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by j7ake 3y ago
I think this is unpopular because there are so many heartbreaking stories of couples that are unhappy but stay because of social pressure. One possibility that is in line with your thoughts is that the advanced age of marriage has improved
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You need to be intimately aware of your data input, the models you’re proposing, and initialisations. Practically, this means iteratively visualising your data and making informed judgements to even make your model run without humans thinki
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Was this fake research funded by tax payers? Can they sue this scientist to get some money back ?
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I played this game and got my PhD after 4 years. I am super surprised that the timing was close to the real phd.
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The funniest story I heard about cultural differences is the clash of Irish and NL cultures. A young Irish university student just arrived to his new apartment in NL for exchange. Shortly after settling into his apartment, a Dutch woman kn
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This is a very USA centric view. In many European countries, freedom of attention is attained by having strong social support (eg free day care, education, health care, quality food, strong employment and tenant laws). Many people in Europe
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A personal library is meant as a research tool. The point is to have books around you haven’t read.
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Tinkering and iterating is key to progress. The more “volume” of work you can do per unit time, the more you can be ruthless in culling work that don’t meet your standards. From the outside observation, it will look like the person consiste
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by j7ake 3y ago
It’s probably a similar reason why I enjoy many songs on YouTube better if I read subtitles when I listen? You have much better comprehension of the dialogue if it’s both spoken and in text. Comprehension defined as something specific: like
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Social status is related to how much your influence has on others. From this lens, one can see why the untenured Yale professor is unwilling to move to an unknown university even though there is more money and security: the people you attra
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Fantastic post! But keeping this "limited iPads/electronics" policy for the kids: is the idea to print out these maps and put them into a journal for them to annotate on?
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You're welcome to demonstrate why python ecosystem would be better for this analysis, otherwise you're making unsubstantiated claims.
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The secret sauce for R is that their statistical models/packages are cutting-edge, they have the best plotting library (ggplot2), and they have the best data wrangling packages (dplyr for tabular data).
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I use Arch. I’ve closed my laptop before and put in my bag, and the laptop either overheats and/or does depletes the battery. Switched back to Mac after that.
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This long form article was excellent in audio mode. What’s interesting is that there is a market for artists today even though their hits were from previous generations: the new aristocracy were once high schoolers and are now are adults l
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Today, it is now possible to live entirely independently, with little reliance on a large family. Government and society provides (at a price) many things that used to be provided by extended family : eg child care, unemployment benefits,
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A personal experience from me is that using cheat codes for video games (eg Starcraft) can completely ruin the fun.
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At ~2000 dollars, one can buy mid-high end digital piano made of wood with realistic key action. https://dcpianos.com/products/kawai-ca48-the-ultimate-piano-... You can add beats, different sound libraries, and maybe y
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Thanks for the quote but that’s clearly not what I said. Try quoting my first paragraph instead >>“Maybe from a far it seems that it is a meritocracy but there are documented examples of people falling through the cracks.” Some nuance
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Douglas Prasher didn’t make it in academia, he was a shuttle bus driver until Roger Tsien hired him back as an associate after prizes were won. I don’t know what kind of goalposts you’re thinking about, but doing nobel prize work but not be
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by j7ake 3y ago
Maybe from a far it seems that it is a meritocracy but there are documented examples of people falling through the cracks. Eg Douglas Prasher did nobel prize winning work but couldn’t stay in academia. Virginijus Siksnys did nobel prize wor
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A novel twist to a timeless classic! Bravo
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Passion is definitely not what distinguishes the very top classical musicians with the tier below. At the very high end it’s talent, recognisable brand, and having something to say to the world. At the very top, everybody works hard, but on
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I found the https://1secondeveryday.com/ app to be great for recording snippets of my day which I can look back on and quickly remember. There is a lot of information that can be captured in a one second video of your life
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While you’re at it, why don’t you throw in the real cost of living “rent free”, which is a huge reason why it works.
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What matters is that working in office helps develop meaningful relationships with people you work with. If you think of work as purely transactional, then yeah work from home wins hands down.
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IMSLP is the killer app for iPad. Instant sheet music at the touch a button.
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That kid though will want to have their own family, and on goes the cycle.
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In science the analogy is : “yeah this person did good work five years ago, but what have they done recently?” as a way to reject people for jobs, grants, and promotions.
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The volume of an n-ball has been calculated for other non-Euclidean distances. For p goes to infinity, the unit "ball" becomes a "cube" of two units wide per side. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volum

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