Analog24

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by Analog24 9y ago
I'm not disagreeing with your point but I think it's a bit out of context here. The parent comment was specifically talking about what they heard from Renaissance Technologies, not a some hipster startup.
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by Analog24 9y ago
You should read all the context before stating that this comment thread means the system is broken. Just because extremely self-motivated individuals now have readily available resources to learn almost anything on their own does not mean t
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by Analog24 9y ago
Renaissance Technology has been around decades and is one of the biggest hedge funds in the world. I don't think it qualifies as an early-stage company.
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by Analog24 9y ago
People usually work for 30 years... Grad school is definitely a long term investment but it's not always the best choice. As you said, in the end you have to do what's right for you.
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by Analog24 9y ago
At some of the larger tech companies the salaries for scientists/researchers is usually higher than for engineers specifically because of the extra educational requirements. Where I work there are actually on two separate pay scales to
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by Analog24 9y ago
I wouldn't extrapolate too far from those horror stories you heard. My experience was nothing like what you describe. Plus there are many reasons to get a PhD other than going into academia and when you're a grad student you don&#
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by Analog24 9y ago
I believe it's reconstructed from the Latex source, which is how every paper is submitted to the ArXiv. Not to diminish this site but I'm guessing that generating HTML from Latex is a lot easier than doing it from PDF format.
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by Analog24 9y ago
In the same way Caffe conflicts with your local coffee shop. This is far from the first naming conflict of the internet age.
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by Analog24 9y ago
Just a clarification: galaxy rotation curves and the observed expansion of the universe are not really related. The empirically observed expansion of the Universe is the motivating evidence for the existence of Dark Energy. Dark Matter, whi
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by Analog24 9y ago
You can't compare an adjunct professor to a full-time (assistant/associate/full) professor. I would not consider adjunct professors to be 'academics' as they do not typically do any research. They're basically
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by Analog24 9y ago
Those are not full professors, they're assistant and associates as well. Adjunct professors are a different story b/c that is not meant to be a full time job. Adjunct professors typically teach a single course and do not do any re
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by Analog24 9y ago
Not the numbers I mentioned. I was referring to the salaries in the physics department (my department). And I wasn't limiting my search to full professors. There are plenty of assistant and associate professors making well over 100k.
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by Analog24 9y ago
I mentioned this in another comment but it's worth reiterating: IDE's and vim are not mutually exclusive. Every IDE offers a vim mode or vim plugin that gives you the best of both worlds.
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by Analog24 9y ago
Aside from the other comments, you're missing a huge part of what vim is about if you think that it's vim vs. every other IDE. I use IDE's but I use a vim plugin in every single one to enable the vim key binding so I can enjo
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by Analog24 9y ago
I never knew about this trick, which is pretty significant if you use tmux regularly. This just made my day!
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by Analog24 9y ago
It's hugely inefficient to have to pick up your hand every time you want to move the cursor (assuming you're a developer and spend a significant amount of time in a text editor). If you don't want to learn a new tool to impro
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by Analog24 9y ago
I mapped capslock to Control and use Control-c instead of escape. It's much easier on my pinky.
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by Analog24 9y ago
I agree. I didn't really learn vim (and subsequently learn to love it) until I disabled the arrow keys in my .vimrc file, which forced me to learn hjkl.
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by Analog24 9y ago
University of California salaries are shared publicly. I haven't actually crunched the numbers but it seems like an average salary is around 150k for professors in research based fields. That's well over half of the median salary
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by Analog24 10y ago
This is what SQLAlchemy is for. It's one of the best ORMs out there and makes interacting with a SQL server a breeze.
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by Analog24 10y ago
My aunt gave me the Klein Stein for graduation (a klein bottle in the shape of a beer mug). It's actually not that hard to clean. You rinse it with water and then bake it in the oven at ~200F for an hour and you're good to go. It
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by Analog24 10y ago
It was enough to get on the front page. The point is that the post wasn't swallowed in the usual sense. We now know that the original post fell drastically because it was being flagged by users.
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by Analog24 10y ago
Presenting the facts out of context isn't helpful. The original post might have "only had 32 upvotes" but, as mentioned in this article, it received about 20 in less than an hour. More than enough to get to the front page, wh
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by Analog24 10y ago
Pandas is a python library but it is based on the concept of a Data Frame from R.
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by Analog24 10y ago
You'd be surprised how many implementation options there are in halite. People have come up with starter packages for just about every language you would ever want to use.
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by Analog24 10y ago
I never used this feature until despite using Google photos extensively (I have ~60 GB of photos on there, granted that's 60 GB on my computer which isn't with the same compression/quality that Google uses). I have to say tha
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by Analog24 10y ago
An electron at rest has 511 keV of energy, which is ~10^6 times the energy of visible light (~1 eV), so from energy considerations alone it has more than enough to "create" a photon. Accelerating electrons are a great source of li
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by Analog24 10y ago
Seconded. Chrome used to crash ~1/month on me but ever since I started using The Great Suspender I haven't had a single incident and it's been well over a year.
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by Analog24 10y ago
I'm from the US and I went to a high school in an affluent, upper-middle class town. We were basically taught from day one freshman year that the was no other option except to go to college. Our 'guidance counselors' were onl
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by Analog24 10y ago
I do a lot of data science/ML work and it is almost exclusively done with Python3 so I'm not sure what libraries you are referring to as I haven't had any issues.

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