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by NumberSix 10y ago
The phrase was misleading twenty-five years ago when applied to private sector positions, most of which were software development back then as well. There were few private sector positions analogous to a "tenure track" position e
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The phrase "potentially permanent position" is misleading. Is it intentional? I don't know. The primary audience for a report on outcomes for Ph.D.'s in Physics one year after graduation, getting their Ph.D. degree, is
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by NumberSix 10y ago
Yes, that is my point. There are almost no jobs in the private sector, especially the computer industry, analogous to a "tenure track research job." Possibly some corporate research labs like HP Labs, which have nearly all been
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There were definitely many EE degrees. Electrical technology dates back to the telegraph, telephones, lights, early electric power in the 1800's followed by radio in the 1920's. Richard Feynman started out as a EE at MIT in 1934
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by NumberSix 10y ago
The report is probably aimed at young people, college students in particular, investigating pursuing a Ph.D., who often are unfamiliar with the work world. "Potentially permanent positions" in the computer industry is not going t
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by NumberSix 10y ago
The use of the phrase "potentially permanent positions" in the AIP report for industry positions, especially in the computer industry, is highly misleading. Academia, including some government labs and institutes, has tenured pos
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by NumberSix 10y ago
This migration of physicists to the Silicon Valley and computer industry is not new. It has been true at least since the first big physics employment bubble crashed in the late 1960's, early 1970's. The post-Sputnik boom in phys
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Should You Get Started in Data Science?(math-blog.com)
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Perhaps. Theory costs less but there is a lot less money available for theory. For example, in 2014, the total High Energy Physics (HEP) budget of the US Department of Energy (DOE) was about 750 million dollars, nearly all of it experimen
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by NumberSix 10y ago
I would say certainly not. In Nova Astronomia in which Kepler lays out his discovery, one finds chapters and chapters (originally in Latin) of verbal analysis of what is going on. He did not just find a formula that worked blindly. Rathe
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I am not sure if we disagree here or not. Predictive power has not always trumped understanding as a goal. The original Copernican theory did not work as well as the Ptolemaic model used by astronomers. The Ptolemaic model as it had evolv
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I truly don't think Einstein's work at the patent office was "low hanging fruit." -- quite the opposite. Most major scientific breakthroughs have required at least five years of work, usually frustrating trial and erro
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by NumberSix 10y ago
Everyone calculates. In my mind, "shut up and calculate" refers to a very strong emphasis on calculation and symbolic manipulation to the near or total exclusion of conceptual analysis expressed in words and pictures. In particul
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"Shut up and calculate" hasn't produced much in the way of concrete or practical results compared to the heyday of fundamental physics in the first half of the 20th century that produced quantum mechanics, special and general
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The primary goal of software development is to solve problems, not to perform elaborate rituals with version control systems or other tools (IDE's, Makefiles, etc.). The primary function of a version control system is to recover earlie
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by NumberSix 10y ago
A few points. I have seen remote work go very smoothly and go very badly. It depends a lot on how well specified the remote work is. The "agile" and "issue tracker" methods currently popular do not teach good organizati
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by NumberSix 10y ago
There are the notions of: o clear written requirements expressing the business and high level technical needs. o well defined acceptance test procedures to ensure that the delivered software (or hardware or whatever) meets those requirement
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Separating the Math and the Mathematician(math-blog.com)
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A version control system should be simple. Engineers should be able to focus on getting things to work/done, not battling with a complicated, confusing version control system. Most engineers should be performing two operations/tw
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by NumberSix 10y ago
The linked article TDD: the Art of Fearless Programming by Ron Jeffries and Greg Melnik, IEEE Spectrum May/June 2007 https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/so/2007/03/s3024.pdf cites Kent Beck&#x27
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by NumberSix 10y ago
The article appears to assume what it is asserting about TDD (Test Driven Development): Of course, this is a fictional example making a lot of assumptions. Your mileage will vary based on lots of factors, including your team’s experience wi
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by NumberSix 10y ago
Neither in the article or in the referenced article/blog post linked to "Impact" is impact defined. https://blog.gitprime.com/impact-a-better-way-to-measure-cod... What I found is: Impact takes the fol
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Ask HN: Are you concerned about bias in search engine results?
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Google has search for exact strings: Search with an exact phrase. Put quotation marks around words "[any word]" to search for an exact phrase in an exact order. Keep in mind that searching with quotes might exclude relevant result
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Ask HN: What problems if any do you have with the Google search engine?
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The article has two points: (1) Algorithms don't make decisions. People choose the algorithms and design the algorithms. The algorithms reflect the biases, failings, and agendas, both hidden and overt, of people. (2) Hillary Clinton
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Did Facebook's News Feed Algorithm Elect Donald Trump?(math-blog.com)
5 points by NumberSix 10y ago|4 comments
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Algebra, Asimov, and Missing Steps(math-blog.com)
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Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction(math-blog.com)
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As another commenter noted, for negative/decimal it is not so simple. That is why a highly experienced software engineer would look for an existing, fully debugged implementation rather than spend substantial time making sure all the

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