Matt Teichman

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Elucidations · Episode 151: Witold Więcek discusses statistics and academic research · 3 May 2025 podcast

Yeah.

Right.

It seems like in different contexts sometimes we crave uncertainty, in other contexts we flee in terror from uncertainty.

Uh and figuring out when which of those things happens maybe is a little bit tricky.

Yeah, so I'm I'm not sure at a global scale.

I will say that anecdotally in terms of what I've experienced, these social conventions can really vary from at least from discipline to discipline.

So to take an example, when I was studying philosophy, um I think there was a strong expectation that any speaker giving a paper would be like

really, really, really confident about the uh argument they were making.

you see it all over the place.

Uh at conferences, you see people basically saying

Everyone's gotten it wrong before me for the past twenty five hundred years.

I finally figured it out.

Uh we're done now, because I figured it out.

But lately as I've been getting more and more interested in computer science, and at least in programming language theory talks, people are way more tentative.

They're like, oh, you know, I have this new idea for a construction.

Here's how it works.

Actually last night, I think I mathematically proved that it fails in every case.

But maybe you guys could help me fix it.

I'm not sure what the takeaway of that is from those two contexts, but it at least suggests to me that uh there's huge potential for variation.

Yeah.

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