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Associate prof at Bernoulli Institute, Groningen. Proud dad, mathematical physicist, #OCaml enthusiast, LEGO aficionado, amateur photographer, mushroom lover, fresh podcaster
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I agree with you in principle but it is not that easy imo. I share @variolator.bsky.social point of view that we cannot simply forbid it and call it a day.
LLM are becoming so widespread that we need to educate ourselves and our students to be responsible with it. And we need to figure out how
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I agree! Honestly there are already small models that do a pretty decent job at automating those boring stuff, running locally in some cases. I am amazed that the main focus is so far away from this and the pretense of reasoning is completely shadowing everything else
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2. There's the silly: after being mocked for setting tariffs to trade deficit / exports, the White House retorted that they didn't do that at all – they used this fancy formula.
How convenient that the two fitted parameters, ε=4 and φ=0.25 multiply to 1, leaving...yes, trade deficit / exports.
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Present 🙋♂️
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nasawatch.com/education/yo...
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By the way, have you seen this? delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a...
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Are you sure? Especially when you are young tenured I still don’t think you can do it alone without risks, I wish this was the case but I am sceptical. Things are improving in this sense but I see still lots of inertia in this respect
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I am surely the wrong person to say this, as I have practically every advantage trait, but I think a bigger part of this issue is the size of my network among young ppl. I’d like recent graduates as guests for aftermath and for privacy reasons I cannot get their contacts via the university 2/2
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I know lots of female computer scientists of physicists workin successfully outside academia. My experience is limited but they were more outspoken that in uni, and it is thanks to them if I understood that we have an issue in academia 1/n
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We are planning the afterMath with more episodes to come and while we are looking for guests we are particularly looking for female guests as outside academia, we’ll see how it goes 4/n
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And lastly many people we invite do not like to appear in a podcast, so many denial invitees did not appear also for that reason. This would have not made the balance 50/50, but would have been much better than now
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It is not a justification but the March and April episodes were both with two female guests, and we had to cancel the recording at the last minute and are not still able to reschedule them 2/n
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Two are students and two seniors, but it does and it is a very important point. One issue is that keeping it local, we have a serieus diversity problem. But it is not just that 1/n
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Not sure if that counts, but I started a podcast to show the human side of mathematics and a peek into the ups and downs of the job: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/not-just-numbers
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I had a lot of fun working on this article with @divbyzero.bsky.social
As an editor's pick, the article is freely available for two months at pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art...
Here's a snippet of the video abstract (bluesky only allows a max of 60 seconds):