## Just a thought about Elon Musk, coming from an ex-academic (i.e. me). ## In the past 4 months alone Musk has launched: ## - Model 3, Tesla's mass market electric car ## - the new Tesla Roadster (surprise!) ## - the Semi, Tesla's electric truck ## - the Big Fucking Rocket program, SpaceX earth-to-earth spaceflight system ## Not to mention meeting the 100-day bet to provide a gigantic electric battery for Australia, his work with the Boring company, Neuralink, OpenAI, plus a myriad of projects that I've forgotten involving Tesla & SpaceX. ## Elon Musk has done more for the world, and probably helped discover more science & developed more engineering than what most of the top 20 universities of the world (with only a few exceptions) has done in the past 20 years. ## Here is what he famously said about academic papers being worthless: https://youtu.be/vDwzmJpI4io?t=9m30s
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Btw this metric system where academic journals have an 'impact factor' is a joke. The peer review system is a big circle jerk. Nobody really cares. This meaningless hierarchy within the university is really a drawback from the its medieval origins as a semi priestly order.
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