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by ylem 14y ago
I think this post misses a number of things. For example, take peer review. The system is not perfect--but peer review takes time and expertise. It's not as simple as a "like". When I review an article--I check for consistency. If ne
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by ylem 14y ago
From the link, it seems to be :<
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by ylem 14y ago
I think that the office ribbon redesign was rather brave for MS. As a non-expert user of Office, I found it easier to find commonly used features--I can imagine how for experts it would be annoying--but for new users, it really helped wit
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by ylem 14y ago
A number of postdocs come in as J-1...A lot depends on if your home country is willing to waive your need to return for 2 years..
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Internet access on reservations(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by ylem 14y ago|0 comments
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by ylem 14y ago
It may not be focused, but I've had good luck with webfaction.
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How patent trolls slow innovation(slate.com)
3 points by ylem 15y ago|0 comments
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by ylem 15y ago
My sister was a special ed. teacher in San Diego--when she started, she was making somewhere between $30-40K/year. Teacher's salaries are public, so we could look up what the current salary scale is, but I doubt it will have changed signif
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by ylem 15y ago
Perhaps it might be worth examining one metric: IMPACT--championed by Rhee in Washington DC public schools and also used by the LA times to judge teachers publicly. Here's the basic idea--one should try to determine the "value added" of
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by ylem 15y ago
I think one has to look at the history of teacher's unions in the US. For example, unions were formed because women could be fired as soon as they got pregnant. The role of unions is to protect their members from arbitrary firing. In
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by ylem 15y ago
Beat me to it...
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by ylem 15y ago
Hi Joe, In general, there's a certain amount of tedium in any endeavor. During my PhD, I did some work on synthesis--it was fun to try to figure out how to realize some properties in a new material--to try to figure out synthesis challenge
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by ylem 15y ago
Aren't some people doing this as evening courses--given the state of the economy? If so, the opportunity cost is wiped out--it's more a question of the debt amount, relative to the salary increase....
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by ylem 15y ago
I'm a practicing physicist, so I'll give a bit of advice. The only reason to go into physics is because you love doing it--but--you have to go into with your eyes open. The job market is extremely competitive these days for faculty and n
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by ylem 15y ago
I found TrueCar to be very useful in getting to know the price range of car sales near me--in the end, I went with a local dealership--but knowing the prices helped me a lot in my negotiations.
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by ylem 15y ago
I think this also has applicability to other domains where quick iterations can be extremely useful--for example, testing data modelling--unfortunately, a lot of codes are too computationally expensive to run in such an interactive fashion.
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by ylem 15y ago
I think that your assertion that "unfounded prejudice is unstable in a competitive market for labor" has a tacit assumption that Gwen faced a competitive market for labor. For example, suppose other businesses will not work with you if yo
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Be Brave Enough to Fail(ted.com)
2 points by ylem 15y ago|0 comments
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by ylem 15y ago
To me, this looks like more of a long game. Why is google in Android? Why is google in social? I don't think it's in it to win complete market share, but rather to prevent companies such as apple and facebook creating closed gardens wh
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by ylem 15y ago
I find that I'm rather productive in python for scientific computing and go towards C (or occasionally even fortran) when I need something faster. I also find that it has a rather shallow learning curve for students who come in knowing ja
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by ylem 15y ago
What did you guys use for clustering similar questions?
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by ylem 15y ago
That I wasn't aware of--how is Deep River holding up?
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by ylem 15y ago
A strange question--as a service, I like the idea, but how do they plan to support it long term? Advertising? Grants? Will people pay for it?
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by ylem 15y ago
What do people use for testing web front ends? Selenium?
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by ylem 15y ago
I thought CANDU was acquired by a private company--do you foresee another Canadian research reactor after Chalk River?
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by ylem 15y ago
I'm not sure that (3) is likely. Python offers a number of features: 1: It's easy to learn--this cannot be understated 2: With numpy and matplotlib, you can really hit the ground running 3: There is enough language support to extend app
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GPS Use Harmful?(nytimes.com)
3 points by ylem 15y ago|0 comments
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by ylem 15y ago
This is extremely cool! I could see using this to generate input for a paper--but a mouse is not the best input device--I'll have to test this on a tablet later--but, even with a mouse, the results were impressive (no hbar yet?)
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by ylem 15y ago
Very Cool!!!!!
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by ylem 15y ago
I got a lot out of interning (my background is physics) in high school and college--and in many cases, it was just learning what I didn't want to do. Now, I work at a government lab--but I like to give back by serving as a mentor for intern

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