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It's just labor law, these are countries where job security is considered very important. As a result, a lot hinges on having an indefinite duration contract. The same rule exists …

You presumably spent 15 or so years in school to learn things of which many only have very indirect applications, and at most a small minority directly applied to your career. Shou…

From the article, it sounds more like these funds are the research budget (what you pay other people with). This is quite attractive, students are typically I don't know what their…

Stuff just gets done, I guess? Projects move faster, people onboard faster with less intervention, etc. The speedup seems noticeable enough that it doesn’t need precise measuring.

As a disclaimer I haven't read the article, nor do I know much about simulating instruments in particular, but I just wanted to point out that accurately simulating the physics of …

Great article, thanks for sharing. I didn't know (but should have assumed) AI-generated podcasts existed. That's depressing. I imagined if mankind had the ideal machine, that could…

To take this further, don't LLMs justify lowering the "barrier to attention"; i.e., if it only takes Claude's and not the hacker's eyeballs on the software, won't people find vulne…

What are these languages? I'm curious because C++ is the standard in my community so it's all I ever hear about (and Rust from the adventurous few).

In French, there's a saying: "la nuit porte conseil". Roughly translates to "the night advises", and it means it might be better to sleep on it. I recall my father (also a mathemat…

Not an attorney so I don’t know the details but it is definitely possible to leave the US several months in a row on a J1. When I did it (also as postdoc), it was an involved proce…

If your country is Italy that might be the case, but groceries are at most 30% more expensive than France, and some are nearly the same price (vegetables). Meat and fish do cost an…

But 1% is on the total held, not on the capital gains, right? If that's the case, it affects earnings quite a bit. Say your investments beat inflation by 3 percentage points, you'r…

You'd have to break this down into "archetypes" because like 90% of what you pay for is specific: - retirement - healthcare: negligible expense for most young people (for instance,…

This is something I could almost never be bothered to do before, but I can now very lazily set up large parameter sweeps and visualization scripts to really probe things. There's a…

On the other hand, if it can detract PhD factory foremen from hiring students for the sake of publishing, and let them focus on advising fewer students better, I can't say I see th…

On the contrary, my experience of US academia has been that (graduate) students are very much students, who take a lot of classes, are graded seriously with the possibility of fail…

In the classic division, "teaching" consists in giving undergraduate classes, and "research" consists in the whole spectrum between working all on your own and managing a PhD facto…

It's an interesting paradox: the more we made computing accessible, the less we got out of it. When a PC was expected to boot to an OS and not much else, we had all the freedom - b…

The build quality and usability on mac laptops is something else, I've yet to see even 2k€+ laptops that people typically get for their jobs that aren't a pain to use without a mou…

In an organization, the number of sequential steps doesn't really scale with number of participants, does it? Rather with dependent steps of the tackled process; say, devise buildi…

I'm probably missing most of your point, but wouldn't the fact that we have inverse problems being applied in real-world situations somewhat contradict your qualms? In those cases …

> You could in principle create a simulation with the same mathematical properties as the physical world but no one has ever done that. I'm not sure if we even know how. What do yo…

As I recall, a lot goes into DF's world generation, including erosion simulation and the like to achieve a realistic result. That game is the embodiment of over-engineering, after …

That's pretty impressive! However this workflow could have trouble dealing with the types of meshes coming out of those 3D generative algorithms. Geometries are arbitrary (not simp…

Some of the defects are attributable to the critical: > AI models generate meshes using "isosurface extraction" or similar volume-to-mesh techniques This creates the "lumpiness", t…