Im not American so can't comment on the US situation. However, where I live, CS grads are facing the same problem. However, switching to trades is not an option - the salaries of trade workers are not enough to pay for housing.
I've been working for 5 solid years now at my current company, Im still the youngest hire. While my company continues to compensate me really well, I think that the new grad situation is terrible.
While true, it's also true that scaling medical school is not like a CS situation. My school quadrupled the number of CS seats to meet demands over 4 years. I can't see this happening with medical schools. My brother who is currently in a medical school regularly says how hard it is for the faculty to find teachers simply because there aren't enough. To add to it there are bottlenecks like not having enough cadavers.
Medical education is very hands on unlike engineering where we just throw people in the deep end at work. This is with good reason.
I'm absolutely for having more doctors and medical school seats but I think it's important to acknowledge that it maynot be as simple as increasing seats. There needs to be more fundamental reforms. That being said yes there are completely pricks of doctors who enter politics.
My understanding is that in many countries the biggest blocker to increasing number of doctors is the fact that there aren't enough doctors to teach. Unlike CS where we can simply increase the number of seats in. A course with medical school there are real bottlenecks on things like cadavers and mentors.
My general experience as a PhD student makes me feel that we probably should look at the system as a whole. I get the feeling most universities are abusing publications as a way of assessing their own students. It means people will tend to publish slop for the sake of publication instead of genuinely tackling hard problems. I personally have seen my university get away with forming defence committees with 0 knowledge of the field they're assessing. If the university can't assess its students work then they should not be teaching.
I think both conferences and journals are broken in this regard. It doesn't help that professors primary jobs these days is to be a social media influencer and attract funding. How the funding is used doesn't seem to matter or impact their careers. What we need is more accountability from senior researchers. They should be at the very least assessing their own students work before stamping their name on the work.
On the flip side it isn't untrue that there are major breakthroughs happening daily at this point in many fields. We just don't have the bandwidth to handle all the information overload.
I knew this was coming thanks to the nincompoops bankers and IMDA together with horny uncles who fall for love/job scams here in Singapore. The reason I use android over iOS is that I can load apps for personal automation. I think the current scenario where bank apps refuse to run on phones with sideloaded apps is far more acceptable. Im not sure scammers will not find a way around this. I can still be able pin web apps.
FWIW I'd rather not use my phone for critical transactions its making authorities lazy. The number of times Ive had to fight thanks to "buggy" payment code that deducts money is not funny and banks are getting worse at customer support day by day.
Also what the fuck are the governments doing with tax payer money, instead of going after criminals, we go after citizens.
How do you plan on competing with existing Chinese manufacturers. Unitree for instance sells there robots at a reasonable price and already has walking working.
As a non-American who's life has been previously saved by knowing that a typhoon would strike my home this has me wondering how we will be affected. A lot of smaller countries don't have the infrastructure/man power to maintain a space program. To what extent is the rest of the world reliant on this data and what does this mean for us? Will we still have predictions? How does international collaboration on meteorology generally work? Do Europeans/Chinese/Indians/Russians also share data about weather?
I feel like we bolt anti-trust after a market has developed. For instance, we go after big tech once it has entrenched itself. Whatabout taking pro-active action. For instance, in the ML market we should be sponsoring a gajillion companies to take on chip design so that we don't end up with a future where NVidia is the sole provider of AI chips. We should foster open standards and penalize companies for not adopting/hijacking them where possible. Similarly we need to make sure the zoo of ML model providers survives rather than consolidateing to a few. I think there may be ways to do this without being adverserial about it.
I wonder what the coding agent story will be for bespoke hardware. For instance I'd like to test somethings out on a specific gpu which isnt available on github. Can I configure my own runners and hope for the beat? What about bespoke microcontroller?
Welcome to academia... you have these "famous" profs who tend to be scumbags. Most of them don't even bother reading papers thoroughly. I'm under one, he forces me to put his name to the paper but hasn't a clue what I've written. Unfortunately, it's not safe for me to whistle-blow while I'm in this university. On the brightside I have a coadvisor who's amazing (and fully aware of the situation).
Whelps! Ive been building something really similar. Mines nowhere as complete as Buckaroo I really think embedded apps in notebooks can be very useful.
I wish we could time limit notifications, like it'd be nice to allow notifications to an app for a fixed time period (say a barber queueing app) but I dont want to see ads served by them outside of that time period.
While I agree cryptocurrencies don't stand a chance, my experience with qr systems has been a mixed bag. The country I live in has a fairly good qr code payment system. But there was one day when the largest bank went down and that was chaos (cash very much has a role to play). We also supposedly have linkage with India's UPI. Unfortunately, it was impossible for me to actually use that linkage thanks to the way upi works (I think only some subset of banks are supported).
His last post was in 2022. Singapore's national service is 2 years, he'd be out by now. Seems like he probably ran into issues. Also he mentions his university: you can't start university till you've finished your military service.
As a fellow 90s kid... I feel the same. I remember when Sony Ericson launched their first camera phone and how we used to go through PC upgrades like crazy. My dad would go to the bookstore to buy magazines with new linux distros included for free. Now I have laptop thats 4 years old and Im not excited to buy my next (heck I dont even need to buy my next... I can run LLama.cpp just fine on my current).
I do think the barrier to entry in tech has significantly increased. There was a wave of internet companies like Uber, (and their global equivalents) that benefited massively from providing local internet services. In the 2000s and 2010s the tech companies benefited massively from global poverty alleviation efforts to get users in remote regions on line. The push to get people online meant that millions of people in poor countries had access to social media and ads but not basic needs like toilets. As the tech companies saturated the emerging markets, covid began to hit. The stark inequalities began to be rubbed in. The big tech companies also dont really have any real material asset to fight over anymore. Their markets have been largely captured. As a big tech firm the game is now to maintain your lead. The industry is now run by MBAs, not hackers anymore.
I love the deck. Its shown us how opensource can be used for a commercial product (and how consumer products dont have to be locked down). I use it in desktop mode every now and then (work in robotics so it makes one hell of an awesome robot controller). I really wish more manufacturers followed suite rather than bundle the crapware that is windows.
Would it reduce the share of exports that US sells? If they decide to buy directly from China over the US given the higher price of everything in the US (keep in mind the raw components dont all appear out of nowhere).
I think there are ways of wording what you said without hurting front-end devs.
LLMs can be excellent tools while coding to deal with the parts you don't want to sink your own time into.
For instance, I do research into multi-robot systems for a living. One of the most amazing uses of LLMs I've found is that I can ask LLMs to generate visualizations for debugging planners I'm writing. If I were to visualize these things myself Id spend hours trying to learn the details and quirks of the visualization library, and quite frankly it isn't very relevant for my personal goal of writing a multi-agent planner.
I presume for you your focus is backend development. Its convenient to have something that can quickly spit out UIs. The reason you use a LLM is precisely because front-end development is hard.
Ah now it makes sense why some of my colleagues were judging hackathons like crazy. TBH the number of O-1s being handed out is a joke. People 2 years out of college are getting O-1s for being able to call chatgpt APIs. I mean given the number of reviews I do on a regular basis for academic journals I guess I would qualify.
I really think a lot of it falls on the funding agencies. While communication is key, there need to be some real questions answered. If a professor has 100 researchers under him and is churning out 2 papers per day how much is he really an expert? If his cousin is getting a PhD under him without doing the legwork shouldn't he be fired? Should we keep funding the same person excessively? It doesnt help that professors often rely on immigrant labor meaning that they can have a real choke hold over the lives of their staff. I really think there should be upper limits of what a professor can get away with, they need to be answerable to how tax payer money is being burned.
100% I wish more people paid attention to the _methodology_. A lot of people define science as the search for "truth", where it really it is the methodology that makes it the key differentiator from religion. The process of hypothesizing then subjecting a theory to rigorous, rational, evidence-based scrutiny is THE key differentiator.
That does sound interesting. I might attempt it. Thanks for this benchmark, I totally could use it for my PhD (I started with GOFAI, but have hit a dead end. My advisor is suggesting pivoting into using LLMs to call my GoFAI framework.
Whats very interesting is if we could use LLMs to generate GOFAI methods. Its often not at all obvious how to do so. Than being said its still hard to express goals in terms of natural language and resources to LLMs. I;ve been trying different things and none seems to work for me to say hey this is a step improvement. Its also hard to come up with a dataset for these use cases.
I use a razer blade 14 personally... My mileage varies. I love that I can run a lot of stuff on it, but I hate the fact the ram was soldered and the GPU definitely throttles. I recently ran a benchmark for some GPU code I wrote and found that my steamdeck outperforms the Laptop 3060. Its also got terrible battery life and doesnt help that my work laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad P1 beast (FWIW the razer 14 has better battery life with linux than the lenovo) which is great for building code, terrible as a portable. For me the biggest complaint I have about Macs, is well the OS. With the razer at least I can replace windows with ubuntu and most things work. Im really hoping the AMD stuff catches up soon, otherwise I may have to upgrade to a new desktop + macbook air for personal work.
This looks super cool, Ive been working in a similar space for some time. I work with open-rmf which is semi-decentralized and provides tools for task and traffic deconfliction (we don't handle the network layer at all). Excited to see more similar software coming up.
One question I have is how quickly can discovery and switching take place. For instance, if I have a robot enter a lift. Can the lift detect the robots entrance and trigger its behaviours?