Debangshu Mukherjee
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@IDoTheThinking
In fact I would have loved something like this in grad school. Bet most students would love places like these
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@eyeslasho
Organizations that are “nice” where positive feedback is freely distributed are often in my experience more dysfunctional.
This is because nobody wants to bring up negative news and “be that guy”, so problems fester and aren’t addressed in time.
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@opinonhaver
Even in Tennessee, almost all contractors I have interacted with use vans. As one told me, it's cheaper, more secure and fuel efficient. The majority of trucks I see on the road are daily driven to work and back.
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@eric_stach
@LongFormMath
But the Materials Research Institute was gorgeous (except when the exterior cladding fell off every winter)
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@engineers_feed
No. The front differential ensures that they aren't. Great video explaining the whole thing
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@jburd22
Close second to horrible sound design -
Movies are supposed to suspend disbelief, not be incomprehensible
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@potax
@curiouswavefn
Look at this publication
Especially look at Affiliation 3 for the author Xiaojun Ren. It's the greatest affiliation I have ever come across - "Blockchain Laboratory of Agricultural Vegetables"
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@Empty_America
It is highly linked to honor. Honor culture societies place a lot of emphasis on hospitality. Honor culture is itself a symptom of a low trust society.
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@Empty_America
Most places close at 9pm. Pretty much every single kitchen (even in bars) close by 10pm in my experience and the last call is often 9:30pm.
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I am seriously considering blocking a certain part of the week (2-3 hours) for learning stuff and catching up on literature.
Do y'all do that, or have found something else that works?
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@StatisticUrban
Extremely lax to non existent inspection standards. Also in my experience the southern states generally have higher speed limits. There are several roads where I have felt the speed limit is way too high. A two lane rural road does not need a 55mph speed limit.
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@Carnage4Life
Maybe one day. But I think the entire point of coding is precision. I will tell the computer precisely to do something, and it will only thay and nothing else.
Human language is designed to convey a multitude of meanings in a single sentence sometimes. Was just reading Sanskrit
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@__femb0t
Gamow decided to add the name of his friend—the eminent physicist Hans Bethe—to this paper in order to create the author list of Alpher, Bethe, Gamow.
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@stan_okl
Indian food cooked in India is rarely this spicy. Unless it's some specific Andhra or Rajasthani dishes, which are anyway unavailable in the states mostly.
Rather what happens is when you ask for spicy they just dump the red chilli powder container in the dish and call it a day.
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@PhDemetri
Well, if an MD doesn't learn integration, they can always discover it, write a paper and get 500+ citations.
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@NAChristakis
It was a one way ratchet towards increasing ideological purity, and this is where we are.
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@ArmandDoma
I still don’t get how Boston spent $500 million per mile for the green line extension. And that’s not even a proper subway, it’s basically a glorified tram line.
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@MaximZiatdinov
@3YearLetterman
will explain why Pigeon Forge is the greatest place in the greatest country that discovered national parks
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@quantian1
The whole American fetishism that soldiers need to look roided up is weird. Gurkhas are thin, short and look completely non intimidating. Yet, ask the British or the Indian armies about them.
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@opinonhaver
I have seen at least two no name community colleges with Harvard/Yale history PhDs on their faculty. And these colleges are in East Tennessee, and these PhDs are all recent graduates.
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@SwannMarcus89
Which is why I hate the
@YouTube
algorithm so much. You watch one or two normal econ videos and now all your suggestions are permadoomer goldbugs.
Same with watching anything related to India, within a week absolutely jingoistic nonsense overtakes your suggestions.
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The hot new buzzword is apparently physics based ML. Apparently anytime your model incorporates an iota of common sense it's now physics based.
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@protosphinx
I have told this to many people many times. Britain had functioning universities, scientific societies and scientific journals “before” they set feet in India.
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There should be a Hanlon's razor for academia, "never attribute something to the malice of a PI, that which can adequately be explained by funding constraints."
Bad PIs are very, very rare. Weird funding rules and overworked and underpaid admin staff are way more common.
It’s crazy that there are PIs who don’t pay for everything required for a student to attend a meeting. WTF
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@NateSilver538
True. But engineering especially CS admissions in state schools are probably more competitive than most privates now.
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@mattyglesias
The Chronicle of Higher Education has done some great reporting on this topic. One point it made, which is being borne out too, is how the worst affected will be small private LACs.
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@drugmonkeyblog
The h-index is mostly a function of how many papers you have. A few years back, I fitted the function myself, and came up with:
N = h*(P+(h/200))
Where `h` is the index & `N` is the number of publications. `P` is a field-dependent prefactor, around 2.5 for materials science.
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@angryfermion
They made me take a class called Crystals during my grad coursework in Materials Science 😡😡
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@lxeagle17
They predicted this midterm two years back in that thread.
@GJBari1
@PolitiCatGrump
@Conblob
So theoretically, 2022 should be better for Dems than either of the Obama midterms.
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@madhurarrao
One easy one is paanch phoron (five spice dal) where you boil moong dal with salt and red chilies, then take five whole spices (fenugreek, cumin, mustard, nigella and fennel), saute in oil and season your daal with it.
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@IterIntellectus
We are discovering older structures all the time. For example, last year we discovered a wooden bridge 500,000 years old - made before modern humans arose.
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What really grinds my gears is when I come across a pure DFT/theory paper, and they proudly proclaim, "Thus, we demonstrate in this work....."
Ummm...
You have no experimental data, which means you haven't really demonstrated anything.
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@wanyeburkett
His numbers were outrageously wrong. The solution to heat waves is more widespread air conditioning. The power requirements for that are eminently doable, and no widespread AC will not warm the planet up measurably.
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@Empty_America
There is a strand of thought glorifying village life in India too. Today, it’s moot because modernity has touched even the remotest villages.
But a hundred years back, Sarat Chandra Chatterjee was writing on rural Indian life, and if you take it as a document of Indian (Bengali)
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@ninthhostage
You cannot regulate away shortage. The only way to solve shortages is to increase supply.
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@KristiTalmadge
@RepJayapal
@HouseGOP
@HouseDems
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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@ChatGPTMagic
@engineers_feed
Correct.
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I find the Gita to be an excellent book for an experimentalist. "Do your work, but don't expect any results."
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@RadioFreeTom
@Yascha_Mounk
@djrothkopf
To do that you need to bring down the cost of education. If students are paying tens of thousands per year they feel entitled (rightly) to demand their voices be heard.
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@sam_d_1995
@MidTNDSA
I read the whole thing. It's a word salad of nothing. Drive to Nashville often, and transit is sorely needed there
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@drkellyallen
@AcademicChatter
Any system that depends on the unpaid labor and goodwill of individual participants will always face hiccups. Every professor I know of, especially those who are tenure-track is overworked, and blaming them for a broken system IMO is unhelpful. 2/
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@sleepydisease
@bettinamak
Gawker of all places wrote a great article about this exact thing recently.
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@wanyeburkett
Basically the story of the Bangladesh textile industry. Yes, they are literal sweatshops, and the buildings are often death traps.
Yet, that industry has massively uplifted the Bangladeshi economy, and has led to a whole host of HDI indicators becoming better over the years.
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@ryxcommar
I know super smart people working there. Feel bad for them to get caught up in mass layoff. Especially since two of them I know are in H1B status, and their time is super short to get a job.
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@sam_d_1995
No other city in the world has ski resorts and warm water beaches within a 50 mile radius of downtown, yet has managed to blow it all away.
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@jzellis
Your temperature calculations are also wrong. If you have 3kW ACs running for 10 million households in a city like Kolkata, the total temperature increase will be 0.3 Celsius.
You can easily do it by finding the total energy required, assuming all of it is heating the air and
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@Egsaba_IA
@ellulie_
Hindustani Classical Music Ragas each have their specific time of the day when they should be played.
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My very controversial opinion is that proposal writing must be a mandatory component of postdoctoral training. If the advisor/institution doesn't do that or have no such mechanisms to enable that, they don't deserve postdocs. Simple as that.
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@ByrneHobart
@AlexYablon
Apart from the joke, whenever I see ivy covered buildings, I just think "rat infestation".
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@protosphinx
The life expectancy at birth for Indians during 1947 was 32 years. A big contributor was infectious diseases definitely - but yes Indians were not super healthy.
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A very underdiscussed thing in science right now - a lot of US funding agencies are making it difficult to spend on conference travel, while conferences themselves are becoming more expensive (everything from registration to hotels to airfare have increased in cost).
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@aaronsibarium
Unless there are punitive penalties for such to the universities this nonsense will continue. At the very least de-accreditation should be on the table.
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@angryfermion
I actually like matolotlib.gridspec - but it only works because it worked once in an old notebook, and I copy-paste it from there everytime I need it.
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@philly2hoboken
@ramit
You are calculating without any compounding gains. $15k per month (180k per year) in the S&P 500 will be around 15 million.
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@SwannMarcus89
Also people use sunscreens way more commonly now, and sun exposure is extremely well known to age your face.
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The inventors of LEDs never got a Nobel, while blue LEDs got a Nobel.
I mean, I love evolution and all, but it is a true sign that the
@nobelprize
system is messed up that sequencing the Neanderthal genome has won a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine but sequencing the human genome has not.
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@RyanRadia
@trevorjtweets
@oliverstein15
@CathyReisenwitz
So when are we getting the cult HBO series *The Sharmas* about a multigenerational crime family, where the oldest kid will not inherit the family business because his GPA was too low?
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Really pleased to explore the full potential of my M2 MacBook by running Endnote and Word together.
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Even worse is this. For many faculty and staff, proposals are a very significant chunk of their scholarly writing output. Yet unlike publications, they just disappear into the ether.
We combined create millions of pages of scientific ideas, and yet they are trashed and deleted.
US gov't: oh no, US is losing hegemony in science 😱
also US gov't: y'all, submit time-consuming, 15 pg research proposals satisfying our strong structural constraints, accompanied by many bureaucratic documents (e.g., a reformatted and ugly CV). we'll fund ~25%.
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My most cancellable take is that I believe we have too many journals.
ACS is an egregious offender, as is SpringerNature, and Cell Press now too.
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@profmusgrave
The only such national divorce that actually happened was Partition in the Indian subcontinent. It probably was the worst human disaster of the twentieth century.
It's also really shameful how little the Western world talks or knows about Partition.
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Not really true. An AC at full tilt is 3kW. 300 million ACs is 900GW. India’s power generation peak is already 450GW.
Tripling is easily doable - considering that India is adding 10GW of solar per year. Also, a single reactor is 1.5GW.
You can absolutely triple the power
If *India* adopted AC en masse, it would use so much power and create so much heat that it would basically cause an apocalypse.
But without it, unless they migrate permanently or seasonally, millions will be miserable half the year and hundreds of thousands will die every year.
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Was reading about the Berkeley vs Harvard patent case on CRISPR. A key component of the decision making was relying on lab notebooks going all the way back. Moral of the story - write and sign your lab notebooks people!
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@drugmonkeyblog
It's the cheapest way to get world class people in the university. Academic pay won't ever match industry pay, and thus job security is a huge perk.
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@dieworkwear
Housing prices have stayed the same for the last four decades if you use Cucinelli cashmere sweaters as your denominating currency.
Checkmate YIMBYs
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@daniela_witten
This is because productivity of a PI is directly correlated with the number of grad students they have. The incentives are pretty messed up.
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@sp6runderrated
Followed by Alabama. Has some beautiful hill country up north and some of mainland US's best beaches near Mobile. Yet.
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@njoybetz
I believe (I may be wrong) this is because graduate training is one of the last remaining apprenticeships.
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I don't get the trend for journal articles to add first principles modeling (often post facto) to an experimental results driven paper. Editors and reviewers are to blame for this too. If experiments say X, it's X. Tucking in a DFT figure at the end isn't going to change it.
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I see a lot of postdoc positions online that ask for a cover letter, a CV and a research statement and a list of references. Why all this rigmarole for an underpaid temporary position? This is honestly indefensible at this point.
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What scientists are proposing: Automated experiment performer
What I want: Automated paper writer.
Guys, y'all are automating the fun part of science!!
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@DavidAstinWalsh
My school (
@PennStateMatSE
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@johnsonloreno
Chicago is the cheapest big city in the US, where you can still get everything. Like a well connected airport, transit, museums, diverse food, schools etc.
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What I aim for in my talks is freshness. Data, analysis, slides you name it - nothing is more than a day or two old.
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@deedydas
Honestly China is brought it upon itself. I am not talking espionage, but reciprocity. Chinese apps run globally but global apps are prohibited there is not a tenable position long term.
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