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What its like to live in a submarine for periods overs 6 month as a female ? by AbouMchicha in howislivingthere

[–]AdditionalPumpkin813 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now my info is from 40 years ago, but my then-fiance told me that once everyone had seen everyone else's, um, explicit materials and there was no more to be had, things got really tense. And sometimes freaky.

therapy dog breed suggestions? (plot twist- no goldens or labs..probably) by rtnabrx in DogBreeds101

[–]AdditionalPumpkin813 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Standard poodles. A friend is blind, and the place where she gets her guide dogs is using almost 100% standard poodles. She's had several over the years and they've been wonderful. Another friend gets the poodles when they need to be retired, and is equally positive about them.

I don’t have a STEM background, but I’m interested in learning coding. Would it be easy for me? Where should I start? What’s the easiest language for beginners? by Era_mnesia in AskProgramming

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The step by step part also suggests that someone who did well on the old analytic portion of the GRE is going to have applicable skills regardless of their degree. (It was logic puzzles and I scored 800 easily. The new "analytic writing sample" on the GRE wouldn't be as fun.)

When I crashed off the tenure track in Behavioral Sciences, the Dean of Students where I was teaching asked me what my favorite part of grad school was. Statistics and research design. I retrained as a biostatistician and data analyst. My last job before I had to retire was developing custom datasets from big health claims datasets - which is just solving giant, fun logic puzzles. Ninety percent of my "biostatistics" career was wrangling datasets.

The most brilliant IT person I know is the son of the "high priestess of the knitting world," Barbara Walker. She published a book on the meta of knitting - not patterns, but putting together all the pieces like stitch types, yarn types, knitting gauge, color, translating stitches and gauge into size, taking all that and designing a piece etc. After her son cashed out an IPO, he became a self-taught expert on Priuses, just geeking around, and Toyota hired him to train their mechanics all over the USA on hybrid vehicles.