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There is probably no funding for outside help... So they get a project fund a PhD student (or post doc) with that, this guy has to produce new results (fast) an

There is probably no funding for outside help... So they get a project fund a PhD student (or post doc) with that, this guy has to produce new results (fast) and more results, then these guys leave, next guys come.. Generally for a simulation group you would need an experienced programmer maintaining the code base, (helping) the other guys cleaning up there ideas before handover, and this as a permanent position. Experienced c++ also means not cheap. Go to you University admins and mention both shocking words (not cheap and permanent without the magic word 'professor') in one sentence, maybe he will recover from his shock in a few days.

w0utert 6y ago
I find this a pretty weak excuse for a high-impact epidemiological model like this. Universities are full of the brightest people you will find anywhere in society, and most universities have faculties and courses in computer science and/or software engineering. How about enforcing multi-disciplinary efforts, having computer science students work with microbiologists, and vice versa? Exchange programs between universities that specialize in one or the other? University graduates need to do internships and a thesis anyway, so in terms of 'funding' you could argue they are basically 'free' in terms of assigning them to multi-disciplinary research. I know I would have been delighted if someone at my university had offered me an interesting multi-disciplinary microbiology project when I was studying computer science. Instead we mostly just got boring run-of-the-mill exercises in parroting established computer-science theory...
- andi999 6y ago
  It wasnt meant as an excuse, just to point out what effectively would have to be done to solve this is the future. I am a bit sceptical of your suggestion of putting more non permanent staff (even from CS) into the pot.

w0utert 6y ago

I find this a pretty weak excuse for a high-impact epidemiological model like this. Universities are full of the brightest people you will find anywhere in society, and most universities have faculties and courses in computer science and/or software engineering. How about enforcing multi-disciplinary efforts, having computer science students work with microbiologists, and vice versa? Exchange programs between universities that specialize in one or the other? University graduates need to do internships and a thesis anyway, so in terms of 'funding' you could argue they are basically 'free' in terms of assigning them to multi-disciplinary research. I know I would have been delighted if someone at my university had offered me an interesting multi-disciplinary microbiology project when I was studying computer science. Instead we mostly just got boring run-of-the-mill exercises in parroting established computer-science theory...

andi999 6y ago
It wasnt meant as an excuse, just to point out what effectively would have to be done to solve this is the future. I am a bit sceptical of your suggestion of putting more non permanent staff (even from CS) into the pot.