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“Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty." — Tim Ferriss

WTF. Stanford is a desiccated, over manicured suburban shopping mall with maybe two nice buildings, no style and no vibe. Berkeley’s campus is 100x nicer in every way.

in the research forest

the time picker on iphones alarm app isn’t actually circular it’s just a really long list

It seems to me that a significant part of academia hasn’t gotten the message that politicization of what we do has harmed our standing with the public and put us in a weak position.

I thought he was a "scientific publishing extremist" six months ago. after my experience with my two most recent papers, I'm radicalized and onboard with abolishing journals. we need some kind of DARPA competition for software engineers and scientists to get together to propose

ok now I can do a mini-manual on my BMX bike (more difficult than it looks).

You don’t need a degree bro drop out of college

quirky wildlife refuge in Portland (blue building is a mausoleum) and pickle apple cider.

so much science and engineering goes into agriculture to keep our food supply abundant, affordable, and secure.

🌱👃when under biotic or abiotic stress, plants emit a bouquet of volatile organic compounds as a defense or communication mechanism. exploiting this, gas sensors can be developed for detecting crop stress before visual symptoms appear, for early intervention.

well, at least we learned our lesson about not sending Chinese scientists back to China

📍Corvallis, OR. Marys Peak in the distance.

🤣 state schools often offer a solid, quality---yet, ~affordable---education. indeed, good parties too, which are a social component of the education!

There's an enormous crisis looming for US colleges.

esp. if the algo were written in Julia 😍 BeautifulAlgorithms.jl 👇 github.com/mossr/Beautifu…