PySCF Updated 2025-07-16
Mouse mutant Updated 2025-07-16
Exciting... sometimes cruel. But too exciting not to do:
Quantum Intermediate Representation Updated 2025-07-16
Presumably the point of it is to allow simulation in classical computers?
Supernatural martial arts Updated 2025-07-16
Shame that the Chinese in the lat 20th early 21st like that bullshit so much. It just weakens everything. Just imaginge those works with more realistic fighting! Would be amazing.
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University has become a luxury item Updated 2025-07-16
medium.com/left-right/the-education-system-is-about-to-implode-5c95f774b523 The Education System is About to Implode by Nicholas Budny (2020)
Stanford, MIT, Harvard and Oxford are luxury goods in the same sense that a Mercedes-Benz might be, or the latest iPhone. They sell an aesthetic experience that provides the consumer with social status, similar to acquiring expensive clothes or a fancy house.
Bar scene from Good Will Hunting
. Source. This scene is way way overdone. But: University in the United States Updated 2025-07-16
University IP ownership Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli's general feeling is that university should not own IP, it should belong to the researchers. Instead, university should help researchers make their startups, so they can become big, and then we can tax them and reinvest in the universities.
Of course, this goes through the nonprofit impact measurement difficulty. Maybe we could instead limit the IP to some reasonably small percentage, like 10%?
But still, as of 2020, if feels like universities are way too greedy.
- youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo?t=1406 Achieving Your Childhood Dreams by Randy Pausch (2007). At this timestamp he tells a story about how university IP issues almost ruined a collaboration he was passionate about.
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