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I like the concept quite a bit though! Keep chugging on it!
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Related to the above, one thing that wasn’t clear to me was whether the first three clues should be sufficient to identify the killer. From a game play perspective, I don’t think that matters because the theoretical high score (assuming you
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by tnecniv 3y ago
The writing has been on the wall for years where they have prioritized features nobody wanted over features mods and regular users have requested for a long time. The other damaging thing is they have demonstrated any written policy is irre
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As someone who uses notebooks for research, outputs don’t play well with git. You can end up with very large commits that GitHub or wherever your repo lives may not like if you have a lot of plots and animations. Moreover, while research mo
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by tnecniv 3y ago
If you like solving mysteries like this, I suggest getting a copy of Cain’s Jawbone. It consists of 100 pages out of order and multiple murders. To win the game, you must not only solve each murder but correctly order the pages. It’ll keep
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On top of what others have said, the advantage to using one of these remote versions (besides removing the need for a local install), is that they often provide support for arcade-style features like leaderboards and the ability to watch ot
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That raises the question of where they are vectored, though!
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That is the university model unless I’m misunderstanding. Faculty members hold regular meetings and votes among themselves on policy, who to hire / appoint as dean of X, etc.
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That was basically the same as my experience. However what I should have included more explicitly is that, if we’re failing a lot of “successful” high school students, what are we doing for the average student, let alone the below average o
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That’s standard. Me and others in my PhD cohort have had experiences where we saw so many minor inaccuracies in the copy we only fixed things that were flat out wrong, otherwise we’d have rewritten the whole article. It’s the result of a co
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Also, regarding conformism, an undergraduate degree is about learning the basics of a field. Undergraduate classes are not the cutting edge of thought in the area by and large. It’s similar to learning to play an instrument or paint. The ma
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I don’t know, have you seen the Yankees this year?
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Also, without context, the smartest people at Harvard could end up being career poets, while the rejected applicants could all end up as MIT engineers and Wharton business majors. While an extreme example, even the elite universities have a
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After reading both the blog post and the contained link to the article published in The Atlantic, I have some reactions that reflect thoughts I’ve felt about our education system. While I have a PhD, I have largely felt this way since I was
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Also just pictures of them enjoying life in the city of their choice, the families they’ve started, the vacations they go on, the fun hobbies they have time for, etc.
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Your prize is always wondering if you should have done it. I know people that say one of their biggest regrets was electing to pass on the PhD path. The grass, unfortunately, is always greener.
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It’s not even necessarily the program, but the nature of research. I liked my advisor a lot and he was helpful but at some point you need to figure out how to fly out of the nest and they can’t do it for you. During my dark period I ended u
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I think the grandparent was just joking that “this is a game let’s not get that dark, bro.”
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Yeah that’s how it went for me. My confidence was very high until I finished my qualifying exam and just had to sit there trying to solve a novel problem for over a year. Eventually I learned enough through trial and error that I could work
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While there certainly exists math for the sake of math, there is a trickle down effect that is quite real (there’s also a trickle up effect that is real but that’s unrelated). Someone does some math for the sake of math. Later on, someone w
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Depends on the school. My program requires you have an advisor before our version of quals. Our exam was also a research presentation followed by an oral exam where you had the pleasure of doing often a painful amount of algebra on a blackb
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For many schools that’s basically their qualifying exam. Normally multiple professors are involved so that your advisor can’t fire you unjustly, but if you don’t demonstrate you are up to standards on the exam and your advisor doesn’t go to
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That depends on your department and your field. Even though, on paper, I had a year to pick an advisor, I worked with mine from day 1 (or day -n since he first sent me research papers and discussed ways to get started on my project before m
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The Wikipedia article [0] has a detailed discussion of the political elements as well as valid scientific criticisms of his work. Ironically, what you are arguing is much like the chief scientific error Galileo made: offering a sufficient c
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That’s what they taught us in Catholic school as a kid. The Old Testament was a combination of parables and oral history before eventually being recorded. Moreover, we were taught that part of the significance of the Crucifixion was that it
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The Vatican also had real power back then, not just soft power as the head of a religion. They controlled a decent chunk of Italy outright. Galileo was also around during the Counter-Reformation when the Church dealing with the political ra
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It’s definitely not parlor tricks but I am skeptical that it’s going to be making skilled professionals obsolete any time soon. For many jobs, even a 10% error rate is too high. I think it certainly makes sense as a way to amplify what your
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Also, there’s the recurrent cycle of AI Summer and Winter. Each time, someone figures out a new piece of the AI puzzle, we get new tools that are useful but don’t deliver on the big hype, AI funding drops as we run out of ways to skin the n
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The thing a lot of these AAA devs don’t seem to get is that what works for Clash of Clans doesn’t work for AAA games most of the time. Also, the Clash of Clans devs are liked by the player base because they take community feedback very seri
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C styling varies quite a bit between libraries in my experience. Unfortunately, this means your code often looks kind of ugly. The most standard thing I can think of is appending _t to structs / types but I’m pretty sure I’ve used libr

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