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I work remotely for a very flexible company, and besides ever-increasing meetings,I can otherwise put in my 40 hrs whenever I want. My wife is in a professional degree program and …

https://wci.llnl.gov/ Note that in the US nuclear weapons are controlled by the DOE, and not the DOD.

This is false, almost all of those employees have a Q clearance. You can search the job listings for keywords like ‘Wci’ ‘high energy density’, etc to confirm. Part of the purpose …

What are your mid-term and long-term goals? Do you want to advance in your company, or find a new job? If new job, are you looking for a local job, to move, or remote? My generic t…

> I don't know the school system in Singapore, but in the US, we have community colleges that accept everyone. Most people in your situation take a few classes at a community colle…

I second this and was coming here to post exactly this. I have no doubt that without a latex template that was iteratively updated by students over the years that my thesis would h…

I am very curious as to what prompted these questions. They seem like very crude generalizations/extrapolations/stereotypes. People of varying dispositions have wide ranging motiva…

Here are my thoughts as someone who hires and supervises data scientist and statisticians. I personally find that candidates are lacking in one or more of three areas: 1) Technical…

I would prefer a paywall flag over an outright ban. News should be free, but we also shouldn’t be ignorant of what’s going on in the world. Ideally (for me) the system would be som…

No web browser on the remarkable (at least stock). Stock it is literally just a note taking device, which I personally find appealing.

>NIF, remember, is funded by the DoD. It's not a civilian reactor research program: it's a device for testing fusion reactions in the lab now that the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty…

> Does anyone know if they still have to wait for months to open the chamber after experiments to wait for the radioactivity to cool down? I don’t think this has ever been the case…

Desk: https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/119694/Realspace-Mage... Chair: https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/877226/Realspace-Mode... I bought both at the start of the pande…

> Honestly feel sorry for particle physicists... Their entire gig is spending billions on fancy equipment, and hoping that observe something unexpected. This isn’t the way I would …

Your overall experience will be impacted by where in the US you are. There are broad categories that track the culture (east coast, west coast, midwest, south), however even that i…

This sounds pretty close to my setup as well (senior data scientist, managing a small group of data scientists/statisticians). Additional thoughts: For meetings, my notes are prett…

Exactly this. Science/research is largely incremental.

Agreed! University enabled me to leave the trailer park in the Midwest that I grew up in and now have a comfortable life. It is possible that this could have happened without unive…

I second this from my own experience (in physics, undergrad from a state university). I met my grad school advisor at a conference, and would definitely not have been able to get w…

A lot - around 6-8 cups/day I have one large mug of coffee first thing in the morning (~3-4 cups). I then have a mug of half-caff coffee in the late morning, another mug of half-ca…

Some of my go to podcasts are: Bloggingheads.tv/meaningoflife.tv, particularly with Robert Wright, Glenn Loury, DMZ CoinTalk - commentary of events going on in the crypto space Law…

University of Michigan has a ‘c4cs’ https://c4cs.github.io/archive/w18/

Not an expert, and have no idea what I am talking about My understanding is that it is a variant of 1. Masks probably do help, but the general population would not use them correct…

Generically, I would work through Griffiths first, and then Shankar and/or Sakurai. You can probably refine it a little bit based on your motivation to learning quantum physics, an…

One reason you might not find ‘inertial’ is because the only thing they have in common is a laser. For ICF, a long-pulse laser is used like a hammer to heat and compress the materi…