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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Jan 2019
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      What’s a tweet that would get certain people to unfollow you that you’d actually be okay standing behind? You should probably tweet it. Not to cultivate a perverse repulsiveness for its own sake, but to help people correctly flip bozobit on you by their standards.

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    2. Brian Skinner‏ @gravity_levity 4 Jan 2019
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      I think it's a mistake to encourage more people to go into science. Also, many fewer people should be getting science PhDs. Leaving after a master's degree should be the default for science grad students, with relatively rare exceptions.

      9 replies 15 retweets 68 likes
    3. twinkle88‏ @twinkle883 4 Jan 2019
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      What do you think the science PhD is for? What do you most who do get it do it for?

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    4. Brian Skinner‏ @gravity_levity 4 Jan 2019
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      I think that the vast majority of PhD students just need a taste of research plus a few advanced technical courses. But they get stuck in a 6+ year slog, even when it's clear that they aren't going to become professional researchers.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Jan 2019
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      Also, dare I say, more of them should just become engineers instead. It fits a much wider and more common brain type. Pickup truck over bespoke finely tuned race car versions of the scientific sensibility. It’s easier to have fun as one of the proles too.

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    6. Brian Skinner‏ @gravity_levity 4 Jan 2019
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      Not sure I agree about the "brain type" thing, but there is definitely a broader need for engineers than for scientists, and a much wider variety of career options.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Jan 2019
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      Well i suck st both so what do I know. My neurotype is probably mathematician brain but very mediocre quality. That’s why I ended up in control theory which is basically applied math.

      4:01 PM - 4 Jan 2019
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        2. Brian Skinner‏ @gravity_levity 4 Jan 2019
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          I loved the one class I took in controls. It was the most like magic of anything I learned in engineering.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Jan 2019
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          That was *exactly* my response to undergrad control and the reason I went down that road for PhD despite only getting a B in the class (IITs grade harshly in a curve and I was a slacker too, to be fair). Despite 8 years in the field it mostly still seems like magic.

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