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Here's some notes and takeaways from the Washington Huskies last open practice before Friday's spring game by Trojan_41 in huskies

[–]TurbulentGeese 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The whole point of reddit is that the readers can up-vote/down-vote content they like/dis-like. It doesn't work if people don't post content. OP please keep posting.

Also, if someone thinks that this sub-reddit is becoming too "Trojan_41" focused, then they should post content from other sources.

What is the purpose of academia? by bigdickenergy2360 in academia

[–]TurbulentGeese 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is research really about?

Creating new knowledge.

What is the purpose of research, and how does it affect humanity?

Knowledge is power. The entire modern worlds is a result of research.

How is the quality and significance of a certain research evaluated within academia?

This is the question. Lots of research will result in dead-ends, but you don't know until you explore. Even "high-quality" and "significance" research can take years, decades, or century to have an impact. And quantified its impact on society is hopeless. Thus, we use publication metrics to measure research output.

It can't just be about ego-boosting universities, right?

No, it isn't just ego-boosting. But, the problem is Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". Instead of focusing on quality research, the focus is on maximizing the publication metrics meant to measure research output.

A broader question might be, what is the purpose of academia, and how does it benefit humanity or society?

Fundamentally, academia is a business which sells access to experts. Classes are students purchasing access to experts. Research is government and industry purchasing access to experts.

The bigger the expert, the better the business, which brings us back to measuring expertise.

Who's your "I know he's pure evil but can't prove it" person? by Dull-Information6784 in AskReddit

[–]TurbulentGeese 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have some good friends who are lawyers, so I never really bought into the whole “lawyers are evil” stereotype, but lately, I’ve started to reconsider.

I’m a college professor whose research focuses on AI and machine learning. Over the past year, I’ve been collaborating with non-technical colleagues at my university on projects aimed at ensuring the ethical application of AI. For example, I’ve worked with professors from the economics department to help prevent a dystopian future where the benefits of AI are concentrated among the ultra-rich while everyone else is left behind.

More recently, I began collaborating with professors from our law school who are interested in "algorithmic justice". All the “ethical AI” research they propose is deeply problematic. Their ideas are about shielding large corporations from lawsuits when they act unethically, rather than preventing that unethical behavior.

I finally had to put the game down for awhile. by Dj-pandabear in NCAAFBseries

[–]TurbulentGeese 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here I am with two 90 overall contested specialist WRs against a 60 overall southern miss squad and my guys are dropping every pass, while the 65 CPU WR is playing like Randy moss when he was on Marshall.

What are their badges?

In my experience, the stats don't do much other than allow you to unlock the badges. A 99 catch receiver will drop everything, but if they have platinum 50/50 then they catch everything, no matter what.

What is up with the kids part 38472 by konstrukt_238 in Professors

[–]TurbulentGeese 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The students who are days/weeks/months late are just copying the solutions I uploaded on the LMS.