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jaksmit
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
what gave you the idea that infant formula is "very healthy". definitely not the case for 99% of infant formula in the USA, it's full of canola oil and crap
jaksmit
·2 года назад·discuss
dunno why the writer opted for this: "Our equity packages vest over 3 years instead of the industry standard 4-year period."

given it takes a long time to build companies; so on the contrary, many startups are instead opting for like 6 year windows.

"We allow employees to exercise options up to 10 years after they leave instead of 90 days." - the reason that 90 days is more standard is that it's more tax effective than having options exercisable for 10 years, though many companies are making a compromise on this recently
jaksmit
·4 года назад·discuss
i just tried to create a map and it didn’t even support searching by gps coordinates

how therefore am i supposed to find a place i’ve identified on google maps?
jaksmit
·5 лет назад·discuss
thanks and thanks for the headsup!
jaksmit
·5 лет назад·discuss
Here is a reply to this tweet thread, posted on behalf of an incarcerated person (christopherhavensmath.com):

"I don't quite agree with much of what is said, but it does also have some truth to it.

The fact is that many people publishing thesis papers are not publishing in major journals and so often have many errors. As well, one can publish a paper that is never refereed by experts in that field at all. Those are disreputable papers. It is our responsibility as mathematicians to pay attention of where the work that we build from comes from. When publishing work, there is a system which ranks the integrity of the academic journals, and my method involves beginning at the best quality journal that is relevant to your work.. the referees attack the paper and send you feedback, possibly rejecting your paper. Then you make adjustments according to their feedback and either resubmit to them, repeating the process, or you submit to the next best journal. After being rejected so many times, your article strengthens more and more until the best possible journal accepts your work.

This method assures that the quality of your work reflects the quality of the publishing journal. My first paper went down the list three notches and landed on a high level journal. But the process of submission was brutal and lasted over two years. There are no gaps in our work (Myself and my 3 coauthors). Rather there are gaps in the understanding of the concepts that immediately surround our work.

When we submit work, often we continue studying in that field and learn rather quickly that our submitted work could have been much better in the sense that you wish you would have included things that are obvious upon countless reviews of your own work. In this sense, good work can have gaps, but that does not necessarily mean that the submission contained errors.

But of course there are many papers out there published through websites or some other means that have zero academic value. The best thing to do is make sure that any research paper you use or reference comes from a reputable journal.

There is one thing to keep in mind... probably the most important part. We research for many reasons. Part of it for me is that research represents the pursuit of beauty. If you're doing math for the reason of adding another notch to your ladder towards academic elitism, then you're doing it for the wrong reason. We are the chasers of mathematical beauty. When we find such beauty the hard part is expressing it flawlessly in the form of human knowledge."
jaksmit
·5 лет назад·discuss
If anyone is interested in number theory and would like to help some incarcerated people that are working on a number theory paper:

I'm a director of the Prison Math Project: http://prisonmathproject.org/

We have a few advanced mathematicians in jail who don't have access to computers. They need help with formatting their work in LaTeX and stuff like that to make it ready for publication (credit offered).

They have previously co-authored some papers from within jail eg

"Linear Fractional Transformations And Nonlinear Leaping Convergents Of Some Continued Fractions"

"Math And Art In Prison: A Collaborative Effort Across The Ocean"

please reach out if any interest in helping them.