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😂 "I Have a useless PhD" ! - Prince So apparently some people want a Political Science PhD holder to walk into a WITS medical school and start teaching surgery because… “but he’s a doctor!” 😭 Dr Ndlozi warned us: “Some PhDs are useless.” A PhD means you specialised...

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Gavin Baker says the physics PhDs calling orbital data centers impossible on X have not out-thought the 10,000 SpaceX engineers who treat it as solved "It's very hard for me to engage. There are all these people on X and they're like, I am a physics PhD and this is impossible." "There's a friend, another investor, who actually is a physics PhD, who I had many arguments about it with him, and he's like, I am a PhD and this is impossible. And then he goes to the SpaceX day and talks to the SpaceX engineers, and he's like, well, I was wrong." "So let's say you're an astrophysics PhD. You are brilliant, you're hanging 100 IQ points on me. Have you thought about this for an hour? Have you thought about it for 10 hours?" "Because you have 10,000 of the world's smartest engineers at SpaceX who've thought about this each for hundreds if not thousands of hours. And the sum of that, working with very sophisticated engineering tools, is it's a solved problem." _______ For more on Gavin Baker:

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Terence Tao: "Previously, you needed a PhD to contribute to math research. Now a high school student can." Dwarkesh asks the world's most famous mathematician: what's your advice for someone considering a career in math, especially in light of AI progress? Tao is honest about uncertainty: "We live in a time of change. A particularly unpredictable era. Things that we've taken for granted for centuries may not hold anymore. The way we do everything... not just mathematics... will change." He admits his preference: "In many ways, I would prefer a much more boring, quiet era where things are much the same as they were 10 or 20 years ago. But one just has to embrace this. There's going to be a lot of change. The things you study... some of them may become obsolete or revolutionized. But some things will be retained." On new opportunities: "Previously, you had to go through years and years of education and get a math PhD before you could contribute to the frontier of math research. But now it's quite possible at the high school level that you could get involved in a math project and actually make a real contribution... because of all these AI tools and Lean and everything else." His advice: "There will be a lot of non-traditional opportunities to learn. You need a very adaptable mindset. There'll be worth pursuing things just for curiosity and for playing around. Still go through traditional education and learn math and science the old-fashioned way for a while... credentials will still be important. But you should also be open to very, very different ways of doing science. Some of which don't exist yet." He concludes: "It's a scary time. But also very exciting."

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Jordi: It seems pretty obvious that the models just getting smarter is not by default going to make adoption accelerate massively again. If you're a business that's not doing code-gen, not generating a bunch of assets, etc. - and somebody says, "For $20 a month, you get someone that's PhD level in math, but extremely low agency." A laundromat would be like, "Actually, I don't need somebody who's PhD level at math. Sir this is a laundromat."

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Pavel Durov on why he hasn't had depression in 20 years: "I normally never have depression. I don't remember having depression in the last 20 years, at least maybe when I was a teenager." Pavel's approach to difficult emotions is completely counterintuitive. As he puts it: "I'm a human being like everybody else. I do get to experience emotions and some of them are not very pleasant. But I believe that it's the responsibility of every one of us to cope with these emotions and to learn to work through them." On what creates depression: "Self-discipline is particularly important because without it, how can you overcome this seemingly endless loop of negativity or despair that ultimately leads to depression for some people?" His method: "One of the reasons I don't have depression is I start doing things. I identify the problem, I can see a solution, and I start executing the strategy. If you are stuck in this loop of being worried about something, nothing's ever going to change." The mistake people make: "People often make this mistake thinking 'Oh, I should just have some rest and then regain energy.' This is not how it works. You gain energy by doing something. So you start doing something, then it happens. You feel motivated, you feel inspired, and then ultimately you do something else a little bit more." He continues: "The whole point is to do first and then feel, not feel and then do. Going to the gym is a good example. There are many days when you don't want to start working out. But you have to overcome this initial reluctance and then you get to a point that you enjoy it and you think 'Oh my god, it was such a good idea to come to gym today.'" Action creates energy, not the other way around.

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This thought is converging from many sides. Transformer based LLMs are not going take us to human level AI. That famous Yann LeCun interview. "We are not going to get to human level AI by just scaling up MLMs. This is just not going to happen. There's no way. Okay, absolutely no way. And whatever you can hear from some of my uh more adventurous colleagues, it's not going to happen within the next two years. There's absolutely no way in hell. You know the idea that we're we're going to have you know a country of genius in a data center that's complete BS. There's absolutely no way what we're going to have maybe is systems that are trained on sufficiently large amounts of data that any question that any reasonable person may ask will will find an answer through those systems and it would feel like you have a PhD sitting next to you but it's not a PhD you have next to you. It's system with a gigantic memory and retrieval ability not not a system that can invent solutions to to new problems, which is really what a PhD is. " -------- From "Alex Kantrowitz" YT Channel (full video link in comment)
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This thought is converging from many sides. Transformer based LLMs are not going take us to human level AI. That famous Yann LeCun interview. "We are not going to get to human level AI by just scaling up MLMs. This is just not going to happen. There's no way. Okay, absolutely no way. And whatever you can hear from some of my uh more adventurous colleagues, it's not going to happen within the next two years. There's absolutely no way in hell. You know the idea that we're we're going to have you know a country of genius in a data center that's complete BS. There's absolutely no way what we're going to have maybe is systems that are trained on sufficiently large amounts of data that any question that any reasonable person may ask will will find an answer through those systems and it would feel like you have a PhD sitting next to you but it's not a PhD you have next to you. It's system with a gigantic memory and retrieval ability not not a system that can invent solutions to to new problems, which is really what a PhD is. " -------- From "Alex Kantrowitz" YT Channel (full video link in comment)

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. Naval: I don’t think you need to have a PhD to be a scientist. If you are naturally curious and you’re rigorous and you discover new things, you’re a scientist. One of my Twitter quips was, “The only true test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life,” and that triggers a lot of people. But how else do you know? How else do you know if you’re smart? If you’re not getting what you want out of life, how smart are you really? You might have had bad luck once upon a time, but consistently, every time? I doubt it. And there’s two parts to that. One is actually testing yourself against the world to see if you get what you want. And the other is wanting the right things in the first place. You know, I wish I was 20 years old and had wings. Umm, not gonna happen. So you gotta wish for the right things too.

Arjun Khemani

186,516 views • 2 years ago

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🦮: the real reason I wanted to volunteer at a dog shelter is that there are so many dogs and cats in the world without a family or home. So if you find out through this video and if you’re ready to adopt a pet then please look into it. Besides the shelter I visited today, there are a lot of shelters across Korea so if you are interested please look into it. But you have to be ready to have a pet! Seriously! As a person who has a dog too, I want you to adopt when you are fully prepared!

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When fans asked Jimmy to do his PhD in Singapore TOGETHER IN JS DREAMS #JimmySeaDreamScapeInSG From 3:30 💜: Lastly, thank you all for being here. It was my honor, and Sea’s honor as well. Singapore is… actually, my parents wanted me to study here. 🩵: Oh~ 👏🏻🙂‍↕️ 💜: “If” I were the only son. 😂 I don’t know if I was lucky or not, but I have a sister. But I think it’s precious to have a little sister. But yeah, I wanted to study in Singapore too. 🗣️: Do your PhD here! 💜: PhD? 🩵: Oh~ 💜: Oh no, no! Let me have a break, okay? 😄 🩵: 😂😂 💜: Thank you, Singapore, and thank you all for being here. On the next stage… 👀 🩵: Hmm-mm. 💜: I don’t know what it will be, but see you guys! 😁 🩵: Another thing, I want to thank all the staff and team here. 💜: Oh yeah. 👏🏻👏🏻 💜: The GMM team, and today we had a Singapore team as well. They worked together perfectly. 🩵: Yeah, thanks so much to everyone.

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11,598 views • 2 months ago

#WATCH | Glasgow, Scotland: Chief Medical Officer, Indian Contingent, Dinshaw Pardiwala says, "... Most athletes now recognise that if you want to be at the top of your game and become a world-beater in whatever sport you are in, then sports science is going to have to support you. You can develop skills with your coach, but unless you are fit — and that fitness means strength in certain sports, agility in certain sports, reaction times in certain sports, and in some sports all of these — unless you have all of these, which comes through training and sports science, you cannot really be a world-beater. You would be good, but you are not going to be at the top. Most athletes recognise this. Most athletes now see other athletes from different countries also using sports science to improve, and it is great that Indian athletes are also recognising that sports science is what will help them go further in their sports."
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#WATCH | Glasgow, Scotland: Chief Medical Officer, Indian Contingent, Dinshaw Pardiwala says, "... Most athletes now recognise that if you want to be at the top of your game and become a world-beater in whatever sport you are in, then sports science is going to have to support you. You can develop skills with your coach, but unless you are fit — and that fitness means strength in certain sports, agility in certain sports, reaction times in certain sports, and in some sports all of these — unless you have all of these, which comes through training and sports science, you cannot really be a world-beater. You would be good, but you are not going to be at the top. Most athletes recognise this. Most athletes now see other athletes from different countries also using sports science to improve, and it is great that Indian athletes are also recognising that sports science is what will help them go further in their sports."

ANI

35,046 views • 1 month ago

🚨 THOSE WHO WANT 100% LOCAL WITS LECTURERS? GATHER HERE😂👇🏾 If you want every single university lecturer in South Africa to be South African, then we need to produce enough South Africans with PhDs and specialised expertise in the very fields you're complaining not in sociology or linguistics 😂 Not just a PhD in something completely unrelated and then shouting, “Why did they hire a foreigner?” You can't complain that a university hired a specialist while ignoring the fact that specialists take years to train. And honestly, I don't know of any serious university system in the world that says: “100% of our academics must come from one country.” Universities recruit talent globally because knowledge doesn't stop at the border. So yes, I support Wits' 9% international staff figure. it's acceptable and even the fields in which they experts in are one that we cannot fill on our own.. Maybe the question now should be... “How do we train more South Africans to fill the highly specialised positions we still struggle to fill?” 🎓
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🚨 THOSE WHO WANT 100% LOCAL WITS LECTURERS? GATHER HERE😂👇🏾 If you want every single university lecturer in South Africa to be South African, then we need to produce enough South Africans with PhDs and specialised expertise in the very fields you're complaining not in sociology or linguistics 😂 Not just a PhD in something completely unrelated and then shouting, “Why did they hire a foreigner?” You can't complain that a university hired a specialist while ignoring the fact that specialists take years to train. And honestly, I don't know of any serious university system in the world that says: “100% of our academics must come from one country.” Universities recruit talent globally because knowledge doesn't stop at the border. So yes, I support Wits' 9% international staff figure. it's acceptable and even the fields in which they experts in are one that we cannot fill on our own.. Maybe the question now should be... “How do we train more South Africans to fill the highly specialised positions we still struggle to fill?” 🎓

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