Last I checked ASU does, and I’m certain many other universities do too.

Skimming it I get this incredible sci-fi feeling of AI being the thing that solves P vs. NP (the diagrams are reminiscent of boolean/arithmetic circuits which have produced some results in the compcomp space)

It’s basically drug dealing. Which is fine if you’re doing it for fun, but doing it to make money develops the most antisocial parts of a person

It has been a priority, but only for a certain group of citizens (which only briefly became unfashionable to legislate for explicitly)

In some companies, “one of your coworkers” have the skills to create & improve upon AI models themselves. Honestly at staff level I’d expect you to be able to do a literature review and start proposing architecture improvements within a year.

Charitably, it just sounds like you aren’t in tech.

The image is a byproduct in autonomous driving. Successful implementations (Waymo) use lidar, which doesn’t need focal adjustments. If for some reason quality RGB pixels are needed (e.g. for entity recognition) then they will probably focus on moving objects. This paper ties in nicely with lidar since it apparently needs depth information to work which is exactly what lidar provides

Oh, to be a spider eating 2.4 million midges

I think you have more fundamental problems if you’re not capable of not taking people at their word at that point

> US textbooks cost multiple times more than the international version of the textbook

I mean, I think a lot of the incentives behind textbook pricing in the US are honestly not that dissimilar to the ones in healthcare. I know Pearson is particularly egregious for price gouging students because they have exclusive deals with schools to provide the textbook for some specific class or subject. They raise prices because f*ck it why not, they won’t get pushback, which is not a valid reason to do so in most other countries.

"they raise prices because f*ck it why not, they won’t get pushback"

This applies to more and more businesses these days. Textbooks, hospitals, colleges, veterinarians and so on. They basically have a captive audience so they do whatever they want.