It's even worse than you're portraying. My PI has recommended using LLM chatboxes to learn how to write academic style papers, conference abstracts, etc. Without any actual guidance or knowledge transfer.

This causes genuine loss of skills and is actively destructive to research credibility

I heard the president of Honda Canada speak and their strategy (and likely also of legacy autos) is to lobby as hard as possible to get EV mandates rolled back.

These companies have outsourced their R&D and no longer have the ability to develop new tech, they're going to get eaten alive

Need a connect? I should have access for another year or so

It really was the endless bellyaching that soured me, like I'm not gonna pity the guy signing hundred million dollar contracts, I'm just not

In wondering about PLA "compostable" clear plastic alternatives, essentially needs industrial processing to decompose but it's an interesting angle

Hopefully instead of chasing names in FA, Brad goes after high ceiling swings on lesser known players, retains JT at a good cap hit and tries to run 3 lines with the big 3 fwds, we need our Marc Donks and Buzz Flibbets to ride shotgun, drive play up ice

Lot of doom and gloom but I'm interested to see if there's a version of the leafs that can come together as more than the sum of their parts with some skill spread down the lineup and good goalies

I think overall they're still a step ahead on the battery tech. Particularly in the manufacturing process and safety, but there's an overall limitation in the base chemistry of NMC or LFP cathodes at this point, only marginal wins available with form factor tweaks.

Saw his set live last year and it was spectacular, the clips I've seen so far have me hyped, lots of overlap

What's the window in the next few years though? Marner seems set on free agency (walk for nothing) and even if you get Tavares back it feels like the team is worse over the next few... I'm just left wondering what the path to tier 1 contention is from here