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I heard an interview with him this morning, where he's already in China. Some of his stated reasons for the move (also listed in the articles below) include the slashed research fu…

Whether China is immigration friendly or not is debatable. However, here's a recent announcement from last week: Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Omar M. Yaghi joins Tsinghua University…

It's worth pointing out that sometimes, some papers just become part of the general context of things and are no longer explicitly cited. Or people cite textbooks or general survey…

Speaking as someone who has graduated over a dozen PhD students in computer science... Yes, it is possible to complete a PhD in 3-4 years, but it's not really good for your career.…

We're working on AI user testing, to make it dramatically faster and cheaper for product managers and dev teams to find major usability issues with web sites. Give us a web site an…

Two concepts that help explain the original article are Diffusion of Innovations and Social Proof. Diffusion of Innovations is a widely cited theory explaining why people do or don…

I saw Jim Clark (founder of SGI, Netscape, Healtheon) talk one time about entrepreneurship. He said something that compactly explains a lot of issues humanity faces in general: "On…

I've used The Design of Everyday Things in many classes I teach. I would agree that it's not practical, but that's not its goal. Instead, it gives you frameworks for thinking about…

Wanted to share this funny SETI@home prank that Monzy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Maynes-Aminzade ) did in 1999, where he created a fake VB app that tricked a coworker into…

Lichess has a series of puzzles you can try where underpromotion is the theme (which is unfortunately a major giveaway to solving these puzzles, since they otherwise be rather hard…

The general term for what you're describing here is a Dominant Design, and it has a lot of the characteristics of what you intuited. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant_design

In May earlier this year, the New York Times had a similar article about AI not replacing radiologists: https://archive.is/cw1Zt It has similar insights, and good comments from doc…

It costs a non-trivial amount of money to file a patent in the USA

The last person in usually gets the best deal, in that they can get preference and push everyone else (previous investors, founders, and employees) down. If things goes south, they…

Having been on the program committee for some of these conferences, this issue of limiting number of submissions was being discussed long before GenAI. Specifically, there was talk…

I'd also add (4) be incredibly curious about lots of things; (5) surround yourself with other smart, curious, and committed people who have a culture of critiquing ideas; and (6) d…

I'd say it's worse than that. This new policy of vetting will be extremely high cost in terms of time, money, and lost opportunities for students and universities, while also be ra…

What is the basis for your assertion? Pretty much every list of top universities in the world routinely lists a large number of US universities. For example, in the Shanghai rankin…

Incidentally, IEEE Spectrum published a fascinating interview with Dr. Garwin just a few months ago. https://spectrum.ieee.org/richard-garwin > At IBM, where he worked from 1952 to…

My colleagues who studied this issue told me that there were several patents on bus tracking, making it cost prohibitive for many cities. It also led to the Tiramisu project, which…

This post is a great example of whataboutism and distracting people from the big picture: science funding works and has led to a large number of innovations that many of us here on…

Having served on several NSF review panels, NSF (and academia in general) manages conflicts of interest rather seriously. You cannot review proposals if you have collaborated with …

This was recently discussed on Hacker News about two weeks ago. See this blog post by Steve Blank talking about the rise of research universities and why the USA is a science power…

They do control what it's spent on. There are volumes of compliance about how you can spend the money. For example, can't use the funds on food, alcohol, paying rent, bribing peopl…

First, it's highly unclear a priori which scientific discoveries will pay off. The discoverer of Green Fluorescent Protein was denied funding, with others eventually winning the No…