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The evidence favors spread from market:

Here is a review paper of all the evidence so far:

https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annur...

Sorry but translated works do not mean compromised work. Don’t disrespect translators like that.

Second, Learning a language is not a binary variable. It takes decades to master a language.

Finally, Your ability to appreciate a book is both a function of the text and your ability to comprehend the text. A translated book will give you better experience than the book in a language you are unfamiliar with.

Euro truck simulator memories

It is way harder for an Iranian to travel to Europe as a tourist than for them to travel to USA. Especially if you travel often like once a year.

USA has 10 year tourist visas. Europe gives you the bare minimum to visit every time.

Nobody on your team had kids or dependents?

Going into university libraries fills me with awe and purpose.

Seeing a shelf of curated textbooks on a topic (eg non Newtonian fluid flow), gives me a feeling of depth. Each book represents years or decades of an authors life. And they condensed that wisdom into a textbook that could be consumed in a semester.

I would love to be a Knuth type character working in library and writing textbooks.

At his level it is much more than just being able to do what he wants, it’s about attracting resources and talent to accomplish his goals.

From that perspective location still matters if you want to maximise impact

Amazing that Sutton (American) chooses to live in Edmonton, AB rather than USA.

Shows he has integrity and is not a careerist focused on prestige and money above all else.

Not true at the PhD level

If it’s a short stop a “cafe lock” for back wheel is super convenient

Don’t use technical terms like “exponential distribution” and then say the technical details like what distribution it is does not matter.

Doing so conveys sloppy thinking while pretending to be rigorous only on the surface.

Will there be a time when people depend on the stock market (pension, mortgage) so much that it becomes too big to fail?

Excellent medical and dental care for ridiculously cheap. On par with countries like Germany

If you work, you contribute to a fund that you have access to if you lose your job.

If you have kids the math works out in favour for many European countries.

Cool but how do I share events with my family and coworkers so we are on the same page?

The point of calendars is to align with other people’s lives

Honestly he’s famous for pedagogy and research papers, not real world products.

Not surprised it’s underwhelming

Default osx spotlight search is just as good as Alfred? What’s different?

The corrections in his blog post show you the level of precision mathematicians are used to.

A regular interviewer would have left the inaccuracies as they are because it’s too tedious to go over all of them when you have a casual conversation.

Thanks for your response. One confusing thing as an outsider is that amyloid aggregates seems like fraud, but tau aggregates still seems to be a promising line of research.

Both to an outsider look like protein aggregates.

Why science is integral for long term prosperity of civilization, and low hanging fruits that can save money for funding science.

Maybe you can give some specific examples

Just ask how often the author is inviting the local homeless in his city to meet his mother and crash and his weddings.

Probably close to Zero. But he expects to be treated like a special when he is traveling.

> To stay safe, smile.

With over 50 years of travel, the author still does not recognize the unique privilege he is in, and how inappropriate his tips are for most of the population.

I remember making a calculation that a 4 year PhD is about 200 weeks.

This means every two weeks you are 1 percent closer to finishing.

That got me real productive.

You wouldn’t be able to hire people to enable your vision though.

You’re stuck with standard experiences that any plebeian can buy with money.

Companies shouldn’t be taking handouts from the US government.

Let capitalism dictate where the cars get made. It is the American way.

So when US companies try to beat each others products, it is called competition.

But if a foreign company of US-trained people manages to beat the competition, it is parasitising?

RIP statisticians and Ml researchers who use the word “bias” in their work.

This may be bad for tech stocks, but this is actually good for technology because the supposed monopoly in ML is deteriorating.