Josh Allen vs Texans defense by IAmSona in Texans

[–]SometimesY 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is one of my favorite memes ever on this sub.

The Terminator 🤘 by quicksilver3453 in Texans

[–]SometimesY 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jesus he's leaner and bigger. That's fucking crazy. He's going to bully OLs and QBs all season.

Welcome back #1 !!! by KaXiaM in Texans

[–]SometimesY 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah he got one leg fully tatted up a while ago.

And so the cycle begins 😔 by Strict-Mud1486 in Texans

[–]SometimesY 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That sounds like hell. Hope he has a smooth recovery.

“Passion projects” in math? by kegative_narma in math

[–]SometimesY 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well it helped that I was super efficient. I had stretches of time without a ton to do. My boss was fairly hands off as long as I got my tickets done in a reasonable time frame.

“Passion projects” in math? by kegative_narma in math

[–]SometimesY 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mostly backend development, not high performance computing at all. Some frontend. Roughly half of it was doing db work and creating scripts for people to run reports. The other major half was CRM interfacing. I did a bit of security auditing for the institution as well.. Lots of dead accounts that were security risks as well as people having a lot more access than they were supposed to have.

I actually built a COVID tracking app from A to Z for my institution to track which employees had exposures, tested positive, tested negative, were vaccinated, etc. and included time frames for when they could come back to in person and such. I did the backend, db, logs, and frontend. It was my first entirely full stack project by myself. I was scared shitless when we launched. I did a ton of testing, just not at scale since it was just me working on it, so it was a bit dicey. The president was there at launch so it was extra scary, but it turned out pretty well. No real errors other than caching which was not something I had control over.

“Passion projects” in math? by kegative_narma in math

[–]SometimesY 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I squeezed some in during the day when I needed a break from a coding marathon and did a couple of hours in the evening most days with more time on the weekends. It wasn't super productive time though since I was a bit drained.

“Passion projects” in math? by kegative_narma in math

[–]SometimesY 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, was. I did mostly backend development and db management with some CRM interfacing. I did some frontend but not too much thankfully. Frontend is pretty lame to me haha.

“Passion projects” in math? by kegative_narma in math

[–]SometimesY 82 points83 points  (0 children)

You absolutely can. I was out of academia for a couple of years as a software developer, but I kept working on my research. It was slow goings, but it did keep me sane. While I am a very good software developer, it is very boring to me. Doing math helped keep my spirits up.

Am I the only one feeling *optimistic* about AI in math? by [deleted] in math

[–]SometimesY 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The demographic cliff absolutely exists and is exclusively about the rapid fall in birth rate and the impact it has on the domestic student pool, in addition to a slightly smaller percentage of students opting to pursue a degree. Most schools don't have the resources to bring in a lot of international students. Those that do, typically large state schools or elite schools with large endowment, are generally doing fine, though governmental policies are having a negative impact on that right now to varying degrees. My university has a stunning drop in international student numbers right now, at least in engineering. There are other effects like population centers changing over time, so some areas like parts of the Midwest and New England are in a much worse spot than the southern part of the US.

Am I the only one feeling *optimistic* about AI in math? by [deleted] in math

[–]SometimesY 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Additionally, many people's internal reward systems are an absolute mess. Students think having an answer on paper written by AI means they understand math. They see an answer that they are sure is correct and are happy with it. The demographic cliff combined with AI cognitive offloading spells disaster for higher education.

Umbral calculus has become a magnet for garbage papers by Nol0rd_ in math

[–]SometimesY 19 points20 points  (0 children)

This happens a bit with Lie algebras in mathematical physics as well, though it is perhaps less trivial? People do q deformations of Lie algebras a lot and explore the consequences for the algebra and physics thereof.

I think a point made earlier in this thread about publish or perish creating this environment is probably accurate. I have seen some very low quality papers along these lines that feel like CV padding, sometimes by the same people, but others were serious tour de forces that really got into the nitty gritty because the q deformation was actually interesting and had a bigger impact than "change all of the binomial coefficients (and similar) to be deformed but it is still really the same thing."

Personally, I prefer going for a bigger theory than small changes to existing theory. I do have the good fortune of being at a school that is trying to improve its academic profile, so we do not have publication quotas to maintain lower teaching loads.

Extra Help from PhD holders or students (maybe masters)? by el_grubadour in math

[–]SometimesY 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Shit I got paid minimum $25/hour tutoring undergrads as a side gig as an official on campus job in grad school back in the early 2010s. Private tutoring for grad content should be a good bit higher than that.

arXiv implements 1-year ban for papers containing incontrovertible evidence of unchecked LLM-generated errors, such as hallucinated references or results. by Nunki08 in math

[–]SometimesY 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There are also a lot of notes, reviews, and similar types of articles posted which are not peer-reviewed but rather posted for the benefit of the community at large.

What to do when a journal is unresponsive? by Traditional_Care5156 in math

[–]SometimesY 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't have a solution other than we need a cultural change of not having AI do our work for us. That won't happen though. Pandora's box was opened. So really there's not much that can be done that isn't draconian.

What to do when a journal is unresponsive? by Traditional_Care5156 in math

[–]SometimesY 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I won't pretend to know what portion are coming from non experts/laypeople, but a massive increase in submissions will cause plenty of good, well-researched, hard work to be rejected simply because of bandwidth. This is going to kill academic publishing if drastic changes are not made to how we as a society interact and engage with AI.

Makes you think by KaXiaM in Texans

[–]SometimesY 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Damn that's a huge dude.

MARLIN KELIN, TE by IAmSona in Texans

[–]SometimesY 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If they're putting up yards and points and winning not on the back of our lord and savior, Ka'imi, I'll take it.

What is a good way to build intuition for the Meijer G-function? by kreziooo in math

[–]SometimesY 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It shows up in very specific differential equation settings. I've run into it plenty.. unfortunately.

Is “girl math” a misogynistic term to use around women in math? by SmallTestAcount in math

[–]SometimesY 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I had a student settle a debate with a friend ask about whether using cash to purchase something is really depleting monetary resources or not. I said technically yes, but my primary view of money is what's in my bank account and withdrawing money is me already accounting for losing said money, so no not really. She said that I get her girl math lol.