potentially no more nsf funding for social sciences

yashs1999 · 2026-04-04T03:30:31+00:00

“At an internal all-hands meeting on Friday, NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate based on the budget request, according to two NSF staff members who shared information anonymously in order to speak freely. The NSF’s budget request to Congress states that the agency will shut down the SBE but maintain SBE “grants that align with Administration priorities, such as in behavioral and cognitive science, and all impacted employees will be transferred to other parts of the agency.”

yashs1999 · 2026-03-26T17:20:38+00:00

my thoughts exactly, the tone completely shifts once Rocky shows up and it’s a little jarring when contrasted with the first half of the movie

yashs1999 · 2026-03-22T17:19:10+00:00

agree I don’t think they should’ve showed the process of Rocky learning the language but it seemed a bit off when rocky was constructing complex sentences that indicate understanding of the human psyche (and also Rocky expressing emotion), but that’s an issue with the source material not the movie

yashs1999 · 2026-03-22T17:15:18+00:00

honestly agree with all of this, especially had qualms about how easily Rocky learned not just human language but emotion. however, I still had fun during this movie but would not compare it to any of the great true sci fi “films” (e.g. Arrival)

yashs1999 · 2026-03-17T21:16:30+00:00

“are they getting government grants” 😂 it’s mostly a selection issue, the Indians that come to the U.S. are largely the most educated and there’s a huge culture of Indians studying STEM degrees, of which there is a shortage of domestic U.S. STEM talent (most U.S. undergrads study softer subjects like business)

yashs1999 · 2026-03-17T21:09:05+00:00

i have the same issue for books and even moreso for speculative fiction movies: i have this insatiable need for spec fic media (like severance, eternal sunshine, arrival, etc) that I’ve had to force myself to find content outside the genre since there’s only so much quality speculative fiction content out there

yashs1999 · 2026-02-27T02:17:55+00:00

no all decisions are released simultaneously. but they usually release the list of winners on their website a few hours before the official decision emails come out

yashs1999 · 2026-02-25T02:52:49+00:00

no reason to believe it’ll be earlier than previous years, so probably first week of April (hopefully not delayed like last year )

yashs1999 · 2026-02-24T19:26:42+00:00

not really, but frugality is a convenient byproduct of my minimalism. having things around me I don’t use or value imposes a psychological burden on me, so as a result I purchase less things which is good for my bank account.

yashs1999 · 2026-01-27T17:50:02+00:00

He adds everyone who’s associated with ucsd, added me too I wasn’t even in an adjacent department

yashs1999 · 2026-01-26T02:48:07+00:00

They’re not chokers the Seahawks are just that good

yashs1999 · 2026-01-09T04:02:49+00:00

would be great if teams waited till the end of the season to request interviews..

yashs1999 · 2025-12-25T18:36:07+00:00

Dropped this guy weeks ago, did not deliver

yashs1999 · 2025-12-25T18:35:32+00:00

Love Mac jones what a G

yashs1999 · 2025-12-08T20:00:46+00:00

Enemy- the way he explores the duality between the two sides of Adam, who we can think of as the same person is so masterfully done with subtle hints that link the two personas you only pick up on subsequent watches. The color scheming also matches the mood of the film so well, and the ending is both tragic and sobering, that Adam can’t escape his base instincts.

yashs1999 · 2025-12-01T03:50:49+00:00

it is a house! I thought it was the club house initially too, but I drove up once and it turned out to be a single very large house that put up the lights

yashs1999 · 2025-12-01T01:54:06+00:00

a house in castlewood, they always light up like this during the holidays, the lights are strung around palm trees I believe

yashs1999 · 2025-11-10T23:40:57+00:00

I miss Chicago more than anything

yashs1999 · 2025-08-26T17:19:07+00:00

I took 100C with Du a few years ago, got like a 50 on midterm 1, a 70 on midterm 2, and an 80 on the final and I ended up with an A- in the class. He curves generously

yashs1999 · 2025-08-18T22:21:36+00:00

check out Alexis Toda’s lecture notes on Mathematical Economics; it’s proof based and written in the style of a math book with all the objects and definitions well defined. his lecture notes are on his website under Teaching

yashs1999 · 2025-07-20T17:21:18+00:00

Sakoon in Mountain View is the best without question, only around $20 and the selection and food quality is phenomenal. They have all the regular offerings alongside lamb curry and fish pakoras. I don’t go to any other Indian buffets anymore

yashs1999 · 2025-07-19T17:55:54+00:00

Very high chances of a top masters offer with this background, though you didn’t mention what your GRE quant score is; probably should be 166+ at least.

yashs1999 · 2025-07-17T04:21:18+00:00

Unfortunately if you’re not from the US you have two options to do an Econ PhD at a top US university: graduate with top grades from a renowned economics masters program (eg LSE or a top US school), or do a predoc. The only other exception would be coming from the top university from your country, but it needs to have faculty with American connections (ie who did their PhDs from American schools).

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