My hot take of the day is that we're pretty good at evaluating PhD applicants (at least better than random), but the number of qualified applicants greatly exceeds the number of available slots. So there exists pairs of students (X, Y) where X is admitted and Y isn't admitted, but the difference between their applications is trivial. Externally, this is (reasonably) seen as a trivial distinction in inputs leading to a non-trivial distinction in outputs.
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Every time I encounter what I will generously describe as a "suboptimal institutional process," I'm reminded of one of the most haunting things my postdoc advisor, Tim, ever told me: "the problem with committees is that they are filled with people who have time to be on committees."
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Put together a new machine for the lab today, this is the craziest CPU heatsink/RAM clearance I've ever seen.
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