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by Fomite 4y ago
Note that those figures vary wildly by field and institution. The lowest salary offer I got on my faculty job search, with an apology re: salary bias against folks without clinical degrees, was half again what's quoted there.
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by Fomite 4y ago
But very possibly the type of clownish take Musk is trying to monitize by charging for access to it.
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by Fomite 4y ago
"Strong disagree. Twitter currently only exists as a bullhorn for already famous people, or a few lucky early adopters." Not if you curate it at all. My two Twitter accounts are dominated by...my fellow academics on one of them, a
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by Fomite 4y ago
This. The conflating of an authentically derived status ("This person is real") with a paid form of status both defeats the purpose of the first, and is somewhat telling about a particular mindset.
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by Fomite 4y ago
It's now more than 10 years ago.
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by Fomite 4y ago
That's larger than the entire NSF annual budget.
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by Fomite 4y ago
So one key is to not that not thinking the lab leak hypothesis is true =/= thinking it can be dismissed. Because showing a zoonotic origin of a disease like SARS-CoV-2 is the work of years, if not decades, and with the disruption of th
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by Fomite 4y ago
I know very few specialists, including those without a conflict of interest, who think the lab leak hypothesis is true. From my perspective inside the field, a small number of specialists and a very enthusiastic lay readership have pushed
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by Fomite 4y ago
One of the leading lab leak hypotheses (of which there are several) is that it was created as part of academic research - hence the fuss over PREDICT, the NIH and WIV.
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by Fomite 4y ago
I think you have a reasonable point here. I saw Marc Lipsitch give a talk with a back-of-napkin "Expected mortality from gain of function research" estimate in...I want to say 2013. We know there's zoonotic spillover events
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by Fomite 4y ago
There have been a huge number of knock on ramifications in the field to the idea that the lab leak hypothesis might be true already.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Not in the same way - it is admittedly still stochastic, but the product of conscious though, decisions, etc. that have very obvious bad actors and process improvements. So semi-deterministic might be a fairer way to put it. But at the very
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by Fomite 4y ago
Honestly, I think part of it is a wider failure of people not engaging in stochastic thinking.
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by Fomite 4y ago
To my mind, there are a few reasons: 1) It makes the pandemic deterministic (bad lab security means an outbreak) instead of stochastic (wildlife spillover). That is, to be frank, even as an epidemiologist who is very skeptical of the lab le
555.
by Fomite 4y ago
I will actually give this one a tremendous amount of credit for picking up both my real advisor, and my "shadow" advisor (a very, very close member who was on my committee, but at a different institution).
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by Fomite 4y ago
Hell, I started working in an entirely new field this year because I was curious about it - in addition to my current research agenda, which is 75% of my job responsibilities - because I was curious. And because I read a book this author wo
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by Fomite 4y ago
I have trouble with both genres being dismissed as not serious or intellectually engaging etc. being two of the ones with predominantly female readership.
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by Fomite 4y ago
But it's also not why the law was made. There are other regulations to keep people from installing Steam on their ML workstations (which also cover machines below the threshold). It's entirely about one grant-giving entity not wan
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by Fomite 4y ago
I did have to chuckle a bit because, working on HPC simulations of the pandemic during the pandemic, there was an awful lot of "This needs to be done tomorrow" urgency.
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by Fomite 4y ago
One thing to consider: I don't control my AWS account. I don't even have an AWS account in my professional life. I tell my IT department what I want. They tell the AWS people in central IT what they want. It's set up. At
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by Fomite 4y ago
This is the biggest point of friction. I spent the better part of a year trying to get a postdoc admin access to his machine.
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by Fomite 4y ago
This. It's got nothing to do with "comfort". I use cloud computing all the time in the rest of my life, but the rest of my life isn't subject to university policies and state regulations.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Not really - this is also true for things with no particular "civilian" use.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Basically, the granting organization doesn't want to pay for the full cost of capital equipment that will - either via time or capacity - not be fully used for that grant. There are other grant mechanisms for large capital expenditures
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by Fomite 4y ago
This is a big part of it. In my lab, I have a lot of grad students who are computational scientists, not computer scientists. The time it will take them to optimize code far exceeds a quick-and-dirty job array on Slurm and then going back
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by Fomite 4y ago
And many, many institutions are over cautious. My own university, for example, has no data classification between "It would be totally okay if anyone in the university has access" and "Regulated data", so "I mean, i
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by Fomite 4y ago
This. If my lab-level server failed tomorrow, I'd be annoyed, order another one, and start the simulations again.
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by Fomite 4y ago
One of the aspects not touched on for this is PII/confidential data/HIPAA data, etc. For that, whether it makes sense or not, a lot of universities are moving to AWS, and the infrastructure cost of AWS for what would be a pretty m
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by Fomite 4y ago
Moving from California put a tremendous amount of pressure on the housing prices in Denver. And then Salt Lake when Denver got too expensive. And then Boise when Salt Lake got too expensive. And then Spokane when Boise got too expensive. We
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by Fomite 4y ago
"...and at least 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid" feels considerably more significant than the "drill bit" in another comment.

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