j7ake

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by j7ake 10y ago
I'd be interested in looking at the data in order to find out just how success rates compare between academia and startups.
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by j7ake 10y ago
I would disagree. Just read the list of nobel prize winners and how many of them are academics. These are often actual paradigm shifts in how you think of the world that lasts generations, not decades. Compare this with the impact a success
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by j7ake 10y ago
These statements need to be backed with skin in the game. How much are you willing to invest in these bonds? Would you transfer your current savings account all into these bonds? These bonds are medium risk... you get all of the downsides
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by j7ake 10y ago
Those seem to be pretty good odds. Thanks for the rough estimate. You can also hit 'unicorns' as a scientist, for example a major discovery (nobel prize) or innovation (millennium technology prize), which should be taken into acco
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by j7ake 10y ago
Since we are on HN, how does this irrationally differ from the hordes of people going into start ups hoping they will be the next AirBnB? I would be interested in comparing the chances of a graduate student becoming a tenured professor vers
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by j7ake 10y ago
For comparison, PhD students in other universities such as ETHZ have salaries of >$60000 per year and includes benefits such as >20 days of vacation and a pension.
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by j7ake 10y ago
David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms Kevin Murphy: Machine Learning: a probabilistic perspective. Christopher Bishop: Pattern Recognition and Macine Learning
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by j7ake 10y ago
I think making tools is a great thing to do as a computational biologist... But I feel the main goal of a computational biologist is not to just make tools but to make discoveries in ways that biologists could not have even dreamed of. I ho
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by j7ake 11y ago
A possible solution to fix this in schools may be to include questions that cannot be solved by applying tricks blindly. Adding these questions will allow teachers to identify which students are simply using tricks and which students deeply