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by j7ake 4y ago
How do you take a cross country train and stop at Montana to do hiking ? Won’t your train and all your stuff on the train have left by the time you finished your hike ? I imagine the train only stops for half an hour or so for long breaks…
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by j7ake 4y ago
Universities are not startups but the basic research since WW2 has enabled the startup culture that is so vibrant today in California and Boston. The success of this basic research feeds back into society with substantially increased tax re
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by j7ake 4y ago
Isn’t VC funds structured such a way that one or two startups make it while 90 percent fail? University outputs seem to be comparable in this sense. The patent for Gatorade alone has brought in probably 100 million to U of Florida.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Research software engineers should be PIs themselves so they can choose what they want to work on, who to work with, and hire trainees to mentor the next generation of research software engineers. RSEs are a different breed from SEs from in
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by j7ake 4y ago
I’m convinced that there is no western country worse for doing a PhD than in the UK.
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by j7ake 4y ago
I am comparing the stability and pay to a musician. You seem to be comparing with industry. A PhD has 4-6 years of guaranteed employment. Most entry-level musicians would love to have 4-6 years of guaranteed income.
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by j7ake 4y ago
I agree with you. Academia gives freedom with how you structure your time, but you still need to put in the 60+ hours a week. Compared to other careers that require 60 hour weeks, however, academia is the most flexible. Importantly though,
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by j7ake 4y ago
The competition might be more akin to humanities careers like writer, musician, or artist rather than industry. But stability and money on average is still better in academia than being a musician.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Although I agree that working weekends is common in academia, I believe that academia has more freedom in how to organise your time. Are there any other jobs where someone can take a month off at a time to travel to conferences, meet with i
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by j7ake 4y ago
I guess the big thing this hypothetical world would solve is a situation where demand exceeds current supply of trained experts. For example, during peak covid there was actually a shortage of certain health care workers because they were a
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by j7ake 4y ago
My most memorable exam experience as a student was an oral exam in thermodynamics or heat transfer. They gave a randomly selected question to me and I had 30 minutes to prepare a solution (alone in back of classroom). I provide solution whi
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by j7ake 4y ago
This was a great read. I wonder if it's actually more time-efficient at some point to just do an oral exam rather than these paper exams. In oral exams, it's obvious whether you know the material or not. It may appear more time-co
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by j7ake 4y ago
This mindset is also true for many researchers who code. Professional programmers make fun of research code but actually the dirty way is desirable considering that research is about prototyping, tweaking, and in small groups.
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by j7ake 4y ago
It’s even worse in biology where some labs consistently publish in Nature, Science, Cell. Some of the papers are outright fraudulent. Don’t even trust the numbers. At least for ML you can mostly reproduce the results, even in if they’re not
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by j7ake 4y ago
What’s the technology that allows Rick Beato to split the music into individual parts (eg vocals only, piano only, drums only etc)? Also props to this man’s ear training.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Inflation can be thought of as a high dimensional vector with dimensions equal to the number of objects you buy with money. Each person is affected by this inflation differently because they buy different things. To “solve” this problem, th
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by j7ake 4y ago
Is this author successful already? If the author is not successful in some way, then why should I bother taking this persons advice? The successful people I know don’t write vapid listicles on how to be successful.
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by j7ake 4y ago
It’s upsetting because Netherlands prides on being progressive and treating people equally regardless of sex or ethnic background. Note there are many Dutch people who are ethnically from North Africa or other non-white regions and they are
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by j7ake 4y ago
Fun fact: Average distance between two uniformly random points on a disk is 128r/45pi
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by j7ake 4y ago
So postdoc salary in Switzerland is still less than teaching adjunct in Berkeley, so to me Berkeley still pays very high.
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by j7ake 4y ago
You’re comparing germany the country with Berkeley, a small place in california. Maybe it’s more appropriate to compare Munich, London, Paris, Amsterdam with Berkeley and see how lecturer salaries there compare with each other. hint: Berkel
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by j7ake 4y ago
107k sounds really high actually. The salaries shouldn’t be compared with private, but should be compared with other non faculty salaries within the UC system, or across universities in the world. A faculty in London, Paris, or other high C
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by j7ake 4y ago
If you generate a process using a Cauchy distribution, you can observe finite error bars, but actually the variance of the generating process is infinite. No matter how hard you model you won’t be able to predict processes that are fundamen
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by j7ake 4y ago
An obvious counter example to the author is if an asteroid hit the earth containing thousands of tons of gold, the price of gold would plummet overnight.
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by j7ake 4y ago
I think it’s like combining the addictiveness of tobacco with the time sink of television. Tobacco is addictive but I’m not sure if it is a time sink.
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by j7ake 4y ago
In terms of saving human time I have found R to be fastest (in human time) for iterative prototyping, exploring, and visualising data R still has the best statistical package ecosystem, although python is catching up.
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by j7ake 4y ago
It is still a race component because wealthy Chinese people who move to UK with no intention to integrate are not called expats.
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by j7ake 4y ago
The term staff scientist existed before google (eg at National labs) and it probably was derived from that.
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by j7ake 4y ago
This is nice way to think of the problem. Although I think for unit hyper sphere , I think of the sphere centred at the origin, so the distance from point to origin is always less than 0.5
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by j7ake 4y ago
I wonder how much this abusive behaviour can explain the lack of women in certain fields? For example a girl joining a male-dominated chess club could face some of these remarks, leading to fewer girls joining the chess club. Then we see an

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