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Comment Re:Punishment isn't working. (Score 2) 53

This guy's record will follow him his entire life.That's pretty severe (and appropriate) punishment, in my opinion.

Nope, his notoriety will increase, the criminal record will be ignored and once he gets through the hard times of the hooplah he will be paid even more.

I say this because I have seen this *exact* situation before with a former colleague and it did wonders for his career. He basically did what everyone has thought about and paid for it - those types of experience carry value.

Comment Re:Excellent (Score 1) 195

Difficult is not equal to impossible. Heat can be used to boil working fluids, which can be used to drive turbines, which can create energy, which can in turn be used to run AI chips, which give off heat, which can then also be harvested to boil working fluids...Not really a perpetual motion machine, but the inefficiency in the system can be used to suck more heat out of the heat pumps anyway. Inefficiency in this case is a feature.

Comment Re:Do the Japanese need a lesson in biology? (Score 3, Informative) 85

If your name never changes then all of your achievements are indexed together. If your CV has to say, "I worked at XYZ between these dates, but under a different name" then that makes it a little bit harder to get a reference that's verifiably about you. You also potentially miss out on people seeing your CV on the pile and saying, "I worked with her before, she's worth calling in for interview". Little bits of friction can make a big difference.

Also, as an aside, talking about "modern audiences" reflects a cultural bias. There are cultures in which the wife always kept her surname. There's nothing inherently antiquated or modern in naming customs: it's "what I'm used to", "what my grandparents were used to", and "what that particular group of foreigners do".

Comment Re:Duh (Score 3, Informative) 181

Many professors didn't care for Einstein due to his inability to stay focused in school. He graduated in 1900 and spent the next several years working only part-time so that he could focus on writing his brilliant theories. Didn't even land a full-time job until 9 years after he graduated.

Sources? I can find unsourced claims that he was employed full-time at the patent office but finished his work in half the time and so was able to spend the other half doing physics. Certainly the "graduated" of your claim is his first degree; he submitted his doctoral thesis in 1905 and his habilitation in 1907. I see further unsourced claims that having obtained the habilitation he was only able to teach before 08:00 and after 18:00 because of his work at the patent office. 1909 seems to be not when he landed his first full-time job but when he landed his first academic job.

Comment Re:"Abstraction: Towards an Abstracter Abstract" (Score 1) 111

What we need is a 2nd study, using 400 students, separated into four groups:
1. Using Google ONLY by looking at the 3rd page of results (the first two pages are now taken up with Gemini AI and targeted advertising).
2. Using ChatGPT Only.
3. Using inventory computers in a large metropolitan library
4. Using old fashioned card catalogs and books.

I wonder if we chose a significantly esoteric subject, with a 100 question exam given after a week, if any useful clustering could be detected.

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