How does a fat-tail distribution impact career choice in a way different from a bell-curve?

Purpose of the post: I'm struggling to understand the significance of the fat-tailed distribution especially in career choice. 80000hours career guide argues that the more accurate distribution...

31 December 2018 516 8 View

Can you recommend individuals/ institutions who can work as third party mediators/arbitrators to settle how much each side should take in a job offer?

Hi there, I prepare material for training workshops I'm looking for guidelines for how much should I charge/get if I prepare the content and someone else gives the material as a trainer repeated...

09 October 2018 5,298 4 View

What are some (more) neutral ways to settle job offers?

Hi there, I prepare material for training workshops I'm looking for guidelines for how much should I charge/get if I prepare the content and someone else gives the material as a trainer repeated...

09 October 2018 254 0 View

Did the ancients know that cattle milk is made from digested food (excretions) in the belly then transmitted to the udder thru blood circulation?

The question has two parts Ancient knowledge regarding :First: 1- The precursor of milk is digested food or excretions in the stomach. Second: The role of blood in circulating the components...

08 September 2017 3,174 12 View

Demonstrating the "low-hanging fruits" concept (Suggestions please)

1- Unglamorous can be stronger/ better than glamorous. Example of a demonstration for this concept: Mosquitoes are more deadly than...

01 January 1970 1,587 5 View

Math's Answer to Explore Vs Exploit ( Look vs Leap) Dilemma in Career Choice

Can numbers (the Look then Leap Rule OR the Gittins Index) be used to help a person decide when to stop looking for the most suitable career path and LEAP into it instead or is the career...

01 January 1970 4,177 6 View

"Rethinking Career Choice: Why 80,000 Hours should give us Pause"

After hundreds of hours of research and preparation, I'm done with the presentation "Rethinking Career Choice: Why 80,000 Hours should give us Pause"! Feedback (positive or negative) is more than...

01 January 1970 702 1 View

List of Concept-Demonstrating Resources

Hi everyone, I'm a researcher who prepares content for workshops. Here are some lists I compiled to help me find concept-demonstrating resources https://goo.gl/c9WtSt "8ACTIVITIES" to "b...

01 January 1970 604 2 View

Practical Implication for Correlation (Lay individual vs Scholarly Group)

Can you please explain or provide resources that explain this issue (esp. to a lay audience): How to understand the significance of a co-relation number that studies (esp. meta-analyses) produce....

01 January 1970 977 3 View

Demonstrations for Law of Diminishing Returns

Diminishing Returns Concept: At a certain point , increasing the amount of input (e.g. effort) will still lead to an increase in output but at a rate less than before. I'm looking for resources...

01 January 1970 193 3 View

error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

MGL tools

20 June 2021 0 0 View

i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

24 March 2021 0 0 View

Resistor definition in Piezoelectric bimorph with ANSYS workbench

Hello, good day! I am trying to simulate similar bimorph piezoelectric harvester with below commands. However, the output power doesn't change with resistor value. Please help to find the reason. ET,10,CIRCU94,0 !SET UP RESISTOR R,1,100000 !RESISTANCE VALUE TYPE,10 !SET ELEMENT TYPE E,1,2 !CREATE RESISTOR BETWEEN NODES 1 AND 2 Thanks in advance Regards,

02 March 2021 0 0 View

Arena simulation - how do i model the following model in ARENA (see description) (new to ARENA)?

Hello, I'm fairly new to ARENA and I have the following problem: I have two queues in which, in each queue, a different order type arrives (both having an arrival rate of exponential 10). Order...

02 March 2021 2,431 3 View

How to repeat an operation on an atom selection for multiple times in PyMol?

Hi, I am trying to construct a multi-layer fibril structure from a single layer in PyMol by translating the layer along the fibril axis. For now, I am able to use the Translate command in PyMol...

02 March 2021 4,569 4 View

How to calculate BREQ 3 questionnaire?

how to calculate BEHAVIOURAL REGULATION IN EXERCISE QUESTIONNAIRE BREQ 3 ,which contain 24 questions and each question has 5 answers (0- Strongly disagree , 1-disagree, 2- Neither agree nor...

02 March 2021 811 3 View

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

02 March 2021 3,858 10 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View