kennethcwilbur

Autonomy in academia depends entirely on the field, the funding situation, and the advisor. If you choose wisely, you can build a highly autonomous career. But it is hard for the inexperienced to figure out how to make the right choices.

This may interest you. http://lifehacker.com/this-chart-shows-how-computer-literate...

Or, someone in the first group criticizing observers who fail to distinguish among groups before making predictions.

Those with deepest insights on this topic are least likely to post.

Or they're saying "We're personally tired of the boring but profitable business of selling ads. Let's replace ourselves and focus on the cool stuff."

This is the way we deprecate those more talented than ourselves. We say, "He may be able to fly -- but how is his free throw percentage?"

Honest question: Is the headline linkbait? I read the entire interview but I didn't see where he really explained why the more your job helps others, the less you get paid.

Upvote. Please give me a way to use this to read academic papers!

I'm an academic who is 13 years into his career. I see my job as consisting of three phases: 1) find important, unsolved problems. 2) find convincing answers to these problems. 3) communicate the answers to people who can use them. I usually get to organize my day around these principles. I feel very satisfied with my career.

I'm also in a field that has low financial barriers to doing research. The lab model that is predominant in the natural sciences is very very different.

I admire this man for his willingness to stand by his convictions.

I noticed that when my real life was more exciting, I used facebook less frequently because I had less time and less need for social validation. When my real life was less exciting, I was on facebook more often. And I noticed that the most active people on facebook were not the same people that I loved and respected most offline.

So I quit. I have been happier without it.

I call, text and email my friends more often. I meditate far more often. I keep a diary. Friends know that I quit and tell me when something is posted that I should know about.

Last night I went to an Eric Clapton concert. My friend repeatedly used her camera, zoomed in and out, took lots of pictures, even curated her photos during the show itself. For much of the evening, it felt like I was there by myself. So I did what any reasonable person would have done: I gave myself over to the music and danced.

I don't know what specific psychedelics he referred to but I can share something.

There is some research suggesting ketamine is useful for depression. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine

There are legal substances which are similar ketamine which some people argue have similar properties.

I cannot verify and do not advocate.

Two words:

Jayson Blair.

This is silly. It's like buying a toaster and then complaining when it fails to make panini.

You don't get an electric vehicle for the purpose of driving from DC to New York.

I have always plugged my EV in on a 120 volt circuit. It gets about 50-60 miles of charge per night. My commute is 10 miles. The car is full every morning, no matter how cold it is.

YMMV

sorry... this comes across as pure advertising to me.

See: the Last Bookstore in downtown LA.

It opened in 2009 and has expanded several times. It now sells 100,000 used books at $1 each in 16,000 square feet. It is already the largest independent bookseller in southern california.

There are so many books that they are organized by color in some sections. The variety within a shelf is just bizarre. Like the opposite of Google search results.

It feels like a tourist destination or an art installation. It's a remarkable experience.

If only tl;dr were in Latin, lawyers would understand it

I forgot to mention what is maybe the best part. Surprised the article doesn't talk about this.

When you drive an EV, acceleration is instant. Like, at the same time your foot goes down, your shoulders get thrown back.

Gas cars often take 0.5-2 seconds to get response from the engine, depending on the car & current conditions at the time you accelerate.

You get used to the acceleration in the Tesla after a while. But one year in, I'm still loving the instant response. That's what I really miss when I'm driving the gas car. It's just awesome.

I've been driving a tesla roadster for about a year. It's my daily commuter.

I plug the car into a regular 110V outlet. I typically get 30-50 miles of charge overnight, depending on what time I get home and when I leave. My commute is only 10 miles each way so it's 100% full most mornings when I get in.

I've verified the car can do 240 miles between cities but you have to set the cruise to 60 mph or below. I keep a gas car for long road trips and camping, etc., but I don't use it much.

The Tesla is very cool. Strangers stop me to talk about it multiple times per week. Customer service has been off the charts.

High recommend. Go buy one.

If Google Fiber catches on, and you consider combining it with Google TV, Youtube content and Google TV Ads, the strategic possibilities are fascinating.

I wish I knew whether enough consumers are willing to pay to justify a large-scale infrastructure rollout. There is a whiff of that old saying here - Google engineers are great at building products for Google engineers.

At https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A29FL26O... it shows that the delivery charge in the UK for a 18.2MB book is $2.82.

That rate is actually pretty good. According to this page, http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/international/roaming/affo... AT&T sells a 120-MB international roaming data package for $30/month. That implies an effective download charge of $4.55 for an 18.2-MB file.

Now if Amazon's data charge is $2.82 in the UK, where they do significant volume and the wireless market is competitive, imagine how much higher it must be in less developed countries where the company has less pull. I got charged approximately $800 for 40 megabytes of data usage in Lithuania last year, where AT&T did not have a partnership with any local carrier. I talked AT&T down to about $400 but they would not budge beyond that.

And think about the target audience for this book. Probably a lot of people spread out all over the world. It might not take all that many downloads in places like Lithuania to push the average delivery fee up to $2.48.

The only problem I see is that, arguably, Amazon should give authors the ability to opt out of paying for international downloads, or let them set different prices in different countries.

But it seems that the current delivery charge is pretty good - certainly it's not the enormous markup the headline claimed.

They have a crystal ball?!?!

This argument is wrong on so many levels.

The analogy to the mortgage market is wishful thinking. Remember the massive fraud that led to the easy lending that led to the money drying up when the fraud was discovered? There is no similar pattern of activity in traditional education.

Higher education disruption is unlikely. It is difficult for an uneducated person to accurately assess the value offered by a school.

I have never been so frustrated with a UI redesign as I have been with Gmail and Analytics. Unfortunately, I was already using all of the settings pointed out in this post, and I still can't get comfortable with the new design. I can't separate how much of that frustration comes from the large degree of change and how much comes from my long history of use, but the frustration is huge.

I know that many Google employees were similarly frustrated when they were eating their dog food last august. Yet the new look was rolled out anyway.

So I can only assume that the company had solid UI data showing that their target group of users prefer the new design. And I can therefore only assume that the target group of users does not include users like me.

Consequently, there is an opportunity here for somebody to do email right for the people frustrated by the new gmail redesign. I would happily pay for an email interface that makes sense and doesn't change against my wishes... especially if it doesn't require switching to microsoft.

Until then, I will be very grateful to the person who pointed out the 'slow-connection' interface is still available.

this is a push poll designed to support a "no" conclusion.

Mislabeled: should say "an ad for ron paul"