jk4930

Would you send another Lisp program to space, just for the joy of it?

I'd have to use it first to comment on it, but thanks so far. Article makes a good impression.

Just want to add that I prefer Ada over C++ despite it having less mind share, tools, and libraries because its productivity is so high. (Not saying that I dislike C++.)

And, speculating here, with the encroachment of AI into programming/software engineering, I assume that it's convenient to use languages that are declarative (e.g. Haskell) and/or designed for verification/formal methods (e.g. Ada/SPARK) to integrate AIs of various kinds.

First, congrats on launching. Second, "AWS GovCloud for ITAR compliance," can the USG access my data (EU company) then?

Euro here. Would you send me an email (in profile)?

Sent you an email (from my sometimes blocked alumnus account, if it doesn't appear, let me know).

It depends on the specific professor. There are stressful and relaxed ones. It trickles down from the professors to their assistants to their PhD students. Here's my ad-hoc list of bad signs. Avoid those.

Professors

* don't have time for feedback

* have no interest in their PhD students' work

* are known to steal results (and put their names on it)

* are ideologically/religiously driven and judge you and everybody else accordingly

* don't open their network to their PhD students

* jump from one hot/trendy topic to the next and burn their PhD students on it

* blame others/circumstances for anything bad

Faculty

* members pride themselves for devoting their lives to the cause

* members do long work days, have little sleep

* has little budget it spends on its PhD students

* feels toxic (Sayre's Law: "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.")

PhD students

* do overtime

* rarely/never publish

* publish in irrelevant magazines

* publish with their names on the nth position (after doing all the work)

* don't or rarely attend conferences

* don't or rarely work on what they signed up for

* take long to finish (or don't finish at all)

* blame others/circumstances for their bad situation

Talk to PhD students, ask on the net, listen to speeches and lectures the professors gave.

A lot of advice given at HN about whether to join a startup applies to academia as well. Unnecessary work, little pay, vague promises, inconsistent management, insider circles. I wonder what academia's equivalent of stock options is. Aiming for tenureship perhaps?

Would you send me an email (see profile) please?

jk at ptscientists dot com