At one major CS department, I'd say the department colloquium is a waste of time about 50% of the time. The one person who would hold these people to account was a particularly nasty physicist who'd sit in the front row. Sometimes he and I, also a physicist by training, would proceed to disassemble the lecturer the same way a pair of crabs will disassemble a starfish.
Then some nasty stuff went down and that nasty physicist and I haven't talked in years... That's the way it goes.
I just get tired of people's laziness and lack of attention to detail. Not because I'm a perfectionist, because it causes problems. It often falls to me to figure out how exactly someone else fucked up. It gets old.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 14.4 ms ] threadAt one major CS department, I'd say the department colloquium is a waste of time about 50% of the time. The one person who would hold these people to account was a particularly nasty physicist who'd sit in the front row. Sometimes he and I, also a physicist by training, would proceed to disassemble the lecturer the same way a pair of crabs will disassemble a starfish.
Then some nasty stuff went down and that nasty physicist and I haven't talked in years... That's the way it goes.