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I appreciate you sharing your stories. And it seems like you really have the hands-on experience with science and know the major struggles. Now, when you talk
by f6v 5y ago
I appreciate you sharing your stories. And it seems like you really have the hands-on experience with science and know the major struggles.
Now, when you talk about solutions it gets really fuzzy. There're very specific problems that exist and you need to create a well-defined incentive. As a graduate student in bioinformatics, my main struggle is the source code. People either don't share any at all, or share something you can't possibly run.
> we believe crypto is an elegant solution to address some of the root problems in academia.
So what are the root problems? First off, the code isn't written by the software engineers, but rather by the biologists who learned how to write some R or Python scripts. Even the CS graduates who switched to bioinformatics have no idea how to develop quality software.
Next, the universities often have their own hardware for computation(HPC). When running on HPC, you often use the pre-installed modules. For example, my university's HPC doesn't even allow running Docker. So in order to make my code runnable somewhere else, I need to put in an incredible amount of effort. Would I do it for some crypto? No.