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by dls2016 4y ago
I did a math PhD at USCB, where grad students are represented by the UAW. I didn’t find any of this to be true, in particular the university would not be able to provide the same level of service without graduate student TAs.
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by dls2016 5y ago
My uncle’s cabin on the Susquehanna River has a rock formation a hundred yards off shore: a low, stacked rock dam with a channel in the middle. As kids we would stand in the channel with minnow nets. Now I learn it was possibly a Native Ame
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by dls2016 5y ago
Obviously, the (mountains of) circumstantial evidence suggests some sort of intelligence connection, with Maxwell's father having known ties to MI6, Mossad and even the KGB. But I don't think you'd be able to run around bribi
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by dls2016 5y ago
> How does that work exactly? Jeffrey Epstein. Do you think it was coincidence that he had power of attorney over Les Wexner, who was involved with the notorious Southern Air Transport? There are many other intelligence connections, for
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by dls2016 5y ago
> Do we have any evidence that torture actually works? Most evidence points the other direction. > Finally, an exhaustive 2014 report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence analyzed millions of internal CIA documents related t
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by dls2016 5y ago
Not insinuating that I'm a "fabulous" candidate (also totally possible that I am!), but I've been experiencing the opposite. The quickest offers I've received have had the most red flags. The places I'd like to
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by dls2016 5y ago
Thank you, that does help. I thankfully have some flexibility in my search… and I promise the other replies aren’t alt accounts!
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by dls2016 5y ago
Curious... if I'm still in the "triage" bucket after 6 weeks should I assume the ship has sailed? I was really hoping to hear back one way or the other!
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by dls2016 5y ago
A lot of manual labor jobs result in destroying your body. Joints, backs, hearing, etc… it all goes much quicker when you’re lifting all day long and/or in a factory.
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by dls2016 5y ago
Have you heard of CTE?
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by dls2016 5y ago
chop wood, carry water... or maybe the Turing version: read a symbol, move the head
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by dls2016 5y ago
Agreed, the internet is core infrastructure and cloud services will increasingly handle more and more essential services. A union would put the on-call rules/schedules/compensation in the hands of the workers, not left to the whim
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by dls2016 5y ago
> get us back to being ok again For some definition of "us".
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by dls2016 5y ago
Not to detract from your wonder, but apples aren't true-to-seed... so each new seedling could potentially produce a named variety (although most end up trash trees either with undesirable fruit or susceptible to disease).
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by dls2016 5y ago
* Manage on-call rotations.
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by dls2016 5y ago
Damn, I let my kids watch Alphablocks as toddlers but I never noticed Numberblocks! At 7 and 8 they're very good readers but the older one gets bored with arithmetic homework very easily. I've failed as a parent and mathematician.
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by dls2016 5y ago
Terence Tao published an idea that one could maybe prove ill posedness of the Navier Stokes equations by modeling a liquid computer… build a machine that focuses energy in such a way that the solution jumps out of a particular function spac
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by dls2016 5y ago
> slave labor force Remember kids, slavery is still constitutionally enshrined in the US as a form of punishment. No need to "look back" at slavery!
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by dls2016 5y ago
> Perhaps I was wrong to expect mention of explicit discsussion of spectral graph theory? Agreed... if you're going to write down the Laplacian at least demonstrate the null space <-> connected component relationship. Edit: lo
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by dls2016 5y ago
> Some people have even suggested that young people who've grown up with mobile phones struggle with filesystems because they have no experience of file management despite having plenty of experience of computing. Currently teaching
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by dls2016 5y ago
> Common Core is a standard (checklist of abilities students should learn), not a curriculum. Yes, I understand what CC is... most states already had very similar standards. I should have said "New and Improved! Meets Common Core St
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by dls2016 5y ago
I'm just a lowly adjunct, but I sense that one barrier to open textbook adoption is the accreditation process. I don't know exactly the connection, but I get the feeling that the department can check some box if they say that all
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by dls2016 5y ago
The Schrodinger equation is the heat equation with complex time. Although qualitatively it’s dispersive, not dissipative.
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by dls2016 5y ago
The Unfinished PDE Coffee Table Book https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/pdectb.html
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by dls2016 5y ago
“Natural born citizen” is the technical qualifier. Many natural born citizens aren’t born in the US.
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by dls2016 5y ago
I forget why I went into their building, but I always remember a giant T-rex skull in their entryway. I'm not making this up, am I? I did find this press release, but it really just raises more questions than answers anything. https:&
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by dls2016 5y ago
The AMA is not a union, nor is the American Bar Association, nor is the Society of Actuaries. These are professional organizations. They aren't involved in collective bargaining and they don't call strikes (putting aside for arg
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by dls2016 5y ago
How are unions responsible for doctors’ long work hours? According to a quick google there are very low rates of unionization and it seems to be a recent phenomenon (I didn’t know there were any.) Downvotes for asking a Q?
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by dls2016 5y ago
Central PA, it was a busy restaurant next to Hershey Park. I believe dishwashers started at $7.50 or $8... but on a busy Saturday night the managers would have to go around begging someone wash dishes. I doubt they would've let me work
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by dls2016 5y ago
What are you talking about? Have you ever been to a restaurant during the day or counted the employees over-50 at Walmart? There always have been adults working these jobs.

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