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by tnecniv 6y ago
> larger concepts, ethics, systems thinking, etc These are what American universities are actually well equipped for. It's common knowledge that if you graduate with a BS in some engineering topic, you won't have most of the pr
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by tnecniv 6y ago
> If you have a problem in a German university it’s on you to run around and solve it and if you can’t the administrators are quite likely to say “tough” if you tell them. Missed a deadline? Your problem, should have read the syllabus.
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by tnecniv 6y ago
non-US PhD programs typically require you have a masters. In the US that is not a requirement, hence the course work. If you are a more mature student coming in (e.g. have a masters) the course work is often a straightforward refresher and
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by tnecniv 6y ago
> Research is part of the pedagogy. Getting involved in a research lab as an undergraduate is a great way to land in the top 5-10 percentile. I just want to point out for any newer undergrads that might be reading that research is really
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by tnecniv 6y ago
Indeed. I think the original C&C is still pretty playable. It might not be fun after a few levels compared to a modern RTS, but all they core elements of the modern game are there. Dune II does not hold up in the same way (and I love th
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by tnecniv 6y ago
That's really up to the reviewers. I've definitely been told that I need to clarify different parts of my paper in my reviews. Ultimately, peer review is only as good as your peers. If they won't call out bullshit, then bulls
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by tnecniv 6y ago
I did some digging. It seems the prof is still under investigation but is currently active at his institution.
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by tnecniv 6y ago
I want to point out that, as far as I can tell, the advisor is still active at the university [1] and even presented the questionable paper at the conference [2]. This is pretty disturbing and I haven't found any more info on what the
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by tnecniv 6y ago
Peer review is much older than that. It dates back to the 18th century.
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by tnecniv 6y ago
Often those double blind conferences contain explicit exceptions that let you post on Arxiv. Check the Call for Papers from this year's NeurIPS for example. Obviously you aren't required to put anything on Arxiv, but lots of peopl
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by tnecniv 6y ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, perhaps over how people are defining core. In terms of the user base, I definitely remember early Reddit having a strong libertarian bent, or at least significant conflict between libertari
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by tnecniv 6y ago
This is pretty common. I had a professor who worked in an applied math domain and said his whole career was based on finding the right change of coordinates.
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by tnecniv 6y ago
This depends on the field and how successful the grad student was. In lots of fields, including CS and different kinds of engineering, this is somewhat common. Some will defer the appointment a year and do a postdoc anyway because that prov
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by tnecniv 6y ago
Adaptive cruise control (ACC) is a common toy control problem. The dynamics can be modeled in a very straight forward way. A little bit of google can probably tell you how to implement one.
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by tnecniv 6y ago
Why did you guys drop the derivative part? I've always found that pretty useful.
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by tnecniv 6y ago
Depends on what you define to be advanced and deep. If you know linear algebra, that opens up a variety of state space techniques. If you know a little optimization, that opens up optimal control, including the incredibly common LQR strateg
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by tnecniv 6y ago
In my experience, this is definitely the best way to evaluate how competent someone is in an area. If they can easily hold a casual conversation and express / defend some sensible opinions about an area, it's likely they know what
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by tnecniv 6y ago
The graduate student analysis doesn't seem right. I don't think the article understands the incentives of graduate students. Yes, there are lots of foreign graduate students, especially masters students. One big motivator for them
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by tnecniv 6y ago
> Coming from more "designed" languages like C#, my experience of C++ was that it felt like an insane, emergent hodgepodge, but what impressed me was how far the language has come since the 90s. No more passing raw pointers aro
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by tnecniv 6y ago
>> Some people never do research again after completing a Ph.D. For such people, the Ph.D. was largely a waste of time. > Is it? Some of my friends went on to start successful companies after getting their PhDs. I'm a bit envi
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by tnecniv 6y ago
Indeed. I think compliance will be really interesting to see, especially in comparison to states that allow small relaxations in the coming weeks. At some point, if they don't feel like progress is happening, people will get fed up wit
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by tnecniv 6y ago
> I tried playing PBM, and IMO it misses the entire personal charismatic essence of diplomacy. It depends on the people you get. I've had great random games where everyone ended up role playing as the period appropriate leader of th
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by tnecniv 6y ago
Indeed. I've played both online and in person, and I don't think I'll ever play it in person again even if it would be with my friends. I could envision playing in tournaments or other set ups that could be fun (maybe you do
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by tnecniv 6y ago
Apparently, in high level play, the countries are all viewed as essentially equal despite them being asymmetric. For example, in the novice games I've played, Austria is always the first to bite it due to the fact that they have the mo
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by tnecniv 7y ago
There's also jobs that require advanced CS knowledge, but the people who don't know CS aren't going to end up in those.
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by tnecniv 7y ago
I think that depends on your kid. I learned to code when I was 13 and I would have hated the computerless approach. I specifically remember being ~15 and someone pointing this out to me in an IRC room --- I thought that they were being peda
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by tnecniv 7y ago
Yeah I'll be really bummed if I can't watch the Guardians take home the inaugural championship. If the XFL does play through, the pandemic might be great for them, but I don't see that happening.
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by tnecniv 7y ago
Having skimmed the research paper and done some work with both dynamics and ML, my interpretation of their statement is the following: You want to learn a function that represents the dynamics of your system, either as a function of the sys
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by tnecniv 7y ago
It's worth noting that graduate students were not able to unionize until recently at many private universities in the US. Even though they now can legally unionize, many remain unionless for one reason or another.
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by tnecniv 7y ago
> However, all TA positions are deemed 20 hours of work. So you can't even work at the campus gym if you want. This is not true at Princeton. Unless they are without funding, PhD students there commonly only work 10 hours per week (

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