waltherg

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by waltherg 12y ago
Do you have a link to this program? I think the piece this prof wrote targets classical PhD programs and does not take into account industry-sponsored PhD programs like the one you mention.
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by waltherg 12y ago
But but ... MIT, Caltech, Switzerland, CERN ... amirite? No honestly, thank you for your comment and the ensuing discussion - most people get swayed by big names and such and reading sincere criticism of this sort of stuff is important and
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by waltherg 12y ago
That's some solid Bavarian Beamtentum entrenchment on the part of these users.
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by waltherg 12y ago
Somewhat different product but all big supermarket chains in the UK offer home delivery - depending on what time you order and how busy a day is you can even get yourself a same-day delivery. Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury, Morrison's (?), and
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by waltherg 12y ago
I wish I had the patience for this in the morning - I am the sort of person that rushes from A to B stressing over how much there is still to do and how little of it I've managed to complete.
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by waltherg 12y ago
I have picked up the habit of timing myself: I start a stopwatch when I sit down with the clear intention in my head to get some focused work done (writing, coding) and I pause my stopwatch as soon as I lose focus or take a break. I have be
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by waltherg 13y ago
I understand you are not looking to make huge profits and I greatly appreciate the idea behind this and your sister program over at Data Science Retreat. Unfortunately, I am a PhD researcher just finishing their thesis this summer so I woul
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by waltherg 13y ago
Your PLOS stuff sounds really interesting! Could you point me to some of that please? Whilst plugging away at my thesis I have gotten interested in data analysis, data mining, etc. and my default data set consists of PLOS articles. I blog a
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by waltherg 13y ago
Or science funding: https://experiment.com/ (formerly mycroryza.com)
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by waltherg 13y ago
Amen. In my experience academic research is very different from what the wider public thinks it is. You sometimes ask yourself: Would the public continue throwing their taxes at scientific research if they knew that most of their cash is ju
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by waltherg 13y ago
Also see the Peter Principle: http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0455