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by timdellinger 8y ago
Being a PhD student is basically working 50-60 hours a week for low pay, for a boss who pretty much has absolute power over you. I've seen it all - scientific misconduct of every kind imaginable, professors impregnating postdocs, profe
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I'll also note that the human body produces its own molecules that bind to cannabinoid receptors. Physical exercise is one of the triggers for the body to do this. It's thus not surprising that some of the benefits of exercise on
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One of the interesting things about MBS is that there's a huge amount of under-employed or under-utilized talent that's basically (1) the "trailing spouse" problem (one half of a couple has a Dow job, the other doesn&#x2
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Orlando International Airport to Scan Faces of US Citizens(usnews.com)
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You should be aware of your boss's goals, and his/her boss's goals (which are often written down and reviewed annually), and your organization's goals and mission statement. If the conference is aligned with these goals
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One of the biggest issues with enforcing patents is "how do I recognize (and then later prove in court) that my competition is infringing on my patent? Since you can't easily just go have a peek your competitor's code, it&#x2
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I have found that anything put out by Robert X. Cringely is worthwhile.
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Having read waaaay too many books about the development of the atomic bomb, I have to say that my favorite is Lawrence and Oppenheimer by Davis. It tells the story of two strong willed scientists, the competing methods that they were pus
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Speaking of Moneyball , everything written by Michael Lewis is great. He paints great pictures of interesting people, and the adventures that they have in the workplace.
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I'm putting those in separate threads to be upvoted if people like them so that they might rise to the top on their own merits. I'm adding them as I peruse my bookshelf.
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American Steel by Richard Preston is under-appreciated. A market opportunity is identified, and a so-crazy-that-it-just-might-work design for a new type of steel mill is pursued by crazy maverick cowboys. The true story of Nucor Steel.
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Crystal Fire: the Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age by Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson is a good history of the transistor, mostly focusing on Bardeen, Shockley, and Brittain.
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I'll be the voice of dissent regarding The Soul of a New Machine and also More Than My Share of It All . Yes, Soul won the Pulitzer prize, but it was published in 1981, and I found it very dated, and hard to slog through at times.
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"Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari", now streaming on Amazon Prime. An interesting founder, a few false starts, business-minded people who successfully take things to the next level but don't understand the nee
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Men's testosterone levels have been falling for decades... I agree there's definitely a trend happening that has causal effects other than what the author is postulating.
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I actually see this as a smart move in the context of a Fortune 100 company. It's often a good idea to build something (in this case, a data science capability) before you need it, so that when you do need it, it's already up and
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Maybe I'm skimming a little too lightly here, but... diffraction patterns are just a Fourier transform. If you have a look at prime spirals (Ulam spirals and Sacks spirals), it's trivial to see that there is some structure that w
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I'm totally fine with it, but this post looks a lot like market research to me!
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Confession: when I open up twitter, the thing that excites me most is when I see that patio11 has tweeted. His stuff is just an absolute must-read for me. He uses twitter almost like a blog, which is different than most other people I fol
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"It was clear that our research participants were not using and not seeking out specialized tools tailored to accomplish their specific goals. Why?" While the Levi-Strauss explanation is attractive, there are other factors as well
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The community-owned options are only considered cheap and fast because they're being compared to monopoly or near-monopoly ISPs, which can get away with inflated prices and poor service because they have no competition. And while it&#x
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I know that such stats not straightforward to obtain, but I'd be interested in seeing numbers on the "death rate" of durable goods like bicycles and guitars in addition to the "birth rate". I just have no idea if t
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2002 PhD granted 2002-2003 Senior Researcher, Intel Research (Berkeley) 2003-2011 Harvard according to his latest webpage at http://www.mdw.la/
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I'm curious why you think both sides should be able to agree on those things. Professors are incentivized towards and measured by grant money and high profile publications. You're proposing that professors get on board with some
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The question I ask is: do signatures reduce fraud? I don't have any data, but my expectation is that fraudsters are less likely to go for it if they have to sign... i.e. the psychological barrier is more important than the obvious une
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One of the perils of research is that we can be wrong in ways that play out on five and ten year time scales. "We" includes the funding agencies, the prevailing theories of the day, the ways that our institutions are structured, a
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I agree that there's a missing playbook for that phase of companies... it would be great to see some collected wisdom on "these are the ways that companies run into problems in this phase" and "this is how to prevent &#x
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It's in Google's best interest to keep the price high... it raises the price for any potential competitor who might try to outbid them. Google knows how much money it makes through iPhone... a potential competitor could only guess
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I'm basically going to see anything that they make... they're earned that from me. Part of me wishes that I could just get a $250 "lifetime subscription" to everything they do... they get the money up front. It's n
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There's in intersection of Church Street and State Street in Champaign IL.

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