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by gaurav_v 15y ago
Well, I think to be a PI on a grant of any decent size what you need is a tenure or tenure track faculty position, which requires a "PhD or equivalent." As far as I can tell, "or equivalent" means that you've made so many contributions to y
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by gaurav_v 15y ago
The prevailing attitude in my lab is that "if you need statistics, you did the wrong experiment."
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by gaurav_v 15y ago
Can't playing video games be creative? I haven't played very many, but it always seemed to me that videogames were designed as highly engaging technical challenges, and you could certainly employ some degree of creativity in solving (winni
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by gaurav_v 15y ago
It would definitely be a lot easier (and seemingly, effective) if they all just said we want X, where X is some not necessarily even specific reform. But maybe they just want to say 'we're angry about this rising income inequality and we wa
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by gaurav_v 15y ago
I agree that the movement lacks a coherent message. That being said, one of the large issues in play is that people feel slighted by rising income inequality, which they perceive to have arisen out of a sort of government-industry feedback
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Peter Thiel: College Doesn't Create Success(nytimes.com)
6 points by gaurav_v 15y ago|1 comments
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by gaurav_v 15y ago
There are a number of huge problems with this argument, but the most important problems are the common ones: 1. There's just so much waste! The byline reads: "Before you ask for more tax money from me, raise the $2.2 trillion you already co
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by gaurav_v 15y ago
That's assuming that you value all years equally, which most people don't.
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Wild Market Quiets the Buzz for I.P.O.’s (dealbook.nytimes.com)
1 points by gaurav_v 15y ago|0 comments
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by gaurav_v 15y ago
The last line of her most recent blog post pretty much sums up the entire thrust of her story and its problems for Airbnb: "And for those who have so generously suggested a donation fund be set up to help me recover, I thank you from the bo
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by gaurav_v 15y ago
Because they're ... reading it?
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by gaurav_v 15y ago
Regarding Gates: A lot of people can afford to go to Harvard given financial aid. I think the more relevant point to his story is that his parents were so wealthy they could send him to an elite private _middle and high school,_ where he h
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by gaurav_v 15y ago
Someone in a previous discussion mentioned that the internet was still very much 'the wild west' with regard to security. I thought it was interesting that the story told here seems like something right out of an old western movie.
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LulzSec Hackers Make Enemies Online(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by gaurav_v 15y ago|1 comments
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Silicon Valley Hiring Perks: Meals, iPads and a Cubicle for Spot(nytimes.com)
68 points by gaurav_v 16y ago|45 comments
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by gaurav_v 16y ago
This is rare, but not unheard of; I can think of fiveish people off the top of my head that were admitted to MIT and Caltech without a high school diploma. All of the cases I know of are kids who just decided to leave high school without f
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by gaurav_v 16y ago
"You hardly have postdoctoral positions in math, physics and social sciences." I don't know anything about the social sciences. In physics, I know that postdocs are absolutely necessary and expected, to the same degree that they are in the
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by gaurav_v 16y ago
"Competition for a job in math is way lower than it is for biological sciences." Actually, the opposite is true, at least in the United States. Many more Biological Science PhDs are granted relative to mathematics, but there is also a lot
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by gaurav_v 16y ago
This "Mathematician's Lament" is (by far) the best critique of the modern mathematics education that I've seen to date: http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
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by gaurav_v 16y ago
He posts answers to the exercises on his website as the course progresses each year. This year there are no answers because he's not teaching the course; he's on sabbatical.
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by gaurav_v 16y ago
Milne's notes are an awesome resource.
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by gaurav_v 16y ago
I would strongly suggest Jerry Shurman's Calculus and Multivariable Calculus texts, which are available for free on his website: people.reed.edu/~jerry/
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by gaurav_v 16y ago
Some notes on discrete differential geometry: http://ddg.cs.columbia.edu/
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by gaurav_v 16y ago
My favorite example of the broken patent system is United States Patent 6368227: Method of swinging on a swing. Abstract: "A method of swing on a swing is disclosed, in which a user positioned on a standard swing suspended by two chains fro
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by gaurav_v 16y ago
I too am super pumped about Lie algebras, and have come up against the issue of how to explain the topic to my less mathematically inclined friends. You have to start with groups. Group structure is something that's both beautiful and some