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by j7ake 3y ago
Data has always been the moat no ?
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by j7ake 3y ago
If you were already well-known researcher in the field with good publications, then it’s possible to get significant funding to continue that research in an applied manner. But if you don’t have a track record of excellent research producti
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by j7ake 3y ago
In Europe it’s common to take an entire month off.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Going down the professor route isn’t realistic advice either for most recent college grads.
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by j7ake 3y ago
If you have to postdoc after your PhD it means your field is saturated. Move on to a growing field or start your own. In the “better” fields, top phds go to faculty positions directly after graduating. We need to stop treating all fields as
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by j7ake 3y ago
That’s why stock market on in the rise last few days: people betting for the money printing again.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Scan a receipt that gives you 60 minutes of electricity and wifi near your seat.
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by j7ake 3y ago
I think the narrative is to cover up the bruised egos of the powerful people and institutes (Jane Street, MIT, investors) that got scammed or thought he was smart.
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by j7ake 3y ago
When are we going to stop calling him a “book smart kid who lacked common sense and things spiralled out of control” to “scam artist who is too dumb to keep his mouth shut”? There is no evidence this person is smart in any way, yet some peo
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by j7ake 3y ago
Bay Area is 2500 a month
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by j7ake 3y ago
Also a lot of (newbie) start up pitches are like this.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Definitely not close enough for a programmer who uses symbols and touch typing. For starters the return key are different widths, which is a deal breaker if you’re a touchtyper used to wider return keys. Programming also uses tilde and othe
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by j7ake 3y ago
Are you saying the upper class in UK eg the royal family actively avoids flying private and making their own breakfast and doing their own laundry? Or is the royal family not classy? Would be happy to hear examples of upper class UK people
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by j7ake 3y ago
Depends what you mean by progress, but the flourishing of the arts and music in Vienna was possible because of the patronage of the Habsburgs.
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by j7ake 3y ago
What would it take to have status symbols be the ability to spend your time writing poetry, proving theorems, playing music, and making art? Seems more wholesome than these zero sum games played by the rich.
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by j7ake 3y ago
It’s a start up opportunity. There are ways to make privacy guarantees in the protocol by proper barcoding and encryption.
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by j7ake 3y ago
The fraction of people with luxury beliefs that also have to request vacation days to a manager is too high to be an exclusive upper class signal. Private jets, yachts, personal cooks and butlers are truer symbols of the upper class.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Is there any company that offers your DNA to be sequenced but will promise to just give you back the raw data (or aligned to genome) without storing or selling it to companies?
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by j7ake 3y ago
Also many retail investors are passive, relying on ETFs. This means private companies take all the profits, and when there is sign of trouble, can dump their stock to the stock market, get it bundled into an ETF, and a passive retail invest
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by j7ake 3y ago
I can guarantee you chatgpt can explain column and row spaces to you, suggesting that it is part of the common lexicon in linear algebra.
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by j7ake 3y ago
This is inevitable when you have to publish content at a weekly frequency. Scientists often have something new to say at a frequency of years (if productive).
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by j7ake 3y ago
Are you suggesting something like scientific journals like Nature? Where there is an extreme barrier to publish in and often takes years to get anything out? Maybe you’ve pointed out a positive for these scientific journals.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Parenting take time and practice. It is unreasonable to expect zero crying while in public. As the parent takes the kids out more to restaurants and cafes, the kid will slowly learn how to behave. But it’s a process that takes time.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Because the parents want to go to cafe and restaurants. It’s a way to get the kids used to the things they like
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by j7ake 3y ago
People used to tolerate whiny kids, now iPad and iPhones have solved the problem. Now you can hear a groan from nearby tables whenever you take your family to a plane or restaurant
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by j7ake 3y ago
This third option is not fool proof. No amount of being told to be quiet to a 1-2 year old will do the Jo .
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by j7ake 3y ago
It’s more expensive for the prof to hire the student. At MIT it is easily 100k per year to fund a PhD student. But phd student gets much less than half of that.
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by j7ake 3y ago
UPenn made the right decision for itself. If Kariko was the real deal, UPenn would still get credit for Nobel. If Kariko was a dud, they let go of a liability early. There is absolutely no incentive for UPenn to keep a professor who isn’t b
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by j7ake 3y ago
Saying Terence Tao is a math prof at UCLA is like saying John Carmack is a programmer at Keen Technologies.
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by j7ake 3y ago
I’ve gotten to the point of my book buying hobby that I buy books to collect books, rather than to read them.

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