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300 deaths seems like a very insignificant figure to be worked up over.

My experience has been as an enrolled PhD student in the US, so my thoughts may not completely apply.

I would just go talk to the professor teaching the class if you do not care about any documents saying you took the class. I have sat in on many different classes this way.

Things to note: -You may have some trouble on both extremes of class enrollment. Some courses require a minimum number of students to be enrolled for the class for it to be offered, so if there are not enough or bare minimum number of people taking the class you might experience some resistance. On the opposite end, for classes with long waitlists, you may not be able to sit in. -If you are not affiliated with the university, you may have trouble accessing course files that are locked behind a university authentication.

My advice if you want to go this route is to minimize your impact on the professor. Wanting special accommodations, such as special delivery of class materials or participating in homeworks/projects/exams may give some professors pause.

Warm Dense Matter can be thought of as ionized jello.

I think you have pretty much proved his point.

>I realise it's hard for FOSS advocates to understand this, because it's a fundamental flaw with the FOSS philosophy. The benefits are "obvious" to crusaders, but the objective reality is that large swathes of FOSS are full of casual or hobby code that barely works, has gaping security vulns, and/or is nowhere close to being robust enough for production.

>And the solution then is to not use FOSS, because then you don't have to take the internals on trust?

I think the point is to realize FOSS is not a utopia and has tradeoffs like everything else.

Do you want him to save and pay for college himself? If so, a livable wage doesn't seem too crazy with (US) college tuition.

>The immense engineering challenge here is to heat plasma to ridiculous temperatures, and keep it confined in a very small volume at great temperature and pressure to mimic conditions that give rise to nuclear fusion in the center of stars.

This is not exactly true. Inertial confinement fusion has conditions that are similar to stars. The engineering challenge for magnetically confined fusion to keep the low density plasma confined for long time durations for fusion.

For anyone interested in further reading, look up the Lawson Criterion.

I think it is more that candidates (especially well qualified ones) view the interview process as a two way street. The company is probing you for competence/fit for the position and the candidate is probing the company for things like culture fit.

I think that this covers the general situation pretty well.

I would also consider who you want your audience to be and the scope. If it is something that you want a non-expert to read, consider a blog post. On the other hand you may want to consider something like a patent if it is something you want to monetize. Lastly, consider peer reviewed journals if it is intended to be consumed by domain experts. All of this is from physics research perspective and may be different depending on your area.

I am curious if anyone has advice/tips for getting a simple portfolio up and running. I am a physics phd student who has worked on a few side projects that I would like to showcase. I am looking into Jekyll and hosting it on github, but I am not sure if this is ideal for a simple static site.

Exactly this. Also different journals act as a weak filter for impact of the research.

I don't think it is that unusual for grad students to research a try during PhD, decide it is not for them, and then move onto other things afterwards. This is from a physics grad school perspective though.

This seems pretty interesting and useful!

It does seem like the pricing structure does not incentivize people actually getting jobs though. With a small pool of people (people looking for top finance jobs) it seems like the way to make the most money is to perpetually sell job seekers mock interviews, rather than prioritizing a job seeker to find a position on the first go. Is this a fair reading of the situation?

It would be helpful to link the study. Without seeing the paper, I would be cautious of separating the paper and conclusions it draws from a possible news article that has extrapolated or expanded the conclusion actually made in the paper.

I somewhat disagree.

Academic journal papers are meant to be digested by experts in that topic, not the general population. It seems necessary to have a filter on registration to ensure that the platform is useful to these experts. You could imagine the restriction could be relaxed to research institution emails -or- a referral.

Even with a restrictive registration, the platform could still be useful to the a non-expert who is interested in the topic by reading the exchanges between experts.