The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program

239 pointsposted 3 months ago
by lumpa

10 Comments

arccy

3 months ago

dang

3 months ago

Thanks, we've moved the comments thither.

whooooosh

3 months ago

More like 'related'.

That's a statement from the PSF.

This is a personal blog post of one of its board members.

dang

3 months ago

That's right, but the test we use is "are two articles different enough to support a substantively different discussion". In this case the answer is clearly no, so they fall in the same equivalence class.

(We'll put a link to https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/psf-withdrawn-proposal... in the toptext of the other post though)

simonw

3 months ago

That decision makes sense to me!

whooooosh

3 months ago

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dang

3 months ago

We do that all the time, of course—just not enough to satisfy those who would like (a lot) more. But we have the rest of the community to think about as well.

Lerc

3 months ago

Do you have any data on what tends to get inappropriately flagged?

I'm not sure if it would be productive to share such information, but can't help being curious about it.

dang

3 months ago

I can't really answer that because it's not clear what "inappropriately" means. Everyone seems to have a different definition!

user

3 months ago

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