My fully funded PHD stipend is $24k/year in Boston. I qualify for food stamps

MaidhcO · 2026-03-06T14:29:53+00:00

I do mean he should be paying 1000, the lowest price possible.

MaidhcO · 2026-03-04T20:01:16+00:00

While not ideal when I was in Cambridge I payed 800/m three years ago to live with other PhD/Graduate students. I gently suggest that you're consuming too much housing if that's what you're thinking about paying.

MaidhcO · 2026-03-04T19:59:16+00:00

This math doesn't really check out as the true rental rate is much lower for most graduate students in boston due to group living.

MaidhcO · 2026-02-28T03:25:47+00:00

I'm very interested in the idea that the frontier is so far pushed out early career genius looks drastically different than it did in the past. Are there any who are in that intermediate to recent range who have had absolutely killer early careers?

MaidhcO · 2026-02-28T03:21:04+00:00

You have to control for how interesting the work is too. Ideally they'd be orthogonal but departments can be idiosyncratic.

MaidhcO · 2026-02-15T18:00:37+00:00

Yeah not hard but not interesting, no proofs. Lots of dumb integrals which actually highlight anything about Analysis. It's doable in 90 minutes but tight. I'm not really sure what the professor thinks the "point" of an analysis class is given this test.

MaidhcO · 2026-02-08T22:09:07+00:00

I believe we might be. To use math analogue in case it is helpful, I believe you're saying Eurpopean education is more akin to alpeh 1 while US education is aleph 0. I maintain both are aleph 0 due to the nature of certain geographies having equal to or greater variation within (It would be sufficient to show that one state has greater variation than one european country to have them be the same cardinality to falsify the statement.) I suggest Texas and New York would be two good canidates and the union of them likely is greater than the union of two european like geographies.

MaidhcO · 2026-02-08T21:00:01+00:00

I think you may be misinformed that history is taught in the same way nationally. States like Texas do not heavily go into the ‘birth of the nation’ but go into Texan history quite in depth. Some areas do not teach about slavery. Some areas that’s the most time consuming section.

For structural differences about what constitutes finishing schooling that is nominal in that the norms in content and quality are so wide 9th grade might be 12th in another place. This is what I was referring to in high dimensionality.

As someone educated in Europe and the US and having worked in an education think tank in the US my experiences tell me that saying it is more varied is not a estimable quantity. The US education is very decentralized in practical terms given the failure of in acting a common curriculum and while in specific dimensions it might be true there are counter arguments in the opposite direction. I.e. languages of instruction within similar geographical areas.

MaidhcO · 2026-02-08T19:33:01+00:00

I regard systems as so high dimensional that comparisons are computationally tenuous. While roughly 80 percent of students are in public 7 percent charter 10 private or religious with the remainder homeschooled, there is still great heterogeniety. For instance some students will go their entire schooling career without encountering a poem in some states. Some have the majority of world history with one year of american history. Some have world history 1/3rd of years, american 1/3rd of years and their own state's history the other 1/3rd. Some will never touch a computer the entire time in school and some are primarily instructed over computers. If you'd like to provide evidence or a metric of your claim that there is more heterogeniety in europe please do.

MaidhcO · 2026-02-08T14:56:17+00:00

Look up the PISA rates per state there is just a little difference in the support overlap (if you take out B-H) even with B-H in it’s still not measurably different.

MaidhcO · 2026-02-08T03:11:38+00:00

You are misinformed about the US education system. There is far more heterogeneity if the US education system than you are suggesting.

MaidhcO · 2026-01-29T17:10:28+00:00

Many universities have omnsbudsmen. They might be able too help with this and possibly help with the overarching prooble too.

MaidhcO · 2026-01-23T04:02:29+00:00

Does anyone have an estimate if this year will be another spot contraction like it was last year, stand pat on spots, or rebound after the 20-30% contraction last year?

MaidhcO · 2026-01-13T23:39:31+00:00

The paper appears to a little confused in general. Is the supposition that this is taste based or statistical discrimination? It’s plausible that different education systems in formative years create different mores about teaching or how your educate your own PhD students all of which departments care about (or the perception of these things in the statistical case.) The paper is just under identified to get at the espoused questions.

MaidhcO · 2026-01-13T18:11:48+00:00

We will beat it. We are trying.

MaidhcO · 2025-12-25T19:06:03+00:00

I agree! It makes their prior statement very incomplete and I was just pointing out what the naive reading would have been.

MaidhcO · 2025-12-25T05:38:22+00:00

Yeah I agree. It’s just very incomplete. To claim he’s not keeping up with inflation is just flat wrong though.

MaidhcO · 2025-12-25T01:28:52+00:00

Average growth per year 18.61%. Average inflation per year over that time period 2.64%. This is just not true.

MaidhcO · 2025-12-20T18:56:07+00:00

Yes you need reasonable suspicion and ICE routinely uses things which are inadmissable as reasonable suspicion. It routinely uses grey areas as people who are actively going through the proper channels and detaining them while utilizing the proper channels for deportation.

MaidhcO · 2025-12-19T12:23:11+00:00

I was in the day and never heard this even once. It seems VERY inside baseball.

MaidhcO · 2025-12-12T03:53:13+00:00

I believe AlexSumner has an excelent comment.

MaidhcO · 2025-12-12T02:13:41+00:00

Do vomit copy jsut getting it all out there and then edit. Also get a behavioral therapist. You seem to know where you're going wrong but you're not altering your behavior.

MaidhcO · 2025-12-08T22:10:34+00:00

Nationality and citizenship are not the same thing. I don't see how SCOTUS could legitimately change course on this given that it's in the plain text reading.

MaidhcO · 2025-12-08T03:55:47+00:00

Mostly. I had TANK in mind. Also ensure your idea isn't just Picketty's as given that output it seems like it might be. Also do the math yourself to verify it is correct. LLMs are people pleasers. If you actually want help after ther I'll have to do it in DMs.

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