Fomite

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by Fomite 7mo ago
Using AI tells me you don't care about the quality of your service.
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by Fomite 7mo ago
This is very variable based on field. HN is heavily biased toward ArXiv-friendly fields.
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by Fomite 7mo ago
bioRxiv is already housed at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, which is an independent non-profit.
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by Fomite 7mo ago
Given the last two years and what has been done to science funding, having a load bearing thing like ArXiv not housed with the U.S. government is, I think, pretty self-evidently a good idea.
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by Fomite 7mo ago
Every university I've worked in has been dominated by this paradigm, has an office set up to support it, and a bunch of policies around what it means for your doctoral supervisor to also be your employer, etc.
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by Fomite 7mo ago
Nowhere in deciding to attack Iran was "maybe this will help wind, solar and electric cars."
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by Fomite 7mo ago
AI so often doesn't actually increase productivity - it just shifts the burden of work from the person creating to the person who has to check and evaluate that creation. In this case, offloading yet more work onto the maintainers of t
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by Fomite 9mo ago
They did really well with people returning to the hobby, especially during the pandemic.
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by Fomite 9mo ago
From someone who has been part of the hobby for a long time, I think a couple of reasons: 1) Total Warhammer, Space Marine, and an otherwise highly successful video game licensing program. 2) Being well positioned to ride the overall rise o
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by Fomite 9mo ago
The P1S is such a good printer.
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by Fomite 9mo ago
I print wargaming terrain that's bigger than the bed of my P1S from time to time. The clear Gorilla polyurethane glue has worked really well for me.
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by Fomite 9mo ago
Note that "deform elastically" is not necessarily a desirable failure state if it happens earlier than shattering.
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by Fomite 9mo ago
For some applications, PLA is a little more rigid. It will then fail in a spectacular fashion, but "I need you not to bend" is something PETG doesn't always perform the best for.
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by Fomite 9mo ago
I don't do this because I don't have the time to design wargaming terrain, but I've definitely pushed myself to do more designing for household things. It's a really good feeling to be able to put something together that
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by Fomite 9mo ago
Great essay. I posted my thoughts on this checks notes five years ago, but it's largely in the same place: https://variancehammer.com/2020/08/06/3d-printing-and-the-ho... There are places where 3d prin
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by Fomite 10mo ago
Even more simply: "God rest ye merry gentlemen" changes in tone and meaning depending on where you put the comma in that sentence.
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by Fomite 10mo ago
The number of colleagues who have gone from "Eh, maybe a sabbatical year..." to "Yes, I am actively looking" is really frightening.
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by Fomite 10mo ago
Continual cuts to both state funding and federal research support is a large part of it for public universities. Essentially, every time there is a major budget crisis, state support gets slashed, and it never gets put back when things get
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by Fomite 10mo ago
This phenomenon (which is just an extreme version of out-of-state tuition for state schools) is almost entirely undergraduate driven, not STEM PhDs, who as mentioned in other posts, have tuition either waived or paid for via grants. There w
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by Fomite 10mo ago
"Ideally, I think there needs to be more non-faculty careers available for PhD graduates either outside or inside academia." For awhile, I loved that my field had lots of opportunities outside academia for PhD students, and that t
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by Fomite 10mo ago
This isn't really a culture problem, IMO, as much as a funding one. My group currently employs two people of the description you have, and it does reduce the need for students (and honestly, increase productivity). It's also by f
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by Fomite 10mo ago
The LLMs they hope to have in those data centers already silently accept wrong results.
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by Fomite 10mo ago
They are, but it's a compromise with helping those students succeed.
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by Fomite 10mo ago
The reasons I've encountered range from philosophy ("Students don't retain knowledge as well if they rely on recordings") to environment ("I want students to be able to ask questions and be wrong without being recor
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by Fomite 10mo ago
This. They're basically two languages sitting on top of each other. It's fascinating seeing students who have been taught using the tidyverse try to switch gears.
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by Fomite 11mo ago
In the process, we lose both the ability to accommodate students, or ask questions that take longer than the test period to answer. All for a calculator that can lie.
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by Fomite 11mo ago
Similar experience talking to people who worked for a nursing home supported by a tribal community. They were able to deliver top quality care because that was their mission - Take Care of Our Elders - not increasing shareholder value.
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by Fomite 11mo ago
I've never been able to bring myself to put stickers on my laptop - not since the Titanium PowerBook came out. Everything else in my life? Covered in them. But my laptops are always pristine. This has always made me faintly sad.
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by Fomite 11mo ago
Was going to say this - making shit up is currently driving most of the S&P 500's growth.
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by Fomite 11mo ago
They're disrupting the bagel market, leveraging their unique vision. Think of them as a DoorDash for people who want to come into their bakery.

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