My highly controversial opinion:
As a professor, if you take money from AI companies, it may be considered unethical to go around major conferences saying AIs can replace students and postdocs, based on naive extrapolations.
[Freedom of Speech]
"Find your own way of functioning... I struggled for the first year and a half as an undergraduate... but I developed my own ways of learning things.
So I advise students, find your own way and your own directions that you can be successful in."
- Physics laureate Kip Thorne
He got his nine hours of sleep and was incredibly productive. It's all about organizing your day and - more importantly - sticking to it and not wasting any time.
Richard Wagner - "Tristan und Isolde"
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Bayreuther Festspielorchester | Christian Thielemann
In honor of Wagner's 200th birthday, 22 May 2013
Bayreuther Festspielhaus
When he was in his 20s, Alexander Grothendieck’s ideas changed the course of mathematics. Then in 1970, he quit. Eventually, he moved to a small village in the Pyrenees, where he lived as a hermit until his death in 2014. https://t.co/umGPWwJ6HC
“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.”
— Steven Weinberg
"To really become a mathematician, the key step is to realize that at some point you have to stop reading books. You have to think on your own. You have to become your own authority. [...]" – Alain Connes (1947-)
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