amathres_info

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by amathres_info 4y ago
Academia is nice because I get paid decent money to work about 30 hours a week, and what little work I do is mostly fun. On sabbatical, I can work even less (and don't have to deal with students), and I get to live in an interesting pl
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by amathres_info 4y ago
Most professors do not have >>1 postdoc in their careers, because most of us teach at less research-intensive (or entirely teaching-focused) schools that have no postdocs at all. The way things work now, even to get a liberal arts sc
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by amathres_info 4y ago
Another tip: the vast majority of ArXiv papers have the LaTeX source available under "other formats". I used to download those instead of the pdfs for better searching. Now I don't really bother keeping a personal collectio
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by amathres_info 4y ago
I'm another academic mathematician. I'm not really convinced that all this would be a time-saver for me as far as research productivity; maybe I'm just old-fashioned but I just have a few folders for paper notes and that&#x2
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by amathres_info 4y ago
The UIC grad student union is pretty effective at keeping their teaching hours to under 20 hours per week (so, you complain to them when there's too much grading). But the stipends there are among the lowest of good math departments,
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by amathres_info 5y ago
I vouch for the Sunbeam F1. It reminds me of the dumbphones of yore and is totally functional. Also check out r/dumbphones, lots of reviews there.
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by amathres_info 5y ago
This was a problem, but in the last year or two there are some good ones again. Check out the Sunbeam F1, which is actually reasonably snappy. I have used a dumbphone all along and agree that they were really bad for awhile. The Alcatel G
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by amathres_info 5y ago
I have never seen the appeal of this "smartphone" fad and have had a dumbphone all along. I think the article misses another reason for recent resurgence, which is that the most recent generation of dumbphones are actually usable
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by amathres_info 5y ago
I think you are all missing the context here. The "Association for Mathematical Research" is a new organization created by various people who got in trouble on woke math twitter. Nobody had heard of it until yesterday. (Their crim