At a meetup on Sunday I made an appeal to the value of information and it wasn’t simply the end of that line of conversation because I ran into inferential distance problems… and then this article shows up the next day! Thanks for writing it :-)
You mentioned in passing in the comments that you were a grad student in OR like it wasn’t a big deal, but from my perspective that’s a gigantic and fascinating area in itself. You probably have the ability to write several articles popularizing relatively basic content in operations research and my guess is that they would all end up on the main page. One of them that would probably be good is an article on the educational paths and career prospects in operations research like which grad schools are the best and how to get into them and what you can do with it afterwards. I suspect that a lot of people on LW would enjoy such work, be good at it, and be at a stage of life where they could put the advice into practice.
At a meetup on Sunday I made an appeal to the value of information and it wasn’t simply the end of that line of conversation because I ran into inferential distance problems… and then this article shows up the next day! Thanks for writing it :-)
You mentioned in passing in the comments that you were a grad student in OR like it wasn’t a big deal, but from my perspective that’s a gigantic and fascinating area in itself. You probably have the ability to write several articles popularizing relatively basic content in operations research and my guess is that they would all end up on the main page. One of them that would probably be good is an article on the educational paths and career prospects in operations research like which grad schools are the best and how to get into them and what you can do with it afterwards. I suspect that a lot of people on LW would enjoy such work, be good at it, and be at a stage of life where they could put the advice into practice.