Now, this is genius, and it has been a long time since I saw something very cool like this. The simplicity and how effective the idea and implementation is is very impressive.
most of the takes in this articles are flat out wrong... seems like a clickbaity one to me... "Mathematical models take us down the wrong path"... quiet the opposite... I gave a few masters students some distributed systems algorithms to code, they did and they thought it was working great (only took few months for them to achieve that too).... until, I created a mathematical model, followed by a framework to put these implementations into a controlled schedulers exploration. Guess what happened? even though I had 7 years of experience working with systems in different setups, even I got them wrong at first till the model (based on the mathematical model aka operational semantics) showed me where it went wrong, then I fixed things till all these implementations work correctly. Even unintended bugs by the exploration algorithms got caught by this scheduler!
This is not to mention many (if not all) of the other headings are wrong too. Not even going to waste time reading this.
No one can deny there are things that need to be brought to a better standards in academia, but denying the usefulness and depth of these degrees based on outlier super achievers is zealous, to say the least all while claiming "arrogance" on academia.
I still have my PowerMac G5 (Dual 2.0 GHz with 8 GB RAM)... still works but it is stashed with my other electronics "heritage" beside a 21 inches CRT Dell flatron monitor! and the 23" Apple Cinema Display I bought with the PowerMac. Such a well built machine. I wish Apple still made such an expandable chassis but with more compatible parts like it was with the Intel based Mac Pro. I believe the one I have still has Mac OSX Snow Leopard installed, the original Mac OSX that came with it was Panther, my favorite is Tiger though.
I ran Yellowdog linux on it, and Fedora 4 back in the days when I didn't want to upgrade to a newer OS right away and I liked it.
I'd rather say something truthful and of support, backed by real action and history if actual support instead of saying something trivial. I remember a friend told me such thing when I was grieving (something along the lines of "you have to pray" or something) and I blurted "oh really? so I wasn't praying. so it was my fault? so I needed YOU to remind me at my worst times? what happened to reason?"... he stopped talking to me for few months, we are still friends... but if he hugged me and kept quiet just the looks of their face feeling sad for me would have been the perfect support I needed. Sometimes silence is way better than telling a religious lie to "comfort me".
I gave up on cars in the US for few years now... I just bought a hyper electric escooter and use it to travel 60+/- miles per charge... no gas, no insurance, no maintenance (only the rare flats and brake pad changes), and no plate and safety/emission... etc etc.
Buy once, use till the battery dies... rinse and repeat... gear is inconvenient though but can put up with it.
Where I'm at there's a cross on the side of the highway every quarter mile or so to mark where people who decided to not use a car to commute that day are commemorated.
