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I am not disagreeing or attempting to downplay that academic publishing is still bad in many fields. But there are fields that are now out of the dumper fire, so I sm hopeful that other fields can learn from these and escape.

I also want to highlight the solution that worked is organization, public funding, and academic governance. So if you are unhappy about the situation in the field, maybe it is a good time to organize all your unhappy colleagues and build something new and better :)

Yes, Cinnamon

Not the case with ACM and dagstuhl, but I know other publishers like Springer and IEEE does this. That is why we moved away from them :)

I don’t think that is the case for ACM and Dagstuhl. ACM used to have this ACM open system where department pay a fixed amount subscription per year depends on the department size.

Now that all ACM paper is open access, I don’t know if they are still doing that. Dagstulh never had these, as far as I know, hosting articles are extremely cheap.

These is certainly not the norm everywhere, but our field have already navigated out the swamp of free access, I hope more fields wil.

Yeah, bio and medician had it quite bad…

Yes, there are many field that are still struggling, but nowadays most of, if not all, the articles in my domain is published by ACM and Schloss Dagstuhl, both are academic governed non-profit that are full open access (I don’t think author even have the option to close access.

That being said, fields like medicine, biology, engineering is very much behind. I am very glad my field moved away from publishing with IEEE. They are not necessarily “behind” the entire academia, but certainly way behind my field.

academic publishing. It used to be monopolized by a couple publishing company with unreasonably high fee for access on both the side of researcher and reader.

Now, through hard works of the academics and funding from the public, now many publishing company are non-profit governed by working academics. And in many fields, open access has become the default.

To be completely frank, that is a very disrespectful thing to say. My students are intelligent and capable, and most importantly they are very respectful of other’s time and effort, both their teacher and their peer by choosing to understand the material instead of cheating. They attended school to improve themselves by understanding and absorbing existing human knowledge, not because they are ignorant.

Yes he ordered a Trump phone in order to expose it.

I am quite surprised that in the school I am teaching in, student have a much more negative attitude towards genAI than professors, especially in the context of education.

30% of the professor feel that genAI can play a role in education, whereas only 11% of the student holds the same view. That seems to reflect quite well in my homework, only a very small minority (10%) uses some extend of genAI in writing open-ended writing homeworks.

If we really need to summarize the web that frequently, then there is something seriously wrong with the web.

plus Rust is a more modern language with better tool chain and language feature than C/C++

The assumption that solving exam is a “useful” skill. Exams are timed, unhelped, approximation of your skill to do “useful” work

Education is supposed to let students eventually do useful work, not immediately do useful work, and useful wprk should be designing and implementing a final project, not exam and quizzes.

My undergrad also have an honor code, this means some professor do explicitly not supervise exams. Most of these professor would sit outside in the hallway for questions.

Some would do crossword puzzle, some would play kriby on 3DS

11$ per hour is not an okay wage in the U.S.

CSA is great and ethical consumption, and I am thinking about getting one from my local community farm. The only obstacle is that I need to drive there and that is annoying.

That being said, from my personal experience, CSA will be more expensive than big box stores.

If it is freezable, it is fine (rotisserie chicken, for example).

I also make them into preservable forms, like I made little jar of scallion oil from a giant bag of scallion and they last years in the fridge. Ginger and garlic works as well.

You can also cook produces and store in the fridge, they will last longer, although not forever. For example, mushrooms, cabbage, etc.

My college does the same, but depends on the professor. Most would sit in the hallway and just chill.

台山 got amazing food!

I am sorry but the very picture about wondering whether things are AI or not looks terribly like AI…