professor of 15 years). I am so "anti-latex" that I border on zealot. I'll save you my sermon, but I can't help but point out that saying "I spent 75%
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
Comments so far seem split 50/50 for and against taking of photos. I'll try to tip the scales towards "for": Just don't over do it! Get a phone that has a good camera, then use it to take 10-15 photos per day whi
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
You kinda answered your own question: "another 30 minutes of scrolling". Sorry to be so cliche, but we all gotta stop staring at our phones. Side story: I have been taking the subway to work for the past 7 months and Every.Single.
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
I almost went down your path, but did not have the guts that you had (and probably not the talent either tbh!), so bailed out and chose engineering instead, now music just a "hobby" and I get sad if I think about it too much. So