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Do you mean these specific galaxies? If not, you can see many galaxies in amazing detail with very modest equipment. If you know what you're looking for you can faintly see Andromeda with the naked eye.
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I wouldn't call the scenario you mention cronyism per se, as it may tie into wider national policy considerations that are legitimate, e.g., national strategies on employment, research, technology etc. It'd be legitimate to fall on the national exchequer for funds if EU funding applications aren't successful.
I'd prefer if groups didn't rely on the likes of EU Horizon. As you said earlier, the success rates are so low for some calls, and the effort for application is so high. It's a poor risk/reward in many cases and leads to a lot of wasted effort.
It is sometimes asked to include implications for externalities such as public engagement, climate, equality, but if the call is about compiler design for example, you shouldn't make these central to your research.
> When calls have low acceptance rates, the deciding factor is cronyism
I don't see how it's possible that cronyism feeds into large public European calls that you mention
There is another aspect to cheating that I don't see mentioned. When lazy students become accustomed to cutting corners, they later become a legal liability as postgrads and employees, in terms of, for example, unethical research practices, copyright theft, and so on. I've seen this in my professional career from people who should know better, and I wish they were reprimanded as students rather than causing issues for the organisations that they're a part of.
There are pedagogical reasons to stop students from cheating early on, but it should be prevented for practical real-world reasons also.
Publishing and disseminating work is a skill that (imo) is almost entirely distinct from researching, but you must have this skillset to succeed in research. If your research group is succeeding by picking low hanging fruit (in your eyes) then this is a great sign. You should learn from them. Your talents will not go to waste through learning these new skills.
Lastly, if you like TA work then you should definitely continue because you can then look for lecturing positions after. To my knowledge TA roles generally require postgrad/PhD.
I see no problem with this for children. I think that it's inevitable that this is instituted in the EU for children, and I think it should be an option for all people.
Never buying a Dell again. It's a pity because they appear solid and well-made from appearances and specs.
Possibly so! A shame too, it's my favourite genre and to this day I think 30 year old games are superior to contemporary ones, incl ones that were considered mediocre at the time (Harvester, Phantasmagoria, etc)
It's more complicated than that too imo. Before Broken Sword 3 was released, Charles Cecil said they had always wanted the game to be 3D (https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/17561). So it's likely that hand drawn 2D (pixelated or not) was often used because of limitations also. It's further possible that developers chose point and click as the medium because of technical limitations (e.g. it's easier to draw/render static scenes than develop a 3d engine). Evidence of this is - further to the death of 2D at this time as you point out - the fact that point and click died also as a genre at this time, as 3d modelling tools and third party 3d engines were becoming more accessible.
I think this same dynamic applies to many old styles in gamedev that are now seen as having an aesthetic quality when really they arose out of necessity (e.g. 8-bit era pixelation, ZX spectrum colour palates, dithered transparency)
So arguably if developers are choosing hand drawn now or P&C, it's perhaps the first time that it's the "harder" option, rather than being a return to "normal"
1) The article segues from saying "a home team advantage exists", which is provable via score sheets, to "referees are biased against away teams", which is difficult to prove and needs justification. I think the former premise is better
2) It should be easy to add tests for statistical significance. From eyeballing I'm not sure that they're significant
3) Different rules have been implemented that may account for any significant differences, e.g., VAR, new handball rules
Other than this finding, I wonder if any other artefacts of no-audiences exist. Such as the average number of goals for away teams, penalty taking accuracy.
Currently experiencing this weariness and my output isn't great. Covid restrictions + WFH are making it worse I feel but ultimately it's my responsibility to do well. Any tips for not looking like a hopeless case to your supervisor at this stage?
Managers are needed to communicate between these experts, and it should go without saying that it's impossible for them to have the same expertise as each of the 2-1000s of experts under them.
> I think we are making a lot of wrong decisions at the moment due to this stubbornness to understand the actual types of problems we're trying to solve
Almost certainly you don't understand the types of problems your manager needs to solve also.
People do use it for leverage but who cares. It doesn't undermine the contracts, and certainly doesn't make the concept worthless. You can securely lend/borrow stablecoins globally with zero middlemen. What you do with the credit/interest is your own business.
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> All of those business cases already exist in a reasonably accessible form.
Disagree. I live in a wealthy EU country and payments from my bank account have been frozen many times for several days because, e.g., I sent a modest amount via Western Union. I essentially had to say "sorry, wont happen again" to get access to my own money. I am unable to get certain credit from my bank because of my employment contract (i.e. rolling yearly contract) even though I have a good income and savings. And what's the interest rate on deposits in the developed countries, 0-1%? Negative interest rates are being applied to certain deposit accounts in my country.
I see DeFi lending as a different business case just by way of its global nature and overall accessibility. Another commenter mentions that its just used to buy crypto, i.e., it's a house of cards. That some people currently use it for leverage is irrelevant. Middlemen have been completely removed from lending and exchange via DeFi and it can't be undone now. Even with strict KYC/AML and regulation at crypto off-ramps it can't be undone.
> Banking in the developing world is definitely a problem, personally I'm not sure using a pretty volatile currency like ethereum
You can lend/borrow stablecoins (USDc), even if you're in the developing world.
A simple business case might be interest earned by lending. Could you use traditional banking for this? Can any lay person lend? Is traditional banking accessible to anybody in the entire world with just an Ethereum wallet? This is just the beginning of defi and deposits have gone from ~0 to $30B in a year. Not much, in the grand scheme, but there's clearly demand for the products.
No doubt this market will be regulated in due course, but I think this bell can't be un-rung.
Look at how quickly funds in defi projects (i.e. non-speculative, useful projects) are growing, and please explain how you will create trustless, accessible financial products (e.g. lending and exchange) using databases. Then please tell me why it's inappropriate that IBM, who consult for competitors to these decentralised finance products, shouldn't have a big interest in blockchain.
You're making a similar mistake to OP. You're considering the end user, the pharmacy, but are now ignoring manufacturers, suppliers and wholesalers. Why would a major supplier provide their goods to a pharmacy who ranks them last in their kiosks? Why wouldn't they give preferential pricing to pharmacists that give better rankings?
Perhaps large chain pharmacists have buying power here, but they don't need help attracting customers. Perhaps small pharmacists could benefit from this system to attract customers, but if the system ranks Pfizer products last they wont be in business for long.
Point is, perhaps you want it, and perhaps you think pharmacists should want it for you, but the entire supply chain does not want it.
You're asking for a different instrument, which would reduce hand spans to half their size when compared to an orthodox keyboard. This would change completely the tonality of the instrument such that it would be barely recognisable.
If you really want this, you're free to do it on any digital by reassigning their key value, and only using white keys. Or you could play a guitar. But I imagine you'll then be frustrated that each open string increases key by an arbitrary amount, which is done to address the tonality issue I mention.
> The same goes for notation and theory verbiage. It's like we're stuck in a codebase that was started centuries ago, and everyone is too afraid to commit a bugfix, let alone a major refactor.
You need NO theory or notation to become highly proficient. This is no excuse.
The link does not and can not conclude this. It can not because it makes a confusing sleight of hand, with an inference between competitions, repertoire, and an implied necessary hand size which is incorrect.
It is incorrect because some of these competitions require repertoire from specific composers (e.g. Mozart or Bach competitions) whereas some do not. Entrants to the Rubenstein competitions may have the same repertoire as those to the Mozart and Bach competitions. Yet it compares winners of Rubenstein to Bach and Mozart.
>The short version: more women play the piano at the collegiate level and beyond than men
Such small numbers of people will reach a level of getting first prize in elite competitions, that these people are essentially irrelevant. In absolute terms, it sounds like males are massively excluded from piano up to elite levels. Perhaps piano sizes should be increased?
Yeah the actual humans with ears are me and you. They use play-time as the basis for recommendation as well as content-similarity, and put effort into de-biasing this data for, e.g., position bias. This is the same for YouTube etc.
Spotify is one of the best examples of a modern large-scale recommender system, for me.