Colin Gordon of Mastodon

CS prof at Drexel. (He/him). Now mostly on Mastodon at @[email protected] and @[email protected] and @[email protected]

[Colin Gordon of Mastodon @csgordon]

Prep for lecture in half an hour is going great, why do you ask?

$ make testability.pdf
make: 'testability.pdf' is up to date
$ rm testability.pdf
rm: cannot remove 'testability.pdf': No such file or directory
$ make testability.pdf
make: 'testability.pdf' is up to date

[Rada Mihalcea @radamihalcea]

Don’t choose PhD programs by rankings—they may not be a good fit for you (& everyone applies there!)

Instead, focus on potential advisors. How to find them?
1. Pick your top 20-40 favorite papers
2. Find the authors in academic positions
3. Apply to their schools

Good luck!🍀

[BlueDream @58bugeye]

Dear MAGA, friends & family.

RFK Jr. wants to immediately stop the development of new drugs for cancer, Alzheimers & other illnesses for eight years.

Hope your family stays healthy.

Is this what you signed up for when you voted?

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

The DoD linked Trump’s Defense Sec to extremists. 9 tribal security chiefs banned his Homeland Security chief from their homeland. Attorneys suspended the next AG’s law license & investigated him for sex crimes

The anti-DEI folk sure like white affirmative action diversity hires

[Dean Baker @DeanBaker13]

I hate to put a lot of highly paid pundits out of business, but look at this f**king graph

[Colin Gordon of Mastodon @csgordon]

@krismicinski @lorisdanto They also cut related work to the bone and more. I see reviews (from other reviewers or as an author) where a reviewer misattributes an idea from the 80s or 90s to a random 2009 workshop paper, because the citation graph isn't dense enough to trace the origins w/o oral history.

[Colin Gordon of Mastodon @csgordon]

@krismicinski @lorisdanto I spend a lot of time reading *ACL papers now, which are 4 or 8 pages. Most omit key technical details for space, and then never publish full details anywhere, so the literature is filled with papers that nobody can even try to reproduce.

[Colin Gordon of Mastodon @csgordon]

@SergeyStavisky This is awesome!

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: The Republican National Convention just announced their keynote speaker for tonight. It’s Project 2025’s lead author, Tom Homan. Make no mistake, Donald Trump’s Administration will implement Project 2025. Retweet so all Americans see this

[Brian Rosenwald @brianros1]

Kudos to the @PhillyInquirer editorial board for taking the media to the woodshed: "Apparently, it’s OK for Trump to spew nonstop nonsense, but Biden can’t ever lose his train of thought." https://t.co/Rd810IBJ1J

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

All three of the guys behind Project 2025 worked in the White House for Trump when he was president.

[Colin Gordon of Mastodon @csgordon]

@JAldrichPL I once had a reviewer complain that a Coq formalization submitted with a paper didn't use a new version of Coq that was released after we submitted :-p But that was just silly, demanding comparison to concurrent work published after submission is totally inappropriate.

[Colin Gordon of Mastodon @csgordon]

My PhD student is running a research study evaluating the quality of automatically-generated code comments. We're looking for participants to judge a number of #Python #comments on several quality measures. For more info & to participate: https://t.co/ajmpwmLt6V

[Colin Gordon of Mastodon @csgordon]

My PhD student is running a research study evaluating the quality of automatically-generated code comments. We're looking for participants to judge a number of #Python #comments on several quality measures. For more info & to participate: https://t.co/ajmpwmLt6V

[David Van Horn @lambda_calculus]

Some shameful, cowardly, and unacceptable shit right here.

[Colin Gordon of Mastodon @csgordon]

@roopshasamanta I don't know if this asshole will see this, but defending people accused of sexism by emailing anonymous threats to two women for speaking up about it is basically the definition of sexism.

[Roopsha Samanta @roopshasamanta]

My theory — Purdue CS denied me tenure because of its shallow, insecure view of scholarship, deep dysfunction and pettiness, apathetic PL leadership, culture of silence, and, yes, sexism.

It has taken me a while to call this out; I am speaking up because someone should.

[Jonathan Aldrich @JAldrichPL]

This practice is unethical--it's pay to publish (and not even for open access). If a student is presenting they should pay only the student registration. Do better @ICSEconf!

[Colin Gordon of Mastodon @csgordon]

@roopshasamanta I'm really sorry to hear this, it makes no sense. Your work is awesome.

[Colin Gordon of Mastodon @csgordon]

@tritlo @ionathanch @Dev14e Or https://t.co/W1tG72kr6e ?

[Colin Gordon of Mastodon @csgordon]

@tritlo @ionathanch @Dev14e Wondering if https://t.co/prkvp6P8pR works