Mastodawn

A (not particularly representative, fortunately) comment from student evaluations from my undergrad PL course:

> How the professor is so passionate about this topic is beyond me, but i can only imagine it is because of the time in computing they lived thorugh that this is somehow "cool".

I find it kind of impressive that they complimented my teaching ("passionate"!), insulted my research area, *and* called me old, all in the same breath

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Val Packett 🧉3d ago

@lindsey lmao, I wonder what does that student consider cool… surely it can't be just "AI" right,,

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Lindsey Kuper

@valpackett While I can't speak for this student in particular, I can tell you that "AI" got booed at the engineering school's undergrad commencement ceremony last week. So, empirically, that happens even at Silicon-Valley-adjacent engineering schools. I don't think that most of them think that "AI" is cool. I think quite a lot of them find it uncool but feel obligated to use it anyway, which is sad.