I also start looking nonsensical places for something when my partner is frustrated, and my best explanation is that when I feel inadequate I get really invested in showing that I’m trying and that gets in the way of actually using my brain

I did this yesterday for my phone. Is it time for your phone as well?

I’m not gonna lie, I went to the talk expecting to clown on some deep learning bullshit but it turned out it was just a nice application of PCA.

Along similar lines, we can all agree that soda fountain diet pepsi is transposed from the stuff in a can, right?

Unfortunately, I think think that would actually be a victory for capitalism. A corporation salivating at the thought of automating their whole workforce is straight out of the goddamn communist manifesto. Not even Capital. The manifesto.

Basically everyone in my (climate science) department hates this belief, but a huge fraction of climate scientists really want to just write papers in a vacuum. Still working through what to think about that.

This stuff makes me embarrassed that I ever dreamed of being a mainstream journalist.

I would be significantly more excited about AI people’s learning journey if their representatives didn’t have a habit of showing up at our conferences, making freshman-level conceptual errors in QA sessions, then bragging about how they’re gonna put climate modelers out of a job over dinner

IMO you have every right to be disgusted. AI people are some of the most intellectually careless communities across all of science and technology today.

Have a discussion at the beginning of such a class about the difference between "completing assignments" and "learning," and about the purpose of assigned homework. Trust students to do a good job, and radically accept the existence of a nonzero number of assholes who will find ways to cheat.