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by tnecniv 7y ago
Also, at least in the state my grad school is in, graduate students are not employees which means that they aren't bound by worker safety laws preventing them from working in a lab setting for over 40 hours a week.
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by tnecniv 7y ago
> Depending on where he lives or studies, that wouldn't even be a choice let alone a realistic option to pursue. > For one, if there is a shortage of good professors (which there is and if he is one), I can bet you some schools w
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by tnecniv 7y ago
A lot of research data sets are publicly available, but many researchers based at universities have relationships with private companies where they can get access to data or other resources useful for research (e.g. Google has a big room of
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by tnecniv 7y ago
> Makes me want to reread The Secret History though, it perfectly captured the weird cozy but suffocating vibe of being trapped in an isolated bubble with the same people for years on end. The cozy vibe of murder? Jokes aside, my impress
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by tnecniv 7y ago
My first day in undergrad, I made one of those friends you hang out with for the first month or so before inevitably drifting apart to different social circles. His dad happened to have (really expensive) tickets through work to see Rush in
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by tnecniv 7y ago
I don't know about that. All my psychonaut friends would rather lay out in a field in the sun than hit the club on a trip. Festivals are different though.
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by tnecniv 7y ago
Typically you have to eat a whole bunch if your goal is to trip. Since they don't taste very good, people often eat them with other fun to help mask the taste (pickles, peanut butter, etc). I'm sure you can find dosage guides onli
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by tnecniv 7y ago
Perhaps that was it. I've also talked to my chemist friends in grad school and they admit they didn't really start liking chemistry until their junior year, which is when they felt confident they could work in a lab and figure out
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by tnecniv 7y ago
This is a bit of a rant. For my engineering degree, I had to pick between taking into to chem or intro to bio. Since I was an electrical engineer and didn't care for either subject, I put this requirement off until my senior year. I to
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by tnecniv 7y ago
> groundskeeping This is something that doesn't get mentioned much, but sucks up more of the budget then you'd think. I've attended multiple schools and I swear that a day didn't pass on my walk to class / my lab
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by tnecniv 7y ago
I trained pretty heavily for a couple different endurance sports through college. I definitely felt that I was overall much calmer and less anxious when I was training hard. I was just too tired to be stressed out about anything. I recently
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by tnecniv 7y ago
I was just using the language of the parent. By proven I meant derived from Newton's laws, and that was my interpretation of the parent's comment.
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by tnecniv 7y ago
Re: Navier-Stokes The PDE that most analyses start with does not need to be proven. This has been rigorously derived since forever. The thing that actually needs to be proven is whether or not smooth solutions exist to the PDE for all cases
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by tnecniv 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they stole this from academic hiring. It's well known that, when professors go up for tenure at Harvard, their recommenders are required to list other people they think Harvard might want to consider hir
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by tnecniv 7y ago
Yes and no. You are right, control is not the issue. Sensing is or isn't the issue depending on what you are talking about. On one hand, sensors are the best they've ever been and you could get a car to drive around a closed cours
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by tnecniv 7y ago
The challenge will be reduced, sure, but you still need to be able to navigate roads. Those roads may or may not have random obstacles in them like garbage cans or people.
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by tnecniv 7y ago
That'd be my guess too. I'm not sure if we'd be able to do 100% of off highway driving, but I imagine we'll be able to go cross country by then.
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by tnecniv 7y ago
I do a lot of this stuff, and have friends who did their PhD theses on different engineering challenges in self-driving cars. Everybody agrees we'll figure out autonomous cars sooner rather than later, but nobody thought a 2020 timetab
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by tnecniv 7y ago
Also in NJ, it's pretty well known that both businesses and individuals are flowing out of the state due to taxes when they are able. The main reason my parents moved south when they retired wasn't the weather but the fact that th
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by tnecniv 7y ago
I don't have the same grandiose notions of CS that OP has, but you could say that about any research field. Physics gave us airplanes and bombs to drop from them. Biology and chemistry gave us pharmaceuticals and pollutants. You can do
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by tnecniv 7y ago
Regarding your first point, the West may not be as bad a China, but there are some notably bad actors. Schon [1] fabricated results very impressive results at Bell Labs for years before getting caught. In fact, these results were so impress
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by tnecniv 7y ago
They are most likely referring to the regular GRE, not the subject test. Most CS programs require the regular GRE.
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by tnecniv 7y ago
You might not fail out of a lot of big name schools that like to keep their graduation rate high, but you'll come out with a boatload of C's. You may have a degree, but that's not a great outcome, and why go to school for fou
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by tnecniv 7y ago
I think it's wishful thinking. I loved the class I had in undergrad where we worked with them extensively. One of my favorite projects was making Pong on an FPGA --- complete with a direct VGA output. I've yearned for a project th
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by tnecniv 7y ago
> Which I guess makes sense, given that FPGA programming isn't exactly n00b friendly from what I've gathered. It can be OK. The first class most EE students take at my undergrad uni had a significant FPGA component.
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My parents were like this. I ended up feeling resentful of their attitude as a kid. They whenever I changed schools, it took me a long time to make friends because I didn't have good examples to follow. Even when I did, I always felt l
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by tnecniv 7y ago
I think this varies a lot by professor. Typically failing a student involves a lot of extra paperwork on the professor's part. Doubly so if it's for academic dishonesty.
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by tnecniv 7y ago
I agree with you mostly, but to add my own take: I've seen the cutoff for more desirable engineering jobs being 3.5, which is also basically the cutoff for competitive grad schools. The real distinguishing factor at that point is what
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by tnecniv 7y ago
In the US, if you go to an ABET accredited engineering school, you are required to take an ethics class. Computer Science, however, is not an engineering discipline as far as ABET is concerned, so CS majors often don't have an ethics r
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