Honestly, I've just managed this for my job. Moved from a Lectureship to an industry-adjacent nonprofit research and innovation job. Better pay, *way fewer hours*, and pretty much just the research and tool building parts I like.

So I guess my advice about doing this in academia would be...leave.

See also:
- creating a folder
- the concept of a filepath
- savings anywhere other than the desktop
- what their downloads folder is
- googling for information
- adapting code examples in the course notes for literally the smallest change

Hi Elon,

1. None of your business pt. 1
2. None of your business pt. 2
3. You wouldn't understand it if I told you, so again none of your business (pt. 3)
4. Revised none of your business pt. 2
5. Wrote this dumb email.

Regards

Elsevier/ScienceDirect?

No problem! I started out studying Music Education at VCU when I took a Physics of Music class. Ended up transferring to get a BSc in Physics & Music and then a PhD in Acoustics and ML.

I'm always disappointed we don't teach acoustics to musicians as standard. Nice to see this!

Is it commonly recommended to actually cite a genAI? The guidelines we've developed are to disclose it in the acknowledgements.

I'd only cite it if I were doing AI research on the model to give credit to its authors and document the version. The same way I'd cite software (R Core Team, 2024).

To offer some perspective as a researcher whose been in the field longer than it was trendy:

It comes from the name of the research field: the study of how to make intelligent machines. It’s not a declaration of success.

But if you want to refer to specific technologies use their names, Eg LLMs.

Agreed, we don't need to make it harder to access, we need robust regulation and enforcement on how that data is used. This is a societal issue, not a technological one.

I really hope that doesn't happen! I'm hopeful that the infrastructure setup of BlueSky and ATProtocol can help prevent that restriction, but it's definitely not certain.

Just to clarify though, we're not being scraped by AI, but for AI training, which is arguably worse...

bsky.app/profile/mitc...

Haha I guess BlueSky is the place for acousticians to come together for some amateur political theorizing

I think there's space and justifications for both capitalist and socialist viewpoints and there's no need to vilify either. But then, yeah, I sit somewhere within that fuzzy Keynesian/mixed economy/market socialism space, so of course I view them both as valid to some degree.

Yeah, I think this is where the main disagreement lies. And why I wouldn't call myself a Socialist, because I disagree with Marx that capitalism inherently and inevitably leads to feudal capitalist collapse.

That move in the US was intentional and took work from people who idolize Ayn Rand.

I agree! But I think Americans do care as far as they are terrified of being called a Socialist. And then they've been convinced the only form of capitalism is laissez faire, so they just take those policies as default and any step away needs to be justified in terms of how it won't disrupt profits.

I would hope even socialists would see the utility in allowing a middle ground. As a progressive who is much more opposed to neoliberal capitalism than I am of socialism, I'd love to see our overton window shift so that Keynesian capitalism is the political right and socialism is the left.

Just from a strategic POV I think there's value in allowing space for people to take progressive positions and still consider themselves a (Keynesian) capitalist

It shouldn't be true but there are plenty of people who want something else but are just terrified of being called a socialist