I am a Computer Science M.Sc. Student in a university in a developing country. I am planning to apply for PhD this year. Actually my main reasons to not continue my PhD here, are the issues related to my country economics and infrastructures. Poor dorm conditions, no funded PhD, unstable internet, no proper study place in university are some of them where decrease the quality and contributions of a PhD student and I think that those issues will be solved by the migration to USA itself and is not related to the rank of the destination university. to make my question clear, actually I want to know what are the benefits of a top 20 university in USA saying, Caltech over a top 70 university saying, Oregon State University . I can imagine one or two like the strong advisor and peers but I can't think more. please note that I am not asking about the after-graduation job perspective, I mean What is the effects on the quality and contributions of a PhD student to study in a top-20 instead of a top-70 university.  P.S: if it matters ranks are according to the US News portal.
What I'm trying to understand is, to what degree does the status/rank of the University (where one completes his/her Ph.D) matter while shaping his/her career after graduation? I would like to know the weight given to one's school in both the following cases:   While applying for post-docs/faculty positions in academia While applying to industrial research labs   For instance, I've read on some forums (I can't locate the link now) that while considering prospective applications for tenure-track faculty positions, very few Universities accept a candidate who has completed his/her Ph.D from a lower ranked school having a lesser "brand" value, irrespective of the fact whether he/she has published equally original work as his/her counterpart from an Ivy league college. How much truth is in this statement? It would be really great if someone already in academia, either as a newly-accepted faculty or someone on the Faculty Hiring committee could share their experiences/statistics on this regard. I'm simply interested to know the answer, without commenting at all on whether such a practice is justifiable.  Similarly, what about recruitment to internationally acclaimed research labs (like  or ) - what importance do they place on the pedigree of a candidate's college, before taking into consideration what they published ?  I'm personally interested in answers related to the field of Computer Science (theory), but the question is applicable to any prospective grad student in any discipline in my opinion. Feel free to share your personal experiences post-Ph.D in detail, as that would give me (and future viewers of this question) about what its like to carve a career once you are out of school!
Cannot change backlight brightness Ubuntu 14.04 How to use siunitx with non numerical values? I understand that something like \SI{5}{\meter\per\second} defines a certain space between the number (5) and units (m/s). What should I use if instead of a numerical quantity I want a variable: R m/s? \SI{R}{\meter\per\second} fails because it expect a number in first parameter, and R \si{\meter\per\second} or $R$ \si{\meter\per\second} show different space.  Which is the correct use?  \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{siunitx} \sisetup{per-mode=symbol} \begin{document} \begin{tabular}{r} \SI{5}{\meter\per\second}\\ $R$ \si{\meter\per\second}\\ R \si{\meter\per\second}\\ \end{tabular} \end{document} How to stop creating .DS_Store on Mac? How to get the directory of open blend file? (from Python) What's the best way to get the full directory of the current Blender file in Python?  It should be cross-platform. Here is the problem: From any IP address not belonging to your mail server:  telnet me.myemailserver.com 25    helo me.someserver.com mail from: &lt;yourusername@mydomain.com&gt; rcpt to: &lt;yourusername@mydomain.com&gt; data This is spam.  Buy my stuff. .   I'm using Postfix.  I'm having a problem finding a solution to requiring SMTP-AUTH for email claiming to be from mydomain.com.  Googling around, this guy has identified the same problem (where I cut-n-paste with some modifications) the above example from:   This link   gets close to a solution but it has a side effect of requiring SMTP-AUTH for mail not from mydomain.com.  For mail not claiming to be from mydomain.com, I would do the usual RBL and Spam filtering.  In short, I want to reject mail to local domains (mydomain.com) from outside/unauthenticated clients claiming to be from local domains (mydomain.com).  This is what I tried: I've tried both permit and reject as the default.  Here is exact excerpt from my main.cf:  smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_unauth_pipelining,                            permit_sasl_authenticated,                            check_recipient_access pgsql:/etc/postfix/pgsql-recipient.cf,                            reject_unauthenticated_sender_login_mismatch,                            reject_unauth_destination,                            reject_unlisted_recipient,                            check_sender_access pgsql:/etc/postfix/pgsql-sender.cf,                            reject_unlisted_sender,                            reject_invalid_hostname,                            reject_non_fqdn_hostname,                            reject_non_fqdn_sender,                            reject_non_fqdn_recipient,                            reject_unknown_sender_domain,                            reject_unknown_recipient_domain,                            reject_rbl_client cbl.abuseat.org,                            reject_rbl_client sbl.spamhaus.org,                            reject_rbl_client sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org,                            reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net,                            reject_rbl_client dnsbl.njabl.org,                            reject_rbl_client blackholes.wirehub.net,                            reject_rbl_client relays.mail-abuse.org,                            reject_rbl_client dialups.mail-abuse.org,                            reject_rbl_client blackholes.mail-abuse.org,                            reject_rhsbl_sender dsn.rfc-ignorant.org,                            (reject and permit both tried here) How to solve "permission denied" when using sudo with redirection in Bash? When using sudo to allow edits to files, I regularly get 'permission denied'.  For example, my mouse is jittery and sluggish, so I want to disable polling:  sudo echo "options drm_kms_helper poll=N"&gt;/etc/modprobe.d/local.conf   I'm prompted for a password, and then get:  bash: /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf: Permission denied   So I tried to do a temporary change to disable polling by using:  sudo echo N&gt; /sys/module/drm_kms_helper/parameters/poll   Yet again the system responded with:  bash: /sys/module/drm_kms_helper/parameters/poll: Permission denied   Any ideas? Smaller vs. less vs. lesser I am confused as to some of the vocabulary that can be used to compare numbers and quantities, and would very much appreciate some clarification.   I suppose it is safe to say that 1 is smaller than 2.   Can I also say that 1 is less than 2, and if so, which form is preferable?   It seems that saying that 1 is lesser than 2 is uncommon - but is it incorrect?   Finally, -2 is clearly less than -1, but is it true that -2 is smaller than -1? (If I have 2$ of debt, then I would say that I have less money than if I had 1$ of debt, but I would also say that my debt was larger, not smaller). How can mixed content compromise an entire HTTPS session? At which moment does the 'Surprised' state disappear? Sort files alphabetically before processing I use the command  find . -type f -exec sha256sum {} \; &gt; sha256SumOutput   to hash every file in a folder hierarchy. Unfortunately, sha256sum doesn't get the file names from find in alphabetical oder. How can this be fixed?  I'd like to have them ordered before they are hashed so they are hashed in alphabetical order (this has a reason). When can you call yourself doctor? I'm looking for proof verification/help for the title question. Here is what I have now: Let $f:X \rightarrow Y$ be continuous with $X$ limit point compact. Let $V$ be an infinite subset of $f(X)$. Then we also have that $f^{-1}(V)$ is also an infinite subset of $X$. Since $X$ is limit point compact there is $x \in X$ such that $x$ is a limit point of $f^{-1}(V)$. Then $x \in \overline{f^{-1}(V)}$ by definition of the closure. Hence since $f$ is continuous, $$ f(x) \in f(\overline{f^{-1}(V)}) \subseteq \overline{f(f^{-1}(V))} \subseteq \overline{V} $$ Then since $f(x) \in \overline{V}$, it is either a limit point of $V$ or an element of $V$. However since is infinite, any neighborhood of $f(x)$ will contain infinitely many points of $V$ in either case. Thus $V$ has a limit point and $f(X)$ is limit point compact. Why do universal constants have the values they do? Sobolev space $H^s(\mathbb{R}^n)$ is an algebra with $2s>n$ What are all the member-functions created by compiler for a class? Does that happen all the time? "May" & "Might": What's the right context? I may not be coming in tomorrow...    I might not be coming in tomorrow...       When should I use "may" and "might"? Why doesn't the Sun appear green to our eyes? Does non-mass-energy generate a gravitational field? At a very basic level I know that gravity isn't generated by mass but rather the  and when I wave my hands a lot it seems like that implies that energy in $E^2 = (pc)^2 + (mc^2)^2$ is the source of gravity.  If the total energy of a particle contributes to the generation of a gravitational field, that seems to imply some strange things.  For example, you could accelerate a particle like an electron to such a high velocity that it has enough momentum / kinetic energy to collapse into a black hole.  An observer traveling with the electron would see an electron and stationary observers would see an arbitrarily massive black hole flying by.  These observations seem to be contradictory.  The same would be true of an extremely high energy photon.  Another consequence is that a stationary particle could appear to have so much mass that it could attract / deflect the trajectory of a rapidly moving observer.  It seems odd that at low velocities you wouldn't even notice a stationary electron as you pass it by but at high velocities the gravitational field you observe could be significant enough to alter your path.  Am I correct that non-mass-energy generates a gravitational field?  If it does, how are these strange observations like a particle looking like a black hole in one reference frame but not another reconciled? So I noticed that many cards with tap-effects ship with a clause specifying that they can only be used on untapped permanents, such as  and .  So here's my question:   Doesn't that imply that, given the right situation, one can legally tap an already tapped permanent?   I'll give an example of the kinda scenarios this is relevant for: Can  activate her first ability when no untapped cards are around? Or, thinking untap-effects, could I bounce a forest with  even when there isn't a tapped creature available?  Notice that, unlike the previous batch of examples, the wording on these lacks the clause restricting their use to un/tapped permanents - does that mean that they aren't?  Any kind of clarification would be greatly appreciated here. How to create a Facebook page without a personal account In the past, Facebook used to let business create pages or apps without a personal account. This account created in the page/app creation process had limited capacities and could be switch to a full personal account after—if needed (irreversible).  But today, if I want to create a page for a new brand, without having a Facebook account, it seems I can’t anymore. And I can’t find any communication from Facebook regarding this change.   Anybody has any info? Is it still possible (in a new way maybe)?