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by throwawayaway12 7y ago
300 deaths seems like a very insignificant figure to be worked up over.
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by throwawayaway12 7y ago
My experience has been as an enrolled PhD student in the US, so my thoughts may not completely apply. I would just go talk to the professor teaching the class if you do not care about any documents saying you took the class. I have sat in o
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by throwawayaway12 8y ago
Warm Dense Matter can be thought of as ionized jello.
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by throwawayaway12 8y ago
I think you have pretty much proved his point. >I realise it's hard for FOSS advocates to understand this, because it's a fundamental flaw with the FOSS philosophy. The benefits are "obvious" to crusaders, but the obj
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by throwawayaway12 8y ago
Do you want him to save and pay for college himself? If so, a livable wage doesn't seem too crazy with (US) college tuition.
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by throwawayaway12 8y ago
>The immense engineering challenge here is to heat plasma to ridiculous temperatures, and keep it confined in a very small volume at great temperature and pressure to mimic conditions that give rise to nuclear fusion in the center of sta
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by throwawayaway12 8y ago
I think it is more that candidates (especially well qualified ones) view the interview process as a two way street. The company is probing you for competence/fit for the position and the candidate is probing the company for things like
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by throwawayaway12 8y ago
I think that this covers the general situation pretty well. I would also consider who you want your audience to be and the scope. If it is something that you want a non-expert to read, consider a blog post. On the other hand you may want to
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by throwawayaway12 8y ago
I am curious if anyone has advice/tips for getting a simple portfolio up and running. I am a physics phd student who has worked on a few side projects that I would like to showcase. I am looking into Jekyll and hosting it on github, bu
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by throwawayaway12 8y ago
Exactly this. Also different journals act as a weak filter for impact of the research.
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by throwawayaway12 8y ago
I don't think it is that unusual for grad students to research a try during PhD, decide it is not for them, and then move onto other things afterwards. This is from a physics grad school perspective though.
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by throwawayaway12 8y ago
This seems pretty interesting and useful! It does seem like the pricing structure does not incentivize people actually getting jobs though. With a small pool of people (people looking for top finance jobs) it seems like the way to make the
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by throwawayaway12 8y ago
I recall that the first episode of very bad wizards addressed this aspect of free will well.[0] 0 - https://verybadwizards.fireside.fm/1
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by throwawayaway12 9y ago
It would be helpful to link the study. Without seeing the paper, I would be cautious of separating the paper and conclusions it draws from a possible news article that has extrapolated or expanded the conclusion actually made in the paper.
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by throwawayaway12 9y ago
I somewhat disagree. Academic journal papers are meant to be digested by experts in that topic, not the general population. It seems necessary to have a filter on registration to ensure that the platform is useful to these experts. You coul
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by throwawayaway12 9y ago
While this is true, I would imagine that sales figures affect the future of devs at the game studios (layoffs, new projects, etc).
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by throwawayaway12 9y ago
They might have the same macbook pro, but it might not be a dedicated email/youtube machine.
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by throwawayaway12 9y ago
I think this is certainly true. Research papers are typically written so that a person with training in the field can understand and replicate the work. Note that the general population is not the intended audience. Mediums like news articl
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by throwawayaway12 9y ago
There are definitely petawatt class lasers currently (ex. the Texas petawatt). I think most are of order 100 fs.
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by throwawayaway12 9y ago
https://lasers.llnl.gov/science/stockpile-stewardship "Because it is the only facility that can create the conditions that are relevant to understanding the operation of modern nuclear weapons, NIF is a crucial el
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by throwawayaway12 9y ago
It is not for producing nuclear material, but for reproducing conditions relevant to weapons (although HBE itself may not be useful).
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by throwawayaway12 9y ago
I have spotty wifi right now and can't read the actual paper at the moment (mainly a comment to remind myself to read this later). Quick thoughts from just reading the abstract: - There are very few facilities that do direct drive ICF
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by throwawayaway12 9y ago
>I understand that healthcare is more expensive than food for all those reasons. What I don't understand is why there can't be a market for it. Expensive services can have markets too. At the moment the only thing I can think o
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by throwawayaway12 9y ago
I think it is still an open (and hotly debated) question on if planets need magnetospheres to retain an atmosphere.
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by throwawayaway12 9y ago
>Comparing a college education to K-12 public education doesn't make sense. In general, one needs to understand some mathematics up through Algebra and have some reading and writing abilities to be an employable, productive adult. W
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by throwawayaway12 9y ago
I think it is important to emphasize that 'no tuition' is the norm for STEM fields, and not necessarily for non-STEM. I will rephrase the scenario slightly: The university collects tuition on PhD students to recoup costs in educat
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by throwawayaway12 9y ago
The plasma at the end of the laser path is usually the best part. Even then, things like laser-plasma instabilities (LPI) can have devastating consequences.
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by throwawayaway12 9y ago
To be fair, only a few of these sound like actual problems. >The only person who would read a journal paper and say that the the author has good writing skills is another academic. No one outside of the research community would look at a
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by throwawayaway12 9y ago
While this is true, I think (but do not know the stats) that people buy/replace phones more often than they buy PCs.
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by throwawayaway12 9y ago
I largely agree with this, but in some fields I also think it is an over supply of PhD problem as well.

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