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So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering

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Re: So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering

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>and a lot of countries (Australia, Japan for instance) have in fact a successful policy of allowing only a bunch of them I don't know about Japan, but Australia allows in large numbers of immigrants.

Immigrants are not refugees.

Australia took in many refugees from the war in Sudan.

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Cubic has to go to +infinity on either the right or left. Exponentiating doesn't help with that.

exp(-infinity) = 0

And exp(+infinity) = +infinity, so it has to go to +infinity on one side.

Re: So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering

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exp(-infinity) = 0

And exp(+infinity) = +infinity, so it has to go to +infinity on one side.

Yes, on the right side, https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/16/what-a-dif...

So in addition to log-exp to prevent projections going negative, they clipped the end date at 4 Aug to prevent it from going back up to +inf

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