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by borroka 6y ago
Martial arts are useful especially because when you are proficient, you are less likely to use the art. Not being afraid of a confrontation makes you more confident, serene, and less likely to have a confrontation. I am skilled in a martial
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by borroka 6y ago
People who are in stable relationships are people who want to be in stable relationships. This is readily apparent when most find their spouse, significant other, love of their life or other half of the walnut in their small town, neighborh
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by borroka 7y ago
When I was working in academia, I had an advisor who used to tell me: "just do good work and you will find a TT position". Never found one, despite the objectively good work I published. Not even an interview. Tremendously bad adv
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by borroka 7y ago
I agree with your points, except for not knowing whether you have good chances or not of landing a TT position, say at a top R1 institution. The world is full of delusional people, and I have been among those a few times, but especially if
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by borroka 7y ago
I tried many unsuccessful times to convince recruiters at different companies to recruit postdocs, especially those coming from the more quantitative sciences that were not computer science or adjacent to computer science. The main reasons
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by borroka 7y ago
Not really odd, generally speaking. Only a small proportion of postdocs (<10% in my field is my estimate) get a TT position. Nobody in my Ph.D. cohort got any and we are all well beyond our academic expiration date. The main reasons for
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by borroka 7y ago
Cognitive abilities, energy, stamina, singular focus on something (or someone) tend to decline with age. Apart from being unenforceable, "encouraging students to wait until their 50s to pursue PhDs and research work" makes as much
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by borroka 7y ago
It is the result of the combination of path dependency and it-will-be-different-for-me syndrome. Path dependency because many PhDs specialize in fields and skills that have little value outside of academia – think biology (e.g., all those r
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by borroka 7y ago
If you assume the probability of getting a position is uniformly distributed over the applicants. If you think about it for 10 seconds, you can agree with me it is a spherical-cow assumption.
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by borroka 7y ago
I was a postdoc or I was employed in similar roles (Research Fellow, Reseach Scholar) for close to 10 years before moving into tech. Although I overall enjoyed my postdoc years – in particular, I enjoyed doing research, writing papers, and
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by borroka 7y ago
I would be curious to know whether I have been the only one using TMB in production in a tech company. A tricky piece of software, but very powerful.
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by borroka 7y ago
Michael Vann wrote this recent book on the Hanoi Rat Hunt https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/the-great-hanoi-rat-hunt...
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by borroka 8y ago
Netflix is doing this at scale for all the content that it is on its platform, where the audience is the number of Netflix member that have watched (or will watch) a tv show, movie etc. There are limits of predictions that are reached quite
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by borroka 8y ago
I will, anonymously, in a few months. It's going to be good fun, both for the readers and for me.
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by borroka 8y ago
> 99% of people within FAANG are the most friendly people ever I worked at one the FAANG and I found in my team and some of the neighboring teams the most insecure, unfriendly, back-stabbing, conspiratorial bunch of technically semi-comp
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by borroka 8y ago
I interviewed at Facebook and when I realized that the whole interview was about finding ways to make people spend as much time possible on Facebook and Instagram (which I use in moderation, I love to share a good pic of myself), I ran for
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by borroka 8y ago
Is Facet only for senior devs or also for senior ex-FAANG data scientists?
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by borroka 8y ago
I do not see any problem with that. There is a ton of confusion in the tech world regarding labels, who does what, it is needed or not, outside of the core actions that need to be done. The net effect of laying off 50% of tech people from p
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by borroka 8y ago
Because it is difficult to get those challenging jobs in Europe and you are getting paid much more in the US. Plus, a certain "capitalism-envy" of the European. I agree with the point about the weird American workaholism and the v
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by borroka 8y ago
It is correct. But saying A pays more than B and not factoring in the cost of living is not a useful exercise.
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by borroka 8y ago
Interesting downvote
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by borroka 8y ago
ERA grants vary widely in prestige, money, and requirements. It is correct that they hold back money that is freed after audits are carried out. However, as in the case of the MC fellowship, which can amount to > 300k over three years (s
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by borroka 8y ago
In the example I was describing above, the money goes to researchers (I was one of the recipients), but since there are no follow-ups, such as some support for researchers that finish the fellowship and are looking for jobs, the downstream
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by borroka 8y ago
Living in Switzerland is much more expensive than living in Italy (housing especially), so salaries are more or less adjusted accordingly to the cost of living. Then, there are also some top Universities in Switzerland. When I was doing my
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by borroka 8y ago
The effect of these ERA (European Research Agency) initiatives is zero. EU likes to throw money at problems without following up; for an enlightening example one can look at the Marie Curie fellowship. Money thrown at researcher for 2 or 3
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by borroka 8y ago
The Italian postdoc salaries are comparable to the French ones and there are more opportunities in France than in Italy for some Italians, e.g. those that are not in the line of succession to the throne. When I was doing research in Italy,
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by borroka 8y ago
Assuming (wrongly, but that's ok at first approximation) that money spent on academic research is a fraction of GDP, and that there is a positive correlation between money spent on research and jobs in research, UK and Germany should c
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by borroka 8y ago
The article is not clear; I did not look at the raw data, but the expectation of parity between population percent and percent of scientists/engineers is a hypothesis itself. It is well known that Italy produced far fewer people with a
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by borroka 8y ago
Reviews also have to present original results often in the form of novel syntheses, not just she did this, then he did that.
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by borroka 8y ago
Very few journals do double-blind reviews. Maybe some conferences in CS, but in my field (biology) I never reviewed a paper without knowing who the authors were, along with their affiliation.

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