ylem

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by ylem 2y ago
Dr. John Gall was my pediatrician! When I was young, I was interested in astronomy and he gave me a membership in the astronomy book club. I only learned of his work on system theory after his death.
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by ylem 2y ago
I think this is the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0212043
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by ylem 5y ago
You can look him up on Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=baVVmaoAAAAJ&hl=en In 2020/2021 he has at least 3 first author papers and a number of co-authored papers and apparently he wrote an i
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by ylem 5y ago
I looked at a PDF of the bill that was linked to in the WaPo version of the article. It probably doesn't matter until the House passes its version, but there are funds for AI workforce development for example that might be of interest
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by ylem 5y ago
FWIW, this was actually in my wish List on Amazon, so I will eventually get around to buying it. I have Amazon unlimited, so I don't know how much this will help you--the book's description caught my eye and I think it came up as
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by ylem 5y ago
At it's best, that's what scientific reports is (in a number of subfields)--a place to put research that is reviewed for technical correctness. There may be debate about how well it succeeds, but I think it's useful. I would
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by ylem 5y ago
@eloff I think our replies crossed. I think that the question is whether you are still at a net positive as a result of inflation (consider the counterfactual).
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by ylem 5y ago
In what sense? In a world of fiat currency, post-Bretton Woods, what does money mean? I am not an expert by any means, but to me, it seems like the USD has value (ignore the rest of the world for a moment) because the US issues taxes that
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by ylem 5y ago
I guess it's just a different way of thinking that I'm unfamiliar with. I have turned down other job offers (30-40% salary increase--not 2x) because I like where I am--coworkers, projects, autonomy, city, etc.
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by ylem 5y ago
I guess I'm weird. If I were offered 6 months of severance to quit a job at a successful company where I enjoyed the work and my coworkers, why would I take the offer? I've turned down offers that paid over 30% more because I like
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by ylem 5y ago
I agree with you about the decision not to reflexively fire those responsible for the list. Though for the conversation to veer towards white supremacy and for ~30% of the company to leave, I do wonder if something else was going on there.
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by ylem 5y ago
I was debating about whether to comment on this--whether I could add any useful signal to the noise. My thought is that is a tragedy. Let me start with the business case. It resulted in around 30% of the company resigning. As a client, that
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by ylem 5y ago
I have seen another approach (also with STEM PhDs), where it isn't an income share, but rather that the incubator gets a referral fee if the student is hired--similar to a recruiter. Now, why do this? The math behind most of data sci
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by ylem 6y ago
Is the problem the grant process or the lack of cash to award? There are pre-proposals for say department of energy that are only a couple of pages so you can see if you should waste your time on an application. I am not sure about other ag
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by ylem 6y ago
While this seems to give the impression that science is not functioning, I don't see this as the case. I will give an example from my field. Before Covid struck, I was at a conference in Japan. There was a talk about an interesting sup
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by ylem 6y ago
Great! So it's not just me! As I understand the paper, their main point seems to be that as you extrapolate out in time, you need to not just handle the physics of CO2 that is already in the atmosphere, but predict say how much popul
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by ylem 6y ago
Is this true though? Wouldn't it be rather boring if the standard model continues work? In the end, Josephson won. Even the example that the author here mentions with breast cancer-vs-skin cancer was eventually discovered to be wrong.
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by ylem 6y ago
This is a challenging issue. I see a few reasons that companies want to increase demographic diversity. One would be that some companies are trying to address more demographically diverse markets and having more diverse teams may reveal mor
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by ylem 6y ago
It reminds me of a graduate quantum class I had. The professor gave what he called "infinite time length exams". We would come in during the afternoon and we could stay as long as we wanted to work on the exam--though we had to s
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Amazon aims to improve safety by monitoring drivers with cameras and AI(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ylem 6y ago|1 comments
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by ylem 6y ago
I read it in college for a science fiction class. It was amazing. Orwell also thought so( https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2009/jun/08/geor... ).
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by ylem 6y ago
I am a bit confused by this. I went to college in the Midwest in the 90s (grew up in the Midwest) and to grad school on the east coast. I am agnostic, but my grandfather was a baptist minister and have other ministers in the family. I am a
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by ylem 6y ago
I remember listening to this episode! I often actually disagree with the host fairly often, but find him worth listening to. I think it doesn't happen because other art museums will refuse to loan works of art to you on visiting exhibi
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Parler Data Hacked(independent.co.uk)
1 points by ylem 6y ago|0 comments
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by ylem 6y ago
Cool! How does this compare with polynote and Gigantum?
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by ylem 6y ago
Immigrant visa? What is that? I think the conversation is focused on the US. I'm a native-born US citizen, but my impression is that for those who get an H1B, they can apply for a green card and eventually citizenship. However, the
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by ylem 6y ago
Nature scientific reports? A number of people have mixed feelings about the journal, but I think it does encourage people to publish work that is technically correct, but not exciting. I remember going through the pain of publishing a bor
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by ylem 6y ago
I remember an interesting article (I can't find the reference) that made the claim that for a number of pharma labs, the advantage in hiring researchers is not that they are likely to make a great discovery--but rather that they will b
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by ylem 6y ago
Yeah--it's a different era. I know people who do research who have masters, but they are effectively grandfathered in.
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by ylem 6y ago
I think part of it is a scale question--there are a number of discoveries that require a huge investment in both manpower and equipment. Beyond the work of corporate research labs, there are some discoveries that don't have immediate p

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