Academia is broken by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Sometimes Ciro Santilli regrets not having done a PhD. But this section makes him feel better about himself. To be fair, part of the merit is on him, part of the reason he didn't move on was the strong odour of bullshit oozing down to Masters level. A good PhH might have opened interesting job opportunities however, given that you don't really learn anything useful before that point in your education.
twitter.com/togelius/status/1584611702691483648:
The "real world" is full of people who couldn't make it in academia.
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I failed in academia by Andy Stapleton (2021)
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6 Dirty Tactics Found In Academia & Universities by Andy Stapleton (2022)
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Rise to the Top: The Habits and Mindset of Top 0.1% PhD Students by Andy Stapleton (2023)
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Profzi scheme by PhD Comics
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A Ponzi scheme that trains people in new skills is not necessarily a terrible thing. It is a somewhat more useful version than standard exam based education.
Perhaps the problem is "forcing" 35 year olds to go down that path when they might also want to have boring stuff like families and security.
If people could get to the PhD level much, much sooner, it wouldn't be as obscene: Section "Students must be allowed to progress as fast as they want".
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The broken system at the heart of Academia by Peter Judo (2023)
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My dream died, and now I'm here by Sabine Hossenfelder (2024)
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I left academia. Here's why. by Jared Henderson
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There are infinitely many prime k-tuples for every admissible tuple.
Generalization of the Twin prime conjecture.
As of 2023, there was no specific admissible tuple for which it had been proven that there infinite of, only bounds of type:
there are infinitely 2-tuple instances with at most a finite bound
But these do not specify which specific tuple, e.g. Yitang Zhang's theorem.
Data that is inscribed in a blockchain as a way to perpetuate the data, rather than to follow the main intended purpose of the given blockchain, e.g. ASCII art instead of financial transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain.
Synchron by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
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Syncron explanation video by Syncron (2018)
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Rodney & Phil Use Our Brain Computer Interface by Syncron (2022)
Source. It might be amazing for those dudes, but it still has a long way to go.
CEA Paris-Saclay by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Centerpiece of the CEA since the beginning of the French nuclear weapons program, headquarters since 2006.
As of 2023 the place was blurred on Google Maps satellite view, no wonder.
PCIe TLC OPAL2.
sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/nvme0n1p5 on Ubuntu 20.04:
 Timing cached reads:   29812 MB in  1.99 seconds = 15007.00 MB/sec
 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 Timing buffered disk reads: 6328 MB in  3.00 seconds = 2109.00 MB/sec
Nominal maximum sequential read speed: 3,000 MB/s

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