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by geebee 5y ago
I've done a little research (only a little) into cannabis and health, and not surprisingly (due to legal complications), it's difficult to get very specific answers when you drill down into specific use patterns. For instance, I r
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by geebee 5y ago
Have you considered very low alcohol beers? I remember one called, amusingly, "commercial suicide". it was a bit difficult to find. ABV was 3.3% https://jesterkingbrewery.com/main-blog/commercial-suicide-b...
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by geebee 5y ago
I have to admit I was eager to read this because of the phrase "Industrial Engineering." Still an interesting article, and there is some discussion of components working together as a system... but overall, I think we're stil
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by geebee 5y ago
Yeah, Tesla has had a good range for a long time, though I'd consider Tesla to be an expensive option. Not saying overpriced, just expensive.
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by geebee 5y ago
I currently drive a 9 year old Toyota Corolla. I'm keeping the car because it's fine, no troubles, low mileage, inexpensive. The last new car I bought was about 6 years ago, and at the time, I felt (hoped) that this was the last c
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by geebee 5y ago
Wow, remarkable. Tech forums were a crowded field when stack overflow entered, but it really was a cut above everything else. Good answers, well moderated, no dancing mortgage ads, no long bitter arguments where people call each other idiot
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by geebee 5y ago
Possibly none, as long we don't construct an immigration system under the assumption it's a crisis that there aren't enough PhD graduates in STEM fields, and don't claim this "crisis" is a good reason to restri
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by geebee 5y ago
My point isn't that any of the RAND prescriptions are necessarily or specifically desirable. It's that the system, as it currently works, is not attractive to people who have a choice. Universities will need to innovate to make th
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by geebee 5y ago
It's difficult to distill a complicated topic into a comment, even a somewhat lengthy one. I don't like respond to a question with a link (after all, a reading list is not an argument), but in this case, it probably would be best
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by geebee 5y ago
In fact, the US says "you can't come" to highly educated would-be immigrants who don't have a STEM designation.
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by geebee 5y ago
I have serious reservations about empowering universities to bestow green cards or residency upon would-be immigrants. I highly value the good people who will come to the US, but I don't trust universities to handle this responsibility
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by geebee 5y ago
That may not be true anymore - I looked into the engineering exams (FE and PE), and they've been much more specialized. I think this happened fairly recently. https://ncees.org/engineering/fe/ So I could (but
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by geebee 5y ago
I think this is a very reasonable position. Reason magazine posted an article on this: " https://reason.com/2021/05/25/minnesota-threatens-to-fine-th... " While I generally oppose attempts to regulate
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by geebee 5y ago
Should "sound engineers" in recording studios drop the title? "special effects engineers" in film production? Should the academy awards do away with the "scientific and engineering achievement award"? If there
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by geebee 5y ago
That's the thing, I'm not sure the 3.9 has failed to learn those skills. The student with the 3.6 and the 3.9 would both make good doctors, and once they get into med school, the attrition rate (at an elite program) is typically b
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by geebee 5y ago
This article did some decent research about what cheating is happening, though it doesn't really get into why . It certainly is getting rampant. I suspect (this is a hunch) that cheating really takes off in professions where schools o
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by geebee 5y ago
I agree. These are examples of things I initially dismissed, in part because I thought didn’t see how they addressed the minor factors that were holding back a sudden and widespread adoption. And yeah, I think there is a technical element t
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by geebee 5y ago
No would you post a link? It does fit with the general idea.
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by geebee 5y ago
Lots of comments already, but I'll chime on in. I realized this very late in life, but I have a test for when it's time to pay attention to a new technology. It's when technical people look at what seems like a groundbreaking
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by geebee 5y ago
A posted salary is good, a posted range better than nothing, but I'd personally rather see all salary information made public, with names attached. I work for the University of California, so my salary is a matter of public record, al
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by geebee 5y ago
Are you able to provide any detail about your interview questions on combinatorics (or algorithms, for that matter)? These are common in SE interviews, but I'm interested in what combinatorics/algorithm questions you're getti
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by geebee 5y ago
Ah. Well, that clearly works for a lot of people and sounds similar to how pandas works, though it's actually the opposite of what I'm describing here, which is the option to write SQL directly against a tabular data frames. For n
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by geebee 5y ago
I'm having a little trouble understanding this - are you writing SQL to do the window function, or does the ORM provide a non-sql way to do the window function?
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by geebee 5y ago
I think the link I put below probably does a better job explaining what I'm looking for. This has mainly to do with dataframes (not unstructured text). Here's the link again in case this thread gets long and you don't know wh
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by geebee 5y ago
I haven't used an ORM for some time (back when I programmed in Rails), but my experience and understanding is that an ORM largely replaces hand written SQL for a number of CRUD-style queries to manage object relational mapping for a pe
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by geebee 5y ago
I personally think that SQL and tabular data should be built into languages in a manner similar to text and regular expressions. I get his (partially) in python by using pandas and pandasql, which (to my understanding) initiates sqlite in t
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by geebee 5y ago
I enjoyed the blog post. It didn't break new ground, but it is still useful and a little therapeutic for me to read these posts. I have made it a personal goal to have a career in the tech industry that doesn't require taking tech
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by geebee 6y ago
How will we refer to a common graduate degree between bachelor and doctorate?
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by geebee 6y ago
This is a good point. I thought along similar lines when I read: "If you have never been poor, you may not realize how awesome Small houses and Toyota Corollas are." Very fair and great point, so I hope it's clear my next sta
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by geebee 6y ago
I know a lot of "research programmers" (meaning people who write code in research labs but are not themselves the researchers or investigators on a study), and they often have MS degrees in CS - though actually, highly quantitativ

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