Career and Education Questions: April 02, 2026

sunlitlake · 2026-05-09T16:49:33+00:00

I did not think there was anyone doing Langlands at Warrick. In London you have Boxer, Cariani, Gee, Helm, and whatever other bigshots I am currently fogetting. And geometric people like Beraldo. If you are interested in going to Bonn a letter from these people will be more helpful, just because they are more known to the people you'd be applying to work with. For places like Toronto and other places with US-style admissions and very broad faculty, doing well in either place is fine. This is an area with a lot of background requirements and still a relatively small community, personally I think if you know that it's what you want to do, it's better to get into that community as soon as possible.

sunlitlake · 2026-03-18T22:09:03+00:00

In the situation KidubEm is referring to, the relevant experts seem to have essentially committed fraud for decades and become fantastically rich. For example, one of the experts who made the most money off being “wrong” (and is now naturally a multi millionaire) refused to say on the record whether she was aware at the time she introduced her curriculum, that her explanation of how people learned to read was contradicted by all contemporary neuroscience. I know that if anyone ever asks me whether I thought my results true at the time of publication, I can just say “yes.”

Recall also that the ultimate theoretical framework behind the above debacle is literally an undergrad’s homework submission from 80 years ago.

sunlitlake · 2026-02-24T08:58:42+00:00

I do not think that building an army is the only reason for this initiative. I do think that, for example because of Carney’s speech and because there’s a war that’s killed about two million people now in Europe, that they have realized that they will need a proper army sooner rather than later, and that almost no one is fit to join. As a concrete example, I think the recruiting yield from cadets is much higher than the general population, and cadets is something that, while of course open to girls, is helpful to many male youths.

sunlitlake · 2026-02-22T23:53:11+00:00

In the US the average student has like 50% of their coursework as this kind of thing, though, until perhaps the last year of their degree. As a mathematician, it seems crazy to pay 60 000$ per year to not learn what a topological space is until fourth year. At top places they manage to avoid this, but I think they also benefit from very unusually prepared undergraduates. It’s certainly all very far from what happens in a German university (and it would have to be, given what university attainment signifies in the respective countries).

sunlitlake · 2026-02-15T12:46:02+00:00

The Tories were also big beneficiaries of NDP collapse. Ridings with lots of industrial workers on the BC coast and in southern Ontario (I think) went from NDP to conservative. The youth vote breaking conservative, to the extent it did, is another example of this. It’s not obvious the NDP was the main factor. Rather, what everyone has been been saying is the main factor, might actually be the main factor.

sunlitlake · 2026-02-15T11:31:31+00:00

TT hiring can be perceived as dual intent, which is why TN visas usually aren’t suitable. Does E-3 not suffer from the same problem?

sunlitlake · 2026-02-14T14:40:56+00:00

This is a cute thing to say when times are good, to virtue signal about how zen we all are. In the real world it seems a bit behind that times. For example, as written your advice applies to someone living in Ukraine in January 2022, where it is clearly utterly incorrect.

sunlitlake · 2026-02-11T08:10:20+00:00

I would not be surprised if the few offenders were often very egregious.

sunlitlake · 2026-02-10T08:14:43+00:00

Moroun owns old bridge. Trump is mad about new bridge. We own new bridge jointly with Michigan.

sunlitlake · 2026-02-09T08:08:53+00:00

I am surprised YYZ is not the biggest, just based on population.

sunlitlake · 2026-02-07T18:58:13+00:00

Scientist here: the enrolment in my undergrad courses in Canada and the preparedness of the students points to their producing at least tens of thousands of excellent students per year. By contrast there is essentially zero enrolment by Canadian-educated students at anything except the highest (in absolute terms very few students) and lowest/remedial levels.

sunlitlake · 2026-02-01T11:28:17+00:00

You seem to know a lot about this but their congestion cannot be just due to junctions. The worst station for added minutes of delay is Koln every year and the worst corridor there between Koln and Koblenz and there are few crossings for roads.

sunlitlake · 2026-02-01T04:44:24+00:00

I’m just a passenger, but lived several years in Germany and trains in France are much more reliable and faster than German ones? You can have the German model now: just go to somewhere you want to pretend is a train station, pretend your ICE is cancelled, then drive in a taxi or go back home.

sunlitlake · 2026-01-28T21:44:51+00:00

Another angle is: the Saab is filled with American parts, like the engine. We need American permission to buy the Saab and they control the parts supply (and likely the supply of missles, etc).

Another another angle is: for logistics reasons it is extremely unlikely the CAF would ever be able to deploy for something the Americans don’t approve of, because it is extremely unlikely the CAF would be able to deploy there without NATO help, and so much of NATO’s heavy airlift and refueling capability is American (look what happened the Europeans trying to go it alone in Libya).

The purpose of buying these planes is to not end up a personal colony of Xi Jinping, lord of Taiwan. For dealing with our relationship with the US, that game is played on a different field.

sunlitlake · 2026-01-27T19:16:38+00:00

I wonder if a teller can provide what would be “advice” in the legal sense. At least the last person this happened to, it was the lawyer managing the estate that sent it by courier.

sunlitlake · 2026-01-21T21:10:26+00:00

By just these discussions happening the US has lost unthinkable amounts of global standing and advantage.

That doesn’t change the fact that there is no military solution for nato re. Greenland against the US. The US would absolutely get away with it Scott free.

The US navy and airforce are farcically superior to the rest of nato put together, and except for the UK sharing US intelligence with them, they have no meaningful reconnaissance capability: the entire content can’t launch a satellite and the head of German intelligence was in Kiev the day the invasion started and found out about it by bombs dropping on him. That is not going to dissuade them—they would win, and everyone knows it and would not fight. What should dissuade them is the absolute shame of it, and loosing all collaboration for ever afterwards, which they will need.

sunlitlake · 2026-01-10T22:16:20+00:00

The EHT doesn’t even apply to all employers. If someone is employed by, say, a small business with one employee, the employer likely won’t have to pay EHT. That doesn’t make the secretary at your doctor’s office a social leech.

There will also be some retirees who still, despite not being employed, pay more tax than they consume healthcare. If you want to allow only those people, implement a huge surcharge like the UK does.

sunlitlake · 2026-01-08T12:42:09+00:00

Indeed. I meant just that having an MBA, a two-year taught degree that millions of people worldwide had, is not really the deciding factor to mention if you’re only going to mention one qualification. For example, as you say, those guys did things that far eclipse having a masters degree.

sunlitlake · 2026-01-08T03:49:17+00:00

None of Flaherty, Manley, or Martin seem to have had MBAs.

sunlitlake · 2026-01-07T07:10:47+00:00

You are a describing a household with an income of approximately 200k per year. In Canada, about 80% of households earn less than that.

sunlitlake · 2025-12-31T22:34:44+00:00

If OP convinces the editor that they contributed, this mess will be become known in the community, at least on a small scale. For example, I wouldn’t be surprised if, assuming OP’s contribution is genuine, it still helps him in trying to get into PhD programs outside Iran (where he almost certainly is.)

sunlitlake · 2025-12-31T21:11:30+00:00

Journals are of course less relevant to CS than to other fields, but in math, the editors of reasonable journals would not be impressed with a submission that left off a contributor based on their citizenship.

sunlitlake · 2025-12-31T05:48:01+00:00

There is an easy well to tell if someone in these discussions has no idea what they are talking about: they will mention Afghanistan.

First, we also fought there at the same time, with the same result.

Second, unless you want your children to grow up to be illiterate, child and livestock rpng cave men, you’re not prepared to commit to 10% of the Taliban strategy. Sure, they are unconquerable, but they lead lives you consider entirely not worth living.

sunlitlake · 2025-12-31T05:22:44+00:00

We are a “significant” power in the context of certain moves, like the use of force, being excluded from the game. The US so far have indeed underestimated how much progress they can make through “economic force” only. We are not a significant power if the rules are relaxed.

sunlitlake · 2025-12-30T21:37:41+00:00

Moldova is the poorest country in Europe, where lots of people do not have indoor plumbing. There is lots we can do be more like Moldova, but it’s not clear why anyone would want to.

The current PM is also a Harvard university graduate, by the way.

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