This is really good. I have no aspirations to ever have something like this written about me, but I aspire to one day be able to write something similarly good about my own advisor.
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Yeah, the thread you triggered about unhappy PhDs along with learning the news last week sort of inspired it... it's a pity how few "doctor of philosophy" degrees involve any significant teaching or learning of philosophy as such. I lucked out that way.
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He seems like he was a good, pretty holistic fellow, and I am glad to hear about his influence on you. Why didn’t you two keep in touch for longer?
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He was old-fashioned in-person, pen-and-paper-math guy, didn’t really use email much except for work. Plus, I kinda dropped out of the field professionally.
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This read like hagiography, and I mean that I’m the best possible unironic sense of the word
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Yeah it was meant as such
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Beautiful. I've had the opportunity to attend a talk by Dr.Hyland. I suppose he was at U.Michigan around the same time?
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Yes, they were co-PIs on the grant that funded my PhD. Dave Hyland is also a really interesting person
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Very nice essay. I don't know if you happened to see this thread about control systems engineering and the Chinese government. Seemed apposite https://twitter.com/ctbeiser/status/1082905884060086272?s=19 …
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