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adarsh_pon Nearly Half of US Unicorns Have Foreign-Born Founders

As I understand it, the tuition differential is only for public universities, not private ones. Private universities/colleges may cover the full financial need of international students if they cannot afford tuition.

Source: I was an international student and got nearly a full ride to a private SLAC.

adarsh_pon New MacBook Setup

You're not the only one. I vastly prefer MacPorts.

adarsh_pon LLM with Planning

PDDL files do outline objects, predicates, actions, etc. in a machine-readable way, but in a much more expressive manner than can be done with something like JSON.

PDDL is designed to be machine readable, but also human-readable and writable. I would say you would write PDDL when you want to provide a description of the rules of a domain to an algorithm that does automated planning and acting. This could be an autonomous agent of any sort, doesn't necessarily have to be embodied/robotic in nature.

adarsh_pon Ask HN: C/C++ web framework with routes (like Node.js, Python Flask)

We've used this and like it so far: https://github.com/meltwater/served

adarsh_pon America, Stop Moving West

> Arizona: Beautiful but not made for humans.

That's a photograph of Monument Valley in Utah...

adarsh_pon UnicodeMath – A Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics (2016) [pdf]

You can do so relatively easily with Vim digraphs. For example, the alpha symbol can be obtained by typing

Ctrl-k a Shift-8

adarsh_pon Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win Justice Dept. Support

Got it, thanks for the explanations!

adarsh_pon Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win Justice Dept. Support

The inverse of your example sentence would be something like - "I don't have a good immune system, so I would need medicine if I got a cold" - which makes sense, and is analogous to "Reality is not different, so we do need affirmative action."

adarsh_pon How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist

This is a good collection of resources, but even more valuable would be the syllabi and homework sets from graduate-level theoretical physics courses, which can guide the interested learner through the vast amount of material, and help them gauge what is a reasonable pace of progress and not get bogged down (this has happened to me whenever I've tried to self-study from textbooks).

Source: Just got my PhD in theoretical high energy physics.

adarsh_pon Many famous scientists have something in common: they didn’t work long hours

This may have been true during Darwin's time, but it simply does not apply in today'a academic world. The level of competition for grants, publications, etc. is way, way higher than before. Not that I've conducted a survey, but I'm pretty sure every professor at an R1 university works at least 60 hours a week, if not more.

Source: Am finishing up my PhD in theoretical high energy physics.