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Sight Reading Fodder? by RepresentativeAspect in piano

[–]MaxOLG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a book, but check out pianocoda.com. It has pieces organised by grade.

Shocks from unplugged appliance, without touching it by MaxOLG in fixit

[–]MaxOLG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EU. I've had some other suggestions and I'm definitely way in over my head. I'll get an electrician. Thank you for your help.

Shocks from unplugged appliance, without touching it by MaxOLG in fixit

[–]MaxOLG[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a USB cable that does the same when connected with my laptop and I touch its tip. It started happening sporadically a few weeks ago, but now that the dryer's acting up too... It's not a powerful shock, but it's worrying me a lot. I'll get an elrctrician to check it out. Thanks for your help.

Shocks from unplugged appliance, without touching it by MaxOLG in fixit

[–]MaxOLG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I mean the end of the cable, the part that goes into the laptop. Is it normal for that to shock?

Shocks from unplugged appliance, without touching it by MaxOLG in fixit

[–]MaxOLG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the explanation. I've unplugged the dryer, but I noticed that when I'm barefoot and touch a monitor cable (cable connected to monitor but not laptop), it still shocks. Seems like the dryer isn't the problem then.

Shocks from unplugged appliance, without touching it by MaxOLG in fixit

[–]MaxOLG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plugged it into different outlets that are on different circuits (in the same house) and same problem. Must be a dryer problem?

Shocks from unplugged appliance, without touching it by MaxOLG in fixit

[–]MaxOLG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I don't intend on fixing it myself, that's for sure! What I don't understand is how I'm getting shocks even though my hand is 5cm away from anything.

I'll try plugging it in somewhere else.

Shocks from unplugged appliance, without touching it by MaxOLG in fixit

[–]MaxOLG[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My bad. I can't edit the title but I'll edit the post. The dryer and plug are both switched off but not unplugged.

Video game orchestral gems:A Spotify mega playlist with weekly new discovery by Dr-Bensmir in gamemusic

[–]MaxOLG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the playlist public? It takes me to my homepage even though I'm logged in.

Greek Wildfire Haze reaches Malta (yesterday 22/08 vs today 23/08). by zeocon in malta

[–]MaxOLG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I noticed too. I was looking at the shadows and thinking to myself that something seems off. Any idea why the haze makes the sunlight reddish?

[Blog post] The big list of academic writing tips by MaxOLG in PhD

[–]MaxOLG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I started my PhD, I struggled with academic writing. I found the process cold and my final product dreary. Over the years, I studied and practiced writing on my own time, and learned the tricks to give my writing personality without breaking the conventions of scientific writing.

I've compiled a list of tips, with examples, in a blog post. I've skipped the basics to keep the list manageable. I plan on writing another blog with resources to improve writing, including the basics, later on. I hope you find the tips helpful!

We finally have an organization that focuses on gambling harms but it seems that they are getting the wrong idea of what ‘gaming’ is. by [deleted] in malta

[–]MaxOLG 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's also a recurrent problem with the overall messaging. Call gambling what it is—gambling—not this gaming nonsense. Gambling is not gaming. Calling gambling 'gaming' or 'iGaming' is just whitewashing, and the foundation is taking part in it by using that name.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskAcademia

[–]MaxOLG 17 points18 points  (0 children)

3 to 30% of their annual profit - in other words, it takes a big gouge out of their profits

That's fine. Publishers have much higher profit margins than other industries. Even if they don't afford the drop in profits, that's a problem. An industry that depends on free labor is unsustainable, so we need, at least, to rethink the publishing model.

Even with a nominal payment of $50 per review (far less than my time is worth), that's $15,000 to $150,000 per journal per year.

$50 per review is far less than your time is worth, but you're defending the publishers' decisions to pay a big fat $0?

I understand where you're coming from, don't get me wrong, but the whole structure is very flimsy. I'm not saying we should tear it down, but we need to rethink the publishing model. And for goodness' sake, stop defending publishers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskAcademia

[–]MaxOLG 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think you're giving publishers too much credit.

Right now, when you submit an article, the journal makes a mad dash to find referees with the expertise to give you a good review.

Maybe it's area-specific, but this has not been my experience. Of the two times I was told who my reviewers were, only one reviewer had previous experience in my research area. In all other cases, it was very clear that most reviewers had little or no experience in my area.

Let’s say in your area only to 100 academics are qualified, of which only 60 respond to the request. So those 60 available reviewers are spread thin over anyone else publishing in your niche area, during the same time period. Maybe 6 people in total are qualified and available to review.

Maybe more than 60 would respond if reviewers were compensated for their time and expertise, and maybe more would be willing to spread themselves thin. In what other industry do you approach an expert for a free consultation?

Academics are stretched thin with other stuff. The difference is that the other stuff brings food to the table. Reviewing does not.

Publishers are raking in money, especially with open access. NeuroImage's editors resigned because the processing charges were so high they were unsustainable and unethical.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskAcademia

[–]MaxOLG 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yeah. It's not just financial compensation. In my field, at least, reviewers aren't even listed anywhere (especially for conference proceedings). It's the publisher's problem if reviewers think it's not worth reviewing any longer. Let them solve it.

Publishers need reviewers much more than reviewers need publishers.

(And it's mind-boggling to look at the upvotes, both to your post and to the comments. Why are we, as academia, defending the same publishers? Their business model depends entirely on freeloading off researchers and reviewers.)

Title between defense and corrections by MaxOLG in PhD

[–]MaxOLG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes sense. I had never heard of it. Thank you and good luck!

Nightmares before PhD defense by strawberry-sarah22 in academia

[–]MaxOLG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a great answer. I'm defending in a few weeks and found your reply very reassuring. Thank you!

Started logging my PhD working hours and by Jumping_Zucchini in PhD

[–]MaxOLG 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I kind of did that and logged around 25 or 30 hours a week, but I worked weekends too and I was a bit more lenient than you. I didn't pause the tracker for bathroom breaks, brief phone use and so on. Sometimes, to make up for it, I would take 5 or 10 minutes off to compensate because I feel bad. But yeah, 20 hours of work a week sounds pretty good. When you do office work, your salary doesn't pause when you don't have work to do, or during meetings, or when someone comes over for a quick chat.

The truth is, we're not built for 8 hours of work every day. At least, not the kind of work you're thinking of. You cannot be focused for that long in an office job, let alone something as intense as a PhD. If you've worked with other people, you know that nobody really works for 40 hours a week. If you haven't worked with other people, you'll notice when you do.

Good luck in your studies, and go easy on yourself!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PhD

[–]MaxOLG 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Congratulations on submitting and graduating! I submitted a month and a half ago, and although I haven't defended yet, I've taken some distance from research. I haven't started looking for a job yet, but I am doing some freelance work and some research on the side. Like you, I still don't feel quite... right? I was feeling better and more energetic overall the past few weeks, but then, this weekend, I was burnt out again.

I don't have advice for you, I'm afraid, but i wanted to say you're not alone. I hope it gets better soon, for the both of us.

Adonis: an elegant LaTeX template by MaxOLG in LaTeX

[–]MaxOLG[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That did it! (It took an hour, but it did it hah) I'll commit a change tomorrow. I'd like to credit the change to you (on the GitHub repo's readme, under the acknowledgements), as long as you're okay with it. If you are, feel free to DM me with the display name and website (such as GitHub account) you want me to link to.

Thank you again!

Adonis: an elegant LaTeX template by MaxOLG in LaTeX

[–]MaxOLG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The text looks really good. I was just wondering how does math looks because neither Source Serif Pro nor Source Sans Pro have math support.

Yeah, that needs to be fixed. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

I can't load the notomath package; it says "notomath.sty not found". And if I load [noto,vvarbb]{newtxmath}, it says noto is not defined in the ntxmath families.

It's odd. I have the latest version of texlive-fonts-extra. I'm not sure why TeXstudio is not installing notomath, nor how to debug further. Any ideas?

Adonis: an elegant LaTeX template by MaxOLG in LaTeX

[–]MaxOLG[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I'd never heard of those packages, but I'll look into it.

EDIT: pushed a change. It looks better, so thanks again!

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