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There’s a reason services like GitHub Classroom Replit’s education offerings shut down. Serving educators can be very hands-on. Education can have lots of different requirements (e…

I’m a computational chemist who has been working on this kind of stuff for a while, and I will say it’s just a weird field. The overall issue is that it’s still very academic and v…

My big question is where is that money going to go? On the surface, I don't mind the program. However, the implementation is likely to be terrible as we have seen so far. The vario…

Congress does mandate things, but then never enforces it. See https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nsf-slashe... (Long story short, the administration is slashing the …

> but is anyone actually willing to do anything about it? They did. They elected Trump. > no major populist uprising against the dismantling of the institution of the presidency So…

https://archive.is/Pk5EI

I remember having a computer and reading about how the CPU (486) could address up to 4 GB of memory. I thought that was maybe a mistake, since even my hard drive was maybe 100 MB, …

I don’t know how much it has ever been true, but it feels like today’s wealthy, especially in tech, have completely abandoned “noblesse oblige” - fulfilling social responsibilities…

Archive Link: https://archive.is/mNP7v The tension of feeling the actual need to use AI, but internalizing blame and guilt, is something I've noticed in my students and colleagues …

Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/1494/

“There is Mr. Geborand, buying a bit of paradise for one penny.” (from Les Misérables)

I only use the Home Depot website, and it shows the location for me. Maybe it’s regional or something

Oh I’m sure we could commiserate about that. I think we work in vaguely the same area. Unfortunately, getting money from industry isn’t much easier in my opinion. We have some soft…

The chaos is affecting pretty much all areas of science, not just the controversial ones. I work in non-controversial, pretty run-of-the-mill chemistry research and the attacks on …

The McNamara fallacy. One of my favorite fallacies vaguely related to Goodhart’s Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy

> he said "you may have the right of way, but you'll still be dead if one hits you" Here lies the body Of William Jay, Who died maintaining His right of way. He was in the right As…

I thought the same thing. Just a few years ago, everyone here was proclaiming Poetry was great, the python ecosystem was finally tamed, pip/conda/setuptools was dead, and every pro…

Over the long term, yes. However, universities like Buffalo might have some peculiarities. They are overall run by the state government, and professors/students/staff are state emp…