SKCarr

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by SKCarr 3mo ago
How is invigilation "soul destroying"? You just walk or stand around as students write exams. Grading exams is tedious, but invigilating them is a neutral experience.
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by SKCarr 3y ago
Another example: https://twitter.com/QuantumYakar/status/1765421908483538971
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by SKCarr 3y ago
Seems to have come out one day before this paper was submitted, which is quite a coincidence.
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by SKCarr 3y ago
Not really my experience in a science department at a top university in Canada. I've served on several hiring committees and also been involved in about 20 hirings over the years. Yes, there are typically 100+ applicants, but only abou
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by SKCarr 5y ago
It does get by the "Please wait..." that you get in Preview or Chrome but Firefox 93.0 doesn't actually load the form properly (e.g. it's 6 pages in Acrobat but only 3 pages in Firefox and those 3 pages aren't even
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by SKCarr 5y ago
Here's an example of a file that won't load properly in Preview and requires Acrobat: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/englis...
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by SKCarr 5y ago
He was the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNsXU2myCI8
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by SKCarr 5y ago
Here's the link to the Nat. Comm. paper since I couldn't find it in the press release: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23038-7
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by SKCarr 5y ago
Working from home last fall, by far the biggest source of noise was leaf blowers. So loud and so constant. It was impossible to work without noise cancelling headphones during the day. The name "The Devil's Hair Dryer" is ver
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by SKCarr 5y ago
That was also the situation in the late-90s when I was listening to the radio all day in Toronto. I would argue that it actually hurt the development of the Canadian music scene in many respects because it made everything so top heavy. You
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by SKCarr 5y ago
Whenever I come across a typo in something I've published or in a paper I'm reading I'll do a google scholar search with quotes and see how many other people have made it. E.g. "expensively studied", https:/&#