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To: Arran Yuan who wrote (10747)	1/19/2026 10:18:19 PM
From: Sun Tzu	2 Recommendations Recommended By Arran Yuan towerdog Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10768

I agree with you that number of publications is a poor proxy for academic excellence. IMO, the best proxy for quality of education is the number of Noble awards and other top international awards. If you go by that, the US is by far ahead of everyone else, but there are two major problems with it: (1) Noble prize and other top awards are given after the impact can be judged, which is typically at least a decade and typically 30 years. So that doesn't tell us about what is happening now. (2) The US is able to attract the best an brightest from the rest of the world. Nothing wrong with that. But just because one is able to "hire" the best or put a great international team together, it doesn't mean one is doing great locally. Fundamentally Americans have not prioritized science for a long time. In my opinion this was mostly because being in America a geek does not bring you the same prestige and money that it does in the rest of the world. That honor goes to being a great businessman, and then lawyer or marketing. But in recent years many in the US has actually become anti-science. I ran a little query to see how the university student competitions has gone in the last few years. ICPC (Programming) Recent top performers (2021–2025) include: China (multiple golds) Russia (multiple golds) Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto) South Korea (Seoul National University) United States (MIT world champion 2021) iGEM (Synthetic Biology) Recent top performers (2024–2025): Germany (Heidelberg, Marburg) China (multiple top-10 teams) Switzerland (EPFL runner-up) Canada (McGill wins 2025 Grand Prize) Czech Republic (Brno wins 2025 Overgrad)

To: Arran Yuan who wrote (10747)	1/25/2026 5:39:13 AM
From: Sun Tzu	1 Recommendation Recommended By ajtj99 Respond to of 10768

I am not so sure that it is passion rather than a disease that keeps me working. Typically I go to bed around 1 am and wake up about 5 am. If I am lucky, I will get another hour of sleep sometime during the day. Here's what is keeping me up tonight: - Running analysis of patent law firms workflow and their needs vs my software capabilities. - Running analysis of business models that that investors love to support vs what clients will demand and how to resolve the conflicts - Running gap analysis and capability analysis for my software modules - Running individual module updates because I found gaps when trying to patent my AI domain specific language as an invention - So far 5 full sessions (meaning that ChatGPT will not accept more instructions within that session) iterating on the patent application - while these run "taking a break" by working on my patent for AI image and video generation. - etc. Sigh! I should get one of those timed safes that lock in my phone overnight. Or buy a straitjacket and lock myself in it before going to bed.