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Prep for lecture in half an hour is going great, why do you ask?
$ make testability.pdf
make: 'testability.pdf' is up to date
$ rm testability.pdf
rm: cannot remove 'testability.pdf': No such file or directory
$ make testability.pdf
make: 'testability.pdf' is up to date
Colin Gordon of Mastodon retweeted
Don’t choose PhD programs by rankings—they may not be a good fit for you (& everyone applies there!)
Instead, focus on potential advisors. How to find them?
1. Pick your top 20-40 favorite papers
2. Find the authors in academic positions
3. Apply to their schools
Good luck!🍀
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Dear MAGA, friends & family.
RFK Jr. wants to immediately stop the development of new drugs for cancer, Alzheimers & other illnesses for eight years.
Hope your family stays healthy.
Is this what you signed up for when you voted?
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The DoD linked Trump’s Defense Sec to extremists. 9 tribal security chiefs banned his Homeland Security chief from their homeland. Attorneys suspended the next AG’s law license & investigated him for sex crimes
The anti-DEI folk sure like white affirmative action diversity hires
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I hate to put a lot of highly paid pundits out of business, but look at this f**king graph
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BREAKING: The Republican National Convention just announced their keynote speaker for tonight. It’s Project 2025’s lead author, Tom Homan. Make no mistake, Donald Trump’s Administration will implement Project 2025. Retweet so all Americans see this.
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Kudos to the @PhillyInquirer editorial board for taking the media to the woodshed: "Apparently, it’s OK for Trump to spew nonstop nonsense, but Biden can’t ever lose his train of thought." inquirer.com/opinion/editori…
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All three of the guys behind Project 2025 worked in the White House for Trump when he was president.
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My PhD student is running a research study evaluating the quality of automatically-generated code comments. We're looking for participants to judge a number of #Python #comments on several quality measures. For more info & to participate: drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/for…
My PhD student is running a research study evaluating the quality of automatically-generated code comments. We're looking for participants to judge a number of #Python #comments on several quality measures. For more info & to participate: drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/for…
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My theory — Purdue CS denied me tenure because of its shallow, insecure view of scholarship, deep dysfunction and pettiness, apathetic PL leadership, culture of silence, and, yes, sexism.
It has taken me a while to call this out; I am speaking up because someone should.
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This practice is unethical--it's pay to publish (and not even for open access). If a student is presenting they should pay only the student registration. Do better @ICSEconf!
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Apparently Outlook has a timing-dependent bug where if you (i.e., me) look at your (i.e., my) notifications on Android, some emails disappear from your inbox? This definitely happened to at least 2 emails I got notifications for, so if you emailed me please try again and/or DM 🤦
Are you interested in doing a PhD, but can't figure out if you want to do linguistics or programming languages? Or you'd ideally do some combination thereof? Maybe you should come with me at their intersection:
side of things (already finding cases where existing work on English syntax and semantics need innovation to talk about software objects and properties we like for software). I'm starting from from the PL side of this, but also actively branching out into the linguistics
Notably, I'm not talking about using neural networks / large language models, but actual core theoretical linguistics studies of syntax and semantics. If you're intrigued and want to know more...
feel free to get in touch with me (DM or email), and/or take a look at a recent paper dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35104…
I'm looking for a PhD student interested in connecting classic techniques from linguistic syntax and compositional semantics with software specifications. I really want to dig into *both* the specification side of this (useful tools) *and* the linguistics...
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@PLDI'23 is looking for artifact evaluation committee members - please help our colleagues with this great reproducibility effort! #artifactevaluation #reproducibility
Please share! @xwangsd and I are looking for artifact evaluation committee members for PLDI '23. You can either nominate yourself (see forms.gle/x1928onJDXJdogVSA) or a student/colleague (forms.gle/w5fDn9LsKr7CPDYR7). Help make science better! cc @PLDI
