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by tnecniv 9y ago
Just because they are non-profit doesn't mean they don't love your money. Just look at the endowment of any major school.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Yes, but only in so much that it's luck that anything is next to anything. The Turks wanting to control the region was a natural decision at the time. The area was a major trade center due to the Hellespont and Anatolia became quite we
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by tnecniv 9y ago
You can still get them, they just hide them away in a corner of Verizon's site now.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
> Not a CS major myself, but amongst my friends who did their undergrad in the US I don't think they had any classes that covered requirements gathering, putting together schedules, etc. Any CS majors here have a class/classes
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by tnecniv 9y ago
I'm with you. Even many engineering degrees are more theoretical than people need on the job. Really, this goes back to the purpose of an undergraduate degree. Some people think they should be job training programs while others think t
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by tnecniv 9y ago
To add, the winner of the Hugo award that year was Stand on Zanzibar [1], although Brunner successfully guessed the population growth rate. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar
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by tnecniv 9y ago
The thing that made it click for me was getting a "first principles" book for something relatively simple like Linear Algebra (or some basic CS-flavored discrete math book). These books prove everything, and reading the proofs the
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by tnecniv 9y ago
> Unfortunately, most musicians are just hoping you will notice their song when it comes up on the radio, pandora, a friends iPhone and so everyone is incentivized to crank their song to the max. Most people also just aren't listeni
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Pretty much everyone I know that does lisp uses Emacs + SLIME.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
There's a lot of plot points where the cops break laws in service of their investigation.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Yeah, traitors in both civilian and military leadership as well as just plain red tape were pretty common plot elements in that show. That's a show I should watch again.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
> By taking fewer classes, there's more available time for the motivated student to read an interesting paper related to the lecture that week--and read it thoroughly. There's more time to think critically about interesting, ne
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Has anyone fed the Real Book into a Markov Model (or I guess RNN these days) and seen what gets spit out? All the music examples I've seen have been people feeding tracks because...people tend to have lots of MP3s lying around. I'
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by tnecniv 9y ago
He was also a political firebrand at the time and did much of his writing in prison as a result.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Indeed, probability and statistics make a lot of sense to include in a high school curriculum. In addition to the practicality, they are very colorful topics that can serve to make students more interested in math.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
> Why can't journals set a bar and flag some of these practices in peer review? Kind of a chicken and egg problem. Peer review is done by other researchers working in the field, often on a volunteer basis. If the average researcher
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by tnecniv 9y ago
This already happens. It's not uncommon for a grant for, say, something in medicine to include as a budget item funds to hire a biostats person.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
What is advancement defined as and how is it different from harassment / assault? The link does not provide a definition.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
How does Homicide compare to The Wire?
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Yeah that's pretty common in grad school, but it varies a lot by advisor, goals, etc.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
I did some reading on the Wikipedia page [1]. Before going in, I was aware of two things, namely that they don't accredit universities but individual programs within universities, and that the engineering professors at my school cared
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by tnecniv 9y ago
It still is a big deal. When I was looking at schools in 2012, I remember pretty much every program specifically mentioned their ABET accreditation.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Since we're sharing experiences, I had a pretty interesting ethics course in college. We were taught consequences, not morals, since trying to teach a bunch of twenty-somethings morals that they may or may not need to exercise in their
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by tnecniv 9y ago
You eventually get to a Pareto optimal front where the changes you make to your system aren't necessarily better, just different (i.e. more bass at the loss of some other part of the spectrum, which you may or may not prefer).
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by tnecniv 9y ago
A new vinyl album is typically $20 a disk. That's more expensive than a digital album, but a lot of times new vinyls come with download codes for MP3s these days as well.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
At least in my experience, it's one of those things that you don't know what you are missing until you have it. I remember when I bought my first pair of IEMs. They were pretty cheap, but still better than whatever earbuds came wi
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Why not enjoy both? I collect vinyl and listen to digital music all the time. If you buy new vinyls on Amazon, a lot of the time you can get the MP3s for free included. When I buy a vinyl, it's because it's a physical representati
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by tnecniv 9y ago
I think you can call yourself an entrepreneur if you start a business and nobody will think twice. The definition Google gives is, "a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial r
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by tnecniv 9y ago
And that makes the violence so much more impactful when it happens.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Also tax havens and loopholes I suspect. Bon Jovi has some number of strawberry bushes on his estate so that he can count it as a farm for tax purposes.

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