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by tnecniv 8y ago
> their 'idea' then wouldn't they be better off writing an essay rather than a narrative? Not necessarily. It's a lot easier to empathize with characters and a novel can capture something more ephemeral. Camus would w
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Sure, but current techniques are a long ways from that.
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If you would like to be pedantic, only a small percentage of individuals use the skills taught to them in their major (or any traditional classroom setting really) in their daily job. The value of a classical education is that the student l
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Conferences / other publication venues don't require you have a PhD to submit to them. However, figuring out what a good novel research problem is and solving it rigorously is much much easier in an academic environment --- both b
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by tnecniv 8y ago
> I think people in the mainstream media just don't understand innovation cycles. They expect novelty every year, but they don't realize that revolutions are created by consistently great evolution over a long period of time. I
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Optimization can be pretty useful. Most stats / ML problems are posed as minimizing a function subject to some constraints. Depending on your problem, you might be able to exploit special structures to solve problems faster than just d
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by tnecniv 8y ago
I haven't done gamedev in a long time, but there's an old saying the community: you either make a game engine or you make a game --- not both.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
As a current one, believe me, I know.
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It blows my mind that he had the energy required to be in the NFL and a PhD student at the same time. It's not easy to do either of those part time.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Coming out of high school, my writing was terrible. One of my history teachers assigned us ~10 page essays every other week. The class actually taught me pretty well to construct well-reason arguments with supporting research, but the only
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by tnecniv 8y ago
That area is pretty tech oriented and there are a number of research groups in at ETHZ that work with drone platforms exclusively. It's no accident that the Valley is next to a group of strong universities.
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One class of examples would be problems where probing the environment is expensive. In many robotics applications, this can be tricky because the robot might break or not return to a suitable initial condition without human oversight. Moreo
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My experience has been similar. Every real system I have worked on starts with ROS for fast prototyping, then slowly replaces each component with an in-house replacement due to recurring frustrations.
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It's pretty standard for engineering degrees, but not as common for CS.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Indeed, and lame ones at that. I've found the qualitative theory of ODEs infinitely more interesting and useful for working with real problems.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
> Junior professional sports (Bonus: pay and benefits for the athletes is peanuts.) While they don't get money, the athletes at top schools do get compensated in plenty of ways, including tuition, access to world class facilities, a
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by tnecniv 8y ago
> the same classes as you. And different classes for that matter. You learn a lot from just hanging out with people in different majors.
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That seems absurd. PhD theses (in STEM) are often shorter.
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> If you take three of them One should note that "three of them" is (probably) a lot. Even half a pill is often sufficient to quell panic attacks.
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> Not in some cases, almost all. That's what I had heard, but I was uncomfortable making a stronger statement without more knowledge.
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> There really is no drug alternative to benzos other than maybe SSRIs but most people perscribed them probably tried SSRIs in the past to no effect. Actually the two really serve different purposes. Benzos are commonly prescribed as a w
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> And of course, my Lorazepam was prescribed legally, by a responsible, well regarded psychiatrist, with very little warning regarding how quickly one builds both tolerance and physiological dependence on this chemical. Sorry to hear tha
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Benzo withdrawal can, in some cases be even riskier than opiate withdrawal. You also build a tolerance to them very quickly, which makes addiction even worse.
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This is pretty common at top schools. I know many of the Ivies also gives tons of aide to those who need it the most.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
> However, the kids signing up today-- especially in well-known high-revenue programs (CS, EE, etc) are in it because they either 1) love the subject matter or 2) are bootstrapping their careers. These kids have neither use nor interest
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by tnecniv 8y ago
For me, it really was the first time math had clicked. I had a non-proof based linear algebra course before going through the book, but it made very little sense to me. After doing LADR, I understood the subject intimately, lost my math anx
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by tnecniv 8y ago
> Alternately, people seem to be doing a kind of "industry postdoc" This isn't new. I had plenty of professors that worked at e.g. Bell Labs before returning to academia.
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In the US, this is the case because most US PhD programs do not require a master's degree. From my understanding, you are expected to come in with a master's in many European countries. Also, many first year students do productive
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by tnecniv 8y ago
> In my department, students make about $40K/year as a base salary. That's incredibly high as a base rate! Most departments I know pay between $28k and $32k. The only people I know at $40k have an NSF fellowship.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
If you have no results, there's nothing you can do. However, unless you stumble upon something that works out very nicely right before a deadline, a publication requires planning many months in advance what you are going to do.

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