August 9, 2021
There are too many PhD student and not enough professor positions. This creates a poor ‘academic paper’ environment. These people, I assume, want to do research more than teach, but I need good teachers and they want to do research. I would have them teach at all level, even if they are researching high level topics.
February 9, 2021
Nothing in life is 100%, 1, or perfectly full. This can be proven in a quantum mechanical standpoint or through the semantics of classification. The idea of approaching the asymptote fills this gap and allows us to proceed normally with our life.
Some people would say that there is no such thing as a Utopia, these people would be right. So is there no point of attempting to get there if the end goal is impossible to achieve?
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Tags: Research
Choose the path that you want to take. Fuck your formal education, what others tell you to do, or what your parents want you to do. This is your own life that you are living right now, and you only have one of it; so do what you want.
Strong words that often fail to float in the reality. The truth of the world, at the moment, is that optimizing for happiness or passion does not always lead to your best life.
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With post-processing vote (less voter registration and more processing once votes are in), the official have more power to decide whether a vote is valid or not, giving a bigger threat than if it is harder for people to register in the first place.
Or as John Adams says, the “Divine Science of Politicks.”
Before anything, I want to first lay down some common definitions so we get a similar sense of what we are dealing with here. To communicate effectively, we must have a strong basis to build upon.
government (noun): the body of persons that contribute the governing authority of a political unit or organization
governing (verb): to exercise continuous sovereign authority over
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Often when I meet new people, both my major(s) and my future employment come up. I am always honest with them; I am an engineering physics and computer science double major, and I want to go into politics. This will often leave them in confusion, either asking how I want to connect my engineering degrees to politics or asking why I am majoring in two engineering disciplines.
When people ask the former, they try and connect my engineering knowledge to specific technical policy decision: whether to invest in this type of energy source, technical choices of internet restrictions and rules.
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The objective biology of it
We want to live to reproduce
But why would anyone want to live in pain?
What does better mean?
We collect to make everyone’s lives better
If you have ever received coaching or tips when generating a start-up, one common action is creating a mission statement. On the surface, mission statements seem to be an advertisement or public relation trick to boost the reputation of your company, and it some cases this maybe true.
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