Competition is fierce for placement in leading journals of science and engineering, such as Nature and IEEE Communications Magazine. Inclusion in an issue of one of these publications earns the author(s) notoriety, prestige, and some measure of clout, which they can use to make sound legitimate outrageous claims that they might introduce while entertaining guests…
IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. They’re responsible for developing a number of standards, such as the 802.11g wireless standard which you may have seen before. There are a number of different societies within the IEEE, most of which publish at least a couple monthlies or quarterlies with titles like ‘IEEE Transactions…
If you are charged with a task that, when complete, will profoundly alter an obvious aspect of the unit being dealt with, it may be better to finish the task quickly than to work at it in installments over a longer period of time. For the purposes of this post, consider that finishing the task…
A few weeks ago I had the option of going to a party but when invited declined because I had homework. This would’ve been fine, except that when my friends’ responses were the typical “ah shucks, that sux” I reassured them that I was actually looking forward to working on it. This they didn’t understand….
On certain instruments, the time between the musician’s action to play a note and when that note is heard isn’t negligible. For example, when I press a piano key, there’s some milliseconds between when my finger first touches the ivory and when the hammer strikes the string. Does the brain compensate for this delay when…
If you’re in a position where your supervisors and co-workers aren’t familiar with the types of tasks you’re responsible for, maybe you should occasionally intentionally cause a noticeable problem that only you are able to fix; for job security. “We need you.”
If you had the option of compressing a future day into one hour would you do it? For example, consider it is Monday and you are looking forward to the weekend. If it were possible, would you opt to allow the rest of the week to go by in four hours? I don’t mean that…
I’m convinced that to some degree there’s a law of balance in life, such that you don’t make progress in one area without adversely affecting something else. For example, do you want a million USD? You won’t get it unless you identify ways in which possessing $1,000,000 would adversely affect you. Moreover, you have to…
I imagine there are some people who arrive/leave work at seemingly random times on successive days as a means of avoiding physical harm by others during the daily commute to and from home. This behavior is probably most common in metropolitan areas with heavily used public transportation systems. A subway passenger who gets on the…
There must be some lines of work that frequently get refreshed with a new workforce for security reasons. I’m thinking something like road checkpoints in occupied territories, where the guards inspecting vehicles have to maintain high scrutiny behavior and remain alert. It’s probably been found that no matter how emphasized the importance of remaining on…
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