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Re:Nearly Half of US Unicorns Have Foreign-Born Founders on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @04:15PM (#42627579)
As I understand it, the tuition differential is only for public universities, not private ones. Private universities/colleges may cover the full financial need of international students if they cannot afford tuition.

Source: I was an international student and got nearly a full ride to a private SLAC.

Re:New MacBook Setup on Friday May 24, 2024 @01:20AM (#40463048)
You're not the only one. I vastly prefer MacPorts.
Re:LLM with Planning on Friday April 28, 2023 @12:24AM (#35737460)
PDDL files do outline objects, predicates, actions, etc. in a machine-readable way, but in a much more expressive manner than can be done with something like JSON.

PDDL is designed to be machine readable, but also human-readable and writable. I would say you would write PDDL when you want to provide a description of the rules of a domain to an algorithm that does automated planning and acting. This could be an autonomous agent of any sort, doesn't necessarily have to be embodied/robotic in nature.

We've used this and like it so far: https://github.com/meltwater/served
Re:America, Stop Moving West on Friday June 18, 2021 @07:50PM (#27556375)
> Arizona: Beautiful but not made for humans.

That's a photograph of Monument Valley in Utah...

You can do so relatively easily with Vim digraphs. For example, the alpha symbol can be obtained by typing

Ctrl-k a Shift-8

Got it, thanks for the explanations!
The inverse of your example sentence would be something like - "I don't have a good immune system, so I would need medicine if I got a cold" - which makes sense, and is analogous to "Reality is not different, so we do need affirmative action."
Re:How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @05:22PM (#14756808)
This is a good collection of resources, but even more valuable would be the syllabi and homework sets from graduate-level theoretical physics courses, which can guide the interested learner through the vast amount of material, and help them gauge what is a reasonable pace of progress and not get bogged down (this has happened to me whenever I've tried to self-study from textbooks).

Source: Just got my PhD in theoretical high energy physics.

This may have been true during Darwin's time, but it simply does not apply in today'a academic world. The level of competition for grants, publications, etc. is way, way higher than before. Not that I've conducted a survey, but I'm pretty sure every professor at an R1 university works at least 60 hours a week, if not more.

Source: Am finishing up my PhD in theoretical high energy physics.