Elon Musk > Academia by petrmisan

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Elon Musk > Academia
## 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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@petrmisan ·
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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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