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How to come back to academic machine learning career after absence due to health issues
Back in 2018 I started a master's degree in CS focusing on ML with the goal of eventually obtaining a PhD. This did not work out for two reasons: 1) most of the ML faculty left for another university. ...
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The Zentralblatt asked me to review a worthless paper, what to do?
I am an amateur mathematician who at age 64 finally became published in January. As a result, review requests started coming in.
The first two were from two different journals. Both papers were well ...
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Is it unfair for a journal to change a decision on an accepted paper if it is later found to be too derivative of the author's previous work?
I edit a journal and we have recently started using similarity checks. We have a paper that we accepted, but before we published it we found that it is very similar to previous papers of the author.
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Is there a recommended day to send a cold email or is it better to send it as early as possible?
I've always known that it's best to send cold emails to potential postdoc supervisors on Monday morning. Now I find myself in the situation where I've found a professor who lists a postdoc vacancy on ...
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Citing specific R functions in publications?
I'm wondering how common (or uncommon) it is to cite R functions in publications. E.g. to write in a manuscript something like:
We used the 'X' function from the 'Y' package version 0.2.0 [@ref] to ...
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Design-Based Research and Design Thinking: are they the same thing?
Is there a difference between design-based research and design thinking? I was introduced to the idea of DT in a start-up scenario. The experience led me to DBR. Sometimes I think they are doing the ...
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(College, Public Speaking) HW Help looking for a good source that argues against my point [closed]
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Greetings! I am currently compiling an annotated bibliography for my persuasive speech, which sheds light on the topic of invisible disabilities. To create a well-rounded ...
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Professor previously wrote letter, and now he's not responding to my emails
Last year I applied for PhD programs. I got together four letter writers two from my current MA program and two from a previous MA program. I was rejected from every PhD program that year, and I was ...
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What should I do with academic misconduct of my advisor?
My PhD advisor shared research proposal materials with us that he has reviewed as a grant panelist. He told us feel free to read whenever we have time and explore these ideas. I don't feel comfortable ...
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Open Educational Resources Listed on CV
I have been contributing to OER Commons, and was wondering how I could consider adding that to my CV. I have two works now that I used LaTex to construct problems, and develop flashcards for ...
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How are plagiarism cases, within the same institution, typically resolved, in the US? [closed]
Let's say X did some work at a research institution, and then he left. Then years later, another person Y at the same institution published this work, perhaps further augmented, but without saying it ...
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How is an R01 grant typically split? [closed]
Let's say an NIH R01 grant pays $500,000 per year in total cost. And the PI does not have any other grants.
How does this get split, typically? $200,000 to the institution, $150,000 to the PI and the ...
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Status of a manuscript whose required reviews are completed
I have submitted a paper to a good math journal in first week of May 2024. After a month (+ a week at most), the online system shows the status “Required reviews completed”. However, to this day, I ...
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What do you struggle with (psychically and physically) when working on a digital project? [closed]
as the title says: how would you describe your health condition while working on one or multiple projects in digital? I'm curious about digital wellbeing and safety topic and I'd really appreciate if ...
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Can someone with a PhD in the field take the GRE/SAT/AP tests in the same field and pass, without preparation? [closed]
I'm curious if someone with a PhD in (say) math can take AP math, SAT Math 2, or GRE math subject test and pass, without preparation. I define "pass" as scoring enough for an "A" ...
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