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top grade = top 10 physicists per year in the world
good = top 100
anybody else is pretty much useless
good = top 100
anybody else is pretty much useless
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12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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Man 2: Rabbi, should I buy a Chrysler?Originally posted by Oncle Boris View Post
Rabbi K: Eh, couldn't you rephrase that as a, as an ethical question?
Man 2: Um... Is it right to buy a Chrysler?
Rabbi K: Oh, yes! For great is the car with power steering and dynaflow suspension!
Who wouldn't want to be a rabbi?"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."--General Sir Charles James NapierComment
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Figure out what you'd love to do instead of what you think you should learn.Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-ArmsComment
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"Think deep thoughts about being unemployed." As an English major, I'm working in pizza at present. An MA in philosophy is like a BA in English except:
1. You spent much more time and money to get it, thus branding you as an even bigger tool in the eyes of potential employers,
2. Despite the uselessness of the subject, the higher degree makes you all the more "overqualified" for general-purpose jobs, and
3. While the English major worked to develop his/her communication skills, you were actually striving to ruin yours with a steady diet of doublethink and doubletalk.
Clearly, you're doomed.Comment
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Go back and get a real degree, you hippie.
"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund FreudComment
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Cry ?
"Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."Comment
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Telemarketing is always an option.It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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Prepare to take over the management of your families vast fortune now that you've finished having fun."Wait a minute..this isn''t FAUX dive, it's just a DIVE!"
"...Mangy dog staggering about, looking vainly for a place to die."
"sauna stories? There are no 'sauna stories'.. I mean.. sauna is sauna. You do by the laws of sauna." -P.Comment
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Don't think you have the proper mind for computer science.
Any proper computer scientist would be outraged by the nonsense and willy-nilly arbitrariness of philosophy (and don't even try to explain how the rigid arguments of philosophy are strict and sensible)."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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If a = b then c maybe = d;
else god does not exist;It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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Originally posted by KrazyHorse View Post
What happens to the so so physicists?Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that. --Saul TighComment
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They do other things.
90+% of PhD physicists never get a faculty job
The <10% that do represent the top ~150-200 per year
Most of those get faculty jobs at ****ty universities and work their asses off to produce meaningless research, then give up as soon as they're granted tenure
The ones that consistently produce meaningful research represent the top 50 or so per year
The ones that produce important research represent (at most) the top 10 per year
Almost all of the important physics research is either produced or supervised by ~200 people in a 20 year age bracket.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio RegumComment
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Two of the three philosophy majors I've been friends with ended up in computer science, and quite successfully. One became the head of academic computing at NYU and is currently on faculty at Texas A&M; the other has his own software company and, last time I saw him, was driving a Ferrari.Originally posted by Asher View Post
While the whole philosophy field in general may feel pathetically soft to outsiders, the fact is that (at least for those paying attention), it's one of the few liberal arts fields where you get a solid grounding in logic. And that's a transferable skill that is particularly viable in computers.Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-ArmsComment
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I was subjected to two Philosophy courses in university dedicated to logic.
It was sensible for the first course (focusing on boolean logic, etc -- roughly equivalent to first year compsci mathematical logic courses) and after that it was focused more on building logical arguments.
It would be one thing if Boris specialized in Philosophy of Logic, but I'm fairly certain he's one of those ethics slobs."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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