eelkefolmer

9 anni fadiscuss

I agree, Nevada is able to provide the largest tax abatements which is probably going to be the deciding factor (helped recruit GigaFactory, Las Vegas Raiders etc). 300 days of sunshine, cheap real state, low cost of living and close proximity to 15 ski resorts, plus 45 minute flights to Seattle/Silicon Valley.

eelkefolmer

9 anni fadiscuss

Its time to ditch significance levels altogether and use Bayesian inference or analysis.

eelkefolmer

9 anni fadiscuss

The early investors are left holding the bag!

eelkefolmer

9 anni fadiscuss

Their grapes have soured, but I'm glad I didn't buy one of their lemons ;-)

eelkefolmer

9 anni fadiscuss

How nice of trump to throw his base a bone that after taking away their health insurance the rurals can still consult webMD

eelkefolmer

9 anni fadiscuss

Litecoin spiked up from $16 to $36 this morning. Trading on GDAX (also part of coinBase) has far lower fees (0.25%) than coinBase (1.5%)

eelkefolmer

9 anni fadiscuss

Pretty cool, I'm in the same boat as you (see my other reply VR-step Unity plugin). Decent revenue but can't really grow it much more....

eelkefolmer

9 anni fadiscuss

I sell a Unity plugin that lets people navigate mobile VR using walking-in-place: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/60450

Not a huge money maker (>300 copies sold) but I also filed a patent on it in 2015, so hopefully a larger VR company will see our locomotion technique as an essential step (no pun) to bring VR to the masses, since it reduces cybersickness.

eelkefolmer

9 anni fadiscuss

Well they do compensate for number of authors on a paper. IMHO large departments often have large clusters where everyone is co-authors so I do think it evens out.

eelkefolmer

9 anni fadiscuss

I am faculty in a department that ranks #80th on csrankings but >200 in US news ranking. Strikingly is also the poor correlation between US news rankings and CSrankings. I emailed with the owner of CSrankings who told me:

For the top 50 US News schools, the correlation with CSRankings (Spearman's rho) is 0.77 (p-value = 3e-11). The correlation drops the further one gets from the top-ranked schools. For the top 25-50 (same exclusion criteria), the correlation drops to 0.44 (p-value = 0.025). For ranks 40-50, there is effectively no correlation: 0.12, p-value = 0.75

US news rankings of CS departments is entirely based on reputation, which really puts certain CS departments that do good research at a disadvantage regarding student recruitment.

eelkefolmer

10 anni fadiscuss

Apply every 7 years for one ;-) (one of the perks of being in academia).

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