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by impendia 14y ago
I'm a mathematics professor. I'll tell you how it is in math. You can probably extrapolate to CS, although work experience might count for more there, depending on your field of study. In math, rec letters are the most important, and whethe
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by impendia 14y ago
I'm pretty sure this is false. In math, anyway, graduate applications are evaluated by math faculty.
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by impendia 14y ago
Lawn care. What a huge hassle.
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by impendia 14y ago
Dear rsvidal, Congratulations and I wish you the best of luck. As you can infer from the comments here, please keep in mind (as you no doubt already understand) that Elsevier is widely mistrusted and nobody is willing to take them at their
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by impendia 14y ago
I disagree. OP is fifteen. I was staggeringly ambitious when I was fifteen, and although I didn't achieve everything I was aiming for, I'm super-glad I was. It is easy to "change the world". Next time you're walking on the sidewalk, and see
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by impendia 14y ago
Because housing and zoning codes are controlled by city governments which are in turn controlled by owners of million dollar houses. It is against their economic interests, and also they are extremely sensitive to issues such as traffic, pa
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by impendia 14y ago
Close, but more like: The people in front want to interrupt and ask lots of questions. (It won't be nonsense, because the speakers will have been pre-vetted. If everyone decides the talk sucks, then they will just be quiet.) The people in b
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by impendia 14y ago
It's interesting observing behavior at math conferences. Typically the bigshots sit either in the very front or the very back. I also recommend Keith Johnstone's book Impro ("Impro" being the British word for what is called "improv" in th
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by impendia 14y ago
Okay, fair enough. But not really in math. By the time anything appears in the Annals of Mathematics , which is the top journal, people will have already heard about it.
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by impendia 14y ago
> But publishers of subscription journals insist that such views are misguided — born of a failure to appreciate the value they add to the papers they publish, and to the research community as a whole. Okay, let's hear it: (crickets)
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by impendia 14y ago
> You're raising a straw man. Perhaps I have misunderstood your point. If so, then I apologize -- and I also invite you to explain further. What exactly is broken?
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by impendia 14y ago
> This is part of a broader problem in society with baby boomers not retiring or stepping aside for the next generation as has always happened before and it has broken many systems. -1. If a 60-year-old is doing good, productive work, e
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by impendia 14y ago
I'm not sure, probably 75-80k, for the most part pay is very inelastic. Whether fairly or not, I anticipate that any university attempting to pay below 50% the going rate would quickly get a very bad reputation. I would probably take a
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by impendia 14y ago
Perhaps not, but the quality of research at IAS is surely better than that at all but a handful of universities. Also, the IAS does things like have "special years" devoted to a particular topic, and then a ton of professors in that area ta
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by impendia 14y ago
> Option b) is the path the universities took You're sort of right, but we aren't deliberately weeding out people. This year, I was on the hiring committee for a tenure-track mathematics hire in my academic department. The job market is
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by impendia 14y ago
Britain certainly was extremely repressive, but China is today.
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by impendia 14y ago
I am a lecturer in a math department. I also despise the textbook industry. Would you please recommend what I might do, subject to severe limitations of (1) time and (2) political clout within my department?
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Is there any good general manners/advice forum with a "HN slant"?
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by impendia 14y ago
Work out. Sign up for classes in kickboxing, Bikram yoga, anything that will kick your ass. On top of what the other commenters said!
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by impendia 14y ago
I personally consider them evil for the reasons described at the end of glanifrons's comment. There is room for debate here, but one certainly does not have to be ignorant to regard Monsanto as "evil".
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by impendia 14y ago
I think combinatorics -- both enumerative and graph theory -- are likely to prove very useful, perhaps the most important thing you could study. I suspect that differential equations could be left out if you choose. IMHO the subject is bori
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by impendia 14y ago
It's not a separate issue. In my understanding, the point of the article is that it proves that sexism is much more prevalent, serious, and harmful than I am able to discern as a white male. Reading things like this make it much easier to
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by impendia 14y ago
> Increasingly it will be seen as perverse to submit a paper to a journal and wait 12 months for comments from two scientists, instead of sharing it on a platform like Academia.edu and getting comments from hundreds of scientists in two
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by impendia 14y ago
"A man must love the thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well." --G.K. Chesterton
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by impendia 14y ago
You objected to the upvotes, but do you actually disagree with me? I do not disagree with your claims. In your last paragraph, are you claiming that your suggestion is not only "achievable" and "doable", but simple enough to implement that
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by impendia 14y ago
> Third, MIT should instruct its deans and other officials to no longer look favorably upon the mere fact of publication in a “prestigious” journal when making hiring and tenure decisions. Instead, promotions should be based on the qual
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by impendia 14y ago
I have heard speculation that violent video games are inversely correlated with actual violence, in light of the fact that violent crime is way down over the past thirty years or so. The reasoning is, people who are predisposed to viole
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by impendia 14y ago
This is awesome. I am a mathematics professor. Where do you live, how is this advertised, what kind of audience does this attract, and what sort of questions get asked?
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by impendia 14y ago
My favorite: "Large Hadron Collider will destroy Earth."
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by impendia 14y ago
Require guns sold in the US to be outfitted with some kind of biometric scanner, so that they can only be fired by their legal, registered owner. Sounds kind of like sci-fi to me, except that I read in the newspapers after Newtown that this

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