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Academic research has the same problem. When I studied neuroscience, flashy fMRI studies received substantially more funding than fundamental research. Without
by psyklic 4y ago
Academic research has the same problem. When I studied neuroscience, flashy fMRI studies received substantially more funding than fundamental research. Without understanding how small neural nets work, it's difficult to construct bottom-up theories of the brain.
- ImaCake 4y ago> flashy fMRI studies received substantially more funding than fundamental research This is particularly infuriating since fMRI studies are not statistically robust and should be held in deep distrust. The same happens everywhere in academia unfortunately. The current big thing is building “Apps” for your project even when no app is needed.
- getoffmycase 4y agoThis is the bane of my existence. I work in a lab that uses as close to industry standard coding practices that we can do with our current skeleton crew numbers (unit tests, CI, version control, unit tests, code quality standards and norms). We lost half our senior student programmers in the last two years, replacing them with first years. You know what happened? Nothing. Our development continued as normal. I’m leaving in the next six months, and my contributions to our lab’s projects will continue to be maintained. I will receive no emails at 2 am if somebody finds a bug. In the average academic lab, the GUI they just published had one maintainer, and it’s a grad student that’s been gone for a year already. Good luck getting an email about support, even though it doesn’t work out of the box and the code is unreadable.