N1H1L

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by N1H1L 5y ago
Everything you read on the internet is true. - Mark Twain
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> Essential point, but in the interest of practicality: is there a way such knowledge could be communicated more efficiently? Papers could be restructured better in my opinion. Journal papers are still written as if they are for a print
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It's also a win for reducing oil dependency for many nations. Many of the oil producing countries are not always the most savory characters, and energy independence is an important national security goal in itself
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Trains are amazing for cutting out carbon from the delivery chain. You can even run double stack containers with overhead electrical traction (both China and India do it). Honestly using trucks to ship from a California port to Utah makes n
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For journal papers I get you completely dude. I am a PhD, and now a research scientist. Reading and writing journal papers is what I have been doing for close to a decade now - and yet to really get a paper - I often have to dedicate two-
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I wholeheartedly support this - and if you support free markets you should support it too. Markets are free when information asymmetry is reduced, and currently there exists one. The whole idea of free market of labour is that you will sell
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> Posting wages might make it easier for companies to match their offers to others, leading to a sort of collusion, and salary stagnation. As if that hasn't already happened https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Te
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Pretty much every higher paying company already knows that. Even the lower paying ones do.
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Thing is - we don't really know at this point whether this wilful destruction of the scientific careers of a cohort were avoidable or not. And zero scientific administrators will face zero consequences for this. Whatever it is, the rev
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Because it's time limited. National lab postdocs are valid only upto 5 years from PhD. Many grants won't fund you if you are X years since PhD. That's why the position of Research Assistant Professors exist - the way around t
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> It's just a shame the salary is so bad you're almost forced to move on. UC Berkeley, for example, pays its postdocs $60k to $65k per year. It's challenging to live in the Bay Area for that money. Also, remember many post
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This is the key. Everyone claims Python/MATLAB proficiency, yet there is honestly a vast competency spectrum. A polished public repo, in my experience, will really help you stand out.
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This is why I am so pissed off at academic hypocrisy currently. Labs were shut down for months. For what? To protect whom? The senior faculty who did their Ph.D. in the early eighties and refuses to transition to emeritus status? Junior res
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by N1H1L 5y ago
The thing is, a postdoc is a classic case of credential inflation. You don't really need a postdoc, especially if an industry job is your goal. The purpose of an academic postdoc is to strictly increase the items in your CV to make y
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by N1H1L 5y ago
I spent my Ph.D. coding in MATLAB, as my Ph.D. was experimental and MATLAB was mainly used for data analysis and plotting. On the other hand, I had a full conda package with complete documentation up and running by the end of my postdoc. Th
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by N1H1L 5y ago
Even in non-CS STEM fields, there are a ton of industry jobs. Many of the students in my doctoral cohort went for industry jobs, and almost all of them are making good money (over 120k annually) and are generally happy in their careers. The
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There is also something counter-intuitive - we are making better and cheaper batteries because we are using so many batteries and planning to use _so much_ more. The cost curve and the profit motive are wonderful things.
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But 0.85 million is honestly a drop in the water for India. That's still less than 5% of the babies born in India in that time frame.
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But also jax.numpy can do this quite a bit too.
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This is because in Google, you are promoted/feted based on products you create, not what you maintain unless that's bringing in so much ad revenue that you can be spun off into a separate division.
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They also have a company called ThirdAI to commercialize SLIDE
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The problem is that anger is addictive. Even if humans didn't understand this fact about human nature, the engagement maximizing algorithms absolutely homed in on it. It's also pretty obvious today that the average tech-bro snee
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Dell is another big one I can think of.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/housing-market-boise-idaho-leas...
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Not all industries have the same money available. SV margins are frankly not present in thousands of other jobs - so this is a non-starter.
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Yep. Which is why Boise, ID is the most expensive real estate market in the country. Remote work is coming with its own issues, rather than being the cure-all HN thinks. In many places, such as East TN (Knoxville) remote workers are moving
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In fact this is why self-driving cars are so hard! A complete newbie driver faces all of these tiny issues, which they learn to forget as they become practiced. There are so many subtleties in these scenarios, that it's mind boggling
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I remember driving through suburbian Atlanta at night a few months back, and there was this road that was 6 lines wide through a residential area, with a speed limit of 40 mph. That road was legitimately wider and straighter than Interstate
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It is cheaper today already. Battery backed solar already has a LCOE than nuclear.
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I am a massive BEV fanboy - but I don't see 5000 mile EVs happening anytime soon, if ever. The current energy densities are already ~200 Wh/kg. We can go max to 700Wh/kg. So at most we will have 1000 - 1500 miles of range. Th

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