They are referring to the original doge meme of the dog, not the government initiative today. I guess "quote" isn't really the right word, more like "doing"
they are referring to doge the dog meme, not the government initiative. The meme is much older and wouldn't be considered "cool" to use by the same people who write in the style of the article. Which indicates it was written by an LLM, because usually only things like ChatGPT throw in such cringe, out of date memes in an otherwise obnoxiously 2025 article
My partner attended the RCA recently. I'm their cohort of around 80 students, 60 of them were from China, and around 80 percent of whom had English so poor you couldn't hold a conversation. I don't mean to be rude it is true.
During safety briefing they'd, say, walk down a hall, then lecturer would say "turn right" and they'd turn left.
The remaining 20 were also international but had decent English.
Doesn't matter though because the only "teaching" that happens is lectures throughout the term. If you can whip out a good final assessment you get the degree all the same.
A British academic "rolling eyes" at efforts to decolonise their material. Yikes but also typical. Mathematics is a pure subject, and logic itself is not colonial. Of course. But academic institutions do retain aspects of colonialism in their teaching. It's not a wild idea to take a moment and consider how your department may be complicit.
Aided and abetted by putting a veneer of mathematics over the top. That is the important context for the idea of decolonizing math - that it doesn't actually take place in a vacuum.
You only hurt yourself by drawing a line between academic knowledge and work knowledge. Very few people are actual geniuses that just retain information. Rather, most people know about things because they use them every day, that's all. Professors and researchers know CS stuff because that's what they need to get a paycheck. You know K8s because that gets you a paycheck. The fact that the former is called "knowledge" and the latter a "skillset" is just a technicality that shouldn't bother you. All knowledge is equal. If you need to know more CS stuff you will learn it no doubt!
Instruments without frets don't have this problem. I played violin for many years. When you play a double stop (two strings at the same time), since there are no frets, you can play true 3rds, 6ths etc. The harmony is so "pure" that it causes a third harmonic to ring (which is how you know you're doing it right). My violin teacher always insisted that e-flat and d-sharp are not the same. When you're playing in different keys you have to put your finger in a slightly different place.
Right. I had this too, but because I never got the explanation this post provides, I had to live with "because it's a different key" - but could never quite understand why it made me out of tune with an accompanying pianist. Now I know... this is awesome!
When you eat your own dogfood (or rather, feed it to your own dogs), to demonstrate confidence in your product. You can experience things as your users do, which can help give you a better understanding of how people use your product and the issues they may find.
That was one of the unfortunate realities when developing Riak at Basho: while we used Riak, we didn’t need its massive scalability, so it was hard to find the problems that customers would eventually stumble upon.
