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True, Switzerland and Denmark had the same problem but they are fixing their unrealized gains tax regulations. The Draghi Report on EU Competitiveness raised lots of these red flags and, at last, some politicians are listening. Still, too l
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Also European Academia is very hierarchical. The US has a much healthier proportion of early career faculty positions, which you can apply to straight after your PhD or a postdoc. IMHO, this creates some strange dynamics and doesn't fa
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Serious universities do often revoke doctoral degrees if plagiarism is proven. I've seen Oxford University going as far as demanding someone to issue a correction of a journal article to cite prior work because they were making some cl
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> Academic fraud ranging from plagiarism to outright faking data should, more often than not, make it basically impossible for you to get any academic job whatsoever, in your field or others. Sadly, the system is often rewarding fake or,
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My experience is good, but I have only written smallish programs. Documentation is pretty polished. Installation-wise, NixPkgs is fairly straightforward.
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Aging. Increasing the healthspan, i.e. the proportion of healthy years everyone has before their body starts to decay, would unlock lots of good things. You don't need unlimited resources to start. Some approaches, such as making sure
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A modern CL that borrows ideas from Clojure, and with a strongly typed language (Coalton) also available is indeed very appealing!
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Rick wrote jfli, a Java foreign language interface for Common Lisp, before working on Clojure. He was a seasoned lisper, and he wanted to do something both modern and practical. It's very interesting to go through the bookshelf he read
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Aside from slowness, feature creep leads to poor quality, i.e. tons of bugs and user confusion with ever-changing graphical interfaces. If software was simpler, we could afford to offer some formal guarantees of correctness. Model check pro
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F# has bindings to Infer.NET, by MS Research, which is incredibly good for some classes of probabilistic models and very mature. In particular, it shines on very large models or where fast quasi real-time inference is required.
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Jolla is really good. SFOS can even run lots of Android apps on an emulator, including banking apps, with zero issues. And the native ones are a delight to use, great indie apps. I wish they got funding from EU and became a completely open
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I don't use Mac because I prefer Linux tiling WMs, but this is easy to fix? Most animations can be disabled using the defaults system. I think the desktop animation option is called workspaces-swoosh-animation-off or similar. I also re
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I didn't even reply, as I didn't want to taint my profile. But it looked very interesting and serious. Plus, from this one can infer they are clearly scouting researchers in a systematic way.
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One annecdata. When I handed in my doctoral thesis in Oxbridge, I was contacted by a recruiter from PRC that offered me generous startup funds ($600k-1M) and salary to bootstrap my own academic lab at Tsinghua, Fudan, or other top universit
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Panerai is a good example to estimate margins. When they were unknown, watches costed $1-2k. This was in the mid 90s. Same models now, distributed by a big luxury conglomerate, cost 5-10x more. Quality and components on comparable models ar
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Given the price tag, it's surely a custom order and I imagine you can tweak lots of details. That's the case for much cheaper Dornbluth & Sohn and other small boutique watchmakers.
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Not even throwaway. They will result in reports and keynote presentations, but nothing truly functional. The EU doesn't understand how to structure incentives to make things work and avoid rent-seekers and grifters. Source, I've b
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If they are trying to charge you unfairly (I don't know the details) the right way to address this is to fill in a credit card chargeback claim (if you paid with a card, obviously). Chargebacks are great to punish rogue companies. If y
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Yes, it led to well-rounded learning. But we had too many courses and, overall, I think it was too much. All CS courses had a theoretical exam, some project-based learning, and some coding exam to prevent cheating in the project-based learn
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My CS undergrad school used to let students look up documentation during coding exams. Most courses had a 3-5 hour coding challenge where you had to make substantial changes to a course project you had developed. I think this could also be
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I don't think so, but I'm not so familiar with that topic. Julia uses them quite extensively to make source code closer to math.
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Would Exeter be a good location, in comparison to the home counties, to set up a startup where most employees WFH 90% of the time? I really like the area, and my preferred locations in Oxon & Cambs are getting incredibly expensive in te
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Yes, Unicode even defines characters for subindex and superindex. It's quite capable for basic inline math equations.
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A great compact design. Hopefully the new X13 is going to be a worthy successor.
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I really like The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods by Baggini & Fosl.
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The X220 touchpad and fan were pretty mediocre. The rest was outstanding, unless you didn't upgrade the panel. I hate nothing similar can be bought brand new.
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IBM-era ThinkPads were great, but Lenovo has been progressively diluting the brand, trying to copy Apple, and releasing way too many models to be able to pay attention to detail. Still, they are often the best x86 machines, but competition
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> The average Amazon engineer is not expected to have awareness of CS fundamentals that go beyond LeetCode-y challenges I find this a bit unsettling. There are dozens of great CS schools in the US. Even non-elite BSc programs in EU som
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The Little Series, famous for The Little Schemer book, published The Little MLer in 1998. It's probably their lesser known volume, but IMHO it makes a terrific job at teaching the ML family and its features.
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Have you tried image to LaTeX translation? It works fairly well already for text plus equations. I've done this for a 30-page manuscript with no sources, and I was able to recreate the entire document with minimal manual intervention t

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