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by busyant 5y ago
Not sure if you've ever seen this, but former (Massachusetts) Governor Weld staged a little publicity stunt several years ago by jumping into the Charles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiGbMmqrYrY
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by busyant 5y ago
I had this realization somewhere in life. Many jobs (not just CEO) are highly dependent on "story telling" in a general sense. Which is a stylish way of saying, "being able to explain yourself and your motivations." In g
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by busyant 5y ago
I did this for a while. A few comments. First, as pointed out by pwg, you might have a dynamic IP address. Also, your ISP may block access to port 80, but there may be ways around that (not sure anymore). Second, I had occasional "brow
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by busyant 5y ago
This seems like a reasonable opportunity to remind people of this fascinating story. It's not exactly a story about eco-friendliness, but it involves gold medals and "recycling." "When Germany invaded Denmark in 1940, [G
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by busyant 5y ago
> Physical attractiveness is also never a bad thing I used to work with an ex-military guy (extremely bright, hard working, excellent leader, etc. etc.). He was about 64 inches (1.63 meters) tall, balding, and not the handsomest fella. H
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by busyant 5y ago
> It was really difficult if in addition the room resembled my old school classrooms My opinion is uninformed here, but it seems like some kind of therapy (e.g., cbt) might be helpful. Thank you for the conversation.
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Do you find that you give fewer/zero presentations now with your current occupation? I ask because it seems like many of us still need to give presentations even outside of academia. Hopefully, you're in a position where it's
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by busyant 5y ago
Wasn't trying to be confrontational. It just seemed like you might have a contrarian view that might be worth hearing.
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> I am someone who thinks there likely is alien activity on earth Can you elaborate on why you think this (or provide some additional detail)? For example, do you mean "intelligent" life? Or is this more along the lines of pans
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> almost white, in fact. It fell out in the week after. Had a co-worker whose partner died in her late 20s. He told me the grief / stress / depression caused the same thing (edit: not his beard, but the top of his head). He eve
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by busyant 5y ago
> life is suffering Not sure why I'm sharing this, but I saw a hawk kill a squirrel yesterday. It was standing on top of the squirrel (still alive) on my neighbor's lawn. Three other squirrels were screeching and they made futi
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cute name
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by busyant 5y ago
> interested in improving the PDFs that LaTeX outputs in this regard, and has projects in this direction Can you elaborate on what / where those projects are? It's not clear from the tug.org website. I love LaTeX and if I had a
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by busyant 5y ago
Just to throw in an analogous story. I was hosting a research talk given by quasi-famous professor at a biotech startup that I worked at. Quasi-famous prof was describing a gene (gene "xyz") being used as a tool in his lab, "
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by busyant 5y ago
Don't forget the pre-IPO valuation. https://www.quora.com/Who-were-the-original-investors-in-Ama... Makes it even more impressive.
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by busyant 5y ago
> I don't claim to have all of the answers, but a decay function seems quite obvious to me. I don't have a super-informed opinion here, but a decay function sounds reasonable. I'd also suggest that the decay be uncoupled f
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by busyant 5y ago
This one is quite well-known already, but I think Univers is beautiful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers Apparently, Frutiger said that "Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket." I think th
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by busyant 5y ago
Isn't this a common phenomenon with all conversations... unless there is a moderator with a strong mandate to keep things on topic? Or if all participants agree and self regulate. I agree that there are many tangents, but I frequently
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by busyant 5y ago
So, I poked around the website and for almost every link that I clicked on I saw "coming soon" I don't get it.
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by busyant 5y ago
combining SHIFT with other keys often inverts their function (by design). Space bar will scroll down the page of most web browsers. SHIFT+spacebar will scroll up. Tab will move to a new element on a web form. SHIFT+tab will move "backw
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by busyant 5y ago
This is a legitimate question, so I don't know why it's being downvoted. Especially given the statement in the abstract of the paper that says, "We show here that S protein alone can damage vascular endothelial cells (ECs) in
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by busyant 6y ago
I know a chem prof who built a Lego spectrometer. https://publiclab.org/wiki/lego-spectrometer Legos are just wonderful. edit: I know nothing about woodworking or crafting any building materials, but I always wish I co
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by busyant 6y ago
> Needless to say, researchers are often to blame as well, since they participate in interviews using vague language so that they can benefit from the exposure, well aware of the repercussions of their behavior. Universities also have PR
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by busyant 6y ago
> 3. The goal of admitting someone to Harvard Med isn’t having them excel at Harvard Med — it’s having them succeed as significant researchers in the medical field after they graduate from Harvard Med. I'm not sure I would agree wit
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> I find it extremely difficult to believe that I would've been evaluated the same way in grad school applications if I hadn't done the post-bac where I did. I have a similar background: undergrad @ middle-of-the-road state sch
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by busyant 6y ago
> If I were a teenager trying to get into a top school these days, my anxiety would be through the roof. If I knew a teenager in this situation, I'd emphasize that there is a large "quasi-random" component to admission to
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by busyant 6y ago
In my old league, you earned a "patch" if u picked up a 7-10. I've seen it done once over about 40 years. Our lane went nuts when the guy picked it up.
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by busyant 6y ago
> Stuxnet isn't the most sophisticated piece of software ever written I think "sophisticated" is in the eye of the beholder. However you'd like to characterize it, the full scope of the Stuxnet attack seems pretty imp
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by busyant 6y ago
Sorry, I was typing 1/2-thoughts & talking to someone. I deleted the sentence fragment.
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by busyant 6y ago
> armchair engineers who think they're gonna solve this better than billion dollar companies There are 2 types of armchair engineers. The ones who sneer and say, "If they just <x> then it would be fixed because I know bes

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