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by j7ake 2y ago
It is way harder for an Iranian to travel to Europe as a tourist than for them to travel to USA. Especially if you travel often like once a year. USA has 10 year tourist visas. Europe gives you the bare minimum to visit every time.
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by j7ake 2y ago
Nobody on your team had kids or dependents?
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by j7ake 2y ago
Going into university libraries fills me with awe and purpose. Seeing a shelf of curated textbooks on a topic (eg non Newtonian fluid flow), gives me a feeling of depth. Each book represents years or decades of an authors life. And they con
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by j7ake 2y ago
At his level it is much more than just being able to do what he wants, it’s about attracting resources and talent to accomplish his goals. From that perspective location still matters if you want to maximise impact
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by j7ake 2y ago
Amazing that Sutton (American) chooses to live in Edmonton, AB rather than USA. Shows he has integrity and is not a careerist focused on prestige and money above all else.
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by j7ake 2y ago
Not true at the PhD level
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by j7ake 2y ago
If it’s a short stop a “cafe lock” for back wheel is super convenient
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by j7ake 2y ago
Don’t use technical terms like “exponential distribution” and then say the technical details like what distribution it is does not matter. Doing so conveys sloppy thinking while pretending to be rigorous only on the surface.
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by j7ake 2y ago
Will there be a time when people depend on the stock market (pension, mortgage) so much that it becomes too big to fail?
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by j7ake 2y ago
Excellent medical and dental care for ridiculously cheap. On par with countries like Germany If you work, you contribute to a fund that you have access to if you lose your job.
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by j7ake 2y ago
If you have kids the math works out in favour for many European countries.
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Cool but how do I share events with my family and coworkers so we are on the same page? The point of calendars is to align with other people’s lives
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Honestly he’s famous for pedagogy and research papers, not real world products. Not surprised it’s underwhelming
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by j7ake 2y ago
Default osx spotlight search is just as good as Alfred? What’s different?
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The corrections in his blog post show you the level of precision mathematicians are used to. A regular interviewer would have left the inaccuracies as they are because it’s too tedious to go over all of them when you have a casual conversat
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by j7ake 2y ago
Thanks for your response. One confusing thing as an outsider is that amyloid aggregates seems like fraud, but tau aggregates still seems to be a promising line of research. Both to an outsider look like protein aggregates.
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Funding science is a badass thing to do(experimental-history.com)
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Why science is integral for long term prosperity of civilization, and low hanging fruits that can save money for funding science.
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Maybe you can give some specific examples
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Just ask how often the author is inviting the local homeless in his city to meet his mother and crash and his weddings. Probably close to Zero. But he expects to be treated like a special when he is traveling.
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> To stay safe, smile.
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by j7ake 2y ago
With over 50 years of travel, the author still does not recognize the unique privilege he is in, and how inappropriate his tips are for most of the population.
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by j7ake 2y ago
I remember making a calculation that a 4 year PhD is about 200 weeks. This means every two weeks you are 1 percent closer to finishing. That got me real productive.
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You wouldn’t be able to hire people to enable your vision though. You’re stuck with standard experiences that any plebeian can buy with money.
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by j7ake 2y ago
Companies shouldn’t be taking handouts from the US government. Let capitalism dictate where the cars get made. It is the American way.
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So when US companies try to beat each others products, it is called competition. But if a foreign company of US-trained people manages to beat the competition, it is parasitising?
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RIP statisticians and Ml researchers who use the word “bias” in their work.
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This may be bad for tech stocks, but this is actually good for technology because the supposed monopoly in ML is deteriorating.
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I think they would like it a lot, but I think the title doesn’t match the content, and it takes too much reading before one realises it goes beyond the title. Keep it up!
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This was an amazing summary of the landscape of ML currently. I think the title does the article injustice, or maybe it’s too long for people to read to appreciate it (eg the deepseek stuff can be an article within itself). Whatever the one

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