<p>I just made this silly but accurate thing. I&#39;m silly too and i love it, but also i&#39;m serious in my silliness.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@jonmsterling" class="u-url mention">@<span>jonmsterling</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@wilbowma" class="u-url mention">@<span>wilbowma</span></a></span> But aside from that, lots of people care about prestige of departments but cannot be expected to work it out from first principles, such as our deans. (One can say that they shouldn&#39;t care about this, but that seems hopeless even if I agreed.)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@jonmsterling" class="u-url mention">@<span>jonmsterling</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@wilbowma" class="u-url mention">@<span>wilbowma</span></a></span> I think providing information to PhD students is the best reason, and I don&#39;t think the information is obvious to many PhD applicants.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@wilbowma" class="u-url mention">@<span>wilbowma</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samth" class="u-url mention">@<span>samth</span></a></span> idk. I never think about the rankings?? I think the only compelling reason to rank relative prestige is to make sure potential undergrad students have all the facts, but quality of research (which is what these rankings try to approximate) is kind of unrelated to the quality of teaching. It matters for PhD applicants making choices too, but anyone who is about to do a PhD had better already be able to figure this out on their own without looking up a Prestigimeter. </p><p>Is there another reason we need to do these comparisons?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@wilbowma" class="u-url mention">@<span>wilbowma</span></a></span> We don&#39;t &quot;need&quot; to but we do need to be able to summarize relative prestige of CS departments for a variety of purposes and our culture means we are going to rank them.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> It’s a good thing I bought a new iPad and the Apple Watch Ultra 2, last month. 😄</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://greennuclear.online/@collectifission" class="u-url mention">@<span>collectifission</span></a></span></p>

<p>Ok, got a bit sidetracked the rest of the day yesterday. But, I&#39;m back to the Rust project now. Still haven&#39;t consulted docs or an IDE. But, let&#39;s see if I can get the rest of some kind of primitive interpreter working.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samth" class="u-url mention">@<span>samth</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hoosier.social/@benfulton" class="u-url mention">@<span>benfulton</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://midwest.social/c/bloomington_in" class="u-url mention">@<span>bloomington_in</span></a></span> That’s right, and the most recent notable crash did not involve a car, it was a fast-moving cyclist colliding with a turning bus. Had that cyclist been stopping for a stop sign instead, that crash would have been prevented.</p>