Common strand in the tweets I see roll by: "nobody else knows what they're doing either, just do it" Another common strand: "I'm an expert on this subject and have a PhD and don't you dare tweet something I disagree with or I'll get all my tweeps to pile on you"
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Replying to @sigfpe @pozorvlak
Thankfully I've rarely seen the latter. But I mute mercilessly :). One of the things I learned from my PhD was that I didn't really know what I was doing, but it's okay because everyone else in that very specific field knew what they were doing even less.
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hot take: mute everyone except Edwin when it comes to advice on programming.
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You wouldn't say that if you saw the code I wrote yesterday morning.
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Replying to @edwinbrady @krismicinski and
Also the main result of my thesis turns out to be wrong for QTT, so, well, never mind.
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lots of great programming advice outside of your thesis, though!
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As long as people take it with the appropriate pinch of salt, I am glad to hear this :)
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