Pleased to announce our evaluation of water adsorption in shales. We use a suite of experimental techniques and molecular simulations to observe inorganic, and organic carbon controls on adsorption. I am grateful for Dr. Fischer's simulation mentorship. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.20…

Highest literacy rate among children. This has nothing to do with special centre.

Except this was meant for someone she hates personally, I find this mindset to be very distasteful. Even if they take the exam one million times, it doesn't matter. Celebrate with them.

This is not always the case. I have since met a few lazy geniuses here in America. They chill too much and always leave it late to do their home work while maintaining a 4.0 CGPA. Companies chase after lazy quants like mad.

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Very low IQ take.

Nope. Historically, America's greatest advantage is immigration.

Very well said.

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One of the most bizarre things I observed at Shell was how someone would spectacularly fail at a $$$ project, and instead of being demoted or fired, the opposite happens. They get transferred to manage another high-visibility project or even get a promotion! It took me a long time to understand this but when I did, it changed everything for me. You see, performance is measured in most companies on two prongs: the what and the how. The “what” is the actual result: did you or did you not strike oil after drilling that well? The “how” is the behavior you displayed during the entire process. I was too focused on the actual results but I later found out that leaders rate behaviors higher. Hence, a project might fail in that it did not meet its stated objectives and yet the project manager might come out a winner because of how he carried himself through it all. So what are the behaviors highly cherished by the higher ups? First is daily updates. Forget weekly reports. Tell your boss and other key stakeholders about how the project is going at least once a day. When I say “tell”, I mean “tell.” Don’t rely solely on an email or a tool. Find a way to get in their face daily even if just for a min or two to verbally articulate the status of things. The pros at this put a standing 5-10 min meeting on their calendars and they come prepared to discuss the highlights and issues that need addressing. Which leads me to the second point. Second, involve your superiors in solving the problem. Don’t form James Bond or Jackie Chan, trying to do it all alone. Any issue that will lead to a delay or cost overrun or any other wahala should be brought up asap to be discussed. Much easier to do if you talk with them daily. It is hard for them to blame you on the outcome of a project they have been integral to. Third, conduct a “lessons learned” session where you perform an autopsy on the dead project. Share these lessons far and wide. You will be hailed as a sage. Suddenly you are now the guy helping the company become better by spreading wisdom gained from the school of hard knocks. This act alone has landed many people their promotion. Bottom line: you can secure victory from defeat. The high flyers in your company do it all the time. If the project succeeds, they win. If the project fails, they win. Be like them.

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Agreed with some of your takes but, you are wrong here. There will always be envy. It is human nature. The point is to celebrate the discovery itself, not where it was published. People will always sneer at those they deem their competition. That is not the fault of @mbeisen

Offered me an Associate Prof position and my own lab to continue the work I started at Penn State. He was sad when I turned him down, and is now happy seeing me move on from academia. Bless him.

Perfectly put.

I strongly disagree that intelligent people should be exempted from the same moral standards expected of any decent human. History is filled with great thinkers that were morally bankrupt. Academia is filled with such people too. It should not be encouraged. Greetings, Dr.

Yesterday evening, Society of Actuaries (SOA) released the passing candidates for the Predictive Analytics exam. The paper is essentially practical predictive analytics — GLMs, machine learning models etc with dose of R scripts to review. But of course, this kind of thing can’t trend on X. First, actuaries and actuarial students are not really active on X (but you'll find us on reddit). We’re either too low profile, too introverted, or too buried in trying to crack one complex maths. Second, the exam pool is tiny. Globally, the number of candidates for this exam somewhere around 2K. And in Nigeria, I doubt we were even 4 who wrote it this sitting. I don’t even need to say the passing rate. 😂 (And no, the pass mark is not 50 ooo.) With passing this Predictive Analytics paper, I’m now 5/6 on the journey to my ASA qualification. At this pace, it’s looking very likely that I’ll tick this milestone before my next birthday and yes, I’ve promised myself the latest iPhone as a gift when that happens. (Not big on phones… the last time I changed mine was about 5yrs ago after completing my CFA exams.) Honestly, the real gift I want is a new G-Wagon — putting the work to get that after my FIA & FSA by God's grace. I hope my employer is seeing this. LOOL. October was brutal. Most people left the office and met me still there. My routine was basically: 8am–6pm: office work 6pm–2am: study Sleep. Repeat. Weekends, I am on 6am–1am study because I had just 20 days to cover the entire syllabus, including a mountain of R scripts. And this was barely a week after returning from the IFOA exams, when my body was still recovering from that stress. But the desire to pass was stronger than all the bottlenecks. My first boss always tagged me as a restless . My usual response is "sleep is for the weak" and “To rest is to rust.” 😉 Still, as much as I pushed through, I honestly can’t encourage younger colleagues to take the same extreme path unless you think you will find fun in it as it comes with huge life trade-offs and its perfectly rational to decide not to do it. Now I have to prepare my mind again for a study December We move. 💪🏽🔥

I share this enthusiasm for both model organisms and Drosophila, but the bigger tragedy of modern biology is our abandonment of the study of obscure biology just at the time when our ability to do so has become so powerful. Indeed many of the discoveries cited here came originally from experiments and observations in what we would call non-model organisms. Chromosome theory came from sea urchins and grasshoppers (and was validated in Drosophila), RNAi was first described in petunias and Neurospora before the mechanism began to be illuminated in nematodes, circadian clock genetics was worked out in flies, but a lot of important work was done in dinoflagellates.