Researcher says GPU grant for 6 GPUs rejected over the term "algorithmic reasoning"
kfountou · x · 2026-10-07
A researcher says her grant application for 6 GPUs (shared across the whole department) was rejected solely because she used the term "algorithmic reasoning" — with 90% of the review devoted to lecturing her that anthropomorphizing neural networks does "a disservice to Science."
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