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by nolamark 3y ago
Strangely my path both supports and counters your statement. Likely in no way typical. But given the prevalence of negative comments regarding grad school in response to this article I want to say: I thought getting my PhD was fun and a gr
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by nolamark 3y ago
You trust no one, and, at the same time, everyone. Determining what you are getting yourself into, based on data, not your imagination of the jobs based upon your undergrad experience, should be your first research project. If you aren&#x
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by nolamark 3y ago
for yourself, write down in great detail what your dream is. What do you imagine yourself doing day-to-day? What experiences did you really enjoy? Identify (via posting here, linkedin, discord) some people that have the sort of job you im
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by nolamark 3y ago
Dear Prospective PhD Student, Pay careful attention to the optics of this advice. It is addressing how you can best serve your PI. Your goals and aspirations are not addressed. It is advice on how to land a job, but does not address why
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by nolamark 4y ago
perhaps: https://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2009volume9/FG200925.pdf On the Possibility of Trigonometric Proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem Jason Zimba Abstract. The identity cos2 x + sin2 x = 1 can be derived independently of
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by nolamark 4y ago
for completeness, here is a reference to the AMS presentation. https://meetings.ams.org/math/spring2023se/meetingapp.cgi/Pa... [my post updated to include abstract] Abstract In the 2000 years since trigonomet
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by nolamark 4y ago
Location: New Orleans, LA Remote: Only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Machine Learning, Research and Development, Python, Ruby, Elixir, AWS, Kubernetes, Javascript, React, ... Résumé/CV: https://markcs.com/resume
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by nolamark 10y ago
I think the following ( http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/09/27/who-gets-credit-c... ) gives voices to many of the competing claims, including Turing with ACE.
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by nolamark 10y ago
Personally, I've taken many (most?) of my jobs below market value. I've always figured the first step was to get the job I wanted. It's only a starting salary. It doesn't take much to prove you are worth much more and m
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by nolamark 10y ago
Location: New Orleans, LA Remote: yes Willing to relocate: hell no Technologies: Anything but java Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-anderson-4b702718 Email: news.ycombinator.com@ma7.org Always looking f
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by nolamark 12y ago
Location: New Orleans, LA, US Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Computer Science, Mathematics Resume: https://github.com/NolaMark/AboutMe/blob/master/20140901Mark... Email: mra2@ma7.org