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The analogy seems to be like learning classical music (like piano or violin) after as an adult.

You learn the basics like scales and chords to build and build to modern jazz.

But if you’re an adult, life is too short, just go straight to a few pieces you like. Get a simplified version and learn the bits you need from there from a teacher.

That’s not salary that’s research funds to hire students and start the lab.

Does the the ⁡(,1) conjecture paper in annnals of Math say 7 years between submission and acceptance? Insane

No it’s not. Chinese restaurant cuisine is not defined by home cuisine at all. They are almost orthogonal.

You go to a Chinese restaurant to eat something that cannot be made at home, almost by definition. The only exception might be breakfast food.

Italian restaurant cuisine today is judged by whether it tastes like the way their particular Italian grandma made it.

Asian restaurant cuisine is judged by partly by how different (technique, taste, looks) the dish is from what they can make from home.

It is better to be overworked than underworked

How is this different than telling people to do a PhD, then run your own research group as a professor, get tenure and get lifetime job security?

Or work in start up, get acquired, and chill after ?

Check Physics and Chemistry Nobel prize of last 5 years, Google was involved in half of them.

I think it technically means they have a permanent endowed position.

Most researchers in Switzerland are non-Swiss, and many institutes have English as language of business

Essentially a PhD thesis style grilling to replace the current text slop

It doesn’t matter honestly, 65k versus 80k after 42% tax on the extra 15k is about 800 euros a month. Not qualitatively different.

I found it the right granularity. He talks about USA, China, and Europe: within each have considerable diversity in culture, history, and identity.

He mentions Europe without more nuance for the same reason he mentions China without more nuance: he’s talking big picture.

At 9 figures I’m sure the founder can trickle down a few for everyone including employers after the sale.

Do you have a family or people you need to take care of? Life is more than sustaining your own existence.

You forgot to account for the 100+ employees. The liquidity event would have helped their families as well.

Can you imagine a singer who will continue singing even after getting 50 million ?

To some people, their careers are interesting in and of itself, beyond money.

This applies to many professions: scientists, CEOs, writers, painters.

Literature, music, art; they are all intertwined aren’t they? I find at their purest form they are striving for similar goals: pulling out from our collective unconscious a life affirming theme that can be viewed in a new perspective.

Are you suggesting science and innovation are distinct?

Scientific progress is largely driven by the “Steve Jobs” of sciences.

Only a tiny fraction of papers remain relevant. So that means the quality of the average paper doesn’t matter as much as the quality of the best paper.

I think a mix of the current system with more permanent researchers makes sense.

There is a lot of work in research that fits the permanent worker better than the fresh 22 year old. But having that fresh talent is really beneficial to science.

Your suggestion would have fewer fresh eyes to look at the problem. If the scientific enterprise were just about churning out widgets, then yes it’s better to have permanent staff.

But having a strong training pipeline for the globe is a huge plus for US prestige, and the top people are still offered jobs as faculty or industry within the country, so it still a net gain for USA. But it’s brutally competitive for the individual scientists

Literature is like classical music. One can argue Beethovens 9th symphony is one of the greatest pieces of music of all time, but that doesn’t mean we all have time to sit through 70 minutes a day listening to it.

I bet important people don’t even have time to sit and watch a full movie.

The meme of dude standing in corner while everybody else dances as he utters an elitist thought to himself explains many jazz musicians, especially the protagonist in whiplash

This is also the philosophy espoused by Taleb. You want that job that involves tinkering, playing, and an option to select winners.

John Von Neumann would disagree with you :

"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."

With the use of chat bots and agents, managing these on prem should be easier than ever right?

A drug is almost never acquired that can then be put directly to patients and sold.

Large pharma makes strategic bets on several drugs, some initiated in house, others acquired, but they all just go through further optimization and testing before it is approved.

Huge RnD is required even if drug is “simply acquired”

Rather than scoff at the selection, maybe use the opportunity to recalibrate and expand what one considers “interesting”?

I meant specifically the book, which doe not have any of those things you mentioned.

Also nobody fits neural networks and use variation inference using any priors that aren’t some standard form that makes algorithm easy

Is Bayesian data analysis relevant anymore in the era of foundation models and big data?