Industrial espionage may help you with EUV lithography, but it sure isn't the main part of the problem.
(Actually, from what I've read recently, Chinese companies are going 3D before they get to EUV levels. That's another way around the problem. But you need to deal with a worse heat problem.)
Hollerith cards would be funny, but the real joke would be if it was copied to those 96-column cards IBM invented for their updated keypunch. The square ones with the small round holes rather than the large rectangular ones.
Actually there was a period when most of the CDs I wrote failed. Switching CD writers fixed that problem. (I suspect timing was involved.) But I haven't had that problem in the past several years. (Not that I burn that many CDs, but it's several/year.)
Actually, that's the way science is *supposed* to be set up. But when results are difficult to confirm, the process can be quite slow. And when fake results are easy, they can drown the process in noise. You need the signal to be enough stronger than the noise, and the noise level has been rising.
Partially this is because of corporate science, which isn't shared. Partially this is because of "publish or perish". The addition of AI assisted fabrications is recent, but adds significantly to the noise.
We need better filters
It's a feedback loop. Calling him the reason is oversimplifying.
The question is, is the payment rate optional? You may expect to get a good paying job, but this may well not happen.
At the current time I would think taking on debt for a student loan would be a bad idea. I expect many expertises to become obsolete rapidly, and I don't feel like anyone really knows which of those it will be.
Are you suggesting that Shor's and Grover's are the only possible quantum algorithms? I'm not holding my breath for commercial QC either, but I don't like being overly pessimistic or conservative either. Quantum computers now are a bit like the early electronic computers of the 1940s — proofs of a concept but not exactly commercial success stories. Sure, with those computers people could do the same old calculations much faster, but the really interesting and useful applications involved a bit more vision, and those didn't appear overnight.
While many people associate QC with breaking cryptography, in the end it's just a faster way to do classical math. There's a whole world of pure quantum problems that are more naturally solved with quantum computers; this is what Feynman meant when he conceived the idea of QC in the early 1980s. So instead of getting hung up on the number of qubits, consider for example what D-Wave is doing.
That doesn't seem to be in the Debian repository. (I don't have my Algol documentation anymore anyway, but once upon a time...)
But I meant Algol-60, which was the only version that was ever widely used.
Well, when I went looking for an Algol compiler, I didn't find it. But perhaps I just needed to look outside the repositories.
What about "Don't write your stuff while wearing a plaid shirt."?
If the rules can't be enforced honestly, they shouldn't be present. And rules against AI can't be enforced honestly unless you hold the contest in a sealed room with no remote access.
Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
