mishellaneous

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by mishellaneous 3mo ago
i agree with you that this is a technique that is used to make people give up. not only in the context of this discussion ("how is the economy doing"), but in many discussions. i see it being effective often enough for it to be wo
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by mishellaneous 3mo ago
the Wikipedia page on Europe you cite lists average , not median wage in Germany. the average household income for Mississipi is given as $76,305/year by this US census link: https://data.census.gov/table/ACSS
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by mishellaneous 3mo ago
we were explicitly talking about people who went to university "for the joy of learning", instead of, as was cited as one of the examples, to prepare themselves for a good career, and how the latter can detract from the experience
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by mishellaneous 3mo ago
good to know, thanks. it does make sense. there's still the professors though. the courses may not necessarily be different from their point of view. also, what do you make of physics grads going to work on finance? doesn't strike
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by mishellaneous 3mo ago
so, essentially, you and the other commenter are arguing whether it is everyone that has a little fault for being naughty, or is it just a couple of psychos who are fucking everyone else over. but even if it was just a couple of psychos tha
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by mishellaneous 3mo ago
while i agree that this "doorman fallacy" happens, and i also agree that it can happen in the context of restaurant servers, i completely disagree that this is an example of it. problems cited: people ordering at the same time (li
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by mishellaneous 3mo ago
so you go to university just for the joy of learning? to be clear, i think that's cool, and i might try it at some point. but how do you deal with the fact that university, in practice, is not "for the joy of learning"? for
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by mishellaneous 3mo ago
my impression is that inside these niches, people know each other personally, or are only separated by a small number of degrees. reputations form, etc. so any paper they end up reading, most likely does not have completely unknown authors
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by mishellaneous 3mo ago
> I'm with you until I remember how expensive medical school plus internship is in the US. in that case you should double check your math, because it doesn't work out like that > If doctors cannot pay back their student loan
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by mishellaneous 3mo ago
a friend of a friend who did a stint in biomedical academia told me that the researchers in their field did not hold research coming from the medicine community in high regard
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by mishellaneous 3mo ago
in that case, it's a question of proportion. we cannot automatically conclude that a (supposed) "good handful" doing good research makes up for "most students" doing bad research.
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by mishellaneous 4mo ago
> An employer is looking to screen two recent harvard grads by GPA, not really between a new grad and a 5/10 year ago grad. that's a really good point, actually. in every situation i can think of where someone is looking at you
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by mishellaneous 4mo ago
> I've always wondered what the steelman is for curve grading. assuming that by "steelman" here you mean "the justification", i believe the point is that a curved grade shows how you compare to others. the idea i
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by mishellaneous 4mo ago
> Or 100% Fs if you want to retire from teaching immediately it's crazy to see that mentioned so non-chalantly. my expectation is that the teacher, when they grade, is meant to be impartial, as if they were doing nothing more than t
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by mishellaneous 4mo ago
> Yes, in positivist sciences 20% intending to stay would be very high by historical standards. i'd be interested in a source for this. i did not find in the article you cite mention of historical trends.
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by mishellaneous 4mo ago
> When folks come home from a hard day of work they don't want HBO. that's hilarious, since today, as many other days, i am literally looking forward to watching HBO when i get home from work
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by mishellaneous 4mo ago
somewhere else they were discussing how to use a 555 to time 55 years, and how for such a long period you'd need impractical resistance and capacitance values. easy workaround would be to set a more reasonable period, say, 1 sec, and u
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by mishellaneous 5mo ago
yes, from the point of view of an individual programmer, there is no difference between code created by AI or by some other programmer. but from the point of view of the company as a whole there is a difference: code created by some program
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by mishellaneous 5mo ago
some people would, in this case, prefer the unrefined version
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by mishellaneous 5mo ago
that would slow down the process considerably. it would also not be of much use to the professionals, which i guess make up the majority of those involved most of the time, and so, i guess, would not have much support. IMO a good middle gro
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by mishellaneous 5mo ago
> Patent texts read as prose, but are actually precisely structured legal documents. at that point why not just use something precise like a programming language? have there been efforts in that direction? genuine questions