ChristianMarks

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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
This system should be rolled out, but not before the karma of all users is reset to zero. This would provide a level playing field. (ok, no comments could be endorsed either.)
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
Metamucil
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Is it Time to Abolish Middle Management?(psychologytoday.com)
1 points by ChristianMarks 13y ago|1 comments
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
If the allegations are true, I'd like to see a Kickstarter project to fund her litigation.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
I suppose this means that mathematics and the humanities will advance more than disciplines that require significant funding.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
+1 for that observation.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
Philosophy departments are also having their troubles with sexism, sexual harassment and allegations therof, as one can find by perusing http://leiterreports.typepad.com , http://philosophysmoker.blogspot.com/ an
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
There is a gap between stupid bosses and very very smart bosses. My own preference is weighted to the latter, but I recognize this can be career limiting (I have mixed feelings about working for myself, for example).
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
I feel your pain. I left a job after a reorg during which a VP promoted the people he hired over the rest of us. Bureaucratic protocol required loss of titles for a number of those not promoted. (No one could have the same title as the pers
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
My solution is legal but unpopular: no MPAA movies, no RIAA recordings.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
You're probably right about the manipulative psychology of probing for and exploiting weaknesses. Absolutely disgusting, unprofessional, completely extraneous and non-work related. Very offensive and obnoxious to deal with.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
When I hear from a manager that I must be absolutely certain that some complex system utterly beyond my control must work without the possibility of error, I leave. (I have done this.) Life is too short to spend it working with manipulative
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
Destabilizing.
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Newsweek Bitcoin story quoted Satoshi Nakamoto accurately (latimes.com)
9 points by ChristianMarks 13y ago|4 comments
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
I left an abusive working environment. High turnover places exist. The American business press likes to tell oppressed employees to take their torturer's perspective, to become one with their abuser, to act with the supreme, Zen-like i
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
You have a point: it may be that there is no news network that values journalistic integrity.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
Pardon my cynicism, but resignations are good for ratings.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
Fair enough. I tried in my youth to solve every problem I came across. There were many I couldn't solve. It took a while before I developed the wisdom and discipline not to solve every problem no matter how long it took. By a while I m
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
I've left academia and returned, then left and am returning again. Thanks to the sequester, the NIH and NSF funding situation is bleak--I know successful PIs who currently have zilch. They're pursuing consulting contracts to make
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
I've used flash cards (SuperMemo and Anki) for mathematics and do not see anything wrong with using flash cards, memorizing the solutions to 500 complex analysis qualifier exam questions and using spaced repetition algorithms. I would
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
I had to learn the epsilon-delta definition before I really understood limits. As far as insanely small goes, as you must know, the definition is equivalent to "for every epsilon < M, there exists a delta >0, ..." where M is
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In Search of a Stable Electronic Currency (mobile.nytimes.com)
8 points by ChristianMarks 13y ago|11 comments
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Bitcoin: The Cryptopolitics of Cryptocurrencies (harvardpress.typepad.com)
2 points by ChristianMarks 13y ago|0 comments
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
It's not a great win for Russia to annex the Ukraine. If they do, they're stuck with an expensive mess.
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
This is for hackers who want to brush up on their Nietzsche. The author, Brian Leiter, runs http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/ and is one of my intellectual heros.
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The Truth is Terrible(papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by ChristianMarks 13y ago|1 comments
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
The problem with "the problem" is that there is no uniquely specified problem. The article is concerned with the use of key performance indicators by administrators to allocate resources to scientific projects in many fields. Math
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
If you want to impress an employer as someone who will work until they die on the job, your answer to the question "where do you see yourself in 5 years?" should be "dead."
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by ChristianMarks 13y ago
Exactly right. I once timed my departure from such a job within a period during which lines lost to attrition or retirement would not be replaced. This was soon after a reorganization. The loss of direct reports hurt the manager's stre
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What is wrong with the word "performant"? (english.stackexchange.com)
1 points by ChristianMarks 13y ago|0 comments

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