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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!)