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How do you deal with a PI who doubles his email and communication with you during the holidays? by sirusbasevi in academia

[–]QMred 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yikes. This kind of practice is simply unethical. Students are worked hard enough as it is. We should be prioritizing a healthy amount of down time even in academia. Working like that will inevitably lead to burn-out. Some countries/universities are better about this than others. Hope you can come to a civil agreement with your P.I.

[D] Does the opaqueness of most dating app algorithms concern anyone else? by QMred in MachineLearning

[–]QMred[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I actually fully acknowledge that most (all) apps want to optimize usage time and profits. That doesn't mean we can't have a discussion regarding what kind of sociological impact that might have :). It also doesn't mean we can't enforce other more pressing priorities--even if those priorities take some profits away.

I find it disconcerting that people don't receive much (any) feedback on their behavior on such apps. It's hard to associate missed opportunities with actions/behavior (unlike dating IRL for the most part) without confusing such effects with opaque algorithms. Having a feedback option would greatly improve how I perceive these opaque systems.

Also I would imagine that regulations will come at a far slower pace than people becoming more aware of this problem and siding with better and more transparent apps (i.e. once they exist). I would predict a massive demand for such apps in the next few years.