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The odds of universities publishing zoom links are essentially zero. You might find individual faculty posting syllabi with Zoom links somewhere online that anyone can see -- this would likely fly under the radar. To do this, you would defi
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Good question. Hard to predict. With in-person classes it would probably be more difficult now, as universities are much more stringent about maximum enrollments and much more concerned about managing risk. With Zoom classes, I doubt it wou
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Can I ask what field you're in? In mathematics in the US, "hiring grad students that semester" is not a common thing, and "programs where one professor can't hire but students are brought into a program" descri
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Hello! Math professor in the US here. Maybe, but probably not. What might be easier to do is to audit a university course. Do you live in a city with a decent university? Find a course that interests you, and for which you think your backgr
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I'm a professor at a PhD-granting math department. I wish I could endorse this comment, but unfortunately it's incorrect. In general I'm not available to "develop a relationship" with people outside the system, and
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For two summers between college years, I waited tables at a Pizza Hut. The restaurant did a thriving dine-in, delivery, and take-out business. With only rare exceptions, it was nobody's job to answer the phone. During busy periods, it
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> Karen isn't derogatory to women, it's only derogatory to Karens. I would dispute this point. The term is, at least, derogatory to women who are named Karen -- whether or not they are "Karens".
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> Can anyone explain how the term "Karen" isn't both racist and sexist at the same time? It is. There are plenty of decent people named Karen who do not deserve to have their name appropriated as an insult. Better to say &
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I'm a math researcher, and I'll explain why I like these sorts of definitions. In the first place, what you quoted is not a formal, precise definition; it is not a substitute for such a definition, nor is it intended to be one.
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How can we slow, stop, mitigate, and/or reverse the effects of global warming ---- in a way that aligns with capitalist incentives and the natural human inclination to be lazy?
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Ask HN: Best chat software for an online university class?
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> It is possible but unlikely that Harvard has Secret Math Here is an entire undergraduate course in abstract algebra, taught by retired Harvard professor Benedict Gross. http://matterhorn.dce.harvard.edu/engage/ui&#
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I mostly agree with what you say, but I disagree with this: > Besides - in reality they only the highest profile journals provide any benefits at all. In my discipline (mathematics) there is a large middle tier of "respectable"
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As jehewson said, among large commercial publishers it's common to outsource abroad. For journals run by professional societies, it might be more common to do things in-house. That said -- and keep in mind that this might be different
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I didn't ask for an explanation. As this was one of a huge number of errors, much more than is typical, I skipped straight to making demands.
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I once had to explain, to a copyeditor at one of the leading mathematics journals, that the meaning of a fraction changes if you move stuff between the top and the bottom. The annual subscription cost for this journal is $3,250. I am bewild
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I purchased a combination standing desk and exercise bike. In my first two weeks I've run the odometer to 360 miles.
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My university has been a Blackboard customer for awhile, and so I've used it since 2011. My sense is that the software has gotten marginally better in some ways, marginally worse in others, and overall still sucks. They redesigned it,
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> Fourth, it tries to do too many things. My institution, unfortunately, uses Blackboard. Clicking on "Course Tools", I get the following, presented as one long list: Accessibility Report, Achievements, Announcements, Attendanc
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Strongly agreed. I've taught university-level discrete math several times, and beginners to the subject need pegs to hang their hat on, something that serves as a goal and a signal that they're done. The Pigeonhole Principle is an
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I'd consider something by John Stillwell. For example, Numbers and Geometry , which investigates the connections between number theory and plane geometry -- two subjects which your child has probably seen, but not seen related. Stillw
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Suppose that the popularities of everyone are p_1, p_2, through p_20. Then, if you write "~" for "is proportional to", you get a bunch of equations like 0p_1 + 8p_2 + 4p_3 + ... + 4p_20 ~ p_1 7p_2 + 0p_2 + 7p_3 + ... + 9
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Here's a fun problem which can be solved by linear algebra. You have a group of 20 people. Each of them rates how much they like everyone else, on a scale of 1 to 10. Your task is to figure out how popular everyone is, again on a scale
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> I searched "sketch" the other day and it took me to "sketchers.com" I got curious and tried the same, with the same results. And I have never before bought shoes online, ever. But it's even worse than you said:
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> It did work out quite well, Southerner here. In my opinion the reason that "it worked out quite well" is that the Union caved and ended Reconstruction in 1877. This was followed by the "Redemption" period in which J
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To expand on barbegal's comment, in my opinion the genius of the "micromort" unit is the observation is that you can add them. In fact, 10 micromorts + 10 micromorts is 19.9999 micromorts (you have too many nines). But with
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I am a bit confused; what is your criticism? My only real point is that my job performance is mostly independent from what my superiors incentivize or hope to see. Imagining myself as a soldier in WWII, I would like to think that I would ha
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It's certainly true that incentives matter a lot before tenure. Unfortunately, there are some tenured faculty that accomplish little. I, and some of my colleagues, have pushed for there to be more incentives and disincentives, mostly w
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I find this article... strange. Near the beginning, it talks about widespread mutiny in Vietnam, and attributes it to the reward system: "What did the man at the bottom want? To go home. And when did he get to go home? When his tour of
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> As a software developer I'm of course inclined to say that a platform that inlines resources relevant to your discussion would be much better suited because of standardized layouts and workflows. I don't understand, what does

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