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by bananaquant 5y ago
> You can generally exit at any time and immediately transition into lucrative careers in, for example, tech and finance. I work in both and routinely interview PhDs in physics. I would not say that the transition is immediate nor easy,
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by bananaquant 6y ago
Julia optimizes for a different thing. You can get your result, as in the actual useful thing that the code does/produces, much faster than with C/C++. You can skip type annotations, not worry about the memory usage, and write you
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by bananaquant 6y ago
From my experience, this alignment of interests is more tricky than it seems. Sure, the overall goal is to publish as many papers as possible, but their topic more often than not is solely determined by the advisor. Those papers may not end
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by bananaquant 6y ago
For display and editing purposes, yes. However, from what I understand, the LSP, linters, and auxiliary tools all run on remote.
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by bananaquant 6y ago
Of course not, that's what the experts are for. I couldn't find much about young people, but data on adults should be suggestive enough ( https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... ):
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by bananaquant 6y ago
Whoa. This looks really promising now.
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by bananaquant 6y ago
Ha. I remember the time when it took over a minute.
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by bananaquant 6y ago
Do they have a usable debugger now? My last experience was 2 years ago, and launching it even on some trivial code took over 10 seconds.
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by bananaquant 6y ago
I think that cryptos are going to become more popular in the coming years with the ordinary people. As for the businesses — they don't want to own them, since they are not widely recognized currencies. When CBDCs come along, that would
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by bananaquant 6y ago
It looks like Visa is stepping in the niche that Facebook's Libra has identified, but couldn't fully explore due to regulatory pressure. It would be interesting to see if they can succeed at letting people and businesses efficient
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by bananaquant 6y ago
Yes. And it makes it very appealing for hospitals to just import practicing doctors from abroad on H1-B visas. It also makes those doctors very dependent on their employers due to their visa restrictions, which allows to suppress their wage
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by bananaquant 6y ago
At first I misread the name as "Malinvest". Funny enough, the website is set up to encourage exactly that. You have to pick a business based on a short description and some social media profiles. Some of the listings have a busine
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by bananaquant 6y ago
PSA: Hertz stock is already worthless. The only thing keeping it afloat are retail investors that keep piling in. They are pretty much guaranteed to lose money holding it.
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by bananaquant 6y ago
Companies explicitly requiring a PhD is an unfortunate consequence of having too many PhDs being already out there and additionally produced each year. If you have done some interesting work and can get in touch with a recruiter, you can pr
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by bananaquant 6y ago
> But what kind of recognition do they get? They get paid well. Most of the stuff they do cannot be published due to intellectual property reasons, so they indeed miss out on academic recognition. This is a trade-off one has to make. Sa
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by bananaquant 6y ago
Don't despair. PhD life looks good from the outside because all parties involved (students, professors, administrators) have incentives to make it look good. The reality can be much different. Besides, you've got to think how wou
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by bananaquant 6y ago
Interesting. This kind of resembles the crisis of 2008, when banks have produced too many subprime loans. It looks like WF tries to get them off their books while it still can. Or at least not make new ones.
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by bananaquant 7y ago
The undergraduate and Masters degrees typically don't have the research component; that's why PhDs are necessary. At the same time, I completely agree about their poor pay and not a lot of freedom.
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by bananaquant 7y ago
To me, it seems that the bigger problem is lack of good jobs for trained scientists, rather than any inefficiencies of matching them to each other. Academia, on the one hand, is replete with positions like postdocs and adjunct professorship
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by bananaquant 7y ago
I'm just working through the math in the paper right now. To me, it looks like all of the formulas could be expressed in a probabilistic PL and MCMC could be used to estimate the probabilities of both latent state and parameters. Would
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by bananaquant 7y ago
This is fascinating. Have you been working for a bigger company back then or was it an independent gig?