Research outside of academia

No, I don’t think so: It also takes interaction and exchange of ideas in conversation with other people (and believe me, as a mathematician I know this can be challenging).

In my opinion, you are wasting your talent by making overly general and vague statements, here and elsewhere, and that is a big pity. It is better to judge individuals, not entire institutions at once. (After all, Julia itself started as one of the fruits of academia.)

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