I love how you summed up at least 75% of science. I’m in this picture and… I have mixed feelings!
Just because I’m a pedantic little academic: if you know how your data is crap, you can make an extra shiny model that doesn’t give only crap outputs
Exactly! You go in with negative expectations, and end up pretty surprised!
Many hobbies don’t require much to start! Gardening requires an investment of some 20$ and a decade of your life
The Lost City of D is a masterpiece in light weirdness definitely highlighted by Harry Potter popping up and messing things up!
Hyperion is a sci-fi version of the Canterbury tales, each chapter the story of one of the characters with an overarching mystery. It’s an absolutely great book that i don’t see recommended enough
I support beets as a substitute. Roasted they are sweeter with almost no acidity, while pickled would hit most of the tomato notes.
Fantastic typo!
Me too. Seriously hit my mental health because I was feeling so isolated. Even just two days a week from the office was better, the best for me personally is 4 days in the office, one or half from home.
My criticism towards most WFH set ups is that it erodes the unity of workers, making it easier for managers to pick on them. You end up knowing your coworkers less and therefore working less as a team.
It is great for your mental health.
When I was a student and had to hardcore budget, first was rent, second was “social Friday beer”, and only then came the food budget. Nowadays, beer wouldn’t be second, but it was the goal that reminded me why I couldn’t blow my money too quickly.
As someone both studying and teaching math: there should be two different ways to teach math - for other mathematicians and for non-mathematicians.
For mathematicians you want to use all the formal proofs and sharp definitions and so on. But we have so much fun teaching that way, we forget when we switch classes that engineers don’t like/care/are motivated to think the same way. We should pivot towards application-based, result-oriented teaching but we often just don’t. And students have to deal with it because the other class managed (pure mathematicians).
For anyone interested: Welcome to Night Bale is a great horror/surrealist podcast. Definitely recommend
More like head spinning, like when you look at the stars are you loose your reference frame
Not his first fall and not unexpected either. That’s someone that can’t walk unassisted anymore.
About the “guaranteed to fuck up on the first go”, I got strongly encouraged to first apply to positions I wouldn’t love (but was okay with), just to learn the ropes of interviewing. Once you have done one or two, time to shoot for your dream job!
I’m seeing it in my current job as well. The quality of the job is slowly going down the drain because we get more and more tasks each time someone leaves or retires. We have been under replacement levels for 5-7 years now :/ lost at least 10% of the work force with no decrease on the expected production output. Just a directive of being more efficient. Obviously, shit is hitting the fan. I’ll have to see if this new wave of shit is enough to change the course, but I am serious considering if it’s worth staying in the long run. Shame because i really love the job (when I’m not drowning)
An additional hot take: online communities create weaker links than in-person communities. hear me out please
Not because the connections themselves are less strong, but because they don’t tie to any other connection. If I met someone in real life, chances are high they are going to meet my family and create connections with them too. On the other hand, if I met someone online, they would most likely not meet my partner and definitely not meet my broader family. What in real life could be a merging of social groups, and therefore a strengthening of everyone’s social nets becomes online the creation of a single link, that is therefore that much easier to break off.
Yep, not even all the ecosystems that were nearly settling their lives there. Rakes are more gentle
In general, it’s not a great article because it doesn’t excitation much at all, just that Poland grew. Btw the comparison with other EU countries in the graph is also interesting. Overall, a stagnation, with Poland a significant outlier
Always pick a book to the left and one to the right! Is it useful? Likely not, but you’ll never know if you don’t!
Didn’t we likely play a significant role in the extinction of megafauna all over the world much sooner than that?
Amazing topic!