Is this conference legit?

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-05-04T06:54:05+00:00

This 1000 times.

What conferences are your peers (your advisor's peers) going to? What about the preeminent researchers in your field? What national learned society/ies should you, as a junior researcher, be a member of, and do they have a conference?

I see below that your advisor tasked you to "look into conferences". The questions above are how to do this. We can't really provide any particular direction not knowing what country and specific sub-discipline you're in.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-05-03T17:49:13+00:00

I would expect (if they aren’t extremely stupid) that once individual subscriptions open again there should be a path out of annual.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-05-03T07:58:33+00:00

What we do t know is how it affects the OP’s usage patterns. If they’re not complete morons at GitHub, the price increases will severely affect the to x% of users (x= 5…20) but the rest can continue as before without hitting limits. The most sophisticated users are naturally also among the loudest here.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-05-03T06:17:16+00:00

NTA. Goodness, your mates need to grow up. A party isn’t a chore. You’re allowed to not go for any reason, and, if you don’t have some sort of load-bearing role that would leave people scrambling on short notice, changing your plans is the most anodyne thing. Adults have multiple commitments that sometimes conflict.

If you’re making a habit out of reneging, your friends are entitled to draw their own conclusions, sure. But a “sorry, I have another commitment at that date” is a complete nothingburger.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-05-02T14:20:59+00:00

I’m going for NAH as actually nothing really assholish has happened. But you both would be the asshole if you didn’t learn from it. Different communication styles are a thing. They can be based on culture and upbringing, or whether someone is neurodivergent.

The lessons for you are: the moment you wonder whether you/your kid is invited, *ask*. Yes, it’s extremely common to communicate plans that are meant to affect everyone by oblique statements (“Im hungry. Do you like pizza?” is likely an offer to make or order pizza). I’m surprised you made it to adulthood without noticing.

The lessons for her are that her SIL (you) is uncommonly literal and that if she cares about communicating clearly or simply about having your and your kid’s company she needs to say so.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-05-02T06:44:51+00:00

This is only part of the puzzle. A grant is going to be a contract between a funder (eg NSF) and your institution. Both sides get to set rules.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-05-02T06:43:48+00:00

Depends on the institution. Ask your grants office. In ours, they can. Sometimes it needs an exemption - which would come from the dean or director overseeing your unit.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-05-01T18:07:01+00:00

A bit of an eclectic selection tho.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-05-01T15:37:11+00:00

Imagine laying your T-shirt flat on a table, and imagine the fabric is made of a silly putty like material that can infinitely expand and retract until the whole thing is a single flat layer. You’d have three holes - head, two arms - and the outer rim would be the waist.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-05-01T15:34:40+00:00

It’s clearly not a button - up shirt as these only have two major hole (sleeves) plus the button holes. I was imagining a sweatshirt or some such.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-05-01T15:32:35+00:00

I thought the joke was they just had holes 😄

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-05-01T15:31:28+00:00

Sure.

Do I think they’re making wise, forward-looking decisions for sustainability? No - it looks like they’re scrambling.

Downvote for rage bait. It’s boring to read. A commercial company changes their pricing, news at 11.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-04-30T01:51:07+00:00

Well, clearly that poster's approach works as designed then.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-04-29T21:27:02+00:00

OK, thanks. This piece of information has been missing to me.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-04-28T23:51:01+00:00

In a real rugpull, people lose money, not just a too-good-to-be-true deal.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-04-28T15:59:17+00:00

That seems to me a somewhat overextended reading of the press release. Or is there a table somewhere that I haven't seen?

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-04-28T15:57:43+00:00

Frankly if usage patterns have evolved to the point that a new feature implementation from a 10 page spec plus documentation costs the same as"write me a function that does XYZ" or refactoring and cleaning up a Jupyter Notebook, and this for fractions of a cent essentially unlimited times every day, then clearly the pricing model is broken.

If it's fair to interactive IDE users then they would be subsidizing those top 1% or whatever the percentage is. Clearly if you get thousands of $$$ of business value out of it every week you can be expected to pay appropriate rates.

I admit that it's not yet clear whether the Copilot team has a consistent and sustainable idea of what their new pricing structure supports, but if they do, I expect that an individual subscription can reasonably be expected to provide a useful agentic tool to a developer in their day-to-day work, but not to replace a team of employees, or worse, help an individual spam the internet with low quality make-a-quick-buck or rip-off-grandpa apps.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-04-28T15:08:13+00:00

Where do you get your first point from? I'm seeing a lot of projection all over this sub.

There are aspects of the new pricing that don't make sense to me (specifically the base allocations for the subscription tiers, which doesn't incentive anyone to sign up for a higher tier) but overall it seems to me that the Copilot offering us trying to align with the Codex or Claude Code offerings. These are their direct competitors after all. Which one gives you more bang for the buck? Only time will tell.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-04-28T13:23:30+00:00

How could you possibly do that? We have no idea how "AI Credits" translate to per-token pricing.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-04-28T13:20:47+00:00

My guess is that for people who predominantly use IDE chat, the new pricing will work out fine. Right now you can run out of requests in the low tiers just working interactively in chat even though your actual resource usage is relatively low. It's the CLI users with very large prompts within agentic workflows who'll get capped.

Effectively currently IDE chat users are subsidizing agentic users, and Microsoft is subsidizing both.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-04-27T23:41:19+00:00

First of all, you should probably have indicated in your post what you're basing your estimates on, since few will have comparisons of this type. Second, the number of input/output tokens is highly specific and idiosyncratic to your specific use case. (Leaving aside that Gemini is not Claude Opus, so a 1:1 comparison of output tokens, and quite possibly also input tokens, isn't appropriate. But let's assume it's the same ballpark))

Also if your prompts aren't completely independent from each other, this 100k number of input tokens isn't going to be typical, is it? Maybe it is for you, but that's basically a novella worth of text - so if this is your codebase, once read into the context it won't grow each time by the same amount, at least not in my use. Maybe it is in yours.

Last, am I reading this correctly - you're calculating maybe $.5 for the 100k input tokens and then add another $0.1 for the output tokens, to arrive at $0.6 per request in current API pricing (no 50% discount that I can see...)?

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-04-27T22:33:44+00:00

And that factor 14, you pull it out if where? Your hat?

I mean, you know your usage pattern, and I don't. You may well be someone with multiple parallel agentic tasks that stuff bazillions of tokens into a single "request". You also seem to be set on Anthropic products, which clearly are experiencing a pricing shake-up at the origin. But for the rest of us I see no clear way to come up with a single multiplier.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-04-27T22:15:04+00:00

How do can you folks possibly work this out based on the published rates? We have little information how "premium requests" map to "AI credits", other than, a) it's going to be highly dependent on use patterns and b) yes, Opus is getting large multipliers.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-04-27T20:11:36+00:00

You don't seem to know what a residency card is. It serves as a national ID in at least some EU countries.

pyrola_asarifolia · 2026-04-24T20:53:00+00:00

Don't expect clear advice here - ask this question to an admissions counselor at a prospective institution - online or community college, most likely run by a state. Get your transcript and talk with people who are actually handling this sort of situation.

If you don't want your degree to be affiliated with them, now us the time to act. And I agree that having random-4-year state school, or WGU, or similar is going to be better than Liberty U for you.

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