>You seem to have well informed flexible friends, who are willing to try something "new".
you're saying this about someone that claims all of their friends use only one app. the fact that that app is signal does that not make them more flexible or better informed than someone who was born into some religion and decided it was coincidentally the most true.
what is the point of this? usually this type of comment is when there's something inscrutable in the title of a post but the title of this post is literally "Who Is Alexander Grothendieck?"; if you didn't know who he was before clicking you certainly know afterwards.
i don't know how far off you are but i had access to an 8GPU allocation last fall and all I had to do was ask. longer term would've cost money though. Interesting fact was someone in the chemistry department had something like a 360GPU allocation (probably for DFT).
lol what circles do you travel in? i was on a call last week where this guy that works for DOD took issue with me working at Facebook. the irony is quite delicious there.
>putting their result on arXiv so they can put AI research on their resume
are you kidding? it's resulted in a huge amount of researchers publishing results in journals so they can apply to funding agencies that are clueless. I collaborate with a national lab (in the us) and the number of LDRD calls that I'm on where classically trained scientists propose completely clueless machine learning projects is very high. so i think you're being quite naive (or disingenuous) about who the real culprits are in inflating arxiv. also you can't throw up stuff on arxiv without a prof vouching for you.
>abstract algebra is effectively a sort of secret maths techniques
abstract algebra (rings, groups, fields) is taught in absolutely every undergrad math program in the country (in the world?). there's nothing unique to harvard in this aspect.
lol i don't understand your point "harvard doesn't have secret math - the proof is all of these publicly available math lectures from world renowned mathematicians"
the value of harvard math profs isn't reaped by the undergrads, it's reaped by the grad students that work closely/directly with these profs. i'm not 100% sure of this but benedict gross probably isn't holding several hours of office hours every week for his undergrad algebra classes (although he might for the grad sections).
now the knock-on effect, obviously, is that the very good math phd students that pursue and are admitted to harvard do provide a lot of value for the undergrads (since they're TAing/holding office hours for those undergrads). but those same harvard phd students then go get tenure track positions at mediocre schools where office hours are held by profs. so it all evens out as far as undergrads go :)
>Your diploma will read "Master of Science in Computer Science," exactly the same as those of on-campus graduates. There will be no "online" designation for the degrees of OMS CS graduates.
watch the hands not the mouth - take a gander at the demographics of microsoft/facebook/google and you'll see how much they actually support diversity initiatives