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by majos 7y ago
> is there truth to the statement "female physicists face more career obstacles than their male colleagues" ? Since you did your PhD with many women, why not ask them?
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by majos 7y ago
People who have been scammed like this on Airbnb: did you a book a well-reviewed place? As a precaution, I only stay in places with at least ~50 happy, realistic reviews. I've stayed in maybe a dozen such places and never run into anyt
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by majos 7y ago
But climbing’s a lot cheaper than those things. If you’re in a midsize city you can get an unlimited gym membership for maybe $50 per month. Shoes, generously will run you $200 per year. That’s $800 per year all-in. The equipment alone, eve
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by majos 7y ago
Your interpretation is correct. The official problem statement [1] is "does P = NP?", so either "P = NP" or "P != NP" is a valid answer. [1] https://www.claymath.org/sites/default/file
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by majos 7y ago
It's worth distinguishing between different types of bad science. 1. The first and most egregious type is outright fraud. This is when you intentionally manipulate or fake data. Everyone agrees this is bad, and honest actors are enough
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by majos 7y ago
Not an expert at all in this area, but if people are interested in statistics for people's financial habits, the Federal Reserve's most recent "Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households" [1] is useful. It&#x27
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by majos 7y ago
Yeah, but the native speaker already has k words. This article [1] puts the number of distinct French root words (i.e., ignoring conjugation and other modifications) at around 65,000. This long-running online test [2] pegs the average Engli
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by majos 7y ago
There's a spectrum between "I failed -- awesome!" and "I failed -- I will stop trying". I think articles like this are trying to push us away from the second end of the spectrum, not necessarily push us to the first
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by majos 7y ago
Not an expert on this by any means, but you know those color blindness tests where there’s a bunch of red and green dots, the red dots form a number, and you can only see the red number if you aren’t (that kind of) colorblind? It seems to b
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by majos 7y ago
> The question of why homelessness suddenly emerged in the late 1970s / early 1980s is one that's interested me. My understanding is that deinstitutionalization plays a large role here. The US institutionalized about 500k peopl
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by majos 7y ago
Sure, but immersion in pretty cold water is different than immersion in very cold air, since air has way lower heat capacity than water does.
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by majos 7y ago
This summary omits context for what the “grueling travel schedule” is, similar results for REM sleep and cognitive function, player reactions and countermeasures, and interpretations by sleep science experts (Czeisler and Walker). I’m not s
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by majos 7y ago
> One thing I told my nephew is that he can spend thousands of hours playing video games and then have his head full of video game trivia or he can spend thousands of hours learning to program or learning memory sports techniques and hav
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by majos 7y ago
Can somebody reconcile this with statistics about TV watching, which suggest that people watch about 3-5 hours of TV/Netflix per day [1]? A possible argument is that, as the article describes, time off is so unpredictable that schedu
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by majos 7y ago
Man, seemingly every week on HN there’s an article attacking PhDs as monastic pyramid schemes for the foreign, financially gullible, and unemployable. As a 5th-year computer science PhD student (graduating next semester!) I think this chara
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by majos 7y ago
> most of the PhD programmers I know are not any different from the average Very few computer science PhDs are set up to make you better at programming. In fact, the unstructured and unreviewed quality of much research code might make yo
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by majos 7y ago
Thanks, I’ll read Notes on Camp. I did read the Slate article, and I didn’t get much out of it beyond a claim that Sontag, via her writings or just her status as a public figure, represented and argued for a serious approach to thinking abo
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by majos 7y ago
For my uncharitable half-formed view? Sure, though I can only actually remember one [1]. [1] https://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n06/terry-castle/desperately-seeki...
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by majos 7y ago
Since this article didn’t do it (or if it did, I missed it), can someone explain why Susan Sontag is considered an important American intellectual figure? I’ve read a few articles about her over the years, and the general picture is of a ch
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by majos 7y ago
It’s 5 years, not 10. (But it’s 5 years in early-2000s China, so it might as well be 10.)
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by majos 7y ago
The point of a PhD is to learn enough that you can produce research and then get better at producing research. Learning how to produce research is where an advisor and community of grad students and postdocs becomes important. However, if y
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by majos 7y ago
One point about suicide prevention that I think deserves a little more mention: people who survive an attempt typically do not ever commit suicide [1]. Lifetime survival rates range across studies, but they hover around 90%. Of course, 10%
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by majos 7y ago
This is the second cautionary piece about generic drugs I’ve read in the past two days. The first was from last week’s Economist [1] and made a different point. It argued that generic drugs are such a viciously competitive market that the s
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by majos 7y ago
What? R+D investment is still a real thing, even if investors have shorter time horizons than they used to. There are still firms sacrificing short term gains for long term ones.
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by majos 7y ago
Counterpoint: evidence of the behaviors you mention is way over-represented on the internet relative to its frequency in real life.
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by majos 7y ago
I think HN is not social media in the same way Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram are. One big difference is that HN is pretty anonymous. I usually don't look at who's posting, so it just looks like an agglomeration of authorless tex
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by majos 7y ago
Maybe my original point was vague: I'm arguing that the "what" is simpler when human actors are involved. Person x said this, did this, accomplished that. The story is for the most part straightforward and understandable. And
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by majos 7y ago
I don't quite get the claim behind the Gell-Mann effect. It assumes that because journalism about physics is inaccurate and oversimplified, journalism about everything else is too. But why should this be? Physics, and similar hard scie
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by majos 7y ago
I think it's healthy for the HN community to have a spectrum of users ranging from "bitter and cynical because we don't have flying cars" to "thrilled at how fast water balloon fill times have fallen".
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by majos 7y ago
When you think of the "best artists" you've seen, are you making any distinction between technical and creative skill? For example, there are many great studio musicians who are nonetheless nowhere near as good as composers o

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