I don't disagree that a condescending view has been taken by the writer. Whether it contains elements of truth is another issue. Now it means that we only have one main disagreement - with regards to the validity of this comparison. As ParticleGrl said, that's the very definition of opportunity...
Opportunity cost. ParticleGrl has my point in greater clarity than I can write.
This reminds me of two other articles about income prospects. Just sharing:
http://aps.org/policy/tools/alert201110.cfm
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v398/n6724/full/398265a0.html
The obvious point of convergence is on a time scale, for someone who is considering either career path (academia or industry) immediately after graduation. I think you're missing the point that this gaping (and unfortunate) difference that you're pointing out is precisely what the author of the...
I've just completed reading the article you've linked, and it is useful too, in a different dimension. I stand by my recommendation of the article I've linked.
For instance, the facts stated are true. Being offered a $12,000/year stipend in graduate school (en route to a possible career in...
I'll like to share this great article on the contrast between academic and the working world (it's written for engineers especially from the computing side, but largely relevant to anyone in the natural science/engineering field).
"Academia is not like the real world: Your GPA largely doesn’t...
You have great credentials; I know someone with <3.0 GPA from a small college but he still managed to land his 2nd biochemistry REU this year.
I also know someone who has had 4 years of research (since high school), 3 publications, 11 grad classes and 1 AIP award halfway through sophomore year...
I was in your position. I started with plans to specialize in quantum computation by the time I got to grad school, and declared physics, mathematics and electrical engineering as my majors, and entertained thoughts of CS. I think it's a wonderful field, I still follow it - in fact there will be...
I have an upcoming written exam in a class on quantitative risk management (in the style of Quantitative Risk Management: Concepts, Techniques, and Tools by McNeil, Frey & Embrechts), covering concepts such as:
- risk factors and loss distributions (conditional and unconditional)
- mapping of...
My description above is really bad. I meant, I am interested in a queueing network text (first priority).
But the exact problem I am working on is a open network of queues in series, with some fixed number of nodes, and the arrival rates of various classes of "customers" are decision...
I've been looking up reviews of queueing theory textbooks and seeing their tables of contents on Amazon, but I haven't found a satisfactory one.
In particular, I'm trying to tackle a class of problems where there is a bunch of resources (for example, memory in a computer or empty seats in a...
Ah thanks for the explanations! It was really helpful. I overlooked the divisibility argument and I'll try implementing the code with reduced iterations as an exercise.
Oh, awesome! I've been annoyed with the time.sleep(5) for a while now, I should have thought of this, thanks!
OK I solved my first question, I had a mistake with the elif conditions... Here's the new code:
#This program verifies if an integer is prime.
import time
x = int(raw_input('Please enter an integer.\n'))
if x == 2:
print ('2 is a prime')
elif x < 2:
print (str(x) + ' is not...
Homework Statement
I'm supposed to write a program which asks for an integer input, then determines if the input is a prime or not.
I wrote a program but I have 2 issues:
1) It works well for primes up to around the size of 30000~, then above that (I just tried 65537, for a weak upper bound)...
OH WAIT, I am an idiot! Ahhh.
As you two suggest, I think my professor is expecting a group homomorphism actually (without \varphi(1)=1 condition). She teaches off Gallian's text, which doesn't have the \varphi(1)=1 condition in the definition of a ring homomorphism... But I think I've...