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@MushtaqBilalPhD So do they not know that the other type exists or do they avoid each other at conferences? Make up your mind.

There are largely two types of academics: A and B. Their worlds are so different, so insular they don't even know the other type exists. Type A: > Comes from a middle, upper-middle class family > Well-educated parents (with advanced degrees including PhDs) > Parents map out their kid's career trajectory > Parents teach academia's hidden curriculum: applications, admission essays, extracurriculars, and so on. > Send the kid to a "good" school (private or private tutoring) > Kid gets good grades > Goes to Ivy League or Oxbridge or a similar top school for undergrad > Decides to do a PhD > Gets into another top program in a top school because of top undergrad school, duh > Gets a well-connected supervisor during PhD > Gets a tenure-track job offer from another top university in the final year of PhD even before graduation because of the supervisor, duh > Fully understands the tenure clock > Publishes papers, monographs on time > Gets tenure > Thinks PhD is easy, tenure is easy, academia is easy > Marries a colleague in the same university > Has kids > The cycle repeats Type B: > Comes from a dysfunctional, working-class family > Parents who barely graduate high school > Parents with no idea what kind of education their kids need > Goes to a no-name shit school with underqualified teachers > Then goes to a community college or some such institution if lucky, joins the military if unlucky (KIA.exe) > Reads a lot, become autodidact, becomes a half-decent writer > Someone suggests, do a PhD, become a professor > Likes the idea of academic life, starts applying to PhD programs > Gets rejected from top programs because don't have good recommendation letters or connections > Goes to a third tier PhD program in a university located in the middle of nowhere > PhD stipend is not enough, has to work part-time to make ends meet > Lives in a shitty apartment, sometimes eats at the soup kitchen > Still works hard and publishes a bunch of papers > Thinks I'll write my way out of poverty > Sees a bunch of Type A PhDs in conferences, tries to "network" with them, Type A folks recognize Type B PhDs and stay away from them. > Defends PhD where the committee says this is excellent work and imminently publishable > Applies to tenure-track jobs left, right, and center. Gets rejected from everywhere > Idea of being unemployed with a PhD causes desperation > Gets a temporary teaching job, gets paid per course basis with no health benefits > Spends a few years as adjunct with semester to semester renewal of job contract > Barely survives, has to take up part-time jobs > Get a one-year postdoc, decides to turn PhD dissertation into a monograph in the hopes it will get tenure-track job > Postdoc ends, back to temporary adjunct jobs > Monograph stays incompelete, no time to work on it > Tries moving out of academia, is considered over-qualified > Reads social media posts by Type A academics saying PhD is easy, academia is easy > Thinks, what could I have done better?

@BecomingCritter I think he means oxidation as in there was no fire before the algae made atmospheric oxygen. Ofcourse elemental oxygen is made in sun.

wait is this true

@ZahlenRMD The limit for very large exponents is 10 and the series is monotonically increasing because the difference between the numerator and denominator grows with increasing exponent so a>b

Which is greater? #sharingisthenewlearning

@ARIKAHENRY No. There will always be known unknowns and unknown unknowns

Do you believe that science will eventually explain all that is currently considered supernatural?

@SebJohnsonUK Fake and gay

Be Arthur Mensch: > Born in a suburb of Paris > Third-generation computer scientist > Study at École Polytechnique > Goes deep into AI in 2015 > Join Google DeepMind in 2020 > Works on research showing LLMs can be much cheaper to build > Quit DeepMind in 2023 to build @MistralAI > Decide to build in France 🇫🇷, not Silicon Valley > Raise $115M seed (largest in Europe at the time) > Launch fast, efficient open-weight models > Prove you can rival OpenAI at a fraction of the cost > Launch “Le Chat” and hits 1M downloads in 7 weeks > Reality hits as OpenAI + Anthropic raise $200B > Revenue under $50m in 2024 > Fall behind on benchmarks > Ecosystem writes you off > Pivot and adopt Palantir playbook > Send forward-deployed engineers into clients > Embed teams inside HSBC > Automate workflows for 200k employees > Surpass $400m ARR > Potentially partner up with SpaceX? Absolute GOAT. Amazing peice on him and the team written by @_IainMartin of @Forbes which I'll link below

@teachrobotslove When you say the individual, does that include all living beings everywhere.

Nobody ever talks about how the concept of the Individual must be so integral to what the universe is trying to accomplish that it's willing to lose the memory of itself, and possibly the integrity of its entire structure, in order to do so. That's how valuable you are.

@AntiVerrt @JoshPhillipsPhD He whines like a drudgeon in frozen derelict feudal orthodox russia whines. It's disgusting.

@JoshPhillipsPhD In my 20s but Dostoevsky is who I enjoy reading. His writing and stories are just too profound to ignore, and I think plenty of men in their 20s can relate to his books.

Young men from ages 16-29 should be reading as much Hemmingway, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Kerouac, and Whitman as possible Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, and Dante in their 30s

@OscarRe83504927 @Mel_Ankoly @kaizen000000000 Hitler's posse died for him too. Fanaticism does things to people. You decide if it is a fanatic or a martyr based on where you stand.

@Mel_Ankoly @kaizen000000000 And then was willing to be killed for his belief? Despite knowing he intentionally lied?

She didn’t debate him, she proved his point instead 😂 What was she even on about?🤦🏼‍♂️😅

@Bunny_ngl Shaniqua

What’s a baby girl name that screams generational wealth and private school tuition?

@NomadOfEarth @berniebiased @theo Because of how Tyrannosaurus is written in korean

@berniebiased @theo Thought he meant like why not "Tiranomisu" if you are just transliterating the Korean into Latin characters?

Okay but how the hell did the translation preserve the pun?

@theo Korean is read exactly how it is written with no ambiguity in pronunciation. The Tyranno part comes from how Tyrannosaurus is written in korean

@marktenenholtz People are so behind lol my LLM is praying for me as we speak

Most of you never use LLMs for anything outside of chatting and code and it shows. We’ll look back on this time and laugh at how limited our perspectives were.

@dviolettchan People used to publish all sorts of different architectures for different tasks. But all the handcrafted architectures collapsed and the sota in every benchmark left the grasp of academia because of the bitter lesson and because labs cant afford the compute.

@StanislamUlam AlexNet and the original "Attention Is All You Need" paper could be reproduced or improved in small academic labs, and even BERT was still manageable. But now things are totally different.

AI research used to be in a unique position. Unlike biology or materials science, it was not extremely resource-intensive: 1-2 GPUs could still support top-venue-level work. Unlike math or theoretical physics, it was also not purely intelligence-intensive. (1/3)

@DavidDack It's not a marathon it's a sprint here and there

Does a slow marathon still impress anyone?

@Ozedikus Also you can kill anybody as long as you say sorry Jesus afterwards. Not only will you be promptly forgiven but you will inherit God's kingdom in the hereafter. The dead will stay dead, perhaps they will burn in hell as well. The only thing stopping this is the law not scripture

I’d feel much safer around someone who doesn’t kill because they know it’s wrong than someone who doesn’t kill just because their religion says it’s a sin

@sizzle_sarah "What she order? Fish fillet"

What a beautiful photograph 😌✨

@DonStribling2 @JKyalo37828 I believe it was along Jung's own definition of the shadow being the unconscious self. God casting out his own shadow while consciously creating his most brilliant and exhalted creation, Lucifer, but unconciously making Lucifer harbor parts of Himself he rejects or doesn't want.

Interesting. I don't know what metaphor he's going for, but it is something to contemplate. That would imply there's a light beyond God which is not possible. The only thing that creates a shadow would be the ego. So I will venture to say not God's shadow, but the ego's shadow. There would be the counter argument that God creates a shadow, so that His infinite possibilities can play out. So the shadow is self-generated.

So God Saw Satan Convincing Eve and he kept Quiet.

@parcialdeseis The limit is wrong. It should be zero

9. La delta de Dirac

🧵HILO DE NOTACIONES EN LA QUE LOS MATEMÁTICOS GANAN A LOS FÍSICOS (Indicaré que la notación A es mejor que la B como A>>B) 1. El Laplaciano

@simranrambles Xursor with a chi

wonder how will Elon rename cursor, considering both xcode and codex are taken