Comments on: Academic hogwash: an empirical study thereof

By: On science « The Tar Pit

On science « The Tar Pit — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:39:07 +0000

[...] convenient too, because then our dear scientist can produce more science to science the science and advance the advancement, isn't [...]

By: Against the direction in Romanian culture today, translated and annotated « The Tar Pit

Sun, 28 May 2023 14:27:07 +0000

[...] Academic. ↩ [...]

By: The Lost Tools of Learning, annotated « The Tar Pit

The Lost Tools of Learning, annotated « The Tar Pit — Sun, 07 May 2023 14:19:47 +0000

[...] is precisely how Romanians (among, I suppose, others) understood academia, for example. Step one: develop a superficial understanding, say, of distributed systems; step two: [...]

By: Stories from the smelly pits of pantsuit internets; in today's episode: Iu Da « The Tar Pit

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 14:27:01 +0000

[...] to challenge this: I like him because he's done more for the field of sociology than the Romanian academia managed to these past two supposedly illustrious decades of great heights of science. Yes, he [...]

By: 2019 in review « The Tar Pit

2019 in review « The Tar Pit — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:54:24 +0000

[...] I might as well add here that from all the things that I spent my time doing in the pits of academia, I mostly miss teaching. Granted, the teaching in that environment was, and I expect still is today [...]

By: A solution to the largest-of-seven FFACalc puzzle « The Tar Pit

A solution to the largest-of-seven FFACalc puzzle « The Tar Pit — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:22:41 +0000

[...] my break from writing (anything else other than academic hogwash) has left a visible negative mark on the quality thereof, so writing anything at all stemming from [...]

By: On the future of computing hardware « The Tar Pit

On the future of computing hardware « The Tar Pit — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:26:05 +0000

[...] faster, stronger material takes its place. Which I kind of doubt, given that science is also in a period of stagnation, and that is putting it very [...]

By: On security « The Tar Pit

On security « The Tar Pit — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:23:25 +0000

[...] The reader must remember that PhD degrees don't hold the same value as they did, say, fifty years ago. This is mainly due to causes of academic hogwash. ↩ [...]

By: Further on the myth of "software engineering" « The Tar Pit

Further on the myth of "software engineering" « The Tar Pit — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:21:08 +0000

[...] wanted to make sure that this essay would get rejected from any respectable academic venue out there, so I made the abstract as abstract as possible, without however stripping it of its [...]