Words flagged in search of current NSF awards

Post by foxglacier » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 8:08 PM UTC

fzeroracer wrote: post #108

Yizahi wrote: post #71

I remember how "master" and "slave" were banned a few years back in information technology context and people cheered that ban. And surprise surprise, the same mechanism of arbitrary bans can be turned 180 degrees. And it appears that if the only criteria is a superficial offense at the established word unrelated to the imaginary offense, then many different people can use that same mechanism to ban or attack whateve…

Can you point me when Biden or Obama issued a word ban around the words master and slave in an IT context? Thank you.

Post by sterlind » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 8:11 PM UTC

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #100

Truthfully, the words are not "forbidden". Using them in a grant application might decrease the chances of receiving a grant. Nothing stops anyone from using them.

Post by fzeroracer » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 8:13 PM UTC

foxglacier wrote: post #121

fzeroracer wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you point me when Biden or Obama issued a word ban around the words master and slave in an IT context? Thank you.

Can you point to where Trump issued a word ban for grant funded research? Not this post, because it's not describing a word ban and it doesn't even seem to have a source.

Post by atkailash » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 8:15 PM UTC

foxglacier wrote: post #114

elashri wrote: post #14

In particle physics we usually use these terms which will be at any proposal. This is an interesting textbook definition of false positives when you have list that is using too common words. - Minimum "Biased" data - "Discrimination" or "Discriminatory" variables - Phase space "excluded" - "Inclusion" of data/variable/anything - "inequality" -> wow bell's inequality and all this theory work about inequalities will be…

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Post by piafraus » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 8:16 PM UTC

techbananas wrote: post #73

Yizahi wrote: post #71

I remember how "master" and "slave" were banned a few years back in information technology context and people cheered that ban. And surprise surprise, the same mechanism of arbitrary bans can be turned 180 degrees. And it appears that if the only criteria is a superficial offense at the established word unrelated to the imaginary offense, then many different people can use that same mechanism to ban or attack whateve…

I wasn’t crazy about moving away from master, but this isn’t a word ban, it’s a concept ban. They’re not really banning the word diversity, they’re banning the study of diversity by any name. Renaming master to main, doesn’t mean that you can’t do trunk based development, it just means you’re using a different term.