You speak as though the process of continually training/learning is not valuable to society. This is someone spending their free time learning optimization. You wouldn't criticize them if they wrote "I practiced code optimization methods in a Coursera class." This is someone's free time.
I don't spend 24/7 attempting to make your life better.
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>This is apparently what happens when computer scientists spend four weeks sick and have to keep themselves from going stir crazy. +Emin Gün Sirer , I blame you for inspiring this, and I'll buy you a beverage at NSDI with some of the proceeds. Thanks for the fun! And thanks to my online-and-offline friends who put up with me babbling about bitcoin entirely too much recently. I'm done. I think. :-)
I don't spend 24/7 attempting to make your life better.
Source: Top comment on the blog
>This is apparently what happens when computer scientists spend four weeks sick and have to keep themselves from going stir crazy. +Emin Gün Sirer , I blame you for inspiring this, and I'll buy you a beverage at NSDI with some of the proceeds. Thanks for the fun! And thanks to my online-and-offline friends who put up with me babbling about bitcoin entirely too much recently. I'm done. I think. :-)