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Written by Dawn Nafus on 2024-12-30 at 21:41

1500 humanities professors in tenure track/tenured positions, but 80,000 instructors w PhDs in the precariate. CS friends, it's that bad.

Meanwhile, 16k ML people showed up to Neurips, all flush with travel $ and NSF $ and private sector $$$, all to get a .02% improvement on an arbitrary benchmark with little to no meaning. Cuz why actually know something about language, amirite?

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-humanities/article/humanities-decline-in-darkness-how-humanities-research-funding-works/54F12CB0DB7D07F93C2B28CDBDB70453

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Written by Amin Girasol on 2024-12-31 at 11:31

@dawnnafus I hope you don't mind me adding the following, as a legibility aid for folks whose first language isn't English or who aren't versed in US academic jargon. I think your post deserves to reach a wider audience because it adds compelling context to the linked article.

Meanwhile, 16000 [Machine Learning] people showed up to NeurIPS [the "Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems"], all flush with travel expenses and NSF [US National Science Foundation] grants and private sector megabucks, all to get a 0.02% improvement on an arbitrary benchmark with little to no meaning.

Cuz why actually know something about language, amirite?

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