If would be very cunning for EU to offer to host it for N years, fully fund its base operations and *shield it from any political interference*, i.e. own it but give it absolute and unrevokable editoral freedom.

I have never ever seen anybody exiting Performance Improvement Plan (and I have seen a few) and survive with a job. The sole purpose of PIP is to shield the company / institution from being sued for wrongful dismissal.
The moment you are on PIP you should be looking for a new job. No point even in trying, just cash in the last few salaries.

I work for a big national lab and I can make a few observations:

a) Postdocs that have already accepted a job are having second thoughts. Statistically speaking, the likelihood of being detained by the ICE with a valid visa is probably about the same as the airplane suffering a catastrophic issue, but for human perception this does not matter. US is just not attractive any more. Nobody wants to enter a country where you are looked up with suspicion. The fact that the salary just dropped 10% in EUR is also not promising.

b) You would be shocked just how much US research institutions rely on foreigners. It seems immigrants support both ends of the economic chain: slaughterhouses and agri jobs on one end and high tech jobs at the other with natives filling in the middle. There are grants for which you need to be a citizen and they are so much easier to get simply because there are so few of them.

c) The mood is totally depressed. We had cuts this year despite CR with draconiam further cuts next year. And I'm talking about physics, not sociology of woke people. Everybody is sniffing for an exit.

It is not more accurate than GPS. It is more accurate than " traditional GPS backup systems (like Inertial Navigation Systems or INS)" as per f'in summary on slashdot. INS basically means take accelerometers and integrate in time twice.
So, no, I'm not going out of bed for this.

I was decent coder before entering university. And I could probably pick up some skills and some maths along the way while doing stuff.

But to really understand how Fourier transforms work you need to go to college. And spend real time thinking about it vs picking something as you go along.

So, no, I would not recommend this to anyone who wants to be something more than a coding monkey.

At 20 tokes / second, you do 630M tokens / year, which at 630*15 has the value of $9450 which just about the value of the desktop computer you need to run this.

And while it is true that o1 is better than deepseek, it is also true that $15 is a heavily subsidised price. I'm sure it costs OpenAI more than $10k to run o1 for a full year, not to mention electricity cost.
The point being that AI can be commodified in the sense of enabling small outfits buying a bunch of servers and starting to compete with big guys by selling those access to those free models.

So, I think you're right that as a person, you are better off using o1 at $15 per 1M tokens. But if you happen to be the OpenAI CEO you should be worried about your business model.

I thought the same, but I think it is a bit more complicated than this. If every parking spot would have a charger attached to it (which will undoubtedly happen in 40 years, but not there yes), then your argument hold and even better, overnight charging is fast enough. But if I go on a vacation and the closest charger is in some random mall that has nothing of interest to (something that has recently happened to me), then fast charging is indeed a very useful feature.

I work as a Physicist in a National Lab and we were recently given fedramp compliant access to chatgpt including the thinking o1 model and I've been trying to use it. And, it is indeed getting useful.

First I gave it the full problem and it wasn't able to get very far, although it got the basic intuition about the problem right. But then I chopped the problem into small pieces -- I had a vague idea on how to do the calculation and was stuck at the first step. Admittedly, I wasn't really working very hard, but my PhD student spent one month looking at it and got sidetracked many times. O1 did manage to get a crucial insight. Surely, it is a standard math technique that I've seen applied to in many contexts and chatgpt must have seen it in its trainings but the fact is that it got me on the right track in 5 mins. I could probably find it in the right text book or eventually work it out myself, but it would definitely take me much longer. So the next step is to lead it through the rest of the problem step by step. Will see how it goes, but whoever claims these things are not intelligent in at least some sense of the word is a moron.

You can be sure that people working on CLPS and SpaceX will be spared and those departments increased. Total putinization of USA.

The speed at which this guy turned by the political wind, the way how he changed the tune in microseconds is what worries me, before we even go on whether he was right before or now (which is kinda irrelevant).

This is how Putins become Putins. This does not happen in isolation. All it takes is a few important people with no conscience whatsoever.

I think anyone with some knowledge of cosmology knows that this has to bullshit. There are 1e10 stas in the our galaxy alone, for sure there is life in some fraction of them and probably intelligent life in some smaller fraction of them. But for sure not on the closest star. But you know what -- a typical star is some tens of thousands of lightyears away. This means 50 thousand years for a return light travel. Good luck communicating whith those guys or travelling Star Wars like to visit them.

... and map caps-lock to ctrl. Now move aside...

It's cheap and its good. I have cherry blue and cherry brown version and like them both.
It's worth paying more than $50 for a good keyboard, but when people start charging more than $100, we get into golden cables territory...

you will get zero respect for me. It is just a tool which, when you need to be "good at it" is not the right tool anymore.

"Panini" is italian plural of panino and so it means "sandwiches". In English speaking world it is used as a singular noun with "paninis" as plural. Nothing to stress over, languages are malleable.