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by j7ake 2y ago
Yeah it’s terrible. There is also no single height gene, but one wouldn’t say height is more behavioural than genetic.
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It’s not only start ups, but also academia. Weizmann institute of science is the envy of the world in terms of their research output, and widely used as a model for new research institutes to aspire to.
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I disagree that complicated is subjective. Japanese is more difficult to learn than an English objectively. One way to ask this objectively is to ask, for every non-native speaker, which languages are easiest and which are hardest to learn?
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It might be for the better. There is a big difference between reading about cool biology versus doing biology as a profession. Biology is a brutal career that requires an army of hands to realise a vision.
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Also B cells and T cells undergo genomic rearrangements to get a diversity of receptors that can make specific targets.
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I’m in academia and I use jax because it’s closest to translate maths to code.
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Of course if another country does it, USA cries foul and tries to ban them from operating in USA. It is government directed capitalism, just like other global superpowers like China.
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This goes to show how prestige and reputation built up over centuries can be destroyed in a matter of decades. Also the prestige and reputation of institutions rest solely on the superstars that are in that institution. A single prominent s
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by j7ake 3y ago
Maybe because I am in research, but the middle parts of research talks are talking about their own research. If you don’t know that material enough to talk about it in detail impromptu then you have no business giving talks about that topic
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by j7ake 3y ago
How many talks do you give a year? Seems like a waste of time to practice the talk that many times. what works for me and is more time efficient is to get the introduction polished, then have a clear take away at the end. The middle stuff i
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by j7ake 3y ago
Thanks for the description. So are people wrong in using “ethics” when they meant “morals”? Eg “this company has bad ethics”: they mean this company has bad morals? Also what does a “good work ethic” mean if ethics is mainly concerned with
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by j7ake 3y ago
Work that is not easily solved by googling or searching the internet.
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I guess this shows you how valuable references, connections, and networks are. If you don’t have these, you have to go through the black void of dropping hundreds of resumes to get any response.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Within Europe: Austria, Switzerland, UK, NL are better than Germany for bureaucracy. Brexit may be an issue for Europeans, but the system is now more fair for non Europeans who want to go to UK. Outside Europe: Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore
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I guess the issue is that being able to articulate what is the frontier problems of any field requires a certain amount of jargon and technical knowledge. I think one can learn math and physics without being at the frontier. One can appreci
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by j7ake 3y ago
This is wrong. She got her PhD in 2003 and got a faculty position in 2009 in Sweden. She moved back to Germany for family reasons.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Sorry but most start ups are completely dependent on VC funding. CEOs ask for money for VCs, get enough results to ask for next round of funding and so on. Start up and academia both require money from external sources that are not directly
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by j7ake 3y ago
In music, it is common to think of the structures in frequency space rather than time space. For example, one thinks of tug C major triad as C E G, rather than mixed sound that comes out of C E G together.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Grilled mackerel like they do in Japan is honestly better than salmon in every way.
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If you’re not talking about where is best place to immigrate then I agree with you. But people often confuse the “Danes are happiest people on earth” study as “immigrating there will make me happy”. Of course when people talk about where is
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by j7ake 3y ago
Have you actually lived in both California and Denmark? Denmark is a great place… if you’re Danish. A terrible place if you are immigrating from outside of Europe. Compared to California, Danish is more xenophobic, live in smaller homes, ha
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by j7ake 3y ago
My theory: PhD is inherently unstructured, and requires wading into the unknown without many markers to tell you where you are going. Marriage creates a structured life outside of work that gives PhDs an anchor to return to periodically. Th
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by j7ake 3y ago
They made a product that people want to pay lots of money for. I don’t see why they should not be allowed to price this product to meet the insanely high demand. How much it costs to make is irrelevant to the discussion. This drug wouldn’t
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by j7ake 3y ago
Novo Nordisk is now Europe’s most valuable company. Congrats to them.
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What products have European tech companies made that the average person uses often? I can only think of Spotify. Would love to be enlightened otherwise.
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Seems to correspond to the high interest rate environment.
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Am I missing something here? Aren’t these ideas hashed out already 20 years ago by Tichy?
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Interesting paper. It shows you just how rich data can be if you consider the global features from a single time point, rather than looking at weather from a single city. In general, it shows you how informative high dimensional data can be
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I wouldn’t say the article proposes a better way, but he proposes rather a more complex way. Nothing beats CSV in terms of simplicity, minimal friction, and ease of exploring across diverse teams.
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Python package management is so broken. Think of the gymnastics that every python package has to go through in order for users to install it properly. Absolutely insane that this is still happening in such a widely used programming language

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