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by j7ake 2y ago
I found it takes the same amount of time to go from 0 to 50% completion as it is to go from 50% to 80%, and similarly from 80 to 90%. This means when you are at 50% completion, you need to spend more than two times more effort to hit >90
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These journals are like parasites onto the scientific enterprise and ultimately tax payers dollars.
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Set WiFi to expire after 60 minutes, maybe that helps?
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These days chatgpt can fill the gap surprisingly well for many questions.
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It’s the debt repayments that are unsustainable or is it the rising cost of education ?
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Cathay Pacific and Singapore airlines usually has them in stock. You just ask. I bring my own otherwise.
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Nissin cup noodles (Japan version with nice toppings) are the only thing I eat on airplanes, even if I am flying business.
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They’re relevant, but I claim that a quick skim of magazine like the economist once a month is sufficient to get you up to speed.
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by j7ake 2y ago
The key is to focus on local news: these are updates that a person can take action upon. Seeing the latest tragedies on the other side of the world catches headlines, but rarely actionable by regular people.
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Might as well buy Nord piano and access their awesome sound library.
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Thanks for details. I would also mention in Chinese cuisine, fresh lean beef (flank) is preferred for stirfry, fatty beef is preferred for boiling (hot pot). American culture: aged is key to the complex flavours. For fish, Japanese sushi of
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by j7ake 2y ago
If Dutch tomato’s are all you can buy fresh, then try canned tomatos from Italy (eg San Marzano) to get actual flavor.
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Blind folded is not a proper taste test though. One uses all the senses when eating. For eggs the quality of the yolk is obvious by looking.
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Best beef isn’t fresh actually, it is aged for several weeks. Similar with a lot of fish like tuna. Sometimes it’s not about as fresh as possible, but how it is grown and processed.
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Technically it’s how unlikely of an event under a null model. The null model is key: if you are mischievous, you can just define a seemingly benign but incorrect null model and generate extreme p values without discarding: all values will b
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by j7ake 2y ago
Given an image, it will outline where objects are in the image.
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A French professor (eg CNRS researcher) is a civil servant, appointed for life, with substantial benefits such as pensions and absolute academic freedom. A postdoc in Norway has salary contingent on grants, limited to a few years, and is at
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by j7ake 2y ago
It shows you how valuable it is to have these superstars in your institute. Hiring One hilbert is worth more than hiring a thousand median scientists, and way cheaper too!
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Differences (structure, funding, prestige) between institutes within Europe / USA are way larger than the differences between Europe versus USA. What really matters in the end is whether an institute is able to attract “rockstars” in t
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Iteration is necessary for any analysis. To safeguard yourself from overfitting, be sure to have a hold out dataset that hasn’t been touched until the end.
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Emergence means to me at least that new properties at a more macro scale can be used to describe the new phenomenon. Examples: principles of DNA information processing emerges from lower principles in chemistry.
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Because commodities are cheap these days, why wait for the next commodities boom to buy when you can buy now on sale?
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Visualising an algorithm with animations is so attractive for readers, kudos.
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Wow did not expect sales force to be behind this. It’s basically free advertising for technical people to join sales force.
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Organic chem was standard second year course for any science/ engineering student, just like diff eq. I also TA’d a course like this , and it was for 3rd year biologists/ life sciences / bioengineering
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Differential equation are usually introduced to undergrads by year 2 or 3. So I expect this to be upper undergraduate course.
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The difference between graduate and undergraduate level is that graduate is often easier (ie less work load) than undergrad… This is because graduate students main focus is their research, and courses are a distant second.
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For the same working opportunities as men get in their 20s and 30s.
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Disagree. Having grandparents who are 65 means they’re close to retirement meaning more free time. Having grandparents at 45 means they are still at peak earning capacity, and likely earning more than their 22 year old kids, so it wouldn’t
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I can imagine 4k a month for daycare, plus 2k for part time nanny (kids get sick!), 1k for extra bedroom, 1k for other expenses like food, clothing, bigger car. That is 96k a year.

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