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    A solution for the P v NP problem

    What can the experts decipher on this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.03486.pdf Is this going to win a million dollars? EDIT: The punchline is P =/= NP
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    Is it just me or is PF dying?

    Thanks for this response Greg, if more posters posted with this same civility and politeness I think it would go a long way to re-establishing my faith in the forums. Why do I visit less often you ask? Well mostly it is because of lack of interesting topics being discussed (not PF's fault...
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    Is it just me or is PF dying?

    Go ahead and look at my profile, I've been around here for over 10+ years. Increasingly I find myself checking PF less and less. We've lost wildly popular and famous posters over the years. Why is this happening? Is it just me or does there seem to be less and less traffic on PF? I remember...
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    News What are the potential solutions for the EU refugee crisis?

    In the US Muslim intergration seems to work, we have a long history here of immigration and a civil rights movement for minorities, but Europe is a completely different story. We already saw in 2005 in France what happened with disenfranchised Muslim youth. In fact, he NYT had apiece on this...
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    News What are the potential solutions for the EU refugee crisis?

    The only person who has used the word 'terrorist' to drscribe the refugees in any of their posts was you. I'm simply saying that terrorist events will probably happen and then blame will be placed on people like the refugees by ultra nationalists. Immigration has always raised tensions. Not just...
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    News What are the potential solutions for the EU refugee crisis?

    Islam and Western values simply do not mix. We are literally watching a powder keg get filled to the brim. How many more terrorist incidents will happen before the immigration crisis explodes and ultra nationalists start doing some pretty bad things? Imagine overnight in the US we had a 51st...
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    News Hillary Clinton Running for President

    I do not understand the appeal of Hillary at all. She is the biggest phony of all time and won't hesitate to sell herself out at all if it is what the audience wants to hear or if it will get her votes (fake southern accents anyone?). How would she sell out the country then if she were in...
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    What programs do researchers use to make their publications?

    SPSS, MATLAB, R, but you'll see a TON of GraphPad Prism. It is very easy to use and is pretty much written by scientists for scientists.
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    Is Intelligence the Only Measure of Success in Medicine and STEM Fields?

    Hogwash. I have a degree in math, chemistry and am near completion o a Phd in engineering. I basically do biochemistry and molecular biology all day now, and biology is insanely hard. Trying to do a coIP in a repeatable manner was harder than any differential equation, graph theory proof...
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    Is Intelligence the Only Measure of Success in Medicine and STEM Fields?

    We've sent premeds from our lab to medical schools like Stanford and Dartmouth and I have NO IDEA how some of them made it into those schools. These are the same students that couldn't even calcate how to dilute a 100 mm stock solution of a drug to 25 micromolar in 20 ml of media. Or other...
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    Insights Science for Love or For Money - Comments

    Doing science 'for the love of it' gets extremely old when you're approaching 40 years old, have little saved, still have student loan debt to pay off, and are still a post-doc hoping and praying for a faculty position that doesn't exist. Tons of scientists are employed in healthcare or...
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    Neurons, DNA, Memory and Learning

    You should look up the theory of allosteric modulators...which is absolutely fascinating in my opinion. Allosteric modulators, in theory, have a built in cap for the limit of the their activity, which is quite different than agonists or antagonists (the more you give, the more response you...
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    Chemistry What to take after BS Chemistry?

    Analytical chemistry, bioanalytical, and mass spectrometry. People who know how to run UPLC/HPLC couple to MS or MS/MS or MS^X and know how to analyze the results are in demand. Organic synthesis has quite horrible employment prospects and is a dying field (pharma has been shipping jobs...
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    Engineering Nursing student- wants to work in biomedical engineering

    BME grad student here--we're just glorified biologists that know how to solve a few differential equations. Our job prospects are OK, but not amazing like some of the other engineering disciplines. IMO, you're in for a difficult job search with just a BME BS. A lot of our undergrads either go...
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    Physics How to Become a Medical Physicist in 3653 Easy Steps - Comments

    Here's a job posting I came across for those that want to do Med Physics: https://hrnt.jhu.edu/jhujobs/job_view.cfm?view_req_id=66945&view=sch Nice salary to boot.
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