Plenty of schools "wasted"* a bunch of money on compsci back when it was trendy
*fine to offer, but was a dumb "this will make us rich" investment like most trendy ideas beloved by administrators who can't see that the humanities are cheap
*fine to offer, but was a dumb "this will make us rich" investment like most trendy ideas beloved by administrators who can't see that the humanities are cheap
From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Plenty of schools "wasted"* a bunch of money on compsci back when it was trendy
*fine to offer, but was a dumb "this will make us rich" investment like most trendy ideas beloved by administrators who can't see that the humanities are cheap
*fine to offer, but was a dumb "this will make us rich" investment like most trendy ideas beloved by administrators who can't see that the humanities are cheap
so excited to get back into my chud major (compsci)
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
so excited to get back into my chud major (compsci)
friends that are also learning code/something compsci related we should like, totally share notes and keep each other accountable :’)
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
friends that are also learning code/something compsci related we should like, totally share notes and keep each other accountable :’)
I mean, take a look at the four people causing a lot of problems using tech.
Peter Thiel - philosophy PhD
Elon Musk. - drop out of PhD, bs in physics.
Sam Altman - compsci college dropout
Zuckerberg - college dropout.
Peter Thiel - philosophy PhD
Elon Musk. - drop out of PhD, bs in physics.
Sam Altman - compsci college dropout
Zuckerberg - college dropout.
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I mean, take a look at the four people causing a lot of problems using tech.
Peter Thiel - philosophy PhD
Elon Musk. - drop out of PhD, bs in physics.
Sam Altman - compsci college dropout
Zuckerberg - college dropout.
Peter Thiel - philosophy PhD
Elon Musk. - drop out of PhD, bs in physics.
Sam Altman - compsci college dropout
Zuckerberg - college dropout.
Revised preprint: "Establishing trust in automated reasoning"
osf.io/preprints/me...
Based on two very helpful reviews from @metaror.bsky.social:
metaror.org/kotahi/artic...
More references, better discussion of unfamiliar concepts (e.g. conviviality), and more.
🧪 #metasci #compsci
osf.io/preprints/me...
Based on two very helpful reviews from @metaror.bsky.social:
metaror.org/kotahi/artic...
More references, better discussion of unfamiliar concepts (e.g. conviviality), and more.
🧪 #metasci #compsci
OSF
osf.io
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Revised preprint: "Establishing trust in automated reasoning"
osf.io/preprints/me...
Based on two very helpful reviews from @metaror.bsky.social:
metaror.org/kotahi/artic...
More references, better discussion of unfamiliar concepts (e.g. conviviality), and more.
🧪 #metasci #compsci
osf.io/preprints/me...
Based on two very helpful reviews from @metaror.bsky.social:
metaror.org/kotahi/artic...
More references, better discussion of unfamiliar concepts (e.g. conviviality), and more.
🧪 #metasci #compsci
Great job to our post doc, Zaib Hussain at the QCOR early career competition! Her and @uvmvermont.bsky.social CompSci PhD student, Tonye Harry's manuscript is now published at Circ's QCOR journal!
#aha25
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
#aha25
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Great job to our post doc, Zaib Hussain at the QCOR early career competition! Her and @uvmvermont.bsky.social CompSci PhD student, Tonye Harry's manuscript is now published at Circ's QCOR journal!
#aha25
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
#aha25
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
...
The Turing test has been passed but its also been critiqued as a method to hell and back. What little humanities my CompSci degree gave me included a discussion on its effectiveness
The Turing test has been passed but its also been critiqued as a method to hell and back. What little humanities my CompSci degree gave me included a discussion on its effectiveness
November 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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The Turing test has been passed but its also been critiqued as a method to hell and back. What little humanities my CompSci degree gave me included a discussion on its effectiveness
The Turing test has been passed but its also been critiqued as a method to hell and back. What little humanities my CompSci degree gave me included a discussion on its effectiveness
I've had a few such discussions with my compsci, telling them mathematical models can be useful but we still have too little empirical data to make them anywhere near complex enough. We still have to test stuff in vivo and that's not going to be made much easier, cheaper or faster with "AI".
November 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I've had a few such discussions with my compsci, telling them mathematical models can be useful but we still have too little empirical data to make them anywhere near complex enough. We still have to test stuff in vivo and that's not going to be made much easier, cheaper or faster with "AI".
i have a pretty solid plan for where i want to take my budding compsci skills and further things i want to learn i am excited
October 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM
i have a pretty solid plan for where i want to take my budding compsci skills and further things i want to learn i am excited
i was talking abt how AI is a coded expansion of white supremacy & militarism 10yrs ago & being told my ideas were “science fiction” by compsci & engineering majors who are almost certainly gainfully employed by tech fash, driving teslas, & using chat gpt to fill out their hinge dating profiles now.
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
i was talking abt how AI is a coded expansion of white supremacy & militarism 10yrs ago & being told my ideas were “science fiction” by compsci & engineering majors who are almost certainly gainfully employed by tech fash, driving teslas, & using chat gpt to fill out their hinge dating profiles now.
Computer science higher education must embrace GenAI and reinvent teaching methods and learning materials, or risk becoming obsolete cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/how... #compsci #edtech #genAI #teaching
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Computer science higher education must embrace GenAI and reinvent teaching methods and learning materials, or risk becoming obsolete cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/how... #compsci #edtech #genAI #teaching
October 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I always wondered what went into picking out the cover images for programming and compsci textbooks. I'm sure there's a good reason for this kind of illustration being on the cover, since the folks that make these covers are professionals but I have no frame for *why* it's a good decision to do it.
Oh look, a new book by @ericlippert.com! Should be a fabulous adventure indeed. www.manning.com/books/fabulo...
Fabulous Adventures in Data Structures and Algorithms - Eric Lippert
Author Eric Lippert introduces fabulous solutions using uncommon algorithms and data structures.
There’s a lot more to algorithms than the useful-but-boring recipes you recite for every interview. Th...
www.manning.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I always wondered what went into picking out the cover images for programming and compsci textbooks. I'm sure there's a good reason for this kind of illustration being on the cover, since the folks that make these covers are professionals but I have no frame for *why* it's a good decision to do it.
compsci professor laid the smackdown today: “all AI slop submissions get a 0 going forward, no second chance”
in a class total of ~80 (between in-person and online) I think I’m fine
gotta wonder what % of the class is cooked, though
in a class total of ~80 (between in-person and online) I think I’m fine
gotta wonder what % of the class is cooked, though
October 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
compsci professor laid the smackdown today: “all AI slop submissions get a 0 going forward, no second chance”
in a class total of ~80 (between in-person and online) I think I’m fine
gotta wonder what % of the class is cooked, though
in a class total of ~80 (between in-person and online) I think I’m fine
gotta wonder what % of the class is cooked, though
(2/2) Watch his full talk in Neuro&CompSci as part of the Neuro& webinar series from the @youthneuro.bsky.social:
Neuro&CompSci with Dr. Konrad Kording
YouTube video by Dana Foundation
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
(2/2) Watch his full talk in Neuro&CompSci as part of the Neuro& webinar series from the @youthneuro.bsky.social:
uc berkeley master's degree in compsci btw
October 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
uc berkeley master's degree in compsci btw
While Silicon Valley is investing tens of billions of dollars chasing the AGI dream, academic computing research in the U.S. is facing a severe drought cacm.acm.org/opinion/comp... #compsci #computerscience
October 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
While Silicon Valley is investing tens of billions of dollars chasing the AGI dream, academic computing research in the U.S. is facing a severe drought cacm.acm.org/opinion/comp... #compsci #computerscience
2 postdocs in Psych/CompSci/CogSci: "decision-making in humans and AI systems and the circumstances under which people will trust AI systems to make decisions on their behalf" Princeton: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app... NYU: apply.interfolio.com/175495
October 24, 2025 at 2:29 AM
2 postdocs in Psych/CompSci/CogSci: "decision-making in humans and AI systems and the circumstances under which people will trust AI systems to make decisions on their behalf" Princeton: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app... NYU: apply.interfolio.com/175495
nvm its off whoever let me pursue compsci has a personal vendetta against all technology
October 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
nvm its off whoever let me pursue compsci has a personal vendetta against all technology
I was banned from the school library computers because I circumvented the shell software they had, got to DOS, mounted reference CD-ROMs and made them available on the network.
This was like 1995 when nobody knew anything about computers except the compsci teacher.
This was like 1995 when nobody knew anything about computers except the compsci teacher.
October 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I was banned from the school library computers because I circumvented the shell software they had, got to DOS, mounted reference CD-ROMs and made them available on the network.
This was like 1995 when nobody knew anything about computers except the compsci teacher.
This was like 1995 when nobody knew anything about computers except the compsci teacher.
Is there anyone in range of my skeet that's refreshed (or outright learned) abstract algebra and topology on their own?
Looking for book/YouTube recommendations.
My math skill is a working knowledge of compsci adjacent topics and "oh right I forgot about this entirely" from college.
Looking for book/YouTube recommendations.
My math skill is a working knowledge of compsci adjacent topics and "oh right I forgot about this entirely" from college.
October 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Is there anyone in range of my skeet that's refreshed (or outright learned) abstract algebra and topology on their own?
Looking for book/YouTube recommendations.
My math skill is a working knowledge of compsci adjacent topics and "oh right I forgot about this entirely" from college.
Looking for book/YouTube recommendations.
My math skill is a working knowledge of compsci adjacent topics and "oh right I forgot about this entirely" from college.
Quit using AI to do your thinking, reasoning & research for you. It's fvcking garbage & you should know this by now. AI is to actual intelligence as Tesla's Autopilot is to actual driving. CompSci 1, not even 101, "garbage in, garbage out." It's industrial grade autocomplete.
October 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Quit using AI to do your thinking, reasoning & research for you. It's fvcking garbage & you should know this by now. AI is to actual intelligence as Tesla's Autopilot is to actual driving. CompSci 1, not even 101, "garbage in, garbage out." It's industrial grade autocomplete.
“When Compiler Optimizations Hurt Performance - Branches can perform better than table lookups” nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/when-compi... #c #clang #gcc #programming #CompSci
When Compiler Optimizations Hurt Performance
Branches can perform better than table lookups
nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“When Compiler Optimizations Hurt Performance - Branches can perform better than table lookups” nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/when-compi... #c #clang #gcc #programming #CompSci
still in college for compsci at the moment but i'm REALLY not looking forward to joining the club here :') the field gets more and more dire by the day
October 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
still in college for compsci at the moment but i'm REALLY not looking forward to joining the club here :') the field gets more and more dire by the day