The top 1% of professors are the likes of Terrence Tao (mostly the entire population of the math departments of the world's universities). The remaining 99% of assistant/associate/full professors fight with the usual dirty tricks:
- knowing people in high places or being supervised by one (the benefits are immense: you can publish in better venues, and get better job offers), - publishing uncountably many junk articles to boost up impact factor (for either self or for colleagues in the same clique), - securing grants with buzzword-laden proposals.
Of course, your personal experiences may vary.
Now about that IQ thing and how much it matters. My theory is: "Once you understand higher maths, you're halfway to anywhere" (with apologies to Heinlein).
Usually in discussions with people on/. the libertarians are moderated down, I wouldn't be surprised to see your comment go down to -1 Troll for no reason other than you have some principles and the moderators hate them.
Except when a post quickly follows and claims that the parent post will be modded down, in which case the parent post will be modded up.
Ha ha, then you won't be able to publish any paper.
The research world is now filled with researchers who simply don't read others' works, and just keep writing. Even if it's been done before (or even if it doesn't make any sense at all), eventually they will be able to find a venue that will accept the paper, because no reviewer can know everything.
And worries not about citation! Those work will be cited because of exactly the same reasons, or even worse, because the party who cites it has performed work that has been superseded by other more advanced studies, and that shallow paper is the only one that can justify his (equally shallow) work.
Remember, in the end, it's the guy who publishes the most that wins.
The Human Rights Council has been hijacked by Islamists in the last few years.
Human rights no longer mean rights to speak, but rather rights to control speeches.
Now it's all right with me if they want to control the post-modernist idiots who just want to blabber nonsense all day, but science must be allowed to speak --- against religions if the evidences say so.
It's a pity no news agency is willing to cover the story.
By "nothing that Maple cannot do" is meant the formulas are manipulated automatically using Maple and then cut and paste into the paper.
PDE is fairly involved but not at the application level. Same with MRF. (I take it that you meant these theories in the applied sense since you mentioned "Once you get closer to actual practice".)
I hope you understand that the average mathematician has to publish new results in mathematics constantly to stay employed in the university. Are we talking about the same average mathematicians here? (I am not a mathematician but I have worked with some before, and I too have to publish constantly to stay employed.)
Look at the flowers OzPeter above linked to, and you can judge Mapplethorpe's artistic quality using a more neutral subject.
As another person commented: "You're way too easily impressed. I'm sorry but either you have very little experience with this kind of photography or you're pulling my leg. There is literally much better on flickr."
I would say I have taken better pictures myself, but that is too subjective for me to say.
While I fear empowered censors more than the effects of such "art," we should at least have the honesty to admit that such "art" expresses the worst of humanity. I'm not even 30 yet, and quite frankly I've grown sick of the self-assured, hipster posers who think this trash is edgy and avant-garde.
Exactly what I have been saying, and it's actually even worse.
When classified as art, these works will bring down the status of those art that actually require good senses and rigor (mathematics, physics, paintings, programs, inventions).
Furthermore, these "arts" may make people so annoyed that they start to regard less of freedom of expression. In the end the rights to say what is important (as in "Galileo") become compromised, together with these other rights (the rights to say "I got a needle in my penis").
Slashdot Mirror
1. People who like Google are not called fanbois. They are called "Defenders of Earth".
2. Apple fans are called fanbois.
3. On the other hand, Microsoft supporters are called Microsofties.
The princess is not wearing anything!
Did Apple invent the accelerometer?
Just curious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
The top 1% of professors are the likes of Terrence Tao (mostly the entire population of the math departments of the world's universities). The remaining 99% of assistant/associate/full professors fight with the usual dirty tricks:
- knowing people in high places or being supervised by one (the benefits are immense: you can publish in better venues, and get better job offers),
- publishing uncountably many junk articles to boost up impact factor (for either self or for colleagues in the same clique),
- securing grants with buzzword-laden proposals.
Of course, your personal experiences may vary.
Now about that IQ thing and how much it matters. My theory is: "Once you understand higher maths, you're halfway to anywhere" (with apologies to Heinlein).
Usually in discussions with people on /. the libertarians are moderated down, I wouldn't be surprised to see your comment go down to -1 Troll for no reason other than you have some principles and the moderators hate them.
Except when a post quickly follows and claims that the parent post will be modded down, in which case the parent post will be modded up.
Of course not. I'll have blown a hole in my skull by then ;)
<pedant>If bullets go through a head that hard.</pedant>
Ha ha, then you won't be able to publish any paper.
The research world is now filled with researchers who simply don't read others' works, and just keep writing. Even if it's been done before (or even if it doesn't make any sense at all), eventually they will be able to find a venue that will accept the paper, because no reviewer can know everything.
And worries not about citation! Those work will be cited because of exactly the same reasons, or even worse, because the party who cites it has performed work that has been superseded by other more advanced studies, and that shallow paper is the only one that can justify his (equally shallow) work.
Remember, in the end, it's the guy who publishes the most that wins.
In the printing industry, stuffs are frequently printed just for proofing purposes. The wasted papers cost the industry gazillion dollars every year.
This printer is perfect for that industry.
Mod points! Mod points! My kingdom for a moderation point!
A Goldman Sachs-er on slashdot?
I will take on this one. Where's my pitchfork?
If any company dare to not attempt to penetrate the Chinese market, it is sure to be severely punished in Wall Street.
The effects on Wall Street is so short-sighted and over-reacted it won't be able to survive 2 quarters.
Traders = America's biggest problems. Not chinese.
a single Westerner has the buying power of many Chinese.
Not for long, with the sinking dollar.
Wittgenstein's opinion was that "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." (Tractatus).
(Well, at least before his own doubts consumed him and made him a friend of the existentialists.)
Can more people mod parent insightful, please?
The Human Rights Council has been hijacked by Islamists in the last few years.
Human rights no longer mean rights to speak, but rather rights to control speeches.
Now it's all right with me if they want to control the post-modernist idiots who just want to blabber nonsense all day, but science must be allowed to speak --- against religions if the evidences say so.
It's a pity no news agency is willing to cover the story.
Sociology is to science what Jeffery Archer is to literature.
Is Jeffery Archer really that bad?
I see. The problem is with the fact that there is a prime, 3, that is divisible by 3.
Since no other prime is divisible by 3, it should work for 5 and above.
Half the math guys needed hints to prove that if x-1 and x+1 are prime, x is divisible by 6.
I got it in less than 5 minutes (I think. Forgot to count). Can I now write "among the better half of all math guys" in my resume?
What? There is a new equation editor in Google Docs? Cool. Gotta check it out!
(Apologies for ignoring your plug for Zoho. Maybe you shouldn't have mentioned the shiny equation editor.)
Some of us predate UID's and only got one to banish John Katz from our homepage.
Hear! Hear!
We all resisted from "belong"-ing to any "internet community", unlike those who cave in to every latest fad.
(%$#!^&*#& me grasshoppers...)
This is the greatest comic I have ever read! A few pages into the comic and I am already a fan. There's just so many excellent insights.
"As an initial tactic, I've had some bankers shot this morning to keep up confidence."
The Duke of Wellington for the new Federal Reserve Chairman!
I'm pretty sure the original poster for OS9 was not talking about MacOS 9. There's an old OS called OS9 that had nothing to do with Macs.
I think you are probably referring to Plan 9 from Bells Lab.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
By "nothing that Maple cannot do" is meant the formulas are manipulated automatically using Maple and then cut and paste into the paper.
PDE is fairly involved but not at the application level. Same with MRF. (I take it that you meant these theories in the applied sense since you mentioned "Once you get closer to actual practice".)
I hope you understand that the average mathematician has to publish new results in mathematics constantly to stay employed in the university. Are we talking about the same average mathematicians here? (I am not a mathematician but I have worked with some before, and I too have to publish constantly to stay employed.)
Look at the flowers OzPeter above linked to, and you can judge Mapplethorpe's artistic quality using a more neutral subject.
As another person commented: "You're way too easily impressed. I'm sorry but either you have very little experience with this kind of photography or you're pulling my leg. There is literally much better on flickr."
I would say I have taken better pictures myself, but that is too subjective for me to say.
While I fear empowered censors more than the effects of such "art," we should at least have the honesty to admit that such "art" expresses the worst of humanity. I'm not even 30 yet, and quite frankly I've grown sick of the self-assured, hipster posers who think this trash is edgy and avant-garde.
Exactly what I have been saying, and it's actually even worse.
When classified as art, these works will bring down the status of those art that actually require good senses and rigor (mathematics, physics, paintings, programs, inventions).
Furthermore, these "arts" may make people so annoyed that they start to regard less of freedom of expression. In the end the rights to say what is important (as in "Galileo") become compromised, together with these other rights (the rights to say "I got a needle in my penis").