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by shoguning 8y ago
Yes, this is extremely misleading. You can download the data set and do the analysis for yourself. I have--the average income for science majors (biology & chemistry) with BS only is more like $55k as I recall.
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by shoguning 8y ago
Interesting you would call Taiwan developing world, it is one of the most developed countries in the world--21st out of 188 according to the UN. Source: http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201409180039.aspx As others
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by shoguning 8y ago
I would just put it on arXiv, or equivalents like biorXiv. You should read a lot of papers in the field and cite the relevant ones. Also, use conventions of the field--LaTeX two column format is frequently used in CS/ML papers. In my P
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by shoguning 8y ago
Perhaps you misunderstand. Scientists should study important _topics_ (virology, human genetics, materials science etc.), but within that, research direction should set by scientists not bureaucrats. Many people share your view, though, and
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by shoguning 8y ago
Did chem eng undergrad, a PhD (not fun), and am now a data scientist! I also worked on a website using public data and found out that only 7% of chem eng majors work in the field... link: https://careertrend.com/major-chemic
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by shoguning 8y ago
This is scarily close to me.
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by shoguning 8y ago
I disagree totally. A PhD should be about curiosity and asking the most interesting scientific questions you can think of, also known as 'basic research'. You have the rest of your career to have as much impact on society and comm
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by shoguning 8y ago
I think you're right. My suspicion is that if FB/TWTR go totally ban-happy, the social discussion will evolve into a legal one and move towards overt regulation a la utilities. EDIT: IANAL, but if these platforms start favoring
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by shoguning 8y ago
Since ISP's are not government enterprises should they be able to ban users they don't like? Legally, maybe you're right, but socially I don't think the argument is as clear cut as you make it sound.
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by shoguning 8y ago
As bad as it is, how can decreasing the number of competitors increase the quality of options for consumers? Are they preventing other companies from operating?
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by shoguning 8y ago
Such a waste of potential. It could be the most amazing time of your life, a chance to ask and answer the most interesting questions you can think of. Instead it ends up being a very negative experience for many.
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by shoguning 8y ago
Interesting to see people picking up on this trend. Just saw on linkedin a former PhD classmate of mine who is now a wine harvester.
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by shoguning 8y ago
I had not heard of RapidMiner either. I looked up its website on Alexa: https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/rapidminer.com It looks like most users are in China.
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by shoguning 8y ago
Fair point. I think the idea is that there is a due process, and legal recourse if your rights were infringed. The existence of these laws would make public accommodations at least think twice before denying service. AirBnB is apparently av
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by shoguning 8y ago
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000a
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by shoguning 8y ago
> But nationwide, there's been no mass replacement of local newspapers. Non-profit online sites are largely based in major metro areas. Is this really true? I've heard of at least a couple of non-profit newspapers opening in sm
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by shoguning 8y ago
Maybe, but it makes it a lot easier to transfer to a different lab. It's also part of a cultural frame of mind. In broad strokes, here are two approaches institutions can take to recruiting grad students: i) Admit tons of grad students
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by shoguning 8y ago
Consider yourself lucky.
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by shoguning 8y ago
Professors have too much control over grad students and academic labs are too insulated from the greater institution. Profs have basically no oversight on how the treat and/or pay grad students. Any institution serious about tackling t
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by shoguning 8y ago
Yeah they are all gone. I was worried about first impressions and meeting people but it has never been an issue.
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by shoguning 8y ago
I am in my late 20s and recently lost all my hair from alopecia universalis. It was a shock when it happened, but now I don't think I'd even want to go back. There is zero maintenance, no hair grows anywhere. I only get positive c
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by shoguning 8y ago
So much to unpack here. The STEM label itself is extremely misleading. There are opportunities in TE (technology and engineering) but not in SM (science and math -- well unless you get a PhD, but even then maybe not). So people hear STEM sh
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by shoguning 8y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something but the capacity factor for solar tends to be around 20%, meaning that 10GW of nameplate capacity generates an average of closer to 2GW in practice. I didn't see it addressed in the article, so I&#x27
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by shoguning 8y ago
AFAIK, these are all implementations of deep learning or similar, not a fundamentally new architecture. We'll continue to see these as DL matures, but it doesn't address the shortcomings of the technique. For more perspective: ht
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by shoguning 8y ago
I am of a similar opinion. There was a real revolution in ~2011-2013 with deep learning. These have achieved much better results in image/speech tasks. These gains have leveled off, and we're seeing some limitations. At current tr
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by shoguning 8y ago
Work sample tests have been researched extensively in applied psychology [1]. There is a healthy debate on how effective they are. For me personally, I am not so much for or against 'homework', as would rather see it used correctl
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by shoguning 9y ago
You don't necessarily need a massive sample size to make a solid conclusion, depending on the effect size. You can use statistics to control your error rates.
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by shoguning 9y ago
A sweet spot might be things which are 'harder' but have other advantages such as cost/health. Commuting by bike, instead of car is one example, though not possible for all.
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by shoguning 9y ago
Not clear. If costs really continue to decline, batteries will make up a bigger and bigger part of the solution, but costs and uncertainty of the massive scale battery projects still seem high to me. Decreasing demand, nuclear, carbon captu
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by shoguning 9y ago
Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see an indication of how much storage they are talking about here. The problem with renewables is still intermittence, and geographic dependence. Solar does no good at night, and there are days th

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