That does make a lot of sense, thanks for sharing that story!

Also please dont get me wrong, its cool if people do it - but in some cases on here it feels like the community bullies everyone into it lol

Thanks for the explanation! I see the point to be inclusive, but have a hard time imagining that anyone consumes visual art that way. Not to say that its not happening though, but it feels a bit pointless - the (short) description of e.g. a painting is nowhere near the actual experience

I'm wondering how someone who is visually impaired actually benefits from Alt-text. If seeing the picture is challenging the same goes for text I guess, so you would have to run a text-to-speech model hat reads out image descriptions while scrolling a feed?

Thanks! I'm just wondering if it's possible to scroll feeds and derive something meaningful from reading the description of e.g. artworks, do you think this actually happens?

99% of preprints I read are in journal manuscript submission format:

Figures at the end instead of integrated in the text, legends often seperately at the very end.

Very clunky to read, do your peers who care about your science a favor and make preprints readable - it will be much appreciated!

In the end the real intelligence test is whether you get out of life what you want!

If you love doing something and are willing to put in the work there's always a way!

It will be a tough start, there will be substantial recurring doubts, and you're in it for loads of unanticipated challenges. But the feeling of having set up yourself professionally is out of this world!