Been trying to decide why HEP doesn't really like databases for its data and coming up with "we like to move it around too much"
Peter Onyisi
@peteronyisi.bsky.social
Professor of Physics at UTAustin. Member of the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Particle wrangler, opinionated software user, fan of Texas State Parks, Austin FC, and Newcastle United; sometimes I pick up heavy things.
Nobody titles papers "Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen" any more
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Me: well we enforce a maximum rate of trigger accepts to avoid overflowing the data acquisition buffers so sometimes the complex deadtime algorithm kicks in
Joe Mason@moreorloess.bsky.social · last wk.Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Geomorphologist: Water gaps are fascinating landforms. I mean, that river didn't flow uphill over that ridge and then slice down through it. Did you know we have several great examples right here in Wisconsin?
It is necessary to use AI to offset the increased hardware costs caused by AI
Also in middle school a significant number of classes consisted entirely of the teacher reading notes and the students copying them down word for word (this was at a national flagship school btw)
Peter Onyisi@peteronyisi.bsky.social · 4w agoMy Nigerian take on American education is, we were learning fractions in third grade without electricity and in classes of 40+
Trying to understand homework solutions can feel a bit like biblical textual analysis. "Are these two solutions copying from each other or from an unknown common source? Are they adapting an oral tradition which is being corrupted over time?"
2/3 of readings from a list of 40 authors, one half from fifty, 75% from a hundred... they're just making up numbers at this point
UT Approves List of 50 Authors for Gen Ed Course
Jane Austen, Frederick Douglass, Adam Smith and Søren Kierkegaard made the cut.
insidehighered.com
I think people underappreciate how many science faculty started off this administration imagining that they might be ideological fellow travelers
Peter Onyisi@peteronyisi.bsky.social · 2w agoWell, to be honest, a fair number were engaged in wishful thinking ("they won't touch the hard sciences surely") or agreed with culture war critiques ("if only APS hadn't made a diversity statement, we could have avoided this")
Trying to guess the Crank Level of this before taking a look
![The right teaching of useful knowledg, to fit scholars for som [sic] honest profession shewing so much skill as anie man needeth (that is not a teacher) in all knowledges, in one schole, in a shorter time in a more plain waie, and for so much less expens than ever hath been used, since of old the arts were so taught in the Greek and Romane empire.
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This is why universities are intolerable to this movement
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3w agoA lot of Trumpism boils down to the belief that accurately pointing out facts to a man caught up in emotion and false conspiracy theories is a terrible wrong, one that demands retribution.
had a first experience of data only available on IPv6 and that was interesting
I think there is some evidence to suggest that most politicians are not actually good at running large organizations
This may be unfair, but I'm morbidly interested in whether certain Cornell faculty are as worked up about this as they were about the encampments
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3w agoYeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess
I've been thinking recently (in the wake of similar discussions in math regarding AI) that the practice of the "hard sciences" is a lot more humanist than generally let on
Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 3w agoThe messengers generally look down on most scientific inquiry unless it’s a very specific form of applied science. We can’t let these folks divide us; in the end, much of STEM has more in common with the humanities and social sciences than with, e.g., business.
This is basically an internecine feud between two sets of conservatives -- University of Austin types vs. Iowa political appointees -- over who controls a center imposed on campus despite local faculty opposition. And the U Austin types are shocked, shocked by the lack of faculty (their) input.
My Nigerian take on American education is, we were learning fractions in third grade without electricity and in classes of 40+
It seems pretty clear that one big cause of problems across society is an increasingly dictatorial management culture where underlings are not permitted to talk back
But that's no more true than imagining that trust in electoral security dropped in 2000 because of some objective failing of electoral institutions. Trust in the press and academia has declined because other institutions have found it profitable to wage a campaign meant to achieve that effect.
With tonight’s 1-0 win over Rapids 2, Austin FC II are the regular season MLS NEXT Pro Champions! Austin FC II will host the first ever MLS NEXT Pro playoff match in Austin in a few weeks.
I'm always a sucker for a CFF video
Genève – Visite 3D de la gare souterraine.
YouTube video by SBB CFF FFS
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Chaos and authoritarianism at UT Austin. Faculty have just days to show how their courses meet vague requirements of breadth and foundationalism. Proposals will be reviewed by an unspecified entity. No guarantee at all that those who review the proposals have expertise in the field.
Austin American-Statesman@statesman.com · 2mo agoUT courses on slavery, race, sexuality and environmental history are among those that could stop counting toward UT's core. bit.ly/4gPuxgu
