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 Discussion on answer by ZeroTheHero: …

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J Fabian Meier
Jul 15 13:47
And furthermore note that the OP said that he needs the h-index to get a research grant.
J Fabian Meier
Jul 15 13:47
This is not really an answer to the question. I wonder why it has some many upvotes. The question is: "How can I find the h-index of a conference?" and your first say "Conferences have no h-indices" (which is not true) and then you say "if they have any, they are not helpful", which may be true but is not an answer to the question.
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 Discussion on answer by BKay: Why are…

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J Fabian Meier
May 20 18:53
So essentially your argument is that building and maintaining a "huge water boiler" is more expensive than occasionally selling the kWh at -3 cents?
 

 Discussion on question by Kendall: Ca…

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J Fabian Meier
Apr 14 09:28
@Kendall Of course it is true, but that does not make it wise to say. If you, as a junior researcher, says something like this in a talk, it will hurt your reputation, and does not really look good for your academic institution either. On the other hand, you won't convince or "wake up" anybody. So I do not see the point in saying it.
J Fabian Meier
Apr 8 22:12
If you are concerned to misrepresent your academic institution, then you should definitely not talk about things like "lots of researchers are currently publishing just for the sake of publishing and they are publishing absolute nonsense."
 

 Discussion on question by optimal con…

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J Fabian Meier
Mar 12 18:47
@deee Take mathematics as an example. At the university I studied everybody with a high school degree could just come and study mathematics. More of three quarters of the students were men. This goes on into the PhD and PostDoc phase. Of course, an academic career discriminates against people who want to start a family. But even without all this, men would still outnumber women by at least a factor of 3.
 

 Discussion on answer by Hector Ferrer…

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J Fabian Meier
Nov 18, 2024 14:24
@XanderHenderson Leaving the fact aside that I think this answer is not helpful, it is interesting that you find this letter to be positive. I am not experienced in US letter of recommendation culture, but to me such a letter would sound like a warning not to take the student disguised by "nice" setences.
 

 Discussion on question by BiriBora: M…

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J Fabian Meier
Oct 21, 2024 02:00
Why are letters of recommendation confidential?
 

 Discussion on question by Klaus Kiene…

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J Fabian Meier
Oct 8, 2024 19:37
Which country is this? If it is in Western Europe or USA, you could probably challenge the decision of the supervisor in court, if he/she actually fails the student based on rubbish AI detection.
 

 Discussion between DevSolar and J Fab…

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J Fabian Meier
Aug 6, 2024 17:19
Just to make the point, or to protest.
J Fabian Meier
Aug 6, 2024 17:19
A lawyer might have even done it knowing it is futile.
J Fabian Meier
Aug 6, 2024 17:18
I did not ask if it could be enforced. I did not even ask if such a decision was made by a judge. I just asked if any lawyer went to any court to formally challenge something the Nazis did.
J Fabian Meier
Aug 6, 2024 17:16
But a non-Nazi judge might interpret the Ermächtigungsgesetz differently.
J Fabian Meier
Aug 6, 2024 17:15
I know that the Nazi understanding of the law was like that.
J Fabian Meier
Aug 6, 2024 17:13
I doubt that on 24 March 1933, all judges were already replaced by Nazis.
J Fabian Meier
Aug 6, 2024 17:09
@DevSolar Possible challenges: 1. The Ermächtigungsgesetz is invalid because not the whole of the parliament could take part in it 2. The Ermächtigungsgesetz may allow Adolf Hitler to give written orders to imprison somebody, but not the SA.
J Fabian Meier
Aug 6, 2024 17:09
@DevSolar The question was whether someone tried to go to court, not if it was a good idea.
J Fabian Meier
Aug 6, 2024 17:09
@DevSolar Please don't turn your comment into a rant.
J Fabian Meier
Aug 6, 2024 17:09
@DevSolar Two things: 1. The Enabling Act itself was highly dubious, so someone could have challenged it in court. 2. Many actions of the SA or other Nazi groups were not officially ordered by Hitler, at least not in a formal decree.
 

 Discussion on answer by Dale M: Is si…

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J Fabian Meier
Jul 11, 2024 07:57
This also depends on where the burden of proof lies. If the burden of proof is on the doctor who needs to show that you signed a specific document, I see no way how he/she should do that.
 

 Discussion on question by user164831:…

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J Fabian Meier
Jun 2, 2024 11:51
Radio: "The is a wrong-way driver on the highway." - "One? Hundreds!"
 

 Discussion on answer by Krist van Bes…

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J Fabian Meier
Dec 19, 2023 17:45
@Zibelas It would actually be relatively easy to have a database with valid ticket codes together with validity date and start and end point. This database could be synced with a mobile app regularly, e.g. every hour. This should be enough to detect most of the fraud.
 

 Discussion on question by Avery: Buyi…

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J Fabian Meier
Sep 29, 2023 15:12
@manassehkatz-Moving2Codidact I have seen this list before but it would greatly benefit from examples. Especially for things like "You cannot write the name in unicode" .
 

 Discussion on answer by Weather Vane:…

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J Fabian Meier
Jul 17, 2023 20:30
@WeatherVane But that would be breach of contract, not necessarily theft.
J Fabian Meier
Jul 17, 2023 20:30
@WeatherVane If you eat in a restaurant, and then state that you only pay by cash, and they say "card only", then this is probably not considered theft.
J Fabian Meier
Jul 17, 2023 20:30
So in the USA: If you only have cash, and refuse to pay what you have bought, and the the business owner sues you, and the court orders you to pay the outstanding amount, can you then do it in cash?
 

 Discussion on answer by fedja: How to…

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J Fabian Meier
Mar 22, 2023 19:43
@DKNguyen When I was a student, the usual requirement was to solve 50% of homework questions. Then a discussion came up whether this was against general university regulations. Some professors dropped the requirement, and the results in the exam were horrible.
J Fabian Meier
Mar 22, 2023 19:43
@Michael Using course work for the grade becomes hard if people can just copy&paste from the internet.
J Fabian Meier
Mar 22, 2023 19:43
@DKNguyen If large parts of the students do badly in the exam, it is not only "on them". As I explained, failing 90% of the students usually causes other problems, like political pressure, bad reputation for the lecturer, many students repeating the semester, too few students in the next semester courses etc.
J Fabian Meier
Mar 22, 2023 19:43
@Zibbobz Why does it help you that the students know that? If they don't do the exercises, the results will be bad. And they don't believe you that the exercises are necessary to do the exam. Their experience from high school is usually that teachers always warn you, but then the exam is easy.
J Fabian Meier
Mar 22, 2023 19:43
The problem, which I experienced in the past: If you put no pressure on students to regularly do exercises themselves, most of them will not do them, so most of them will do very badly in the exam. Now you can try to fail 90% of the students, and some lecturers do, but this does not only result in political pressure on the lecturer, but will also lead to other undesired consequences like many students repeating the semester or very few students in higher semesters (also meaning: less money for your faculty).
 

 Discussion on answer by user2768: Is …

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J Fabian Meier
Dec 10, 2020 17:36
If you prove a folklore result, something that everybody knows to be true but is published nowhere, it can be difficult to publish it because the referees might consider it "not new".
 

 Discussion on question by Math_Freak:…

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JF Meier
Jun 18, 2020 18:18
Furthermore, writing to the editor to retract the paper will probably be received badly. The editor most likely finds such a request ridiculous or even offensive.
 

 Discussion on answer by SmallChess: H…

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JF Meier
Apr 7, 2019 19:42
I don' think this answer is in the best interest of the contractor, at least not if you are interested in working with company in the future. If you cannot get the job done because people in the company obstruct your work, you cannot just redirect the blame. Parts of it will stick.
 

 Discussion on answer by J. Fabian Mei…

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JF Meier
Sep 17, 2018 08:30
@Allure I still wonder (I really do!) how a journal cannot be profitable. The editor works for free, the reviewers work for free, the authors work for free, printing is not necessary anymore (everybody gets it from the internet), so the only cost I can think of is maintaining a webserver and a little administration. Typesetting may cost a bit, but if the authors stick to the template, it cannot be too hard.
JF Meier
Sep 17, 2018 08:30
@Allure I am sorry, I do not understand your comparison. I am just saying that it would be theoretically possible to pay reviewers because the publishing house is making money with the reviewed papers.
JF Meier
Sep 17, 2018 08:30
First of all, I guess that it frequently happens that possible reviewers decline because they do not get anything back for their review (they may or may not reveal this reason). Secondly, I would question whether you cannot afford it. Most journals charge their readers (mostly libraries). Theoretically, it would be possible to take some of that money to pay reviewers.
 

 Discussion on question by Allure: How…

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JF Meier
Sep 14, 2018 13:08
Do you know a number?
 

 Discussion on answer by Dan Romik: De…

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JF Meier
Jun 26, 2018 08:43
@DrEval jamesqf said that he would even consider a still picture as "invasion of privacy". I compared that to contact information in a paper (which usually also contains email and postal adresses) and academic websites.
JF Meier
Jun 26, 2018 08:43
@jamesqf Published papers usually contain contact information. Many institutions put employee lists with photos on their webpages. "Invasion of privacy" is a hard word for that.
JF Meier
Jun 26, 2018 08:43
@barbecue Youtube is a platform that is used for many tutorials, recorded talks and lectures. This material is useful for many people I know.
JF Meier
Jun 26, 2018 08:43
@DrEval I do not think that uploading a video is per se a violation of privacy. I understand some people do not like to appear in videos and I would respect that, but explaining a scientific concept in a video does not touch my private life.
JF Meier
Jun 26, 2018 08:43
I do not know why this rant is considered as a good answer. Surely, not everybody likes to be part of a video and you should not force people to appear on youtube, but saying that this is a "distasteful, privacy-violating activity" coming from "abusive intentions" is just insulting the OP.
 

 Discussion on answer by RudeBoy: How …

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JF Meier
Dec 14, 2017 00:59
I have worked in pure math, very applied math and software engineering. If you have never done pure math, you have no idea how abstract it could be. I don't mean the details, but to explain what you do as a whole. And if you try - and I did this a lot - people get an idea, this idea might satisfy them, but it is very far from the truth.
 

 Discussion on question by Kumar: What…

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JF Meier
May 7, 2017 01:51
Of course, the OP has deliberately tried to break the rules, but I don't understand why he should feel bad about it or why this is morally wrong. Nevertheless, I guess it is the best tactic to apologize.