Former PhD says NVIDIA's scale pushed them out of academia
Gradientdinner · x · 2026-07-23
A former PhD says they quit academia after seeing the scale of work inside NVIDIA. The attached screenshot shows a Slack-style quote: “Mathematics will be the first to fall,” turning the post into a small AI-industry culture joke about how big the company feels compared with academia.
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