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The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF (gizmodo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Further proof that the people making the rules have no clue what they’re regulating.

Anybody who has read an academic/science paper knows that the authors go all out with their $5 and $10 words. Make no mistake, they can find some of the best alternatives to any word, and will have no problem sidestepping this blacklist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That's going to be harder when they have to dance around technical terms like bias in statistics or machine learning