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A CS professor at a mid-tier state university just sent me their internal placement data Fall 2023: 89% of their graduates had offers by graduation. Average starting salary $94k Spring 2024: 71% placement rate. Average dropped to $78k Fall 2024: 43% placement rate. Those who got offers averaged $61k Spring 2025: 31% of graduates employed in software roles six months out This semester? 19% placement rate and falling Faculty meeting last Tuesday got heated when the department chair suggested "pivoting curriculum toward AI collaboration skills" One professor stood up and said "we're teaching students to build the systems that eliminate their own jobs" The career fair last month had 12 companies show up. Half were MLMs and insurance sales Students keep asking why they're learning data structures when the job postings all say "3+ years experience with LLM integration" Professor told me the hardest part is the parent meetings "My daughter took out $140k in loans for this degree and she's working at Starbucks" Meanwhile the university is still running ads promising "94% job placement rates in high-growth tech careers" The disconnect is crushing everyone involved Faculty knows the industry has fundamentally shifted but the marketing department is still selling the 2019 dream These kids mortgaged their futures for careers that evaporated while they were in class

@osasinrobotics Wrapping

How would you mathematically constrain an angle between -π and π?

here's an actual real time realistic 3D ocean simulation I wrote a few years ago without AI just by reading some papers. maybe someday Gemini can catch up to 30 year old rendering tech

Holy …S😳 Atlas is definitely a gymnastics champion. Landing on his toes, then doing a backflip.

@gazorp5 @cixliv Almost exact Dynamic model

@cixliv They've definitely been around for longer, but transition from hydraulics to fully electric motors was only in the last 2 years or so. Wonder what the secret sauce is.

The atlas robot is what I imagine an alien robot to move like.

@deeperflows @IntuitMachine Sensors are expensive

@IntuitMachine why turn head and not just have sensors on all sides?

Boston Dynamics humanoid robot is next-level. Everybody is playing catch-up.

Smooth interpolation does not prevent nonsense.

Donnie, Donnie Darko

#ITWelcomeToDerry 🎈 just blew my mind . What a show !

@ITMovieOfficial IT knows he kills him in the future !

Don’t you recognize your little boy? #ITWelcomeToDerry

power saver mode

When we lose our principles, we invite chaos.

We need more senior researchers camping out at their posters like this. Managed to catch 10 minutes of Alyosha turning @anand_bhattad’s poster into a pop-up mini lecture. Extra spark after he spotted @jathushan. Other folks in the audience: @HaoLi81 @konpatp @GurushaJuneja.

CUDA Tile has shipped! You can now `pip install cuda-tile`. I'm excited to see what y'all will build with it! Docs & resources: developer.nvidia.com/cuda/tile GitHub: github.com/NVIDIA/cutile-…

this episode was directed by Ghanaian @eoseikuffour . What a great show !

Robotics version: I have met many students who claim to be working on robotics but do not even know the basics of kinematics or motion planning.

time to float 🎈