newtonfractal

Related link I wish I’d seen before starting in academia - What you need to know before considering a PhD [https://www.fast.ai/2018/08/27/grad-school/]

I especially like the point made about toxic grad schools being worse than other toxic jobs. Post docs are slightly better that way, with shorter time commitments but I suppose it adds to career uncertainty.

This is not what the Langlands program is. When you say things like

> I'm also a bit jealous of the writers here: they seems to have fun job and I'd like to interview the same guys/gals and I'd love to type something up too.

you could have simply googled to make sure you weren’t outright wrong.

Can someone speak to what the applications of geometric algebra are?

I see this topic show up often on HN, but no mathematicians I know in real life care about it, or even know about it. From googling geometric algebra and related terms, it just seems like more linear algebra to me - why the different name?