Liberato Manna @MannaLiberato The number & quality of applicants for PhD positions worldwide is dropping, according to what I hear from colleagues from many institutions (& my personal experience). We need to reverse this trend with 1) higher stipends; 2) better career prospects; 3) higher quality of training Replying to @MannaLiberato Why are humans looking
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@GeoSantiagoM at https://x.com/GeoSantiagoM Quick review of Michel Geovanni Santiago-Martínez on the Internet Geo, I looked at your activities, posts and interests. Your page at https://mcb.uconn.edu/person/michel-geovanni-santiago-martinez-geo/ You might want to link there as well as your department from your Twitter(X) page. None of your publications is “open access”. Links to abstract pages is better than nothing at
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https://www.facebook.com/reel/859613115742314 My Comment: What is the county in the US with the lowest cost of living? Where people can live (hopefully not miserable lives) for less than $20,000 per person per year? Is that right? Is it also a good place to live? Poor is relative. Maybe the questions should be “Why are all the
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Action Lab https://www.facebook.com/reel/2492914700906073 Using Sound as a fire extinquisher Yes, this works for acoustics, for electromagnetics, for electrons, for ions, for sprays, bullets, and randomly placed array sources. Impulse response. Use it to move most anything. Use doppler scans, then push red and pull blue or the opposite. The only reason you can do this
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Max Lenormand @MaxLenormand Meet the man who wants to build a 20cm, 3D map of the world All with lots of small satellites, like a *lot* of them. We go deep in the engineering weeds, how to map the world so accurately & how to build a company around it Full interview: https://youtu.be/tEhsEYaZiNU https://pic.x.com/ulojnmspmb Replying to @MaxLenormand
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Why do Asian kids outperform Western kids in math? | by Malcolm Gladwell at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wo31YeAI0Q Why don’t Americans memorize a lot of mathematics in school? by Richard Collins Mostly kids in the United States are not expected to do anything. About one in a thousand who do put in effort is enough to solve
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Thomas Wolf @Thom_Wolf still quite crazy how Anthropic leap-frogged everyone when they released Sonnet 3.5 a few months ago a model completely ahead of its time. we still have zero idea what special tricks they used to train it source: ARC-AGI evaluation of the new openai o1 https://arcprize.org/blog/openai-o1-results-arc-prize https://pic.x.com/y0xpnp6dv0 Replying to @Thom_Wolf Do not flatter
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Freya Blekman @freyablekman #CMSPaper 1338 describes a precision measurement of the production rate of the quantum carriers of the weak force, the Z and W bosons. These measurements allow comparison and improvement of detailed understanding of the strong force in the standard model https://buff.ly/3ZaS4kI https://pic.x.com/593sfmughe Replying to @freyablekman A “standard” not shared completely on the
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Yi Ma @YiMaTweets Learning is all about maximizing information. We compress to learn and we learn to compress. Replying to @YiMaTweets Filed as Tokenizing and compressing, so humans and computers can solve large problems with finite memory – where it matters Yi Ma, It is not maximizing information so much as maximizing the chance that
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Katie Langin @k_langin “Postdoc positions can be exploitative.” My latest story—about a study showing that international postdocs in the U.S. are paid less and received less careeer support and guidance than U.S. citizens. #AcademicChatter #postdocs @ScienceCareers https://science.org/content/article/international-postdocs-u-s-are-short-changed-more-ways-one Replying to @k_langin and @ScienceCareers Filed as: Many positions are exploitative, but positions can be nurturing, caring, supportive –
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