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This is a good use of TIP division funding. Whatever they were doing before seemed pointless.

Right. Most people are deeply uninterested in learning anything, not just in K-12, but at pretty good colleges like mine. Modern AI has made me a more productive teacher—-I produce…

I have always thought of it like this: U.S. citizens have the right to marry and bring home anyone they want. It is not about the immigrant. For example, if you're stationed on a m…

It is counter-intuitive that the more accomplished you are, the more evidence you need to provide. The part about the child not getting a naturalization certificate even though the…

The computer science that matters the most today —- machine learning, vision, NLP —- is open access without the fees because the main confs are not ACM. (Vision has some in IEEE.) …

Surprising it is necessary, given no such fees for machine learning and associated areas. (Which are all not ACM.)

More money, more income. That's why flood of foreign money is good for a university. But, it is a fallacy to think that this has no cost. In my experience, the large influx of fore…

Exactly the same.

I don’t understand why we cannot just blacklist these consulting companies as a first step. The 100K fee may effectively do that so it sounds good to me.

I was not accurate in my previous post. The O-1 isn’t on an academic’s radar because they are not subject to H1B caps. So might as well do an H1B with minimal effort.

Yes. As far as I understand it, the EO is not a rule, but will impact upcoming rules. H1B already has exceptions, so there is nothing new being said. It already has a cap exception…

The "kids" in the original article are likely PhD students. They are not paying tuition. You and I are likely paying for their education with taxes. (This is likely a small part of…

I think a lot of people arguing about the H1B visa are talking past each other. - There is no doubt a large volume of abuse by tech consulting companies. It's likely even worse tha…

Curious what this will do for faculty. Common to use H1B as a bridge for a few months before green card. New CS faculty salaries cap out at 180K at the high end.

This won't convince anyone who wants to pause all immigration. However, if you want to allow some immigration, you can make a case PhDs in computer science from Carnegie Mellon, wh…

> It used to be that if you lost your job as an H1-B, you had 30 days to uproot your life and get out of the US otherwise you'd be in violation of immigration laws. This is still t…

As I said, they already cost more than smaller and cheaper alternatives. But people buy them anyway. Heavily vehicles may be cheaper for whatever reason you cite. But they are stil…

Evidence suggests people want these cars. They already cost more than smaller and cheaper alternatives. But people buy them anyway.

It is hard to take the ACM's take on publishing seriously, when virtually all significant publications in machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision are not…

> The risk of products like Study Mode is that they could do much the same thing in an educational context — optimizing for whether students like them rather than whether they actu…

I agree. We are talking about technical, mathy stuff, right? As long as you can tell that you don’t deeply understand something that you just read, they are incredible TAs. The tri…

A lot of this boils down to what you can convince the prof to teach. For most professors, teaching CS1 is a service and does not advance their research. Fewer faculty today are wil…

Don’t worry, aforementioned kid is doing just fine, machine learning PhD IIRC. There is a lot of other remarkable stuff in modern computing.

It is possible that this doesn't work anymore. I distinctly recall the following episode when I last taught intro CS in Scheme: I revealed first-class functions. After lecture, the…

Do you think it may be feasible to do this and maintain the FFI?