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by Fede_V 12y ago
I was horrendously worried this would be a parody of the incident with Rebecca Watson. I'm glad this is much more tasteful - looks really, really fun actually.
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Uhmm, while that article has some useful advice, some parts of it made me feel genuinely uncomfortable. For example: "Reward the self-styled “thought leaders” in each session by adding them to your Twitter “follow” list. " Really
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by Fede_V 12y ago
It has to do with confidence. The nicest scientists are often very old, without anything to prove, and genuinely passionate about their subject. Hotshots that are mid career have a bimodal distribution - there's some incredibly nice o
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by Fede_V 12y ago
The local minimization step does not have to be gradient based. You could use something like Nelder-Mead to do the local minimization step, and still use an annealing schedule to decide whether to accept or reject that particular minima.
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Simulated annealing can be gradient based - the simulated annealing step refers to the probability of accepting a given minima as a function of the 'temperature'.
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by Fede_V 12y ago
It's very hard to have 'proofs' about convergence of global optimization algorithms, because to do so, you have to make assumptions about the smoothness of the fitness landscape, the type of minimas, etc, etc.. This means th
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Ehh, I thought I was negative about Italy, but seeing what everyone else is saying, I'm probably the most positive person here. The pros: - There are some absolutely excellent open source developers who can be hired much more cheaply t
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by Fede_V 12y ago
This is largely a matter of taste, but I think go has it exactly right. Ruthlessly enforce only one way, and make that as mandatory as possible. Having code which is formatted as uniformly as possible is a huge boon. Rules are better than
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by Fede_V 12y ago
I think everyone more or less agrees that Anil Potti is a disgrace to science, and he has been practically blacklisted from mainstream science. What this article shows though, is that his bosses were directly involved in the cover up - and
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by Fede_V 12y ago
What drives me absolutely crazy about the story is this: "Duke officials admitted that mistakes were made, but didn’t respond to specific questions." Note the passive tone. These are not junior people we are dealing with. These
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Duke Officials Silenced Med Student Who Reported Trouble in Anil Potti's Lab(cancerletter.com)
261 points by Fede_V 12y ago|55 comments
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Sure. I think this is largely a matter of preferences in pedagogy, but when I'm looking to learn something, I like to have heavily annotated examples that get progressively more complex. Listing every option with a description, to me,
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by Fede_V 12y ago
> Umm, you can do this, but in general you should never rename tags. Occasionally a developer will tell me the tag they pushed is incorrect and I'll agree to remove it only if they promise not to re-create it. If you read the man pa
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Is there some kind of git plug in/linter that will check for commit style before accepting a commit? Basically, linting the commit messages.
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Regexp-based DMCA takedowns claim another victim(github.com)
3 points by Fede_V 12y ago|0 comments
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by Fede_V 12y ago
"Why does anyone think science is a good job?" - Because you get paid to investigate some of the most interesting things in the world, in the company of mostly great people. Science is awesome. Scientific careers right now are sh
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by Fede_V 12y ago
"I must say I'm not advocating snap judgement at all. I just think it is very common (as Kahnemann states). What he states as an ideal doesn't necessarily make an awful lot of difference in many situations; the snap judgement
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The Growth of Administrative Staff in Universities(bjoern.brembs.net)
137 points by Fede_V 12y ago|90 comments
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by Fede_V 12y ago
I am always amazed by how much people can get done using piped unix commands - but, personally, I find it much easier to just use sed when I need to quickly edit a few files, and if I need to do anything slightly more elaborate, to do it in
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by Fede_V 12y ago
How long until someone makes a homoiconic version of brainfuck?
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by Fede_V 12y ago
If the cook discloses he is paid to promote a given brand, I'm ok with it - otherwise, it makes me second guess every suggestion the cook makes.
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by Fede_V 12y ago
I'm a bit ambivalent about the overall theme of the essay, but this bit in particular is spot on: "But worse than the brogrammers, I think it's the 'entrepreneurs' that bug me the most. The word feels so tainted now
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Reading articles in that format drives me crazy. For example: "For example, we now know that 35% of the variation in a team’s performance can be accounted for simply by the number of face-to-face exchanges among team members" Can
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by Fede_V 12y ago
PyCharm now offers the ability to open iPython notebooks inside itself - which gives you the nice IDE goodies, plus the notebook goodies. The downside of course is that Python is very dynamic - so IDEs are of relatively limited use.
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by Fede_V 12y ago
There actually are some full time developers for scikit-learn - and they are amazingly talented. There's lots of difficulties in securing that funding though. Getting funding for permanent staff is incredibly tough - usually you have
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Sure - and I agree with all that. The issue comes with the circularity of the reasoning: - People who are a good cultural fit don't mind working all the time Therefore: If someone minds working on week-ends - then they weren't a
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by Fede_V 12y ago
I didn't like this article at all. First - it states that putting insane pressure on people to work long hours is counter productive - and mandating week-end work leads to burn out. The very next sentence then immediately says this: &
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by Fede_V 12y ago
Try to reproduce the analysis published in a paper when all you have is a matlab script with one letter variable names and zero comments :)
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by Fede_V 12y ago
I am an academic myself! Aside from that - it's actually a bad thing, poor software quality is incredibly harmful when trying to create reproducible research. A few people are fighting this (Titus Brown, etc) but it's mostly swim
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by Fede_V 12y ago
As other people have mentioned - the problem is that academia rewards producing papers, not stable software libraries. For example - scikit-learn is an amazing project, lead mostly by a small group at INRIA with Gael at the helm - and in te

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