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Ask HN: Working full time while also caring for an infant?
3 points by pxhb 4y ago|4 comments
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by pxhb 4y ago
https://wci.llnl.gov/ Note that in the US nuclear weapons are controlled by the DOE, and not the DOD.
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by pxhb 4y ago
This is false, almost all of those employees have a Q clearance. You can search the job listings for keywords like ‘Wci’ ‘high energy density’, etc to confirm. Part of the purpose is definitely personnel related though. Part of the US nuc
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by pxhb 4y ago
What are your mid-term and long-term goals? Do you want to advance in your company, or find a new job? If new job, are you looking for a local job, to move, or remote? My generic thoughts without really knowing your situation: I think an as
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by pxhb 4y ago
> I don't know the school system in Singapore, but in the US, we have community colleges that accept everyone. Most people in your situation take a few classes at a community college to prove that they can succeed in that environmen
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by pxhb 4y ago
I second this and was coming here to post exactly this. I have no doubt that without a latex template that was iteratively updated by students over the years that my thesis would have taken considerably longer to write.
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by pxhb 5y ago
I am very curious as to what prompted these questions. They seem like very crude generalizations/extrapolations/stereotypes. People of varying dispositions have wide ranging motivations to pursue a PhD.
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by pxhb 5y ago
Here are my thoughts as someone who hires and supervises data scientist and statisticians. I personally find that candidates are lacking in one or more of three areas: 1) Technical knowledge, 2) Problem solving, 3) Communication. I would ad
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by pxhb 5y ago
I would prefer a paywall flag over an outright ban. News should be free, but we also shouldn’t be ignorant of what’s going on in the world. Ideally (for me) the system would be something like this: -Primary source is used with Paywall flag,
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by pxhb 5y ago
No web browser on the remarkable (at least stock). Stock it is literally just a note taking device, which I personally find appealing.
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by pxhb 5y ago
>NIF, remember, is funded by the DoD. It's not a civilian reactor research program: it's a device for testing fusion reactions in the lab now that the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty means that they're not allowed to test H-
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by pxhb 5y ago
> Does anyone know if they still have to wait for months to open the chamber after experiments to wait for the radioactivity to cool down? I don’t think this has ever been the case. Note that I have been involved with experiments on the
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by pxhb 5y ago
Desk: https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/119694/Realspace-Mage... Chair: https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/877226/Realspace-Mode... I bought both at the start of th
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by pxhb 5y ago
> Honestly feel sorry for particle physicists... Their entire gig is spending billions on fancy equipment, and hoping that observe something unexpected. This isn’t the way I would frame it. No one will fund billions on fancy equipment fo
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by pxhb 5y ago
Your overall experience will be impacted by where in the US you are. There are broad categories that track the culture (east coast, west coast, midwest, south), however even that is a bit too broad. Like in a lot of other countries, the siz
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by pxhb 5y ago
This sounds pretty close to my setup as well (senior data scientist, managing a small group of data scientists/statisticians). Additional thoughts: For meetings, my notes are pretty much shorthand and messy/scattered. I try to s
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by pxhb 6y ago
Exactly this. Science/research is largely incremental.
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by pxhb 6y ago
Agreed! University enabled me to leave the trailer park in the Midwest that I grew up in and now have a comfortable life. It is possible that this could have happened without university, however learning how to think/work through hard
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by pxhb 6y ago
I second this from my own experience (in physics, undergrad from a state university). I met my grad school advisor at a conference, and would definitely not have been able to get without their support.
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by pxhb 6y ago
A lot - around 6-8 cups/day I have one large mug of coffee first thing in the morning (~3-4 cups). I then have a mug of half-caff coffee in the late morning, another mug of half-caff in the early afternoon and occasionally an additiona
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by pxhb 6y ago
Some of my go to podcasts are: Bloggingheads.tv/meaningoflife.tv, particularly with Robert Wright, Glenn Loury, DMZ CoinTalk - commentary of events going on in the crypto space Lawfare, National security law, cyberlaw podcast Very Bad
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by pxhb 6y ago
University of Michigan has a ‘c4cs’ https://c4cs.github.io/archive/w18/
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by pxhb 6y ago
Not an expert, and have no idea what I am talking about My understanding is that it is a variant of 1. Masks probably do help, but the general population would not use them correctly. Anecdotally, I saw this a lot going to the grocery s
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by pxhb 6y ago
Generically, I would work through Griffiths first, and then Shankar and/or Sakurai. You can probably refine it a little bit based on your motivation to learning quantum physics, and what level of mastery you need.
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by pxhb 7y ago
One reason you might not find ‘inertial’ is because the only thing they have in common is a laser. For ICF, a long-pulse laser is used like a hammer to heat and compress the material to fusion conditions. This scheme, as far as I can tell,
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by pxhb 7y ago
I can’t tell for sure from the article but I think they are accelerating protons with TNSA (target normal sheath acceleration). I worked in a lab in undergrad that was doing something similar, except with lithium instead of boron. The main
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by pxhb 7y ago
I think that the article raises some interesting points, with some that I agree with and some that I do not. I think it would have been helpful for the article to put the 40 years of no progress in perspective. Are we looking for progress o
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by pxhb 7y ago
You might qualify for need-based financial aid, provided in part from the university scholarship funds. I believe the only way to know for sure is to apply, be accepted to enroll into the university, and then receive the financial aid packa
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by pxhb 7y ago
I have an idea what it costs me personally, but I am not sure how to price in the plain fact that renters will not care for your house as much as you do.
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by pxhb 7y ago
Somewhat of a tangent, but do you have any advice/resources on how to price in repairs and maintenance? I am moving soonish, and trying to figure out what to do with my house. A back of the envelope calculation of Expected_Rent - Mortg

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