Yes, aware of the reference and hence the cringe. 'Attention is all you need' is a clever play on words for a seminal paper whose title directly related to its main scientific contribution.

Not sure that every other AI-related paper needs to copy this format, this trend is the academic equivalent of click-baiting (seemingly trying to associate with the Vaswani et al paper) and in my anecdotal experience the usage of this play on words seems inversely correlated with the paper's quality.

> it is definitely not unbiased.

Can one really reach that conclusion from your evidence? A person can recieve sponsorships without allowing that fact to influence the person's writing.

I know a guy who got a perfect on his SAT at my lower middle class suburban high school back in 2004 or so. He got rejected from Harvard. Even the most prestigious school around the Kansas City Metropolitan area only gets 1 or 2 people going to Ivy League schools every year out of maybe 200. Which I think is funny because they definitely bill themselves as an “Ivy League Prep” type of school.

Around 7:50 in Jones says this:

“So, one of the great things about Haskell actually, that is spoken about and I think it’s the sort of killer app for Haskell, is that it’s so refactorable, right? You can do a heart or lung transplant on GHC and make truly major changes and the type checker just guides you to do all the right things.”

Freely refactoring the code with worrying about unit tests, etc seems quite appealing.

To summarize the killer app for Haskell is that “it’s so refactorable”

I investigated this a few years ago in Australia. Sex work is legal in Australia, kinda. It is legal to exchange sexual services for money, but supporting and assisting such a transaction is illegal. So a landlord who rents a property to a sex worker is breaking the law. A payment processor who processes the card transaction is breaking the law, and so on. There are some clauses around managing establishments that basically make brothels just, barely, within the law.

It's a ridiculous position in that it almost forces sex workers onto the street or into brothels (which often take a huge chunk of each transaction). There was no way of getting my client (I was freelancing for a sex worker to try and solve some of their tech issues) any reasonable ability to process credit cards. Or do a wide range of things that we'd consider normal for a small business (like set up a Stripe account, or even a business bank account, or rent an office).

This needs to change.