like i really don’t judge individuals who jump to tech bc there is legit interesting work and also before tech all the physicists just became quants on wall st anyways but “stopped researching the cosmos to build recommendation algorithms” is a hell of a way to put it
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the incentives in basic research are so fucked and idk it’s hard to judge individuals but this astrophysics to stitch fix case is just such a dramatic juxtaposition
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love to give up on Sagan-esque utopian dreams to... spend countless hours chasing meaningless metrics and "KPIs" so that you can say you growth hacked your engagement to 11
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He could try out for the football team, probably has eligibility left lol
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My uni has a pretty good astro department and basically none of the people I know doing postgraduate work there want to work in academia; they say it’s way too fucked trying to get a permanent position

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which uni?
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