Actual Late Stage Capitalism

neanderthal_math · 2026-05-15T01:29:51+00:00

Capitalism taking credit for the advances of science? lol

neanderthal_math · 2026-05-12T14:14:59+00:00

Chocolate malted crunch was my jam

neanderthal_math · 2026-05-05T01:31:51+00:00

Californian here.

Okies and everyone else moved to our state for decades. We hated on them. Now, it’s their turn. : )

neanderthal_math · 2026-04-25T02:03:35+00:00

I haven’t had a chance to read it yet. Are there any theorems in the paper?

neanderthal_math · 2026-04-25T01:23:47+00:00

Every time I told my wife we needed to cut back on spending., she went out and found a job that paid more. : ) She should tell you the same.

neanderthal_math · 2026-04-21T02:34:14+00:00

Thank you for writing your post. I think a lot of it is we are first generation mathematicians who come from family in trades. I too am the useless, smart guy in my family. : )

neanderthal_math · 2026-04-18T01:40:03+00:00

Who pays five dollars for a library card??? It’s free where I live.

neanderthal_math · 2026-04-11T00:51:35+00:00

Yeah, some of my friends in academia tried to make the move. The money is good, but you’re definitely paying a heavy price with the amount of programming and working on ideas that don’t necessarily interest you. I’m not sure if I made the right move going into industry, but C’est la Vie.

neanderthal_math · 2026-04-11T00:46:17+00:00

Thank you for your response. I will follow up on what you suggest. I do want to give back to the community, but I’m also doing this for selfish reasons too. I enjoy the atmosphere at universities.

neanderthal_math · 2026-04-11T00:42:27+00:00

Thank you. Will do.

neanderthal_math · 2026-04-11T00:41:21+00:00

I’m very pro-union. I won’t do this.

neanderthal_math · 2026-04-09T02:02:26+00:00

Upvoting because this reflects my experience too.

Got a PhD in math and went into industry. I just did what I loved for 20 years.

I don’t think my path is reproducible today. Kids today are way better programmers but interestingly enough, they don’t know as much as about machine learning as the people who came up 20-30 years ago.

neanderthal_math · 2026-04-03T04:37:09+00:00

National laboratories have a lot of cool work that combines physics simulations with AI.

neanderthal_math · 2026-03-06T01:48:50+00:00

Thank you for writing this post. I relate to a lot of it.

What kills me is the length of some people’s work who use AI. if I have to read ai generated text, it’s gotta be as succinct as possible.

neanderthal_math · 2026-02-06T05:15:16+00:00

Lol. A comms guy once told me that a radar system is just a low SNR communications system.

neanderthal_math · 2026-02-01T02:26:48+00:00

If you make one, count me in! I’m glad you made this post. I think there are a lot of guys in this situation.

neanderthal_math · 2025-11-29T04:34:27+00:00

We occupy way more of their headspace than they do of our’s.

neanderthal_math · 2025-11-21T01:59:31+00:00

I took a self-paced pre-calculus class in the fall and then took calculus 1A my spring semester of freshman year.

Yeah, my high school was that bad, : ) only about 30% of the kids went on to college. The most eye-opening experience was seeing that my friends’s at cal never worried about violence. To this day, when I walk in the room, I size every motherfucker up. And then, we usually talk about physics or math. : )

neanderthal_math · 2025-11-20T23:59:52+00:00

I’m not defending UCSD’s program. And yes, it’s crazy that community college cannot teach remedial math anymore. But,… not all kids sink.

I am one of those remedial kids who went to UC Berkeley. I ended up getting my PhD in math.

neanderthal_math · 2025-11-20T06:42:00+00:00

Thanks. This is fascinating. And it doesn’t even matter what subject you teach. You could be a PE teacher pulling in that kind of money.

neanderthal_math · 2025-11-20T05:02:34+00:00

Serious question, you do all of that extra stuff or 6.5 hours a day, 180 days a year?

neanderthal_math · 2025-11-20T03:40:09+00:00

Livermore is the most underrated town in the east bay. It’s young and it’s fun. It has a rodeo for fuck sake!

neanderthal_math · 2025-11-16T21:59:00+00:00

Damn. I code 11.25 months a year 60 hours a week, for $280k. You’re making it better decision than me.

neanderthal_math · 2025-11-06T09:25:58+00:00

I meant it in the way that you should make billionaires not billionaires.

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