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That's a bit too simplistic -- if there is a small group that really pushes things forward in a big way, then maybe not, but if this result builds upon decades of prior work, then …

> If the answer is "no one really", entropy will overwhelm your codebase sooner or later. Otherwise, you need to read the code I think about this on the regular -- I know the answe…

> Learning to do more with less money isn’t as bad as many people think. We are wading into philosophy here, but I believe this analogy doesn't track in this case -- my suspicion f…

I will leave the contact up for a bit longer if people want to get in touch and share their experience with the research gap of the models -- or anything, really -- but I do not th…

You're absolutely right (pun intended). An aside: It was a very nice gesture and completely unexpected by me, so even if it doesn't work out, it made my day. I personally believe t…

Can you tell me what is the budget necessary to supply AI tools capable of substantial research assistance to all academic staff at a university? You seem to have a good estimate i…

This requires a major "dox" of myself, but I am really grateful for the offer, so these are my academic contacts: https://pastebin.com/hNYrCjhL I probably will erase the contents i…

There is a significant gap between what academics are paid across European countries, and since most top universities here are public institutions, you are right -- Eastern Europea…

As a TCS assistant professor from Eastern Europe, I always am a little jealous of the biggest names in math having such an easy access to the expensive, long thinking models. Payin…

> Is the lock structuring here really deadlock safe? The model will tell you with complete confidence its code is perfect Fully agree, in fact, this has literally happened to me a …

Hello, TCS assistant professor here: he is legitimately respected among his peers. Of course, because I am a selfish person, I'd say I appreciate most his work on convex body chasi…

> Realistically there's no reason government can't use open source software and open formats especially. > Last time I had to fill out a government form in Canada (...) Without any…

> I've worked in academia - and yes, that has been in multiple countries in the EU - I've never had to utter a single word in something other than English in the workplace. I have …

It reminds me of the fact that the "Fake Mr Beast giveaway" ads that even raised some attention here on Hacker News [1] a while ago are still around. In fact, I have seen one yeste…

The author writes about himself: > Hi! I'm a PhD student studying computer science at Rice University. This means that we are on the same career path (I am currently an assistant p…

> Isn't the problem de facto solved by matchmaking? The player that aims better will quickly win more and be elevated to the level of opponents on par with them. Matchmaking decrea…

> Too often, grad school applicants are just kids that have overachieved in academic settings and think to themselves “I’ve been good at school my whole life, why not just do schoo…

Quickly skimming it, I found no evidence of what the future actually held, from Wikipedia [1]: > In 1981, Pizza Time Theatre went public; they lost $15 million in 1983. By early 19…

> FYI its oral exams, not oral presentations. I was not very clear about it, but I was discussing regular semester work, as opposed to final/midterm exams. Think courses that are s…

Speaking as an (assistant) professor in theoretical CS, I see there are many bad approaches in the original post and mentioned in this discussion, but I strongly disagree with: > T…

I do not know the OP and I cannot prove or disprove any claims they make about their life, but I can indirectly attest to the following: I was competing around 2008-2010 at the reg…

> That's not an NP type problem The comment I was referring to was talking about "decision problems and general problems" and there always being a reduction between them. Now "gene…

> Of course this ends up not mattering in practice since we can convert a problem with arbitrary (bitstring) output into a decision problem. Not always. My favorite counter-example…

> If you need to lookup stuff in your waste of material you won‘t be able to finish everything. The time constraint was very hard. Did you enjoy this exam? I am asking as I had a v…