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by ylmm 7y ago
How would he not? Are you really arguing that someone with D.E. Shaw and Princeton on his resume would be in the same position as, in your words, a "typical minimum wage worker"? Even ignoring the signaling value of D.E. Shaw and
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by ylmm 8y ago
What defines a "useful" correlation?
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by ylmm 8y ago
Ah, I think you've misunderstood entirely. I meant the teams in those companies as opposed to the companies more broadly (e.g., Core Data Science at Facebook, not Facebook in general). I mention those companies together because they&#x
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by ylmm 8y ago
Oh that's so clever aha. When some people FB Core Data Science came to campus, they made it pretty clear that they were looking for people with doctoral training for their research work (and not, for example, a Master's graduate w
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by ylmm 8y ago
Sure, but what do they do? Looking at Google Brain for example, "research scientists" are exclusively people with doctorates, while "engineers" only require an MS or BS/BA. The work is totally different; they'r
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by ylmm 8y ago
I think it depends a lot on what it is that you want to do. For example, there are entire teams at companies like Facebook (Core Data Science) and Netflix that hire exclusively people with PhDs. Amazon especially is famous for hiring econom
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by ylmm 8y ago
You should re-read what you've written. No qualifications for generalizing statements, so it sounds like you're insinuating what I'm saying you're insinuating.
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by ylmm 8y ago
Replying to the thing below: I claimed that your insinuation that no one in China knows about June 4 because of censorship is false. The small-sample survey cited by the Vox and NPR links that you sent support my claim.
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by ylmm 8y ago
That NPR link doesn't contradict anything I said. Tedious sure, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't qualify the words you use. But good to know that you read what I wrote! How you choose to process it is up to you.
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by ylmm 8y ago
Unless you think VPNs don't exist in China, then of course your use of the word "censored" needs to be qualified. Did you read these links yourself? One of the your links only mentions that it's not taught in school, oth
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by ylmm 8y ago
1. It depends on what you mean by censored. If by "censored" you mean a simple search, then yes, I agree. But as far as I can tell (and I'm fairly certain albeit with no way of verifying that I have better information about t
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by ylmm 8y ago
I'm Chinese-American, and literally every Chinese person (from China) I've talked to knows about June 4, 1989. (So much so that it's colloquially referred to as 六四 or "six four".) It may take some introspection, but
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by ylmm 8y ago
+1. After some of the initial pain of setting it up (which was educational for me anyway), it's exactly the sort of lightweight thing I was looking for after Google Reader shuttered.
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by ylmm 8y ago
Ah, I know a former engineering professor who left a large flagship university in the Midwest for exactly that reason. Based on what he told me that's more a phenomenon specific to institutions without a lot of money than a general tru
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by ylmm 8y ago
Well, yeah, there are other irrelevant things about reviewing that I also have the ability to bring up but my point is that to say that the "benefit" of reviewing is for the purpose of networking is misinformed.
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by ylmm 8y ago
Well, yeah, but if you submit a paper to "torture test" and it gets rejected, that cuts off a journal to be able to submit to. Well, yeah, but I think what he's saying is it's probably the case that a large number if not
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by ylmm 8y ago
The editors of a prestigious linguistics journal actually gave Elsevier the middle finger a while back. Here's a good summary: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=22162 . Economics and linguistics also publish
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by ylmm 8y ago
At least in the social sciences, journal editors delegate papers to reviewers. Your first sentence also suggests that you don't know what peer review is. Peer review is not the same thing as replication, which is replicating the result
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by ylmm 8y ago
I've only worked with professors in economics and political science but I'm under the impression that this is true more generally of academia. Some people do it to help advance the state of the field. Career incentives and standin
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by ylmm 8y ago
That's obviously not what he's suggesting? He's just saying (and correct me if I'm wrong) that, for a company whose business is based in no small part on trust, it's a bit weird to not have any information about any
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by ylmm 8y ago
I'm not sure I see what your issue is. It seems the scenario you're describing is just a case of working harder to make a deadline, which there's nothing wrong with per se. If you're talking about fudging results or cutt
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by ylmm 8y ago
Don't forget: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9100107