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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Another fix for the second problem is a institution-wide pot exclusively for OA fees, so that they don't come from your own pocket. Have only seen that once.
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
Essentially you're locked into the system - The people who give you money (grant foundations, universities) judge you almost entirely based on your publications, and in how 'high' of a journal your publications are. As an ear
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by a_bonobo 9y ago
This works but it gets ugly when you have to use 'set -e' everywhere: set -e foo() { /bin/false echo "foo" } echo "$(set -e; foo)"
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Hackers Came, but the French Were Prepared(nytimes.com)
9 points by a_bonobo 9y ago|1 comments
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
I assure you 99.99999% of Germans don't know how to clean and cook a rabbit.
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AFP officer accessed journalist's call records in metadata breach(abc.net.au)
37 points by a_bonobo 10y ago|8 comments
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
I once traveled to a conference with my PhD supervisor, and I confessed how slimy networking was making me uncomfortable. He said, without any irony: 'you're not here to network, you're here to make friends!' Treating it
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
But who gets to say what's fake news and fake journals, who gets to be the gatekeeper? A few years ago the Beall-list added the Frontiers journals to its list of predatory journals, which generated quite the backlash: http:/&#x2F
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
This doesn't really work either anymore, changed on the same day. Almost all biology and science related jobs have been deleted from the list of skilled migration jobs (NOT just 457, this includes all skills-based migration). https:&#
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
An ARC DECRA goes 50% to your university, without you seeing a cent - the rest goes towards whatever your project needs, and yes that includes your salary. You make it sound like it all goes to your bank account which isn't true. You c
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
Where is the problem? 16.5% and 17% is almost identical? Science has been and always will be an international effort, if you shut out foreign researchers you might as well close down science in Australia. It doesn't matter whether a fo
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
This is extremely bad news for Australian science. I'm a postdoctoral researcher who's on a 457 visa out of my PhD. The new 457 replacement requires 3 years of work experience, so we cannot hire people from overseas who've ju
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
>Allocating money on the condition that some must be given to other researchers would create several downstream benefits. Scientists who maximize the ability of other scientists to produce their own new and useful results would have a bi
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
Weird question - why does that bash script use absolute paths for standard tools like awk and grep (/usr/bin/awk instead of just awk)? Is this some best practice I know nothing about?
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
It's a common misconception that organic food doesn't use pesticides - the USDA's list of allowed pesticides has quite a few pesticides that are dangerous to humans, such as various coppers, elemental sulfur, boric acid, the
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
You can also use R inside 'normal' Python notebooks via rpy2: from rpy2 import robjects my_dictionary_results = some_method() names_dict = robjects.ListVector(my_dictionary_results) %load_ext rpy2.ipython %R library(some_lib) %R -
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
I've taken the bus often and the driver always announces when he breaks, accelerates, and takes curves, is this for the same reason? People have explained to me that the driver announces everything so that standing passengers don'
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
Australia has massive immigration - in 2012, Australia had one of the highest net immigration rates, more than twice that of the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra... Here's an ent
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
Stanislaw Lem, and the Strugatsky Brothers - I think that Soviet-era SF really asked the 'big' questions and is far away from today's 'SF but actually just an action movie with lasers instead of bullets' standard. F
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
> the journal has in some regards become a formality necessary for career advancement, I think this is ever so slowly going away - the entire format of the journal is still a hangover from a print-only era and really needs to go away. Th
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
An old concern is that someone comes along, takes your data, and then a) shows that you have an error somewhere and disproves your paper, making you look stupid, or b) does something better with your data than your paper, making you look st
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
Some countries/universities have reserved pots of money for OA fees, sadly it isn't common. I have myself published a few papers with PhD students that should have been OA but we used the PhD students' allocated funds to send
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
>often its unclear that doing so would end up with results that are significantly better than traditional approaches If Deep Learning can approximate any function, does that mean that in some cases it ends up approximating the output of
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
Isn't it way easier now to find harassers on Twitter because Twitter made a telephone number linked to the account mandatory in some (all?) cases?
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
The Journal Of Open Source Software does the review process rather nicely: You send them a PR with your software/description, and then a reviewer will publicly go through the review process (described here: http://joss.theo
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
Couldn't you combine a STOP sign with one of those 'turn only right' signs, like this one? http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/95a9489a7d8b4c418cb6cfd3b6753295/r...
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Australian Tax Office exposed voter-profiling its own public servants(canberratimes.com.au)
5 points by a_bonobo 10y ago|0 comments
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Machine Learning on Sequential Data Using a Recurrent Weighted Average(github.com)
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
>I have heard of cases where students join a company and end up working on projects not remotely related to their research interests. This is normal worldwide - they hire you for your problem-solving skills, not for your tiny research ni
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by a_bonobo 10y ago
That's a good guess! I spent nearly exactly $20 until week 4, including a whole Sunday of fiddling around with the Cats & Dogs dataset

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