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Tuesday, December 12, 2006
You Ask, We Answer
Posted by Lance
In the ninth Complexitycast, Bill Gasarch and I answer reader's questions. MP3 (25 minutes, 4.3MB)In the podcast we mentioned posts on finding jobs and the tradeoff between working on reasonable versus difficult problems.
12:08 PM #
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for foreign listners like me lance is a lot better understandable than bill gasarch who seems to be mumbling (or is it a dialect ?).
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That's how Bill talks.
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It sounded also like a poor connection.
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Sorry for the sound quality. I tried something new, a Skype call to Bill's phone. I'll work on ways to improve the audio in future podcasts.
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Bill was mumbling
AND
thats how Bill talks
AND
it was a poor connection.
Not a dialect- but usually the complaint
is that I talk to fast, not that I mumble.
Might amount to the same thing.
On a different note- Phone is diff than in
person since you can't read visual cues
from the other person. Maybe we'll try
a video and phone hookup next time.
bill g.
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On the topics of jobs and the size of the community: Many advisors at the better departments (where most theory reserachers are trained) do a poor job preparing their non-star students for the job market at the not-so-good departments where they will eventually have to find employment. In the less-than-good departments, theory candidates often have to compete with systems candidates, and the academic depth of their research is but one consideration. I know we have lost opportunities to hire theoreticians because of this.
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From #5:
does it mean
you talk to fast (not eat)
or
you talk (and type) too fast
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