Comment by limpbizkitfan

Comment by limpbizkitfan 10 months ago

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Someone Ph.D track in my research group was paying tutors and having homework performed for them.

While it is certainly possible that the role falls on people who want it enough, there simply aren't a lot of people financially able to do 5-7 additional years of school on a meager research stipend, esp. if they are graduating their bachelor's program with debt. You can buoy yourself with side work or internships, but what if the thing you're passionate about isn't something that excites industry?

G. Perelman is a recluse. He sees the point of mathematicians is to advance math, not mathematicians. He's so much the opposite of what this blog post seems to shoot for.

Narhem 10 months ago

Worse, during my PhD my personal computer was hacked and my BitBucket account was emptied.

A few other incidents and I had to jump ship to industry. Kind of embarrassing that the university couldn’t even protect an employees from what amounts to corporate espionage and bullying.

  • turing_observer 9 months ago

    Curiously, I have also had my personal computer hacked for the first time, since making forays into British academia, in a city with an above average crime rate. This after some quite subtle and sinister threats to put illegal things onto it, as I did not have much stored on it.