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by impendia 6y ago
> What is it missing? When I go to my local coffee shop, I feel a sense of warmth and community. A bit of the same sense I get, when I travel to my mother's house for Christmas. No amount of money and resources can buy that.
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> "IMO the real broken part of this system..." > "It's when people are working till 11pm..." Says it all right there.
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I don't know who conducted the original study, but I remember that Martin Seligman opened his book Learned Optimism with a discussion of an experiment exactly along these lines. Two groups of people -- a group of clinically depressed
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by impendia 6y ago
Have you been dealing with middlemen? I've had great experiences so far with food delivery and with grocery curbside pickup. For food delivery, I've either called the restaurant or used the restaurant's website directly to or
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by impendia 6y ago
Fair point. Perhaps I should add that, this past spring, I had a day where Blackboard failed on me, and where I lacked the presence of mind to think of a good Plan B on the spot. To my embarrassment, I ended up cancelling the lecture. That
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I don't buy it. The same factors that made Zoom easy to adopt, make it equally easy to switch to something else. And "when Zoom goes down, teachers can’t teach"? Come on. I am a college professor. In my class this fall I met
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Because it's frictionless. It's very easy to set up a Zoom meeting with anyone in the world. When I tried MS Teams, my impression was that it required a fair amount of advance configuration. This is no problem if you're meeti
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> while he was Dean, had his email on three day delay. I'm a professor. I can't help but think that this is a terrible idea. As Dean, it is your job to enable the faculty members and department chairs who report to you. To fi
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by impendia 6y ago
> And yet, for some stupid reason, I am still with Wells Fargo today, 15 years on... Why? I hate to rub salt in your wounds, but they have demonstrated that they are unworthy of your business. Acting on this would play a small part in fo
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by impendia 6y ago
I'm curious, is this legal on their part? I am very much not an expert, but I almost have to wonder if this is worth consulting a lawyer. If it were me in your shoes, the amount of raw spite I would feel for Wells Fargo would be diff
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by impendia 6y ago
Interesting. Do you have any insight as to why college expenses are so high, and continuing to skyrocket? Tuition at private colleges in the US is typically around $50,000-60,000 a year, exclusive of room and board. This seems absurd to me.
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This particular piece is in D minor. (You will definitely want your program to figure this out; otherwise you will produce the "wrong" key signature, need to include a ton of accidentals, and it will look a bit kludgy.) Anyway, in
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by impendia 6y ago
Amateur early-intermediate level pianist here. In the first place, I strongly endorse everything tjr said. Secondly, depending on what exactly you're trying to do, I would guess that you can afford to get it wrong occasionally. After a
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by impendia 6y ago
> When I read articles by category theory boosters, I get the sense (rightly or wrongly) that they think the world revolves around them and they have stumbled onto some deep and fundamental truths. (Professional mathematician here) My se
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> I'm curious: under what conditions do you think the threat to Carolina (and other similar regional flagship schools) becomes "existential"? In my opinion, when long-term demand for a traditional university education show
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by impendia 6y ago
I work as a professor at the University of South Carolina. I suspect that my employer, as well as similar universities, will be more-or-less okay. To be sure, there will be pain . Faculty hiring, for example, will take a huge hit -- I feel
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by impendia 6y ago
I mostly agree. But I have not sensed -- at all -- that there is any "we", that Americans have or will come together to reach a common decision.
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Bingo. Decisions are made by those that show up. I'd encourage anyone who cares about these issues to vote, to contact local politicians, to attend local debates or city council meetings.
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by impendia 6y ago
Yup! That's correct, here's a demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEoYwyHddLc Explaining why it works is an exercise in number theory. For example, card 1 stays in place; card 2 goes to position 3, then
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by impendia 6y ago
Naive question, coming from an academic. How common is the phenomenon that the blog is posting about? Where everyone in a company can unilaterally block off a meeting with anyone else? I'm astonished that anyone would put up with this.
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by impendia 6y ago
Once again, I don't understand the Math Overflow poster's exact situation. But roughly speaking, imagine you have two functions f(t) and g(t), which are described in completely different ways, and you want to prove that f(t) = g(t
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by impendia 6y ago
(Math professor here). Ambiguous and poorly explained. (Note the question immediately afterwards asking for clarification.) But probably something along the general lines of "My advisor said that, if my main theorem is an asymptotic es
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by impendia 6y ago
Oops, brain fart. No, 1 is not equal to 4 even in Grothendieck's world. Scheme theory only gets you so far... A correct example of what I had in mind is x^2 + y^2 = 1 and (x - 2)^2 + y^2 = 1. That said, algebraic geometry takes care of
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by impendia 6y ago
As another commenter mentioned, currently Ravi Vakil is teaching a course in modern algbraic geometry. The course is largely based on Vakil's book in progress, which he titled The Rising Sea , after a quote from Grothendieck: > I c
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What, then, do you consider "poor" or "unuseful"?
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Thanks for sharing. This looks interesting, and I might end up using it in the future. (Right now I'm holing up due to the pandemic, and not venturing out; later, I plan to get on the various online dating apps that are out there.) Som
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by impendia 6y ago
I started reading his book Breath , and he made the starting claim that, in essence, you could choose to be either energetic or restful by picking one nostril to breathe out of for awhile. (Naturally we breath out of one nostril at a time,
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I skimmed through part of it and found this gem in a footnote: "LE writes: Gardens last for hundreds of years, companies don't. That's because people love and take care of gardens."
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And for a singularly entertaining account: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/th...
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Interesting. My guess is that in EE and laboratory-based CS, professors have a lot of work that they can readily farm out to people working under their supervision. This is less true in math, where it typically requires a big effort to get

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