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Highly recommend the book "Voices From Chernobyl" by Svetlana Alexievich (she won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature partially for this work), it is an illuminating account of the …

This is the same Robin Hanson that recently authored "The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life". His physics background makes for interesting economic analyses.

Couldn't agree more, it had me going back to the Algorithms book to refresh on most of part VI (Graph Algorithms). For those interested, Bellman-Ford is 24.1, and Dijkstra's algo i…

Yes! And be careful and very picky about what you read! To quote a popular Quora answer [1]: "If you really want to learn C++, I advise against any and all online tutorials and aga…

Tangentially related: how does one get their foot in the door at a medical software company? Is there a big market for such professionals?

Confirmed: The stars in the background behind Comet #67P are in Canis Major: the cluster NGC2362 "falls down" past the limb at top-left; sparse cluster NGC2354 & the star 27CMa are…

This can also be driven by unreasonable reporting requirements. Say you go against your boss and deliver X,Y, and Z in the first month, and during the second and third months you c…

Do you have any pointers/references for getting started with Software Defined Radios? i.e. the state of the art software, hardware, and common hobbyist applications? Any open sourc…

A quick google search shows some people are already working on that, including https://www.pathio.com

My pet theory is that the long-term reasoning for artificially limiting the number of residencies/medical school spots is to avoid an oversupply of healthcare professionals after t…

Link to the paper: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2387687

You're right, I learned something here. Thank you for correcting me. Fentanyl seems like the culprit.

That's just the problem isn't it? People are prescribed a drug for medicinal purposes that is so addictive and so readily distributed for minor ailments that medicinal use inevitab…

Could you elaborate on quant jobs requiring PhDs? Do they look for a very specific PhD (i.e. statistics), or is it just a blanket requirement to get past the hiring screens?

Are you referring to Professor Sadoway? I greatly enjoyed his Solid State Chemistry course! Always wondered what will come of his flow battery company (Ambri). Looks like they are …