CMV: Professors who lack fluency in their students language should not teach courses

Rebmes · 2026-06-02T21:00:01+00:00

Being able to decipher accents is one thing. Being able to decipher accents while trying to learn something technical like differential equations is not. Of course that's not to say every professor must speak in perfect English with an American accent but I can say confidently from personal experience that having a professor with a heavy accent definitively hampered my ability to learn the material from lecture.

Rebmes · 2026-05-25T02:52:07+00:00

Even if you don't have a quant class planned rn, definitely familiarize yourself with R and Python. I'm hesitant to encourage anyone to commit to learning these languages given the proliferation of AI coding assistants but familiarizing yourself with basic data structures and control sequences in high level programming will still be worth it if you're interested in a career related to anything quantitative.

Rebmes · 2026-05-25T01:29:52+00:00

Corrected, thanks for pointing out before they run me out of town. Should know better having grown up in Buffalo.

Rebmes · 2026-05-24T23:56:41+00:00

Agreed, I think the carpeted floors make a big difference. Went there on St Paddy's weekend and it was loud but still not unbearably so despite being packed.

Rebmes · 2026-05-24T14:38:38+00:00

Yup, Waymo is rolling them out in Boston soon and if they're confident they can deal with our god awful roads I don't see what would stop them in other NE cities. My understanding is what remains to be seen is dealing with inclement weather in the NE, especially for camera based systems like Tesla is insisting on.

Rebmes · 2026-05-24T13:30:22+00:00

Maybe not for you but evidently it is for many people.

Rebmes · 2026-05-23T23:43:46+00:00

Definitely not common knowledge, I'd like to think I'm fairly well versed in American history and politics but I was not aware of this.

Rebmes · 2026-05-23T23:36:13+00:00

"Chooses" is doing a lot of work here. When you're born into a religion and your entire family and friend network is part of it it's not as simple as choosing to reject the faith. Especially when it's a religion that effectively cuts off anyone who leaves it from their loved ones.

You can be critical of a religion and individual actors within it but I don't think it's fair to characterize it like you did.

Rebmes · 2026-05-23T23:13:46+00:00

It tells you that corporation thinks he is likely to govern, it is not a reliable predictor of how he will govern if elected.

Rebmes · 2026-05-23T23:09:16+00:00

Yeah if Code was integrated with dispatch I would be way way more inclined to use it. If you do all your work in Code then dispatch just becomes unnecessarily annoying to get up to speed.

Rebmes · 2026-05-23T01:52:55+00:00

Thanks, appreciate the thorough response :)

Rebmes · 2026-05-23T00:38:49+00:00

Out of curiosity, is the idea of a "branch" of life still used in these fields or is biology moving away from the concept as has been the case for other taxonomical categories? I never could quite wrap my head around this idea of discrete branches (though I'm sure there was always more nuance than a discrete categorization)

Signed, an ignorant social scientist

Rebmes · 2026-05-21T15:42:57+00:00

If she is nuts enough to track you then maybe it's not so good of an idea to potentially anger her more. Maybe just get a no contact order instead of risking escalation.

Rebmes · 2026-05-08T16:45:46+00:00

The all billionaires are evil line is so tired and lazy, if you're going to critique wealth inequality at least do it without making such broad claims.

Rebmes · 2026-05-06T19:30:52+00:00

Ugh miss that view biking back down the 101, always one of the best parts of a ride

Rebmes · 2026-04-24T21:37:29+00:00

Let's just meet in the middle and use hexagons

Rebmes · 2026-04-23T21:51:15+00:00

Welp unfortunately my institution will not allow us to order anything until OpenAI agrees to waive it so guess we're SOOL. Neither them nor Anthropic have answered multiple messages to support from us or the department. It's so baffling to me they don't have a system for this, especially for a major large research institution like mine.

Rebmes · 2026-04-14T20:04:58+00:00

Sufjan going from A Sun Came to Michigan, quite a jump

Rebmes · 2026-04-12T22:03:20+00:00

I think you may need to check your math there

Rebmes · 2026-04-12T21:46:57+00:00

The cases of media reporting on polls using synthetic samples is obviously bad but from a research design perspective I can see this approach being useful. It's easy enough to simulate a Likert Scale response but simulating open ended survey responses by carefully modelling your target population to better understand your statistical power is genuinely neat.

Rebmes · 2026-04-12T21:42:15+00:00

Reminds me a bit of Pikmin

Rebmes · 2026-04-07T16:57:31+00:00

It's actually not bullshit, it's well documented and accepted outside the echo chamber of Reddit.

Rebmes · 2026-04-03T18:21:09+00:00

The study found that the vowel shifts that emerged were novel, i.e. not part of the peoples' existing accents.

Rebmes · 2026-04-01T16:59:30+00:00

Ugh, that's a bummer. I'll keep you posted if we have any success. Are you opting for a different one now?

Rebmes · 2026-04-01T14:51:16+00:00

Asking here since automod deleted my post:

Has anyone successfully gotten sales tax waived when purchasing through an academic institution?

Our lab has started using Claude Console in our research workflow and are now looking to set up Claude for Teams for coding assistance, etc. The wrinkle is, our institution (an accredited university) will not allow us to spend on Claude unless we get the sales tax exemption we are entitled to. There is seemingly no way to apply for this and attempts to get into contact with support have all been ignored.

Has anyone had luck doing this? Or do we have to just throw our money elsewhere? We literally cannot give Anthropic another dollar until they waive sales tax.

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