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- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 5 weeks ago:
This is a very interesting argument. Like many people, I am not familiar with rocket building. Do you mind providing some sources so we can judge for ourselves?
Thanks in advance!
- Comment on Inadmissible 1 month ago:
I cannot even explain my colleague on my left’s work to the colleague on my right. I won’t blame the dad here.
- Comment on The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman 2 months ago:
Shortly after this article in her blog, she also published a gh repo collecting incidents of misogynism github.com/iyzhang/misogyny/
Glad to see this article is eventually published by the ACM.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
so you are the degenerate that follow world news on lemmynsfw. I was wondering why are there so many non-porn stuff on the all feeds of my porn account.
- Comment on No thanks. I'm good. 2 months ago:
I think modern coffee is judged by how much the tastes reflect its distinct characteristics, which includes physical characteristic of the farm (altitude etc), fermentation process, and roasting process.
It takes a lot of work to produce good coffee, and the end result should let these efforts shine. Acidity, fragrance, and funk are great ways to communicate the life of the coffee to the taster. That is why they are typically the standard to determine good coffee, instead of generic and monotone"smoothness" that is shared across kirkland signature, peets, starbucks, and gas station coffees.
- Comment on No thanks. I'm good. 2 months ago:
People have done that sprudge.com/shock-portland-man-sells-human-poop-c…
- Comment on No thanks. I'm good. 2 months ago:
Please don’t, it is not only a product of colonialism injustice, it is also produced in extremely inhumane manner. To make the matter even worse, the industry consensus is that they tastes terrible.
Related video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkbuFwHnJQY
- Comment on Hero 5 months ago:
I think this is a very interesting take, but I am curious about how the career in youtube is better than the academia as she describes it.
Obviously, the discrimination against female and writing without proper acknowledgement is absolutely unacceptable, but I have never heard about anything like this in my field.
However, I feel like youtube is likely a more competitive landscape than grant writing. I think it is very likely the administrative overhead for youtuber is more than 15%, and youtuber needs to get the interest of people completely ignorant of the subject, not just experts, plus battling the unpredictbility of youtube algorithm.
Of course, I am not trying to downplay the problem she mentioned, but I am just wondering how youtube is a better alternative career, considering her goal to do “serious science”.
- Comment on Finish him. 🪓 5 months ago:
Although I have no doubt that, like every other field, academia is filled with politics; and publishing process probably helps enforce such politics.
However, I would argue that modern academic publishing is absolutely necessary to produce “useful” science. In order for people to build upon others’ result, they will need strong guarantee of correctness; and top conferences saves researcher a lot of time to find impactful new research, especially new ideas.
That being said, I am absolutely not suggesting the publishing system is not without uts problem, but I am kind of agreeing with LeCun here, publishing is a important part of the process, and it is will probably last longer than tesla or elon.
- Comment on Finish him. 🪓 5 months ago:
ladder climbing in academia is not fun, but I feel like communicating science is a essential part of scientific process, as this is the only way for our work to maximize their impact.
A famous professor in my field once told me “we are all entertainers”, which seems absurd from an outside prospective, but is a notion that I and many of my colleague has taken peace with.
scrambled and unreadable mathematics in the end should seldom be valued in modern science community, IMO, not everyone is Srinivasa Ramanujan. Even among geniuses, from Poincaré to Hilbert to Godel to Grothendick and to Tao, most genius are able to communicate their research quite well, and thrive in academia.
- Comment on Finish him. 🪓 5 months ago:
With all these “she” talk in this comment section, I was like when did LeCun change gender?
I don’t even do anything remotely related to AI, but I know LeCun is a dude.
- Comment on Finish him. 🪓 5 months ago:
There are open access platform that is more reputable than git, like arxiv or hal.
Plus most conferences, at least in my field, supports open access. But unfortunately for some of them, you do need to pay a fee in order to get the article to be open-access.
The prestige of the conference/journal is still the best way to get your article known, as of now.
- Comment on Mushroom ID 5 months ago:
I was confused as these two person are on different sub-domains of bsky.social (url after the @ symbol). Does this mean they are on different instance? AFAIK most mastodon server I see have different domain (specifically, different combination of top level domain and second level domian).
- Comment on Mushroom ID 5 months ago:
Is blue sky “instance” just sub-domains?!
- Comment on Accessibility 5 months ago:
At this point, I just stopped citing any article paywalled by elsevier, and only their arxiv counterpart.
If anyone ask, I will argue that I cannot obtain the version published by elseviw, and citing that version will be disingenuous.
- Comment on Zero to hero 6 months ago:
BTW, 0 is typically considered a scalar. As in mathematics scalar is typically defined as a field, which would require a additive identity, namely 0.
- Comment on Zero to hero 6 months ago:
Oh, array indexing, sure.
- Comment on PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all 6 months ago:
What if I am allergic to cicadas?
- Comment on Zero to hero 6 months ago:
I don’t personally know much programming language that provides natural number type in their prelude or standard library.
In fact, I can only think of proof assistants, like Lean, Coq, and Agda. Obviously the designer of these languages know a reasonable amount of mathematics to make the correct choice.
(I wouldn’t expect the same from IEEE or W3C, LOL
- Comment on Oxygen 6 months ago:
Yeah, that is the “government” tells you!
- Comment on Oxygen 6 months ago:
Jeez, imagine coding in rust, that can’t be good for you.
- Comment on Zero to hero 6 months ago:
On the contrary - to be countabley infinite is generally assumed to mean there exists a 1-1 correspondence with N.
Isn’t this what I just said? I think, this is exactly what “unique up-to bijection” means.
Anyways, I mean either starting from 1 or 0, they can be used to count in the exactly same way.
- Comment on Hardcore 6 months ago:
And it is actually published by OP (in the image), finally, a meme that is not a repost.
- Comment on Zero to hero 6 months ago:
countable infinite set are unique up-to bijection, you can count by rational numbers if you want, it doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Zero to hero 6 months ago:
I think if you ask any mathematician (or academic that uses math professionally, for that matter), 0 is a natural number.
There is nothing natural about not having an additive identity in your semiring.
- Comment on Zero to hero 6 months ago:
Oh no, are we calling positive integer “whole numbers” now? There are proposals to change bad naming in mathematics, but I hope this is not one of them.
On the other hand, changing integer to whole number makes perfect sense.
- Comment on I mean have they seen our stipends 6 months ago:
Unfortunately this is still the case in all the university I know, especially in fine arts and humanity, many of the positions are even unfunded.
Many students need to rent out the living room or live in a single bedroom in a house, with shared kitchen and bathroom.
I think many students literally cannot afford a studio or 1B with their salary, because the rent is higher than their salary.
- Comment on Explain yourselves, comp sci. 6 months ago:
Set is just objects in the category of Set.
- Comment on shrimp is bugs 6 months ago:
If a new berry was invented, computer scientists will probably call them “βerries”, next one “ϐerries”
- Comment on This is a Test 7 months ago:
*shoot the victim in the head
FTFY