kaitai

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by kaitai 8y ago
I've been playing with topological methods for data analysis recently and I think there are some fruitful things happening. Seems like there are some ideas emerging from theory to practice which might be useful (Betti curves, multipara
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by kaitai 8y ago
Finns also did the same with viili, a mesophilic milk ferment.
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by kaitai 8y ago
Most journals have as a condition of publication that the article is not submitted or published anywhere else, if that's what you're thinking about.
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by kaitai 8y ago
You have very unusual experiences. Employment contracts are very rare in the US. Offer letters are not contracts. Under certain situations they may be construed as contracts, but most companies go to great lengths to avoid this situation. S
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by kaitai 8y ago
Jobs in the US generally do not have such contracts, as this job did not.
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Right: the company said explicitly they didn't have to abide by their own employee handbook because Florida law trumped it, so the employee said the same.
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by kaitai 8y ago
The nice thing about Papers is that you download every pdf and have a local copy. Of course the developers could change how it's done.
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by kaitai 8y ago
Yep. NIH granting cycle is totally derailed & it's job interview season in academia.
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by kaitai 8y ago
It's interesting that I agree with you at a few key points, but utterly disagree with your post in a few other places. Agree: "The rift in our country starts here. At the divide between collectivism and individualism." Intere
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by kaitai 8y ago
With this generation, pranks and insubordination are often dealt with by the school police officer! When I was in high school, I got a talking-to at most, or a blind eye because I was a "good kid". Now my old high school has a lot
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by kaitai 8y ago
I think the primary contrast is with the prevailing narrative that goes something like this: "These narcissist kids are just obsessed with Instagram and Facebook and if they stopped sharing selfies they'd be fine." Social med
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by kaitai 8y ago
That's what we've done with literacy in the US for the past few decades and literacy rates have decreased. An abject failure. What a terrible idea for society -- religious zealots only teaching their children one religious book (w
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by kaitai 8y ago
As noted before, on Canvas and Moodle, can't have student uploads for assignment without an assignment created, and some won't link correct calendar settings without an assignment.
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by kaitai 8y ago
But if you don't create the assignment, then it doesn't show up in the calendar, and if it doesn't show up in the calendar (even if it's in 28-point bold font with a date next to it on the main page) then students claim
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by kaitai 8y ago
Perhaps because I teach math, my grade-grubbers definitely skew male. The women just figure they're bad at math and the world is fine with that assessment.
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by kaitai 8y ago
Yeah, then I can feel like I'm selling grades to the highest bidder too. I didn't sign up for prostitution: the only reason I'm cool with the low pay is the purity & honesty of the job.
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by kaitai 8y ago
As a college prof, I divide assignments into formative and summative. Some assignments are to help you learn, and you can try again, improve your work, etc. Some are designed to measure what you know at a given point in time -- and the timi
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by kaitai 8y ago
Well, that's actually true in a lot of schools in the US -- over lunch you have cafeteria duty and right after school there's the patrolling pick-up/busses and the after school clubs...
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by kaitai 8y ago
But that's one reason dumping the account of a PhD student in Canada is puzzling -- there is no evidence of exchange of value. I suppose the argument is that the person in question visited Iran and presumably had to pay for food at som
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by kaitai 8y ago
This is very elegant, and encapsulates the problem with America. Well, many other countries as well, but certainly us, America. Not government -- but our conception of "ourselves". HN occasionally has articles about education and
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by kaitai 8y ago
Interestingly there are significant differences across fields, and the data do indicate that this effect in mathematics, for instance, is much smaller than in the humanities.
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by kaitai 8y ago
Disagree, because the article/studies essentially indicate that if you're (for instance) a black female who got into MIT but chose to go to State U for cost reasons you'll see an incredible hit in terms of career progression
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by kaitai 8y ago
Richer families can outsource the parts of parenting they're crappy at.
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by kaitai 8y ago
I worked at a small liberal arts college for a few years that basically admitted (1) legacy students, (2) rich kids, (3) sports kids from the South (from states with no D3 football, basically), and (4) poor kids who got high SAT scores. The
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by kaitai 8y ago
I guess I'd disagree, in that admissions practices at many schools are designed to admit children of rich people. Sure, poor people aren't penalized for being poor per se, but they're not going to contribute to the endowment,
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by kaitai 8y ago
Even if you take a very crass profit-extraction point of view, advertising your baby stuff to a mourning not-parent is a waste of money and an actual impediment to future sales to that not-parent-now-but-could-be-later. Miscarriages do happ
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by kaitai 8y ago
These ads are served by models. She's saying, "Hey model-builders, add in the stillbirth option. You can detect that using machine learning too -- throw in some sentiment analysis and call it good." As someone who is not buil
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by kaitai 8y ago
When it's 6 degrees Fahrenheit and you're wrangling a toddler outside and trying to catch a city bus, a watch is much more practical. I still wear mine, and it doesn't satisfy any of your criteria. It's just practical in
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by kaitai 8y ago
There are actually some very interesting studies looking at blood samples from the 1950s, for instance, that indicate that celiac is much more common than it used to be. See for instance "Increased Prevalence and Mortality in Undiagnos
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by kaitai 8y ago
Not the parent poster, but I learned about S Boulardii from some German studies of probiotics. Boulardii at one point was one of the few that showed benefits in randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. That was a while ago so do

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