Anonymous
6/28/2025, 1:02:55 AM No.16709055
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When is it too late to enter STEM? - /sci/ (#16709055) [Archived: 638 hours ago]
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 1:23:35 AM No.16709074
>>16709055 (OP)
Too late already.
>you want to do actual science for science’s sake
Nothing ever happens, but you must publish or perish.
>you want to industrymaxx
Either you get into a top school and network like a crony or steroids or end up flipping burgers.
Too late already.
>you want to do actual science for science’s sake
Nothing ever happens, but you must publish or perish.
>you want to industrymaxx
Either you get into a top school and network like a crony or steroids or end up flipping burgers.
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Anonymous
6/28/2025, 1:32:39 AM No.16709086
>>16709055 (OP)
>Nothing ever happens, but you must publish or perish.
Damn!. That's a bummer. Is there any field/area of study you can get into where something worthwhile happens?
>Nothing ever happens, but you must publish or perish.
Damn!. That's a bummer. Is there any field/area of study you can get into where something worthwhile happens?
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Anonymous
6/28/2025, 1:38:43 AM No.16709089
>>16709055 (OP)
theoretically? it's only too late when you're dead.
realistically? it's too late when you're 60-70+ and should be close to retirement or retired.
theoretically? it's only too late when you're dead.
realistically? it's too late when you're 60-70+ and should be close to retirement or retired.
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 2:08:42 AM No.16709112
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 4:13:38 AM No.16709173
>>16709141
What is there left?
What is there left?
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 4:53:29 AM No.16709189
>>16709055 (OP)
If you're a white male, birth is too late.
If you're a white male, birth is too late.
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Anonymous
6/28/2025, 5:07:00 AM No.16709191
>>16709189
lol
lol
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 3:37:24 PM No.16709459
>>16709055 (OP)
bump
bump
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 3:24:06 PM No.16710168
>>16709074
>publish or perish
As a /sci/ tourist, this makes me wonder how much of science is just spinning your wheels just to give the appearance of doing something important.
>publish or perish
As a /sci/ tourist, this makes me wonder how much of science is just spinning your wheels just to give the appearance of doing something important.
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 3:35:10 PM No.16710175
>>16710168
Sadly, quite a bit. The incentive structure pretty much ensures that the bulk of research will be filler shit of no value (or even worse, negative value).
Sadly, quite a bit. The incentive structure pretty much ensures that the bulk of research will be filler shit of no value (or even worse, negative value).
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 4:40:05 PM No.16710227
>>16710168
21st century STEM coasts on inertia. The system simply doesn’t need innovation at this point. Aviation peaked in the 70s, so nobody really cares about improving numerical solutions to Navier-Stokes. The benefits have saturated. Physics peaked in the 70s with “modern” power generation technology having the theoretical background for it already by that time. Who needs modern advances in biology when agriculture is doing just fine? And advances in medicine? Actual detriment to the economy due to aging population.
The brutal truth is that the modern world is simply doing just fine with last century’s technology. Marginal advances such as the internet still rely on last century’s technology for 99% of it. There is simply little to no incentive to being smart about things. Why bother when the system provides brute force computational resources such as machine learning? We are now openly seeing boomer professors talk about how mathematics and theoretical physics will be dead because muh AI will do every calculation instead. And it will. Sloppily, inaccurately, completely opaquely, and by sheer brute force. But does an engineer care that it’s only 90% accurate? That’s good enough. And no need to understand things around us, that’s for nerds. We’re all about progress up in this joint, no time for nerd shit. Praise Omnissiah!
21st century STEM coasts on inertia. The system simply doesn’t need innovation at this point. Aviation peaked in the 70s, so nobody really cares about improving numerical solutions to Navier-Stokes. The benefits have saturated. Physics peaked in the 70s with “modern” power generation technology having the theoretical background for it already by that time. Who needs modern advances in biology when agriculture is doing just fine? And advances in medicine? Actual detriment to the economy due to aging population.
The brutal truth is that the modern world is simply doing just fine with last century’s technology. Marginal advances such as the internet still rely on last century’s technology for 99% of it. There is simply little to no incentive to being smart about things. Why bother when the system provides brute force computational resources such as machine learning? We are now openly seeing boomer professors talk about how mathematics and theoretical physics will be dead because muh AI will do every calculation instead. And it will. Sloppily, inaccurately, completely opaquely, and by sheer brute force. But does an engineer care that it’s only 90% accurate? That’s good enough. And no need to understand things around us, that’s for nerds. We’re all about progress up in this joint, no time for nerd shit. Praise Omnissiah!
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 5:57:11 PM No.16710287
>>16710227
Is this good or bad?
Is this good or bad?