HUMOR

Academic humor and philosophical rants

OH YOU'RE A PHENOMENOLOGIST? NAME THREE EIDETIC REDUCTIONS.

Posted on March 20, 2025

PhilosophyPhenomenologyAcademic Humor

A scathing critique of the misuse of phenomenological terminology in scientific contexts, particularly in missile tracking and radar systems.

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SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING FROM SCRATCH.

Posted on March 21, 2025

Computer VisionMachine LearningAcademic HumorSelf-Supervised Learning

A brutal takedown of "self-supervised" learning that starts with ImageNet pretrained weights, optical flow computed from human-designed priors, and dense depth predictions that hallucinate measurements beyond physical sensor limits.

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