Samra (Sam)
@Sam14_irshad
PhD candidate @ Kyung Hee University —Trying to find sweet spots.
I actually don’t mind the hyper-competitive nature of research - it motivates me and pushes me to do better work. Competition isn’t the problem. The problem is when hard work and talent don’t matter because a merit-based system has been replaced by performative signaling and…
It is less of a trap, but the structural issues are still there. Reminds me of how cutthroat the US academic scene is in terms of what people have told me.
For a small fee, I will go to your enemy’s talk and begin my comment with, “look, I can see that you’ve tried your best with this…”
Books are basically magic and I don't think we appreciate it enough. You're saying I can just access the thoughts of the brightest, most revolutionary minds from just about any point in history and location around the globe? Unreal.
Triggering level of book spine abuse
I won’t tell anyone I’ve won the lottery, but there will be signs
Skimmed through a few ICLR26 submissions on OpenReview. Way too many titles are so obviously LLM generated. Advice for junior authors: do not use LLMs for titles, abstracts, or anything related to your story telling. Your writing voice matters!!! It signals taste and thinking.
Gosh hahahahahahhah.
Student emails: Normally: "hey..." 24 hours before deadline: "Your Excellency..."
Organizations that can't measure performance end up measuring performativeness instead.
Of all the different metrics of scientific success, a kind word from a colleague you respect often means the most.
When writing a paper, do NOT emphasize that what you did wasn't done before. Firstly, there is nothing wrong (indeed, quite the opposite) in confirming previous results. And crucially, that something hasn't yet been done does not necessarily justify doing it.
RIP Marcus Aurelius, you would have hated social media
😂
Everyone saying AI is going to replace people clearly don’t work with great people enough
organizers will be like, "please welcome our diverse panelists" and it will be three dudes named Steve and one dude not named Steve
"The past is a different country": if you tried to socialize with one of your ancestors, assuming you managed to bridge the linguistic & body language gap, you would keep talking past one another & found each other severely offensive. You be left feeling you have nothing in…
The amount of ‘second-hand anxiety’ I feel after seeing these type of status
Friendship rating: Nods during your presentation ⭐️ Shakes head during your enemy’s presentation ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
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