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That's a feature, not a bug. A company is supposed to make the shareholders wealthy, not the workers.

Machine learning is probably the most direct way to attack the problem of building an artificial general intelligence. A good place to start is the machine learning course by Andrew Ng from Coursera. It will give you a broad picture of the field. You might also want to explore machine vision and...

I know two students 10 years older than you who won PhD studentships last month, in physics, at universities ranked (ARWU) top 100 in the world. Funding is a bigger problem for you but since you are open to moving anywhere, you should be able to find something. As you can check on...

Don't worry about that. As Nidum hinted, the bar for presentation skills is low in academia. If you can get yourself in front of the audience, any technical deficiencies won't be lethal to your prospects, and you will improve with time. Not all PhD interviews involve a presentation in front of...

Some options -- not sure if they count as inexpensive but definitely cheaper than the other programmes: - Astrophysics MSc: https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduates/astrophysics-msc (12,600 GBP for international students), - Mathematics MSc...

That used to be the case, but most residential courses were scrapped a few years ago.

If you are willing to spend 20,000 euro over 3-6 years, check out The Open University in the UK (http://open.ac.uk). You can study physics via distance learning and if you do well, you will not have any trouble getting into Masters programmes in Germany or elsewhere in Europe. This is certainly...

I have been impressed by the following three courses offered by the Moscow Higher School of Economics via Coursera: - Introduction into General Theory of Relativity https://www.coursera.org/learn/general-relativity/home/welcome - Jacobi modular forms...

You can add Durham, King's College London, LSE as well as Leiden and Utrecht from the Netherlands to the list.

If you are fine with studying at an UK-based university and can afford it, The Open University may be a good fit: http://www.openuniversity.edu/courses/find/science# You would likely be able to transfer in some credit from your current program. A number of British Armed Forces personnel do study...

Mr Diggle from Warwick lists his modules on his public Linkedin profile and none of them are residential, so there is your unicorn (not in the US, but still). But you may be right about the others. See below. There is one campus in Milton Keynes, which is used by academic staff and research...

https://jila.colorado.edu/kmgroup/bio/cousin https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dst/staff/students/cohort1/ (the first person on the list) http://www.paulruffle.com/career.htm - astrophysicist at the University of Manchester If we consider STEM in general...

The closest example I could find is a person who did the following: 100% Online BSc -> MSc, PhD (Europe) -> Postdoc (University of Colorado) If we relax the location criterion, the following paths are not unheard of: 100% Online BSc -> Msc (UK) -> PhD (UK) 100% Online BSc -> PhD (UK) If we...

You may as well go for an Open Degree. No need to restrict your choice of modules and as far as I can tell, the name of the degree makes no practical difference. I would highly recommend the mathematics and physics modules at the Open University. I did my first degree there (BSc Open) and was...

How does one arrive at the formula 4.8? The Lagrangian (one spatial dimension) is: