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Yet government involvement in physics academia is pretty similar to government involvement in bio academia.

The drivers came both from academia and industry and by all means it worked really well and remains highly innovative.

There is also a sampling bias issue where scientists in academia as a whole are getting older because the boomers still have a death grip on institutional positions, and academia as a whole is shrinking.

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In other words a career in academia is a different way of enjoying the scientific process.

In a field like CS, professors can get much higher salaries working outside of academia, so many are tempted to leave.

For all their supposed grasp of academia, they're not very good at establishing cause and effect before getting their pitchforks ready.

She works as a researcher in academia, so probably only needs to run her script a few times to get results.

That's the currency that matters in academia, and that is what will make a professor ask you to be in their program.

But, I suppose universities tend to represent academia as opposed to the cutting edge of the real word.

The issue is the protocol - it was designed to let colleague in academia and military to exchange messages (with all the weight of their collective social contracts bearing on their use of the system).

Things aren't a whole lot better in academia from the people I have spoken to.

Pascal's came from academia blessed by a traditional and inevitable "kiss of death" preventing it from generating a true massive fan following.

Tim Sweeney raises some PL flamebait: -- "Are games at the forefront of physics and computer science research or forever lagging behind academia?

As a mathematician who has left academia, I answered "no" seven times, followed by a "mu" a "yes" and another "no".

On the one hand, it is widely understood (especially here on HN) that the "publish or perish" culture of modern academia is a source of lots of bad science and pointless work, and yet here we are, using number of papers as a metric for productivity.

Academia is less interesting to begin with because there is little difference in the power held by different fields (certainly between physics and biology today).

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