Jory Schossau @jory@qoto.org
Postdoc in Cognitive and Behavioral Aritificial Intelligence through Evolution
Joined Aug 2018
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Yea I think I know the people you are refering to as well. While they tend to be polite, they make me feel the same way. Part of what I want to do here is instead of exiling people with opinions we dont like to try to build a bridge and to make them more receptive to why their ideas are harmful.
But I understand why they may bother you. I dont think creating an echo chamber of people with just opinions we like is a good answer either.
For me personally at least this is the purpose of the mute function.
@realmattseymour This would let us weed out instances, in effect.
@realmattseymour As a consequence, I was wondering if Mastadon supports migrating accounts between instances, if one instance turns out to not be a suitable home.
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Being a programmer is just an endless struggle to go from the guy being told to RTFM to being the guy to tell others to RTFM.
@freemo We do have a culture of needing better documentation ;)
@freemo What do you think is missing? / What would break the vicious cycle?
#books I'm strangely getting bored of REAMDE by Neal Stephenson. 30% done. Does it get better?
@mono @rojo Ooh, that reminds me of an important counterpoint: While certain technologies are important, their presence waxes and wanes. Learn how to learn because over your career in CS new tech will always be coming tomorrow. I interviewed one guy who we tried out for a few weeks (failing) only to find out he just wanted to do 1 thing and be good at it.
@rojo College: Learning cannot happen without failure of some sort (think about it). Computer Science Misconception: CS can be learned by having a good lecture or reading a book! Reality: CS is a way of trained behavior (of the mind), like a sport, and requires practice. Good luck! Have fun! Try new things!
@comphys Like this? \(\LaTeX\) Use Backslash( and Backslash) to surround inline latex.
@HN Every single grad student in our lab who comes from Computer Science learns this lesson, and I often see it in industry too.
@HN This blog post is exactly what every experienced programmer knows: school teaches How it Should Be Done, vs experience that teaches How it Needs to be Done. i.e. fresh grads always try to engineer awesomeness, usually needlessly so, and they fail to see the big picture because they were only taught how to solve small problems.
@vorticalbox For the last few years my favorite language for everything is nim.
@vorticalbox Good choice for employment :)
@vorticalbox Did you find VB easy to learn? It was enough different from others I'd already learned that it was hard for me. Similar experience to learning R.
Related - check out Claus Wilke's slides on giving good presentations. It's not obvious, but many of his insights come from understanding human cognition and behavior: https://www.slideshare.net/ClausWilke/giving-effective-presentations-oct-2016
I just went to 3 conferences in the last 6 weeks and many of the presenters ignored the basics.
Hi everyone! I'm a researcher teaching programming, and currently puzzling out why so many academics give awful presentations. #introductions
Postdoc in Cognitive and Behavioral Aritificial Intelligence through Evolution
Joined Aug 2018
