Got a PhD in Europe and later moved to the US for postdoc, then visiting asst. prof. then tenure-track asst. prof. All of these were very positive experiences, teaching- and research- wise.
I switched to industry while in 3rd tenure-track year and moved back to Europe, though the topic is the same (nonlinear discrete optimization). Most of the work is software development.
Enjoying a better paycheck and working 9to5 Mon-Fri (rarely had a non-work evening/weekend while in academia) but the research is still great and I get to publish articles and go to conferences. Miss teaching a lot and clearly I can't pick my own research topics, but the switch was definitely worth it.
Agreed, but even if we got voting machines to the level of resiliency of aircraft engineering, the effort of a determined adversary would still carry enormous consequences.
No technology (aerospace engineering, building engineering, voting machines) is 100% resilient as long as there is an entity with tools, money, and knowledge to bring it down. I guess the comparison holds here because voting machines can be approached by said entity in a remote fashion, unlike an aircraft or an elevator.
Long debates about philosophy might not have been what the public wanted, but BBC bosses thought they were good for us.
I think a form of education is one of the primary purposes and responsibilities of a country's national TV. Managing a broadcaster so that it gives the public what it wants, rather than what's better for them, is akin to giving kids fries and coke all day, because that's what they want.
Record yourself while reading a random page from a book and then listen to the recording. When I did, I found a few defects and managed to fix them, though it took some time.
'Some credible estimates put the number [of people who died since 2003] at more than one million.' 'The invasion of Iraq is often spoken of in the United States as a “blunder,” or even a “colossal mistake.” It was a crime. Those who perpetrated it are still at large. Some of them have even been rehabilitated thanks to the horrors of Trumpism and a mostly amnesiac citizenry. [...] The pundits and “experts” who sold us the war still go on doing what they do.'
I mean, what's the point of drilling stupid sums if you'll hardly ever need it in your life?
"Hardly ever"? So when checking the restaurant bill, the change at the grocery shop, the tax return, a bank investment proposal, the costs of building/renovating a house, the time left for a mortgage, do you always use a calculator?
Without the bad diesel tax, a lot of people choose to commute to work by car because they would end up spending roughly the same as with public transport. The marginal cost of using a car for a 10km five days a week, let's say 60EUR/month, would now compete with 0EUR. For people making 1k/month this is money.
The histogram on the last page counts the occurrences of each character in the paper (all of them printable, of course). But because the histogram's counts are made of characters too, the author had to add a few extra numbers to make the histogram "converge". Brilliant.
[Nestlé] said its review of the article on the breakfast study and other research was intended “to ensure that the methodology was scientifically correct."
If your research is funded by NSF, the articles you published are still peer-reviewed, not reviewed by the NSF.
I switched to industry while in 3rd tenure-track year and moved back to Europe, though the topic is the same (nonlinear discrete optimization). Most of the work is software development.
Enjoying a better paycheck and working 9to5 Mon-Fri (rarely had a non-work evening/weekend while in academia) but the research is still great and I get to publish articles and go to conferences. Miss teaching a lot and clearly I can't pick my own research topics, but the switch was definitely worth it.