More random topics that crossed my path:
- bureaucratic entropy: "...In 1987, except at private research universities, where administrators outnumbered tenure-track faculty, colleges had approximately as many tenure-track faculty as full-time administrators. By 2008 there were more than twice as many administrators as tenure-track faculty at all types of institutions."
- Cuts loom for US science.
- Wise and Shine - UC Berkeley startup providing machine learning and big data services.
Significant astro and time domain data analysis group. - High Speed Trading goes berserk - morbidly fascinating anim of the rise of the robots in the markets from Tehnology Review.
Watch the little algos start pouncing on end of day correlations and then spreading through the crash to the modern era.
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Hey, look here: we have an ad in The Chronicle of Higher Education:
Amazing momma-scientist Janus Prof asked me to ask y'all h
I've posted this before, but a reminder can't hurt: We're hiring two tenure-track faculty this fall. The targeted research fields:
Having made several mentions here of the two tenure-track faculty positions we were trying to fill, I feel like I ought to at least note the completion of the search.
Since administration can include counseling center and law enforcement jobs, a good bit of this has been forced by the Virgina Tech and Northern Illinois issues, as well as how to handle folks like Loughner. Then you add the need to fill out all the federal forms and ...