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by baddspellar 2y ago
It's discussed in this Nature podcast https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03646-1 One of the investigators on this project is a guest on this segment. He does a nice job of describing it in an understandabl
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by baddspellar 8y ago
I would argue that goodreads is not a particularly good way to determine whether a non-fiction book is worth reading. goodreads reviewers are just regular people who evaluate books based on how much they enjoyed them, not how accurate of
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by baddspellar 12y ago
As long as "Percent faculty with terminal degree in their field" is an evaluation criterion for ranking school quality (I took those exact words from the US News and World Report rankings criteria), there is little chance that non
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by baddspellar 15y ago
I looked at the form. It doesn't say "student-athlete". it says "scholarship athlete". Athletic scholarships overwhelmingly go to Football players who are heavily recruited because football is revenue generating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by baddspellar 15y ago
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Homeless-Teen-Intel-Sci... This is not the first time she has been homeless. Her family has been living on the edge of poverty for years, like many american families have been. She's doing her resear
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by baddspellar 15y ago
A PhD is a credential, as is a BS, an MS, or a CCIE. As long as employers demand a credential for hiring, that credential will be necessary. In the US, few companies are willing to take on the burden of training scientific researchers. Furt
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by baddspellar 15y ago
Now that's what we're talking about! Good job.
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by baddspellar 15y ago
Radical, one-time, short-term actions like this aren't lifestyle changes. They're not sustainable, so they don't work in the long term. If the author said he made sustainable lifestyle changes I'd have some reason to believe he's won his we
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by baddspellar 15y ago
I've run software projects on the technical side for going on 20 years now. In all those years, I've been lucky enough to have exactly 2 good product managers. The rest have ranged from useless to downright harmful Here's what made the 2 go
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by baddspellar 15y ago
Does anyone know if they have an active program to cut the bottom performers? If not, I suspect they have quite a collection of overpaid mediocre programmers. I worked for many years at a company that paid significantly higher than average
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by baddspellar 15y ago
"Knowing the code base is a pretty hefty requirement... even seasoned developers don't know everything about their product... so it would be nigh impossible for a Product Manager to do so. It's more important that their minions think they k
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by baddspellar 15y ago
I don't know the root cause, but something this esoteric would most likely be discoverable only in a code review, or possibly a unit test. It's hard to imagine someone thinking of testing the case of 2 files that differ in every 128 bytes w
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by baddspellar 15y ago
I'm the volunteer cookie sale manager for my daughter's service unit, which consists of ~35 troops and ~400 girls. We're part of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Council, one of two councils in Massachusetts. The cookie sale is prim
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by baddspellar 16y ago
I have an 11 year old daughter who I help with math homework every week. Some of the new methods work for her, and some are terribly confusing to her. I think it's good to expose kids to a variety of methods in math. I am concerned, however
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by baddspellar 16y ago
Not quite. Here's the actual story. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2004/techsquare-0317.html "The most intriguing tenant, still invoked by almost everyone who spent time in the building, was the Central Intelligence Agency, which had an o
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by baddspellar 16y ago
I understand why teens might not tweet, but I thought this sentence was strange: "Teens' lives are entirely built around their actual friends. Quite simply, why would teenagers bother using Twitter when Facebook exists, and offers so much m
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by baddspellar 16y ago
When I was young I had an astonishingly good memory, and I could keep a remarkable amount of information in my head, so I never really had to write anything down. One wise manager warned me to be careful about relying too much on my strengt
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by baddspellar 16y ago
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory - by Peter Hessler A fascinating book about everyday life in today's China. It's actually 3 books in one: - Book 1 is an account of his driving trip along the route of the great
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by baddspellar 16y ago
I did my PhD in Computer and Systems Engineering (in the EE department of my school), an my thesis involved use of Computer Vision and AI in the analysis of microscope images of human cells, so I did a lot of work with MD's and Biologists.
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by baddspellar 16y ago
I'm surprised nobody mentioned "Hoosiers"
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by baddspellar 16y ago
The author goes too far. Sometimes emails need to be longer than 5 sentences because they need to convey more than 5 sentences of information. I can't tell you how many 1-2 sentence e-mails I receive every week where I have to ask the sende
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by baddspellar 16y ago
tl;dr: "I was convinced to go to law school by empty promises of a fulfilling and remunerative career" I've got no sympathy for this guy. I challenge him to come up an actual promise by the Law School that he'd have a "fulfilling and remu
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by baddspellar 16y ago
I'm glad rubashov posted this. It reinforces the point that you really need to understand the people who work for you. One of the developers currently working for me needs multiple one-on-ones per week. She needs frequent feedback on her pe
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by baddspellar 16y ago
"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty." - Mother Teresa
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by baddspellar 16y ago
Effectively they're rewarding employees for interviewing with other companies. What about the equally-valuable employees who are very happy with their jobs and don't choose to interview? Won't they become a little less happy, once they know
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by baddspellar 16y ago
Almost 20 years ago, I went back and earned my PhD in computer engineering after serving a 4 year military commitment I incurred for my ROTC scholarship. A few things I should point out: 1) You can finish in 4 years. I did. You just have
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by baddspellar 16y ago
This is nonsense. A CS degree includes math, science, a range of CS electives (e.g. database theory, networking, algorithms) and non-CS electives (e.g. writing, philosophy). Plus, you have graded assignments, lab exercises, supplemental pap
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by baddspellar 16y ago
A number of these PM tasks go deeply into the development world: defining development processes, architecture, and managing developer checklists. I've worked with a number of product managers who've grossly overestimated their competence in
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by baddspellar 16y ago
Some years ago, I saw a 60 minutes episode on issues in higher education. The reporter picked a biology journal off a shelf, read its arcane title, and exclaimed "who actually reads this stuff?" to back up her claim about how useless journa

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