My partner recently applied to quite a few extremely prestigious graduate programs. We're not married and she made $16,000 dollars last year. She's won several national competitions in her field. The main deciding factor for her final choice was the price. It's just not worth it to go into six figures or more worth of debt for a degree.
A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
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#342It's ok. The top colleges are arguably now in China. China is providing free education in many poor African countries. Chinese is one of many subjects offered. Of course, a smart African college student will have no issue learning English, Chinese, as well her home countries language. The future belongs to China. We're elevating fine institutions such as Liberty University and celebrating comedians and edge lords. Ch…
What are some of the Chinese colleges worth paying attention to?
Is most of the AI research coming from these colleges or are they primarily from private labs?
Re: A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
#343Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Anything you build can be exploited against you when you're on the other side of the power balance. You're responding to someone who's explaining to you that this is exactly the problem. If an extremist can do whatever they want if they happen to excite people with a "platform that broadly appeals to enough Americans", then the problem is structural, and has to be addressed there, or literally everything you do and…
You raced over the key word in that sentence. Anything. Your patches will be the sources of your next exploits.
No. A language with checked arrays can never have a buffer overrun like C arrays can.
Some things are better. Game theory demonstrates this.
Re: A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
#344I wonder who is dropping then. Lots of graduate students are from rich families, especially the international ones.
Re: A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
#345Besides the people in this thread bemoaning the state of research funding, international students, etc. (all of which are valid), a lot of people are becoming disillusioned with academia. Probably 80% of the recent PhD grads I know are looking to leave academia, despite the fact that they went into it to pursue a career in academia. The median science PhD takes 6 years now, and is grueling work for terrible pay, all…
I used to work with a brilliant and humble guy. He got accepted to MIT at 14, but his parents made him go to community college for a year to give him a little more time to mature. He then went to MIT and graduated after three years, then went to Berkeley and got a masters in one year, then went to Stanford and it took six years to get his PhD? Why? Because his advisor milked him for his work. She had a pile of papers…
This seems to be how many PhD programs go. Almost all want to quit in the last couple years despite the time invested already. Few want to stay in academia, because they have been abused and used and realize that the same would happened if they try to earn tenure.
Re: A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
#346Besides the people in this thread bemoaning the state of research funding, international students, etc. (all of which are valid), a lot of people are becoming disillusioned with academia. Probably 80% of the recent PhD grads I know are looking to leave academia, despite the fact that they went into it to pursue a career in academia. The median science PhD takes 6 years now, and is grueling work for terrible pay, all…
I used to work with a brilliant and humble guy. He got accepted to MIT at 14, but his parents made him go to community college for a year to give him a little more time to mature. He then went to MIT and graduated after three years, then went to Berkeley and got a masters in one year, then went to Stanford and it took six years to get his PhD? Why? Because his advisor milked him for his work. She had a pile of papers…
your friend should make a blog post about that. People like that should be exposed.
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#347Earlier quoted context omitted.
That may well be true but it's not the whole story. My department has been hiring continuously for 15 years, and there have been more than a few years we have not been able to hire anyone because the applicant pool was underqualified. So while it's true there aren't enough jobs for everyone , there are still jobs for those who want them enough to get the qualifications for them (your field may vary).
So, question from the peanut gallery: how is this different than saying if folks don't get a job it's just because they "weren't qualified"? And isn't that just a tautology? Isn't the point that we might think that getting a terminal degree would qualify a person for some kind of job in their field? I mean, "I'm not too poor to eat, I just can't find anyone to sell me food at a price I can afford" is -a- take, but ma…
It's not a qualification, it's a competition. It's not like there is a minimum bar to meet and everyone who meets it gets to go in. It's like "We have 10 seats, so we take the 10 best people who apply". Your qualification is that you have to be one of the 10 best people, however good they are.
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#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
Our systems need to be MORE democratic! First Pass The Post is democratic, but the worst way of it. In most districts, 40-49% of voters are disenfranchised by gerrymandering. Mixed Member Proportional is far more representative. If you assume certain minority groups vote as a bloc, then you can't gerrymander them away like our current system does. The proportion of people not getting representation is capped by 1/num…
We're (at least) 10 years into this mess now and still everyone is focused on restructuring our systems and prosecutions instead of putting forward a platform that broadly appeals to enough Americans to decisively win elections. What I said applies to both parties. We're not really all that different but all the incentives align towards pleasing extremists. Do you really need any more evidence of this than people get…
Our systems are highly undemocratic. A vote in Wyoming is at least an order-of-magnitude more impactful than one in California.
> all the incentives align towards pleasing extremists
Systems create the incentive! Changing the system changes the incentives and is the only way we can reduce extremism.
Re: A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
#349MIT should spin up MIT.ai for-profit, raise 100B @ 1T, then go buy big computer.
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#350Just a reminder MIT's endowment funds totaled $27.4 billion, excluding pledges.