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Yanick Fratantonio

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Yanick Fratantonio's personal blog at reyammer.io covers career and security. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Why I left my tenured academic job”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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Linked in HN threads on neural networks for symbolic mathematics and on exercise training and all-cause mortality. The comments discuss those topics and do not assess the writing itself.

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  1. Why I left my tenured academic job
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-10-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. There are a lot of groups working in this area. I'm going to pitch ours first, and then also point you to some others! My colleagues and I run the SEFCOM lab at Arizona State University ( https://sefcom.asu.edu/ ). Most relevant to your interests, Fish Wang (fellow SEFCOM professor) and I (Yan Shoshitaishvili) founded the angr program analysis framework ( https://angr.io/ ) back in our gradschool days and have conti…

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    on “Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks”
  2. Submitted Why I left my tenured academic job as a story · 385 points

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  3. Serious questions for people who work on this kind of research or who have done so in the past: Why do we need this kind of research? Don’t we already have enough to tell us that exercising is good, and that exercising more is probably better? Ostensibly they were trying to compare the recommended levels of activity with high intensity and medium intensity exercise to see which was better, but would anything really…

    Comment linking /blog/2020/10/03/the-good-the-bad-and-the-bye-bye-why-i-left-my-tenured-academic-job/

    on “Effect of exercise training for five years on all cause mortality”
  4. Submitted Why I Left My Tenured Academic Job as a story · 29 points

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