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It's discussed in this Nature podcast https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03646-1 One of the investigators on this project is a guest on this segment. He does a nice job of …

I would argue that goodreads is not a particularly good way to determine whether a non-fiction book is worth reading. goodreads reviewers are just regular people who evaluate books…

As long as "Percent faculty with terminal degree in their field" is an evaluation criterion for ranking school quality (I took those exact words from the US News and World Report r…

My company has makes a product (a software platform) to which we add custom and or off-the-shelf "connectors" that allow it to integrate with existing systems on the customer premi…

I looked at the form. It doesn't say "student-athlete". it says "scholarship athlete". Athletic scholarships overwhelmingly go to Football players who are heavily recruited because…

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Homeless-Teen-Intel-Sci... This is not the first time she has been homeless. Her family has been living on the edge of poverty for years, like …

A PhD is a credential, as is a BS, an MS, or a CCIE. As long as employers demand a credential for hiring, that credential will be necessary. In the US, few companies are willing to…

Now that's what we're talking about! Good job.

Radical, one-time, short-term actions like this aren't lifestyle changes. They're not sustainable, so they don't work in the long term. If the author said he made sustainable lifes…

I've run software projects on the technical side for going on 20 years now. In all those years, I've been lucky enough to have exactly 2 good product managers. The rest have ranged…

Does anyone know if they have an active program to cut the bottom performers? If not, I suspect they have quite a collection of overpaid mediocre programmers. I worked for many yea…

"Knowing the code base is a pretty hefty requirement... even seasoned developers don't know everything about their product... so it would be nigh impossible for a Product Manager t…

I don't know the root cause, but something this esoteric would most likely be discoverable only in a code review, or possibly a unit test. It's hard to imagine someone thinking of …

I'm the volunteer cookie sale manager for my daughter's service unit, which consists of ~35 troops and ~400 girls. We're part of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Council, o…

I have an 11 year old daughter who I help with math homework every week. Some of the new methods work for her, and some are terribly confusing to her. I think it's good to expose k…

Not quite. Here's the actual story. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2004/techsquare-0317.html "The most intriguing tenant, still invoked by almost everyone who spent time in the buil…

I understand why teens might not tweet, but I thought this sentence was strange: "Teens' lives are entirely built around their actual friends. Quite simply, why would teenagers bot…

When I was young I had an astonishingly good memory, and I could keep a remarkable amount of information in my head, so I never really had to write anything down. One wise manager …

Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory - by Peter Hessler A fascinating book about everyday life in today's China. It's actually 3 books in one: - Book 1 is …

I did my PhD in Computer and Systems Engineering (in the EE department of my school), an my thesis involved use of Computer Vision and AI in the analysis of microscope images of hu…

I'm surprised nobody mentioned "Hoosiers"

The author goes too far. Sometimes emails need to be longer than 5 sentences because they need to convey more than 5 sentences of information. I can't tell you how many 1-2 sentenc…

tl;dr: "I was convinced to go to law school by empty promises of a fulfilling and remunerative career" I've got no sympathy for this guy. I challenge him to come up an actual promi…

I'm glad rubashov posted this. It reinforces the point that you really need to understand the people who work for you. One of the developers currently working for me needs multiple…

"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own …