I'm just whining about how every technical interviewer seems to think that "Oooh, I'll ask a complicated combinatorics question. That'll get them."
Some one needs to explain to interviewers that combinatorics is another field that can be learned, and while it's more relevant than asking...
Ok, has anyone done a writing exercise like this?
Take 10 random abstracts from different physics fields, and write your abstract by trying to change those abstracts by as little as possible. Like making a Madlib.
The final product is 10 different versions of the same abstract worded...
Has anyone here ever been told that they need to improve their writing by
1) adding more bovine manure
2) make it effing sexy?
It's not that I don't like writing. I just have an extreme distaste for embellishing
Seriously. If anyone has any advice for learning how to write... Write...
I was just reading in "Spin physics in semiconductors" by Dyaknonov section 1.2.4, page 4 in the footnote, how the Earth's spin is expected to precess around its orbital angular momentum.
Does anyone know if this has been considered as a possible cause for Geomagnetic reversal...
How can a financial company "with a large chunk of its portfolio" based on 30 year mortgages pay 14% when mortgage rates are around 4%?
by borrowing at a lower rate to invest in the business. I.e. leveraging. Which means they're even more susceptible to market fluctuations. If something like...
Poor regulation of MBS are what caused the 2008 crash. The article didn't mention that at all, or what has been done to rectify the underlying issue. He mentions book value?! Guffaw! Who decides how much the underlying real estate is worth? The Fed with their 40 bil MBS purchasing?
I'm no...
This link really ticked me off
http://beta.fool.com/equityfinancials/2013/04/07/undervalued-financial-stock-yielding/29465/?source=eogyholnk0000001
You think we would have learned the lesson the last crash around...
You've goot beef with economists? Have you seen the approximations in condensed matter physics of metals and semiconds? They make economists look like prude accountants.
MPhys in the US is now a requirement with new regulation for the jobs in that field. I don't know what things are like in the UK. If you do go for the PhD, just keep applying places and drop it like a bad habit when you have a good offer.
Ahhh! Trying to get a head start, eh? Trying to develop a career, eh? 14 isn't too young to start. So here's a to do list.
1) Learn all of high school, trigonometry, calculus, chemistry, and physics. That might take a few years. When I say learn, I mean do every problem and the end of...
What a coincidence, I'm a physicist that's looking to become a computer programmer. How bout we trade places?
No seriously, if you're thinking about a future where you procreate and provide for a family, I'd forget about astronomy. Some people do make it happen, but they are the exceptions...
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Here is an example of a typical scam. You have ten places and one job. You tell everyone that if they work really hard they'll get that one job. Ten people work, but you only pay for one person, and you can tell the other nine that they didn't work hard enough. So you end up getting...