In other news (apolitical thread)...

[MikeDeTiger]

Apparently I'm going to be giving a seminar on AI for faculty here who are interested in learning more about it.

Just imagine my elation at having a bunch of PhD's as a captive audience, with their goofy email signatures telling me their pronouns and their support for all manner of causes.  

"Listen here, you buncha academic snobs.  I notice you're pretty competent in your fields, but kinda dumb as anyone else in things you aren't trained in."

Actually, the irony is that while AI has to do with my education, it doesn't much factor in with the job I actually do here.  In that way, such a seminar is probably an example of the old adage "Those who can't do, teach." 

Yeah....I should probably tell them that, too :-D

[Cincydawg]

If they are interested in knowing more about a topic with which you are reasonably versed, it's a good thing, you should do well, whatever their ancillary beliefs.

Wear a MAGA hat though.

[MikeDeTiger]

The faculty I've had the chance to meet so far, which is not most of them, are a relatively quiet lot as far as what they wear on their sleeve.  Which is how it should be, probably.  A few are loud, and might take exception to someone showing up with a MAGA hat.  

We have faculty from all over, including most of your schools here.  I've seen a handful of Texas and Texas A&M alums, of which I thought there would be more.  (There might be.....I still haven't met most of them.) 

It makes me think, well, we're not a major, well-known university, so one might poo-poo our educational quality, but if we're not that great, it's the fault of all these other major universities for turning out sub-par graduates to go be professors.  

The main thing is, as I previously noted, the baseball coach is a former LSU player and asst. coach, and that makes it a good university.  

[Cincydawg]

The thing about professors at "high level universities" is they may not be good teachers at all, but they bring in grant money and are "known in their field".  They spend rather little of their time teaching, maybe one course a semester, some don't teach at all.  They have grad students grading tests.  They teach the same way they always did, so there is no prep time needed.  They show up for class, teach, maybe have "hours" once a week, and the rest of the time do their "real job".

[betarhoalphadelta]

Apparently I'm going to be giving a seminar on AI for faculty here who are interested in learning more about it.

Just imagine my elation at having a bunch of PhD's as a captive audience, with their goofy email signatures telling me their pronouns and their support for all manner of causes. 

"Listen here, you buncha academic snobs.  I notice you're pretty competent in your fields, but kinda dumb as anyone else in things you aren't trained in."

Actually, the irony is that while AI has to do with my education, it doesn't much factor in with the job I actually do here.  In that way, such a seminar is probably an example of the old adage "Those who can't do, teach." 

Yeah....I should probably tell them that, too :-D

Have fun and good luck! 

I actually just put in two presentation submissions to speak at one of our major industry events coming up in the 2nd half of this year. Should know in another month if either are accepted. If so, it'll be the highest-profile speaking opportunity I've ever had...

[Cincydawg]

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[847badgerfan]

The faculty I've had the chance to meet so far, which is not most of them, are a relatively quiet lot as far as what they wear on their sleeve.  Which is how it should be, probably.  A few are loud, and might take exception to someone showing up with a MAGA hat. 

We have faculty from all over, including most of your schools here.  I've seen a handful of Texas and Texas A&M alums, of which I thought there would be more.  (There might be.....I still haven't met most of them.) 

It makes me think, well, we're not a major, well-known university, so one might poo-poo our educational quality, but if we're not that great, it's the fault of all these other major universities for turning out sub-par graduates to go be professors. 

The main thing is, as I previously noted, the baseball coach is a former LSU player and asst. coach, and that makes it a good university. 

[Cincydawg]

I have been spending time and angst on getting a visa from Sri Lanka because the cruise line says we have to have one in order to board (which is curious to me, they didn't have the requirement for other ports of call).  I applied at their government site which is a messy mess, a lot of 404 not founds etc.  I THINK I finally got through this morning, maybe, I hope.  We don't especially want to tour anything there, so I'd just as soon stay on board and pass.

Getting visas overall has not been pleasant, nor cheap.

[Cincydawg]

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[FearlessF]

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[betarhoalphadelta]

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I won't take any medications that will cause me to dance in a park. Especially not in a group. 

TYVM.

[Cincydawg]

I learned that alcohol can encourage me to try and dance, and sing, at times.

[FearlessF]

it's medicinal 

I had enuff yesterday during happy hour to make me happy

[Cincydawg]

Memories:  I think it was 2006 when we had a "Board Meeting" in Austin, and I flew down to join in.  I recall meeting utee and many others there including UTErin, who I thought was pretty attractive.  We went to Utees tailgate and made a nice donation, probably not enough, and had plenty of food, and Gatorama and I decided to watch one of his TVs which was showing the WLOCP game, instead of watching Texas and Nebraska.  Somebody had asked us to watch their dog, which was a BULLDOG named Pearl.  Gator claimed later than this was unfair favoritism when UGA won the game.  Pearl was about 12 years old and pretty content to lie like a dog, and we were pretty content to sit and watch and comment.

I recall later most of us went to some bar downtown, I forget the details of that, it seemed fun.  I recall I had rented some cheap microcar and had four of us in it at one time, it barely had room for just me.  i THINK we had tacos somewhere.  My next trip to Austin was about 2016 where I somehow missed the good food spots, but I got to drive on COTA.

I know "we" had plans to meet up in Nashville and then a lot of us couldn't make it.  Maybe next time.