New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Does anyone understand anything from academic presentations?
Ask HN: Does anyone understand anything from academic presentations?
2 by ducktective | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I'm talking about 30-45minutes post-graduate level seminars in which PhD students or professors talk about their thesis or paper. I've always tried to enthusiastically "sit through" such sessions but unless the field is really really close to my own, I don't understand anything. Like their whole literature or notations feels alien language to me. In one of such cases, I wanted to know about "differentiable programming languages" which was posted here recently. I watched this seminar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1-YOWa0vJU) but I didn't understand anything and lost all my confidence in what I knew. (Note that I searched the presenter, he is very much respected in his field. I just provided that clip as an example. It's not just this, as I said, I feel the same in 90% of similar topics)
2 by ducktective | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I'm talking about 30-45minutes post-graduate level seminars in which PhD students or professors talk about their thesis or paper. I've always tried to enthusiastically "sit through" such sessions but unless the field is really really close to my own, I don't understand anything. Like their whole literature or notations feels alien language to me. In one of such cases, I wanted to know about "differentiable programming languages" which was posted here recently. I watched this seminar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1-YOWa0vJU) but I didn't understand anything and lost all my confidence in what I knew. (Note that I searched the presenter, he is very much respected in his field. I just provided that clip as an example. It's not just this, as I said, I feel the same in 90% of similar topics)
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