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It is taking longer and longer to get a work visa to the US if you work in ML or quantum computing. US don't want us.

Just got the email. Can't help but wonder what the founders went through.

There is actually a long history of doing exactly this. In short, the government (correctly) believes that it is not very good with creating business, and it is better left in the hands of the private sector.

In terms of the ownership of the intellectual property, the extent to which these NIH/NSF Grants reach ends with the discovery of the knowledge. These Grants are not considered benefits or entitlements, but awards to support specific public purposes. It is a form of transfer payment from the government. You can consider it a lever for the government to support selected fields of research, but no more than that. These Grants are designed specifically to not entitle the funding agency ownership of the discovery.

The government is determined to help the scientists and the institutions to turn the discoveries into businesses, because only through business can these insights gained from research benefit consumers. There are specific grants for this purposes and they have in the past been successful at helping brining discoveries to market, creating viable small businesses. The idea is that the ownership of the intellectual property is best bestowed upon those who were involved in the original discovery. And it is best to leave the creation of businesses to the private sector, because the government is not very good with creating businesses directly. If you are looking for an examples of government being inefficient at running business, you can look at the nuclear power industry. It is completely government owned because of the obvious homeland security implications. Yet it continuously operates at a loss.

As a side-note, to address your comment on "universities train these specialists":

these specialists are not trained by the Universities. These specialists are the universities sans the administrators, There won't be Harvard without these PI's. Also, knowledge is useless on paper. It is these specialists who knows how to use these knowledge who are valuable. Just to give a sense of how rare(and valuable) these specialists are, in physics and biology (where I have worked), I noticed that in most of the fields there are usually less than five lab and their corresponding PI's who are contributing 95% of the most cutting edge work.

author is a synthetic biologist who had two first author Nature publications. Super awesome dude.

Thanks for this reference!

lol this is an old one. I remember my advisor who was then a postdoc recommending it to me five years ago.

Thanks for the correction!

another fun fact about them:

Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, his wife remarried to a rich publisher after Lavoisier's death, who supported her to publish a lot of the work. (both awesome people) David, the guy who painted this portrait was the person who signed Lavoisier's guillotine papers. The story goes David was an amateur scientist, had some presentations, and was humiliated when Lavoisier make it clear that it was pseudo science. David wanted to be elected to the royal society but because of this never got to. He was a friend but thus became the enemy. He also painted the painting "death of Marat". He himself was executed a year later.

I'm working on combining a real-time collaborative note taking app with chat.

it is written in angular2 and typescript. A private beta has been running for a while.

Right now I am focusing on launching a real-time collaborative ipython notebook client that can connect to your own jupyter servers.

I agree. So I will just focus on building the core app then!

I'm working on a real-time collaborative note taking app with math typesetting. (www.escherpad.com)

Do you think porting data over is something that people might be interested in paying for on a subscription plan?

What's amazing about gulp-uncss is that it fires up phantomjs to run the javascript, so it would hopefully work with angular as well.

Thanks:)

I don't get the blurb in the end. Can anyone explain?

It is just a badly ran business. The Chinese version of Groupon is ran by the very competent Xing WANG, who was a physics graduate student. And last time I looked at it Meituan was worth $15B.

i have found all these utilities unsatisfying. It might make sense to write a JavaScript library that parses latex.

Yes! the jupyter server support 20+ languages!

We built a beautiful real-time collaborative client for it and just launched private beta.

http://lesquare.escherpad.com/@yang.ge/A-Collaborative-Real-...

Check out Escherpad! It is a real-time collaborative iPython notebook client that just came out today. It somehow didn't make it to the front page at all.

Escherpad support Python, Node.js, and has setup tutorials that allows you to setup a npm packages locally.

http://lesquare.escherpad.com/@yang.ge/A-Collaborative-Real-...

Hi Ge here the developer. As of now you can

- collaborate at real-time with others

- search full text

- all past versions are saved, down to one or two key strokes.

In order to use this, you need to have your own jupyter server. The setup guide is here:

https://github.com/escherpad/help-desk

this is very nice.

What about writing in a WYSIWYG, and get a LaTeX document and a markdown document?

http://www.escherpad.com/signup

I am working on a real-time collaborative notebook for code and mathematics. We are trying to upgrade to a small ec2 from a micro tier. Some AWS credit would be helpful for us to try this out!

www.escherpad.com

Thank you all for your comment! We redesigned the landing page and added a short video of the app in action.

Do you think this is something useful, or something that you would use yourself? Please let us know!

Here is the link in clickable form: http://www.escherpad.com/signup?referral=yangge1987

No worries! Thanks for looking at our page!

Thanks! I am redesigning this page and hopefully I will be able to relaunch in a few hours.

Thank you all for your signups! Here is the demo video in case you didn't see it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFbGzuC08uE

Thanks!

I have been working on my own note taking app: Here is a list to my shortcuts and they are quite similar!

http://lesquare.escherpad.com/@yang.ge/Welcome-To-Escherpad-...