You seem to be equating brain power with earning power. This is a common mistake made by folks who believe they likely have more than average brain power (tm) and that scarcity of those with brain power (tm) somehow improves earning power.

Today, earning power is most correlated with the amount of capital that your employment responsibilities have associated with. It may or may not be fair, but it is generally true. Historically, people could count on scarcity, but we're in the cusp of a post-scarcity employment environment (in many fields, there won't be enough work for everyone to be fully employed).

The best hope to earn an above average amount of money in a job is to find a company that has enough excess capital to pour some on their employees (e.g., work for a social media company, a hedge fund company, a natural resource processing company like an oil or rare-earth metals, etc.) or simply just work for yourself (start your own company). Although some positions in those companies might require brain power (tm), competition will be tough for those slots, and it's quite possible that it your "true-alpha-male" leader-type might find an easier way into such an excess capital situation (or say start a construction company and make plenty of money that way)...

One complication of the Levi Stadium situation is that the companies do not actually own their office/parking lot, but are merely mostly Class-B commercial office-park tenants which do not have the authority to use the building parking lots that way. The owners of the building are generally large real-estate holding companies and the parking lots aren't normally pay/restricted lots so don't have lot attendants so they would likely have to apply for a Special Event Parking Permit to do this. They would also likely need to re-negotiate lease terms with their tenants to tie up the parking lot in this manner.

If the office buildings you mention have full-time managed parking lots, then they could avoid much of the complication surrounding the Levi Stadium situation since they would-be full-time parking operators already.

Ahh, Capitalism at work! The nice thing about Capitalism is that it often ends up doing the right thing (lifting people out of poverty in this example) for all the wrong reasons. Never fear though, there is still a whole new continent (Africa) that needs to experience the joys of low paid slave labor before we're really done with that part of things.

A counter-example to this would be the parking situation at the newly constructed Levi stadium for the SF 49'ers. They don't have enough game-day parking spaces for the stadium and they were assuming that some of the surrounding office complexes would be willing to become pay-parking lots on Sunday-gamedays... Sadly, only a few of them "bit" on this opportunity. The purported reason for this is the increase in liability insurance and maintenance (e.g., cleanup costs) involved would not make it worth the hassle to operate as public-parking lot for 8 days a year.

Despite sounding like a good idea, apparently in real life the margin on parking is so low that you can't really do it on a part time basis and make it worth your while. It's not that they are doing it wrong, their business model is to simply privatize the profit and socializing the liability and risks (e.g. city maintenance and self-insurance costs) not unlike a big-bad-bank...

Lower tech and more fun here...

Actually, the transputer had a few good kernels of an idea: sea of loosely interconnected processors each with local memory. However, the actually execution wasn't that good, and the only real market was embedded military signal processing systems. For a while, inmos attempted to chase workstation graphics, but eventually they got killed by the i860 (which is sad as it too wasn't a very good implementation of any idea either, but happened better $/! than the transputer for floating point) which of course eventually died as its limitations caught up with it as well (although many of its ideas lived on in the original Pentium like U/V super-scalar execution pipe, pipelines fp unit)...

One thing both the Transputer and the i860 had in common, is that they were engineering solutions in search of a problem to solve. Perhaps products that embed great engineering ideas often don't translate to good implementations which inevitably fail in the market, but good ideas tend live on and sometimes find their way into the market worthy products...

Yes, but you can distinguish quantum annealing behavior from regular thermal annealing. And when you compare the D-Wave device to simulations of both it conforms much closer to the former.

Also the extreme temperature sensitivity is more indicative of actual quantum annealing.

Spammers or hackers could get your IP turned off. But I'd do it anyway to be helpful.

Not the OP, but I can add some. In the biological sciences, it has definitely become common for PhD's to do several post-docs (in the conventional sense of a 2-3 year position) or to do extended post-docs of 6 or more years. There are many reasons for this. Some people go into advanced science because they like doing experiments, and postdoc is the last level where you get to be heavily involved in bench work. Some people prefer to be 'behind the scenes' as the lab manager or head technician, but it's administratively difficult to create a position with that title, so the head technician may be an essentially permanent postdoc. Some of it is because people will take a sub-optimal job to accommodate their spouse or partner.

Some of it is because there are a lot more PhD graduates than tenure track positions or extramural funding, and professors really only know how to train students to become professors. So, students enter the post-doc pool as a sort of purgatory until they find a tenure-track job, rather than search for other work to apply their PhD skills. The recession basically halted academic hiring for 5 years, so now there's a big backlog of graduates with lots of time spent as postdocs. A recent Assistant Prof search I was involved in wouldn't even consider candidates without a Science or Nature publication. Candidates averaged about 4 years post-doc, and some were 10.

As always, it's important to remember that these positions are technically university jobs, but they are created by an individual researcher based on extramural funding. They're not jobs created by a dean to do the university's work more cheaply than a tenured professor. There's a sense in which postdocs are like research-track adjunct professors (and may even get that title eventually), but the problem form of adjunct professors are temporary positions created by a Department or College to meet its functional mandate (teaching) without distracting a professor from his income-generating activities.

One of the main reasons for rising tuition, especially at public universities, is the disappearance of taxpayer support. Support for public universities is down 25-30% in the last 25 years. Universities make up for that by raising tuitiion and shifting faculty from teaching to extramural-funded research. And by lowering salaries.

The big difference between tenure-track and adjunct faculty is that tenure-track faculty are expected to pay their own salary through grants and contracts. Professors are profit centers for universities, and the less time they spend teaching, the more income they can raise. Adjuncts are cost centers.

Simulated annealing on a non-digital chip?

I think you may want to think this over one more time.

Buddy, I have a physics degree too, so does Matthias Troyer and Geordie Rose.

Eight qubit entanglement has been demonstrated.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.3500...

IPMI is awesome for managing servers. All the supermicro mobo's I've ever used had a dedicated ethernet port to make sure the IPMI was on a separate, dedidcated, not-internet connected network. The real problem is that they will (or at least would) fallback to the normal ethernet port for IPMI if the dedicated port was not connected.

So the risk here is anyone who bought nice Supermicro hardware, didn't bother to learn about the IPMI, and only connected the normal ethernet port. It's not going to be a problem for people running 5,000 servers in a datacenter. It's going to be a problem for SOHO guys whose web server has a BMC they don't know about communicating on the same port.