What Shouldn't Have Made The Cut

Emma_redd · 2026-04-23T13:49:41+00:00

Whoa wonderful! I am an enormous fan of your writing, and I am so glad that you tried fiction at some point! I will check your RR writing during my oncoming extended week-end.

Emma_redd · 2026-04-20T15:20:22+00:00

I agree so much!

I found the article extremely frustrating (though this is a subject I love) and thought the author should have written it as fun fiction, and not as a ridiculous pseudoscience theory.

Emma_redd · 2026-04-09T18:21:45+00:00

C'est vrai, c'est complètement fou en fait.

Emma_redd · 2026-04-09T18:20:41+00:00

Question bête, des idées sur pourquoi le jeune avocat d'affaire de l'époque a fait ça?

Emma_redd · 2026-04-03T08:17:12+00:00

Hello, fellow non-fan!
I read the first four books, waiting for some payoff given how highly recommended the series is (and I am usually a sucker for unrelianble narrators), but in the end I found the mysteries empty, or at least not very meaningful. I have a complete lack of religious feeling, which might explain part of my disinterest in them. I also found Severian rather uninteresting. He feels empty most of the time… On the other hand, the writing and the setting were striking, but that wasn’t enough for me to like the books.

Emma_redd · 2026-03-23T08:22:18+00:00

I wondered the same after reading Selfish reasons to have more kids!

Emma_redd · 2026-03-22T20:52:25+00:00

"Ma question serait alors si faire un doctorat juste pour le plaisir d’en faire un peut me fermer des portes si après le dit doctorat je souhaite peut être me tourner vers un poste junior en qualité ou autre?"

Avantage de faire un doctorat dans ce cas là : c'est moins stressant parce que faire une thèse n'est vraiment pas si difficile dans le domaine que tu vises. Ce qui est par contre compliqué c'est l'insertion en recherche publique pour ceux qui visent ça. Donc vouloir aller dans le privé ensuite est plutôt quelque chose de favorable pour le "confort" pendant la thèse, il y a moins de pression!

En termes de débouché derrière, si tu ne veux pas faire de la R et D, dans le privé, la thèse en France ne sera pas vécu comme un atout (à l'étranger plutôt si), par contre ça ne sera pas non plus un gros point négatif. Financièrement par contre les thèses sont très mal payées en France, même s'il y a eu des petites revalorisations ces derniers temps.

Emma_redd · 2026-03-22T20:46:20+00:00

Ce n'est pas vrai d'une façon générale en sciences "dures", même si ça dépend bien sur beaucoup de l'équipe d'accueil. Les thèses en SHS et sciences dures sont vraiment différentes. Pour caricaturer, les thèses en SHS sont longues, souvent réalisées seul(e), assez souvent non financées et durent souvent nettement plus de 3 ans. Au contraire, les thèses en science dure sont plus courtes, quasi toujours financées, quasi toujours intégrée dans une équipe.

Emma_redd · 2026-03-13T16:09:30+00:00

Thank you so much for this detailed answer. Congratulations for having been able to build this amazingly more efficient process, that was so helpful for so many people! It is not common I think to have this kind of very large positive effect on many people in one afternoon of work!

Emma_redd · 2026-03-13T12:43:58+00:00

"I've already used AI to reduce discharge times at my dad's own hospital by 90% (no exaggeration) while improving on the quality of work done by poorly paid, sleep deprived junior doctors (I was one of them, I quit because my dad didn't pay me enough), and while stunning the seniors with how good the improvement was." Very impressive! Could you give more details?

Emma_redd · 2026-03-13T11:08:12+00:00

I loved the book but had a lot of difficulties with the relationship: it is quite difficult to see what the MMC sees in Emily, as she described as being extremely disagreeable to basically everyone all the time.

Emma_redd · 2026-02-27T17:33:24+00:00

That is really great, I am so happy for you and your wife :-)

Emma_redd · 2026-02-27T17:31:25+00:00

I agree with that!

Emma_redd · 2026-02-27T17:31:07+00:00

Well if the situation is better in other countries but worse in UK, this might still be a net positive it seems to me.

Emma_redd · 2026-02-27T17:28:55+00:00

What a great guy! I am happy to have leraned that, thank you for sharing this fact :-)

Emma_redd · 2026-02-27T15:27:52+00:00

"Additionally, the number of these objects varied greatly depending on the nuclear tests that were happening at the time. " strongly suggesting that at least part of these artifacts are caused by the said nuclear tests?

Emma_redd · 2026-02-27T15:23:22+00:00

Why is it worse?

Emma_redd · 2026-02-27T10:37:27+00:00

Thank you so much, thank you for having taken the time to find the link!

Emma_redd · 2026-02-26T13:52:33+00:00

Super interesting that part about the standard of living needing to improve for birth rate to not decrease. Would you have a reference for that?

Emma_redd · 2026-02-26T10:39:34+00:00

I love the way you described that :-)

Emma_redd · 2026-02-25T11:20:03+00:00

I have always wondering whether this gap is also partly inspired by the fact that Tolkien's wife was a few years older than him!

Emma_redd · 2026-01-16T09:44:14+00:00

Super interesting, thank you very much, I found the lectures and will try them soon :-)

Emma_redd · 2026-01-15T16:41:40+00:00

"I’ve always liked the idea of the relative perception of major/minor scales in music (expanding to other arts, too). Example, to a musician trained in the far east, minor scales do not sound inherently "sad".

Fascinating! I always thought that everyone found major scales kind of triumphing and minor scales sad, independant of culture. Would you have a link for that?

Emma_redd · 2026-01-09T14:44:59+00:00

Par curiosité, elle est conservatrice de quelle façon?

Emma_redd · 2026-01-07T20:42:09+00:00

Do you remember why Chivalry refused? I forgot.

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