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so exciting to see these ideas out in the world! i'm now imagining a Scratch-like playground for kids to explore end-user programming / AI in an accessible way, like some of the ex…

also, while i have your attention here, since you wrote that related post on (not) vector db's ... what would you recommend for a newbie to get started with RAG? let's say i have a…

very cool idea! i was also very interested in this problem during grad school ... prototyped an approach by hacking CPython, but the code (python 2.6? from 2010 era) has long bitro…

Your work is an inspiration as always!! My n00b question is: what do you think is currently the most practical path to running a reasonably-sized (doesn't have to be the biggest) L…

Cool work! You and your team may be interested in these two recent CHI papers from Microsoft Research, both on very relevant topics to what you've been doing: 1) “What It Wants Me …

as the son of a university professor (mother) and an entrepreneur/MBA/businessperson (father), i totally second this observation. +1

ping me by email (see profile) if you want to brainstorm privately; my two cents is biased toward academia if you have an above-average setup (don't know until I see your CV!); sta…

i totally know how you feel since i have felt that way in the past as well :) here's something relevant: http://pgbovine.net/practical-reason-to-pursue-PhD.htm my two cents: find s…

totally agreed! things can change even from one year to another with the same advisor. for instance, i'm not the same advisor to my students that i was last year, or the year befor…

you've inadvertently answered the question for me, to a first approximation :) i think that academia is a great launching point for a wide array of scholarly activities that the fr…

thanks! that's a hard problem! i frame it in terms of critical path: http://pgbovine.net/critical-path.htm if you can't get on someone's critical path, then you have to make it ver…

no way! (i'm glad i did it the first time, though)

thanks! AMA. (no guarantees that i'll be able to answer via text, though; maybe i'll make a video later. been trying to minimize my computering time off-hours due to increasing wri…

overnight successes are usually 10-15 years in the making; so much goes on before the public release

see here for US-oriented details: http://pgbovine.net/professor-job-titles.htm

Lecturers are part- or full-time teaching faculty (usually not tenure-track, but some schools like UC's have tenure-track Lecturer tracks) e.g., https://profiles.stanford.edu/48960…

yep, this is often confusing for folks coming in from other countries: http://pgbovine.net/professor-job-titles.htm

oh noes, not that guy again! this was written over 4 years ago before i became a professor, so YMMV :) i haven't looked at this for years; this is a more updated (and complementary…

btw this may shed some light on your situation ... tl;dr unicorn jobs don't exist (for long) http://pgbovine.net/unicorn-jobs.htm

If you're cranking out papers, then you should have enough papers to finish soon; in that case, just finish your Ph.D. and move on. Tell your advisor that you want to graduate with…

creator of http://pythontutor.com/ here ... skulpt is great and i know one of its maintainers quite well. one use case that's important is using it to distribute self-contained zer…

agreed! i cover this topic here: http://pgbovine.net/PG-Vlog-26-what-does-academia-mean.htm

relevant paper: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jfogarty/publications/works... This is an example of research as illustrated by Figure 5 in that paper (known functionality, novel …

What does "academia" mean to you? Are you an undergraduate student, a grad student, a postdoc, a research scientist, a professor (and if so, which level)? Relationships to software…

If you're doing needfinding for a project idea to enhance learning, my suggestion is to focus on a single DOMAIN of learning first rather than trying to make something to help lear…