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> I'd prefer something like "The purpose of PhD programs is to advance the field". If you read Wikipedia under 'Doctor of Philosophy', you will find that a Ph.D. was once more of a…

Invest in a modern mass transportation system? Affordable housing? The possibilities are endless.

Is it?

Commonly used vaccines are known to cause widespread temporary myocarditis?

News agencies worldwide suppressed the 'lab leak' theory. Facebook actively censored it. Fact checkers 'disproved it'. Leading scientists called it a conspiracy theory. Yet it appe…

Do you have a measure of this speed?

It is rational to doubt governments as history shows.

The original claim was "the overwhelming majority of pressure to cancel books and academics is directed at the left by the right, regardless of what gets column inches and think-pi…

You can also go faster using SIMD instructions if you need to compute wider population counts (beyond 64 bits): Faster Population Counts Using AVX2 Instructions, Computer Journal, …

Yes. I am working on updating it.

I agree. It looks like I made a mistake.

Half of the deaths in Sweden are in long-term care homes, and happened to people under the care of the state. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52704836

What are these new ML approaches?

At least in my experience with Canadian institutions, an adjunct professorship is largely an honorary title. It is typically unpaid. You can supervise graduate students and apply f…

I suggest using Sattolo’ algorithm instead. Here is a relevant blog post https://lemire.me/blog/2018/11/13/memory-level-parallelism-i...

(I am the author of the blog post and I am answering here at the request of nkurz.) So nkurz is correct that, in the paper, N is always equal to the maximum bitwidth of the numerat…

Timothy Taylor had an interesting blog post on this topic : http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.ca/2016/08/higher-local... It is derived from a U. of Washington report found at: h…

I find it interesting that he would even consider the job.

Who is this society you refer to? When did it vote anything regarding impact factors? To a very good first approximation, academics are assessed by other academics.

Perhaps instead of trying to cut their costs, their best hope going forward is to keep their prices and profits high, and use the proceeds to fund some new completely independent "…