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It goes beyond grants and extrinsic motivation...well maybe the latter category is pretty much all-encompassing. Turing Award winner Michael Stonebraker talked
by mpweiher 4y ago
It goes beyond grants and extrinsic motivation...well maybe the latter category is pretty much all-encompassing.
Turing Award winner Michael Stonebraker talked about this at length here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJFKl_5JTnA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJFKl_5JTnA
Some points:
- Original (risky) research is detrimental and likely fatal to a career in science
- Actually creating systems doubly so
- Tostino 4y agoWhat timestamp on that talk if you don't mind?
- psi75 4y ago[flagged]
- pfortuny 4y agoPlease: do not assign the cause of something toa group of anonymous and unverifiable people. This always end badly. Always. And there are more non-graduate boomers than graduate ones.
- psi75 4y ago[flagged]
- pfortuny 4y ago"Their generation's name has become..." is (and pardon my insistence) what racist people have said about blacks forever. "Black people's name is synonymous with theft", for instance. That is why those kind of expressions in an abstract and intellectual (hopefully, here in HN) setting do harm.
- gspr 4y ago> In 2022, evaluating original research is harder than ever, due to hyperspecialization. For a typical Ph.D. thesis, there are less than five people in the world qualified to evaluate whether it's worthy of a tenure-track position. That's simply not true for a typical PhD thesis at all. It certainly doesn't jive with my own experience, so I'd like to cough up a few examples please. (Do hyperspecialized PhD theses like the one you describe exist? Certainly! But I refute the idea that such these are typical.)