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Hey! Fellow YCer (S24) here. Super cool idea. Depending on how b2c you want to be, one area to maybe consider would be surgeries. Scheduling rooms for surgeries is quite challenging, and has a cost component associated with it which makes the problem even harder. Especially since, as you can imagine, it's not at all obvious how long a procedure will necessarily take, and other procedures may need to start at a certain time.

Sort of related to what bloop is trying to do too right?

We're using Maitai's structured output in prod (Benchify, YC S24) and it's awesome. OpenAI interface for all the models. Super consistent. And they've fixed bugs around escaping characters that OpenAI didn't fix yet.

I use this every week and have been using it for years. Huge fan.

Thank you! Keep in mind this was a joint effort by many, many students. I just happened to tweet about it first.

Thank you! Our faculty allies were very helpful as well, although in a more private way.

Thanks!

We have some excellent faculty allies. The admin is interested in doing the same thing to faculty (making them share space) and so faculty is 100% on our side. Hence we had a public letter with 250+ signatures including many faculty.

I agree they likely over-accepted and spent money poorly but I can't say for certain, as I'm not in admin and thus not privy to these details.

I’m the student who wrote the twitter thread. Let me know if you have any questions!

I want to know about .mil/anime

I'm a PhD student in CS in the USA. At my school in Boston, we are paid a ~40K USD/yr stipend. My friends in industry make a _minimum_ of 120k/yr, and some make considerably more than that (think 200k+), in junior / "entry-level" positions.

When I complete the PhD, if I go to industry in the USA, my income will probably be similar to that of my friends who will have been in industry the entire time (and gotten steady wage increases throughout).

It's important to note also cost of living. 40k/yr might sound like a lot, but in Boston, rent is >1k/month even with roommates, we don't have dental care, our health insurance is imperfect, groceries are expensive, etc. etc. Meanwhile in Tucson Arizona or Bloomington Indiana the stipend is something like 22-28K/yr, as cost of living is lower.

Generally speaking it's reasonable to say that completing a PhD in computer science is not a financial investment, but rather, something I am doing because I want to do it. I am very unlikely to literally "profit" (compared to, if I had gone straight to industry instead).

I hope this information is useful/interesting!

Why would you even consider using an unsound logic?

I’m a 3rd year PhD student in formal verification and for the life of me I can’t imagine why anyone would choose to use an unsound logic. I must be missing something very obvious. Is it, IDK, “sound as long as you don’t reason about some very specific kind of formula which can be easily avoided”, or something like that?

I use program synthesis - cutting edge technology from, I think, the 70s?

I recently made a map (using Generic Mapping Tools) of one of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, for one of my dad’s grad students to use in a paper. That would constitute a good example of where you couldn’t just tell my # of built structures (since at certain zoom levels, there are none!)

You’re right. There are two types of 0: the internal syntax denoting digit shift, like in 507, and the number representing nothing, as in 0. So in our number system, o isn’t just syntax, it’s also a number.

Isn’t this a copycat crime of the similar incident in Florida roughly a month ago?

This nonsense sounds a lot like programming in Coq.

Wild speculation: because Noetherian induction is kind of tricky? And linked lists are a way to sort of allude to that trick ones without calling it out by name?

I went on Semester at Sea with her - when I was only 3! My dad was a professor on the ship. Apparently she was super nice, although, I don’t remember, since I was 3.

PSA: Chomsky answers emails.

Alloy is awesome to model with but the results can be kind of hard to interpret. Luckily it has a great user group which responds to emails quickly with advice. Cheers!

Point taken but, was it my manager’s fault when I wrote

echo “print(“$1”+”$2”)” | python

?

PSA: we often hold similar events at bstn.cc, in CS and math.

Just a drive by comment: graphical languages can be entirely formal; just read any paper on automata and you’ll see some good examples.

Lol this made my morning

Google “ACAS X” if you’re interested in what these algorithms are like. There are some good papers available online.

My dad (professor at University of Arizona) interviewed Shanna Swan, a scientist profiled in this article, recently. Anyone interested can find the episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reproductive-health-sh...

My dad (U Arizona professor of public health) interviewed Matthew Meselson at length, mostly about topics other than the mRNA discovery. Anyone interested can find the interview here: https://mobile.twitter.com/sci_history/status/11478796146704...

I worked at NASA Armstrong for a summer. The have an entire team there that at least a few years ago worked full time on real time Linux. IDK if that was used in this case or not.

Anything having the premise “what right do laborers have to complain …” is offensive and ridiculous. (Regardless of who the laborers are or how well paid they are or what form the labor takes.)