smspillaz

The government defines the terms for and issues student visas, not universities. Students have to apply for a visa themselves and there are distinct substantive requirements for being granted one, including having a study place, being a genuine student, having sufficient financial resources to support yourself etc. The government (through DIBP), not the universities, make the final call on whether a student visa is granted. Many visa applications are rejected. See Section 3 of https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-stats/files/stud... , which was in 2023 before the recent migration policy tightenings, where the outside-Australian grant rate for eg India is less than 70%.

> And the unspoken deal is that you're not buying an education, you're buying residency in Australia because a large percentage of these students never go home again.

As other commenters have pointed out, there is a cap on permanent residency visas issued for reasons other than family reunification and that cap is substantially lower than the number of temporary visas issued. Any international student graduate would need to compete for a permanent residency visa by way of obtaining enough points for an invitation to apply through one of the permanent residency streams. These typically require a high level of education, local work experience, stable and permanent income amongst other things. The current estimates are that around 40% of international students obtain permanent residency within 10 years of graduation, so the majority of international student graduates either leave Australia or "hop" between temporary visas (which the government has for some time put mechanisms in place to prevent).

> Absolutely out of control population growth.

12 month rolling average of population growth has been steady at around 1.5% for the past 10 years, with the brief exceptions of the COVID period where it was negative and 2023, where it was 2.5% , largely due to the fact that many people who had delayed migration plans during the COVID years now actually acted on them and short term population growth rates due to migration around the world were also at high levels. Those levels have now largely mean reverted, partly due to policy, partly due to there no longer being a backlog of demand and partly due to economic circumstances which have reduced the incentive to migrate.

> Growth - through population growth, through "international students" - governments absolutely love it because it hides their bad economic management,

There is no evidence to suggest that population growth is an intended policy to "hide" bad economic management. Increasing immigration was the only responsible thing to do in 2022 and 2023 because the number of working age adults had shrunk and the excess of demand during those years after effectively zero or negative interest rates meant that there was a need to fill that demand with new workforce. Part of that comes from persons who start out studying and move into employment.

> And the government has staunchly - ridiculously - stated for years that international students do not impact housing. Yeah right - they don't live anywhere.

International students are barely competing for the same housing stock as long-term residents or citizens. International students typically live in rental shared accommodation, not in the detached homes for sale that your average Australian would be aiming for. Of course, international students have to live somewhere your comments overstates the impact that this actually has on the housing market.

> And they don't invest in the infrastructure to support the millions of people added to the population

Governments are investing in "the infrastructure". Billions are spent on further developing public transportation systems, roads etc according to established city plans.

> The entire game is rigged for rich people to get rich and everyone else to shove over and make room because there's a lot more people coming.

On the contrary to "more people coming" - Immigration has slowed down significantly in almost every developed country. In future years, it is likely that Australia will struggle to meet its targets for economic based immigration because the age cohorts in the sending countries are getting proportionately smaller and there is also less demand to migrate in general.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/ne...

  Location: Helsinki, Finland
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Temporarily. Immigration will be easier in US (TN)/Canada /Australia. Not an EU national (yet).
  Technologies: Deep learning, though I'm seeking something very specific, see below.
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- Compositional Generalization in Grounded Language Learning via Induced Model Sparsity (https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-srw.19/)

- Meta-learning from demonstrations improves Compositional Generalization (https://openreview.net/forum?id=hb3Et9tJSC9).

Some open research problems which might be relevant to what you are working on:

- Much improved sample efficiency for language-interactive robots or agents (don't need to train every single combination of different aspects)

- Compositional path synthesis

- Compositional particle or protein synthesis (eg, composing two separate subgraphs into a single graph by way of following some learned rules)

- Understanding why transformers can and can't do different kinds of compositional generalization

- Improved sample efficiency and generalization on many different language tasks in different language domains (for example, grammatical error correction, machine translation, semantic parsing, entity and relationship extraction).

One hard requirement is that we must be able to publish the research results of my internship such that it can be included in my thesis.

With remote work for a foreign employer getting paid into a foreign bank account where the work doesn't have much connection to the country, the link is less clear. For short stays, many countries will not consider this to be locally sourced income. See this example from the Australian Tax Office which answers this very question (https://www.ato.gov.au/General/COVID-19/Support-for-individu...). Note that in this case, you are still only paying tax on locally sourced income and not worldwide income.

Then there is the question of "tax residence". Different countries have different rules about this and residence is not "exclusive" (so you can be multiple-resident if you're unfortunate in how you set up your affairs). Tax residence in most places happens after a fixed period of stay in the country (typically 183 days) and/or if you have "residence ties" to that country. "residence ties" is typically a multi-factor balancing test, which includes things like owning real estate, supporting a spouse and dependents who continue to live in that country, having a fixed address in that country, having your essential social connections (club memberships, service subscriptions etc) run out of that country, nationality etc. Short non-successive trips to a country don't usually create residence ties. Most countries follow this model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation#Source_...). Then there's Eritrea, Hungary, Myanmar, Tajikistan, the United States for which citizenship automatically counts as tax residence, but usually there's offsetting procedures and tax treaties to avoid double taxation even if there might be double filing.

Then there's the "working on a tourist visa" question. This is unfortunately a significantly more murky area, especially when it comes to remote work. A good rule of thumb is that coming to a country for the purpose of remote work and not for the purposes permitted under a tourist visa or visa waiver is possibly over the line, but replying to some emails, attending a few meetings via call, fixing a bug here or there while you're mainly on holiday is likely to be fine. Of course the safest bet is not to do any work at all, but if we were to apply some common sense here, it would be absurd that you get an entry ban for the apparent crime of replying to an urgent email from your boss or colleague while on holiday.

Then there's the question of payroll taxes and unemployment/health insurance contributions to be paid by your employer. I don't know very much about this, but I think a starting point in the analysis would have to be whether your foreign corporate employer is subject to any sort of personal or tax jurisdiction by the country that you're in at all. Maybe someone else will fill in on this one.

Great idea. I've added it to my list at https://github.com/smspillaz/intuitive-math/issues/8