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by brent 19y ago
"When I try to explain why professors at small, private universities -- where tuition costs tend to be high -- usually earn significantly less than faculty members at more-affordable public universities, people shake their heads at the absu
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by brent 19y ago
I imagine Bell Labs would have been an incredible place if only based on people that worked there. I wonder how close IBM and HP were at their research peaks. Also, I should mention that I wasn't intentionally picking on yc companies and
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by brent 19y ago
I have the same impression about ms research which is what prompted the post. I have no idea what financial compensation is at either place, but there is little, if any, financial risk and everyone I've talked to at ms research loves what
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by brent 19y ago
I find this to be a major thesis in many of your essays, but I've got to know... do you feel it would be bad for your brain to work in google research or (gasp) microsoft research or academia? I mean, I would bet working for Norvig is a mo
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by brent 19y ago
In the last 16 I saw 10 I would expect to be of interest to at least a handful of readers here: The Drake Equation (funny math) How it works (stereotypes & math) Advanced Technology (von neumann machines) Fuck Grapefruit (scatter plot a
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by brent 19y ago
So was this "star" marketer fooled by marketing? "It's pretty fancy and shiny and microprocessor controlled. And it makes toast." Shouldn't the criteria have been related to function: like 'I only have to insert toast and remove toast...
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by brent 19y ago
I'm not a statistician, but if I read the paper correctly ... there is barely a negative correlation in his 2006 study (if you remove the one significant anamoly). n=18 in his 2002 study and n=16 in 2006. He controlled for age and years o
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by brent 19y ago
It looks like a crayon version of working model 2d from a decade ago.
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by brent 19y ago
That's actually quite funny. I met a prominent CS professor at a major school (think top 10) who admitted he doesn't know any programming languages (C, java, etc.).
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by brent 19y ago
Same here at IU, but what do you expect when Dan Friedman and Kent Dybvig are faculty. Unfortunately my undergraduate school was yet another java school.
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by brent 19y ago
The bigdog is better at recovery when slipping on an ice patch. I need that.
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by brent 19y ago
A "traditional" resume is simply a track record in a concise format. If you're exceptional enough to not need one the company will probably be approaching you. If you're too pretentious to bother making one because you think you're except
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by brent 19y ago
He said it was similar to the posts about the Feynman quote. So the coast is clear, I don't think you hate anyone in this case.
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by brent 19y ago
Are they yielding reasonable results in micro-domains right now? Like specifically terrorism-related defense?
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by brent 19y ago
I'd be a bit shocked if people (particularly the more academic types) didn't use matlab or R. Anyone know if these two are prevalent in financial shops of various types?
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by brent 19y ago
I noticed the same thing. Let's hope his setup is like mine and the bookcase is an arm's length behind him.
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by brent 19y ago
Is that url your page?
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by brent 19y ago
Was he using v's, y's, d's, and p's?
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by brent 19y ago
I'll second that. My suggestions are: American Beauty, Atonement, Braveheart, Gladiator, Lord of the Rings I II III, Meet Joe Black, Requiem for a Dream, The Last Samurai, and There Will Be Blood.
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by brent 19y ago
I would wonder why someone who is a claimed expert (fancy color, large text and all) in copywriting has an extra 't' in Adobe Audition. :)
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by brent 19y ago
latex, gvim, firefox, matlab, R.
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by brent 19y ago
Why does he or the author consider him a psychologist? I think its a bit misleading when simply reading the title of the article. He has an undergraduate degree in psychology, but his master's is in operations research (and correct me if
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by brent 19y ago
If I pay $1 for 20% of your stock, I'm saying your company is worth $5. I now have 20% worth $1. You have 80% worth $4.
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by brent 19y ago
$1000 = $50000 * 2%
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by brent 19y ago
First, I'm sure most researchers "work hard and mean well". If not, they'd be much better rewarded in almost any other line of work. I agree that the system is not perfect. However, I would also have a hard time saying that double blind
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by brent 19y ago
The purpose of the question was clearly rhetorical. He was using the Nature story to imply that academia is corrupt. He wasn't curious of our impressions on the corruptness of academia. Therefore my comment is sensible.
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by brent 19y ago
Hackers are generally interested in the world around them, particularly things related to freedom (personal, intellectual, or otherwise). It doesn't get much bigger than this. How could this possibly be irrelevant? If its irrelevant to y
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by brent 19y ago
Interesting title. You indict the entire community of scientific researchers based on a single decision made by a single journal. Is your decision making process any better than theirs?
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by brent 19y ago
The only problem is such a system will tend to award popular ideas (or humor) as opposed to unique, albeit possibly controversial ideas. When I go digging into the comments I generally look for two things... a large thread of comments and
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by brent 19y ago
Reduce it to 150 minutes? Yikes! How much TV do you guys watch? That's an epic film a night and thats considered a target?

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