Daily Archives: 2020-01-30

Article note: Interesting. It's not a "RedHat bought IBM with IBM's money" situation, but has a lean in that direction.... because I think IBM is looking for any kind of credible direction.

Article note: I feel like almost all of those compromises went in the sensible direction. If your code is being used, almost every compromise should favor improving run-time behavior over compiler speed.

Article note: It's generally a good tale of responsible academic scrutiny and appropriate reaction. And now the grim, I'm not suggesting the victim/author here should be reprimanded because they more or less did right, but it does demonstrate the "Academic misconduct pays off as long as you get tenure before you get caught" principle that has made academia extra bullshit lately, both in terms of the research people are choosing to do (Machine Learning and Quantum are both "safe" topics because they give results that aren't near-term falsifiable, doing to computing what string theory &co. did to physics years ago) and in terms of the credibility of the promotion process.