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I once reviewed a math paper for a double-blind journal. Most math journals aren't double blind (as you say, I can often tell who the authors are) -- but this is one focused on expositional articles that undergrads might enjoy. Anyway,
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I am an academic mathematician -- who has had job applications rejected, papers rejected, grant proposals rejected. Not always, but it's not exactly a rare occurrence. I've also been on the other side, and it also sucks to reject
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> I never really understood why people say productivity and socializing is difficult remote For me, there is something about the physical presence of other people that slows me down (in a good way). With online interaction, I too find my
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It seems I perhaps misunderstood you and was dissenting against a strawman! Certainly, your second sentence accurately characterizes my point of view. I remember that our textbook (Kostka and Payne's Total Harmony ) had a lot of examp
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I'm curious, what is music theory pedagogy moving to? Although as a PhD you obviously know the subject much better than I do, I'll venture a tentative dissent, mostly because I'm curious what your rebuttal will be. As an unde
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There is a lot of administrative bureaucracy that forces doctors to push pens. Recently a doctor prescribed me some medicine, and I went to the pharmacy to pick it up. Apparently the insurance balked at paying for it (the pharmacist told me
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I was there in 2017 and in 2018, and I found Beirut to be a beautiful, amazing city. There were fewer of the sort of amenities that rich, non-Lebanese celebrities might be drawn to. For example, the author spends a lot of time talking about
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I do teach math. If the exams are given in class, then I don't have any choice but hard copy. Exams are free-response, where showing your work matters, and these are difficult to pigeonhole into any particular format. As for Blackboard
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These were graduate comprehensive exams. These are an unusual case, as they are a rare occurrence, graded by more than one faculty member, and only a handful of them. For ordinary classes, how I receive exams is up to me. For large classes
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I work as a professor at a university. Email, and in-person meetings, are the default methods of communication. Looking at my inbox now, messages include: - Some discussion about an upcoming conference. It is being hosted by someone at anot
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> "No gaijin allowed" is still a fairly common sign for some businesses, as I understand it. I've lived in Japan for two years, been back several times since, and traveled extensively within the country -- and I've ne
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> How do I monatise without adverts? I found this interesting, and was immediately curious for more: what the data was like going back more than a month, if there are any correlations to number of bedrooms, school districts, or the like,
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Ask HN: What do you do in a moment when you're stumped?
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I love Hanabi. It is a cooperative card game, where you're not allowed to look at your own hand. Communication between players is constrained to things like pointing to all your partner's blue cards and saying "these cards ar
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I am an academic mathematician, who (like most) is an expert in a sub-subfield in my discipline. Outside my specialty I certainly have some knowledge, but I usually can't distinguish a major breakthrough from incremental progress. Mean
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> I find unexpectedly interesting articles all the time reading journals. Interesting. In math, I don't think anyone "reads journals", but lots of people check the arXiv frequently to see what has been posted.
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I'm in mathematics, and this is very much true in my field. Papers can be, and nearly always are, widely distributed on the Internet (arXiv) before formal publishing. They are widely read, cited, and built upon. The publishing industry
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Ask HN: Ethical issues marking email as spam?
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I'm an academic mathematician. The current academic job market is rough overall, and academia is usually not kind to people who have been out of the system for awhile. However, machine learning is hot so you might get lucky. Interdisci
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If someone, i.e. an individual person whom I know in real life, gave me advice then I would happily listen. This includes bosses or coworkers. But when it is coming through a bureaucracy, by mass email from someone whom I don't know (i
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Wearing sunscreen is excellent advice, I do it consistently myself. In my opinion, it's highly appropriate to offer advice like this to friends and family. But it would grate on me to be told this, or to be given advice on any other no
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In my opinion, the explanation isn't the hard part. What's harder is: attracting an audience in the first place; being able to entertain them in addition to explaining the science; understanding how the media works; making the rig
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> I stand by the fact that an academic press office isn't linking to the original paper is absurd. Academic here. I agree with you that there should be a link to the original paper, but I can kinda sorta explain this. For one, unfor
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So I am not familiar with international law, but a hypothetical -- Suppose some country got sued by an oil company and lost, and the president or prime minister of that country held a press conference, announced that they would not pay the
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I took a brief look at Gensler's book and it looks interesting! If you're looking for something good that covers the basics in more detail, I recommend Epp's Discrete Mathematics with Applications . This covers material like
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I loved Civ 6, including its aesthetic (the music in particular was amazing). But: the AI is dim-witted, especially in war; there is too little random chance; and combat tends to favor the defender. So once you get through the early game, y
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I'm a professor and research mathematician, and I use LaTeX for nearly everything I write. In addition to what others wrote -- - The way I conceptualize it, LaTeX is a word processor. So, for example, if I'm writing a rec letter
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I have skimmed Carter's Visual Group Theory and it looks fantastic. A good choice if you have a lot of time, and want a thorough introduction to the basics with lots of intuition-building and examples. If you want something more trad
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May I ask where you have sought out such communities? Not OP, but I've had limited success finding others interested in talking about mental health.
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> Consistently having trouble identifying sarcasm in print—without the "help" of idiotic illiterate marks like "/s"—is one of the signs of autism Autistic people exist, and read things on the internet. Attempts t

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