ywnico

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by ywnico 2y ago
MET-minutes seem to be "Metabolic equivalent of task" minutes [1]. In the paper, they give running an MET of 8 (paragraph 3 of Data Analysis section), so 2200 MET-minutes of running would be 2200/8 = 275 minutes, if I underst
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by ywnico 3y ago
I'm glad to hear that some schools have good internal mechanisms and a nontoxic culture, but unfortunately I suspect this is not the case in general. In my case (a top school in the USA), even with copious and explicit evidence of misc
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by ywnico 3y ago
100% agree, this is the crux of the issue. Pretty much everyone I know, myself included, felt used and taken advantage of by their PhD advisors. The combination of complete control over their students (mainly due to being able to decide whe
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by ywnico 3y ago
To expand on your point a bit, it depends on the type of fluid. Newtonian fluids [1] (a good approximation for water and many other "normal" fluids) will be pulled into the groove regardless of how viscous they are. E.g., the cup
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by ywnico 3y ago
Corners are actually super effective at moving liquid using surface tension (assuming the contact angle is such that the surface is concave). The key is that at the front of the liquid, where it's very thin in the corner, the surface h
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by ywnico 3y ago
The fonts at the bottom of the first page (wp010-05.ttf) and the top of the second page (wp[123]10-05.ttf etc.) have zhuyin (aka bopomofo) phonetic symbols [1] to the right of each character. These are common in Taiwan, whereas pinyin is us