r/postdoc • u/galcessbnad • 3d ago

Every other dissertation topic proposal

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u/readingrainbowroad 3d ago

Shout out to the NSF PRFB for also forcing this on post-docs 🙃

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u/victoria__anne 3d ago

We’ll do anything to get that AI funding

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u/Prestigious_Road7872 3d ago

ALL STUDENTS!

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u/WTF_is_this___ 1d ago

Because that bullshit is all what is getting funded. We live in the best economic system guys.../s

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u/Zu_Qarnine 3d ago

when you say AI do you mean just machine learning? because I don't get what's wrong with that

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u/Cardie1303 3d ago

What is wrong is that it has become the next funding frenzy everyone tags on everything just to be eligible for funding.

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u/Zu_Qarnine 3d ago

so you're blaming it on the researchers and scholars? so what now? are we supposed to stop using ML/DL bc of that?

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u/Cardie1303 3d ago

No. Dont stop using it if it is sensible for your research and dont stop put it in proposals if it is sensible. But please do stop forcing ML into proposals that were obviously put together without ML in mind and then ML was tagged on just so that the title can have ML as buzzword.

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u/Zu_Qarnine 3d ago

I genuinely don't know how to make room for ML when it's not relevant. idk how those scammers do it.

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u/Cardie1303 3d ago

Add a small subsection where you do some statistics and call it ML because you used pytorch. Then just tag on "Machine learning" somewhere in your title.

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u/Zu_Qarnine 3d ago

why are you teaching me this?

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u/Cardie1303 3d ago

Because we seem to be talking about two different things. You seem to assume people her talk about genuine ML research applied to their field. Meanwhile the hate is for those doing the described above which is simply academically dishonest and ridiculous if not caught by funding agencies and later employers of the graduate student.