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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Agreed re: "large enough to offer so many good options and departments." This is definitely a big pro in our opinion. It is definitely true that smaller schools are more limited in offerings than big schools. During visits, smalle
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
I am beginning to believe that the root cause of tuition costs in the US exceeding inflation is based much more on FOMO on the benefits of college education rather than federal government guarantees on student loans. My claim is that buyers
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
I strongly suspect you are reading more into the review process than exists. There probably isn't any feedback worth having. I bet the hiring company got a bunch of "fine" or "ok" project submissions from candidates
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
It will get worse now that the NC Supreme Court has overturned its previous decision that partisan gerrymanders were illegal. As a NC resident, I strongly expect that the current legislature will quickly draw districts to ensure their abili
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Bonkers real estate prices in NC are probably more about people cashing out of higher-price areas and coming here now rather than any future Apple development. I think the Apple (and Google) moves to NC have some impact it's just that
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
The funds are based on a percentage of employee withholdings (income tax) - if there are no employees, there are no funds to Apple: "It is a performance-based economic development incentive program that provides annual grant disburseme
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
I have also been in this field for years and the allure of "open medical data" magically accelerating medical research very much does NOT feel true to me. Skip the essay but at least give me three or four sentences why I should fe
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
For all intents and purposes, once IRB approval for a study is obtained, medical records ARE ALREADY OPEN to researchers for the purpose of recruitment. I believe open medical data would have absolutely zero effect on the amount of time spe
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Some students cheat. As an adjunct instructor at the university level, I had similar experiences. You have to both adjust your expectations and make a significant part of your grading use an in-person one-on-one oral exam or project walkthr
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
I found an 8-10 inch one in a wooded, non-garden area in a central NC backyard a couple years ago. Definitely here.
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
https://www.wsj.com/articles/national-park-fees-booz-allen-6...
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Are Clojure dev teams outside of Nubank currently using REBL excited about this? As a small project Clojure dev (and admittedly a couple years out of daily Clojure use), these types of projects are hard for me to place in a day-to-day work
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
I have been spectacularly unable to get any business people to learn SQL. I even find that very few will bother with reporting tools (eg Tableau) for simple self-service. Instead, the expectation is that there will be a programmer/DB
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
I remember SAS openings in the 2000/2001 recession - I had reliable information that every opening at SAS was getting around 1,000 applicants. Keep in mind that SAS is privately held and seems to mostly ignore conditions that make publ
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
Fun! For reasons related to my username, I am about to dip back into the current state-of-the-art algos for highly dimensional data. I need to dig deep into highly optimized and perhaps distributed algorithms in this space - gotta deal with
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
Good book! I think the Driveline blog is a better source for folks working with youth athletes. The MVP Machine was a little bit more Moneyball than player development oriented . . . Bauer. I had a bit of a meltdown about him - I was momen
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
Driveline is the cutting edge of baseball/softball hitting and baseball pitching. As a tech person involved in coaching youth through middle school athletes, their blog (and youth coaching certification, which I completed) really gives
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
Accept that nothing you do will work short of legally assuming 100% control of her finances. I had a grandmother do exactly the same thing in the 1980s and 1990s via phone scams. She died penniless, having dithered away $X00,000s in cash an
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
I think FTX claimed 1.2 million users awhile back. Is there any insight into a true count of FTX users and maybe the average value of holdings they entered into FTX with? I'm interested in understanding just how much actually flowed in
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
There are great bits of discussion about SQLite being maintained and enhanced by a very small team - three people. While I very much appreciate the safety of being a very small cog in a larger machine, I also wonder how my career might be m
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
Human-curated content from trusted sources for top 1% information probably only available to subscribers will become more valuable and sought after. I suspect the days of generally trusting forums populated by anonymous users are done? I wo
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
This was very common in my extended family in rural North Carolina. Most of my cousins didn't attend college, partnered up quickly, and started families. Not always in that precise order . . . Honestly, I think for them it just wasn&
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
I work in this field at a large medical research institution. There is a significant amount of genomics analysis that occurs here on a day-to-day basis. The genomic processing pipeline work all falls directly into my group. There is next to
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
Totally agree. I am extremely annoyed at the general article submitted versus the actual paper focus. While I respect the need for these longterm survey data collection efforts, I am not sure I would frankly trust that survey to even accur
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
From the abstract: Epidemiologic data from a 20-year prospective study of a large human cohort of initially cancer-free participants revealed that exercise prior to cancer initiation had a modest impact on cancer incidence in low
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
No better point re: living in fear and rumorville. Same experience for me in 2008. I also saw the same effect post dot-com bubble. Layoffs in our industry are simply part of the long term game, part of a playbook that folks coming into it
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
I think I would pay good money to see this movie . . . You had me at "decide to sing" = "doesn't need to talk to anyone who understands mathematics". I admire a person so deranged they think Yngwie breaking the four
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
"... our bet is that Deep Learning will overtake traditional BI workflows ..." This is an interesting perspective. I have spent years in the traditional BI space and my gut feeling there is that analytics there are very much not
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
The comparison feels just a bit off - like, Malmsteen's popularity rounds to zero, even in the world of 80's shredders aficionados. Gladwell has multiple best-sellers that are popular to general audiences. I think maybe a better
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by clusterhacks 4y ago
I have seen organization-level layoffs and more targeted layoffs. In the (only) organization level layoff I saw, someone stuck a pin in an org chart at a pretty high level. Everybody (and I mean everybody) in the tree underneath that point

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