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by apathy 10y ago
Christ this would be brilliant. The trouble is that you have otherwise-decent people like Kirsten Gillibrand completely in the pocket of RELX. You have massive COI and crap like the PACE trial who WILL NOT, under any circumstances, releas
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by apathy 10y ago
Buried in the middle of this (wonderful) article is the heart of the problem -- academia has foolishly placed its metrics into the hands of editors and publishers, who have corrupted the living hell out of it. Ctrl-F "Cochrane" a
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by apathy 10y ago
Graduate students are effectively required to replicate studies already. They just don't get any credit for the work when it turns out that the flashy paper didn't replicate, and the journal editors hate to look foolish, so it&#x
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by apathy 10y ago
> Maybe we could call this "depository" of money to conduct research something like, hmmm, what's a good word… a grant? Nah, that word is already in use for stagnant allocations of academic welfare to work on bullshit inst
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by apathy 10y ago
The entire replication chain is a statistics exercise. But whatever -- your point is sound, preprints should complement peer review. It's only Elsevuer and a few others that try to prevent this. I guess we can hope that fat old profes
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by apathy 10y ago
ugh, that site is the worst. At least f1000 has open review and ultra cheap APCs.
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by apathy 10y ago
For me, yes. For others, no idea. I run code, I check derivations, and I usually sign my name.
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by apathy 10y ago
Peer review is boosting with three weak learners. If you think that has much credibility (after STAP, arsenic life, LaCour, etc) you clearly haven't been paying attention. Nb. I review for various journals, but the process is far from
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by apathy 10y ago
Or save yourself the APC and put it on arXiv. Even Eisen (who was one of the founders) suggests this.
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by apathy 10y ago
As opposed to actually doing science. This is the root of the problem. By the time I finished grad school I had been cited over 5000 times; that didn't make me a better scientist. Actually implementing clinical trials and supervising j
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by apathy 10y ago
Oh, "Hollywood" chemistry is pretty fucking bad, but for different reasons. I miss being a real scientist sometimes.
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by apathy 10y ago
Depends. I would like to think that "the public" would notice all those silly cancer patients showing up to clinic (don't they know that cancer is cured twice a week at every major hype factory, err, university?) but, no. Pi
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by apathy 10y ago
Put it on arXiv or f1000 for fucks sake. Who actually believes psychology papers anyways? The vast majority are fishing expeditions as best i can tell. When the field starts enforcing minimal standards (as expected for, say, clinical trials
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by apathy 11y ago
David Shaw is a hero to all scientists that hate writing grants. The best part is that once he was done terrorizing Wall Street for 20 years, he went back to research in protein folding. Now there is a role model for you. Disclosure: DE Sha
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by apathy 14y ago
pacbio is dead, they just don't know it yet. BGI (or somebody, doesn't matter, BGI is just the obvious candidate) would need to buy 50 SMART sequencers a year just for PacBio to stay in business. That seems unlikely given the lower cost a
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by apathy 14y ago
Welcome to academia
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by apathy 14y ago
> i presume you are either the most humble senior author ever or jerking all our chains. possibly both. congratulations either way.
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by apathy 14y ago
thank you so much for the clarifications. I read the ScienceExpress writeup and was quite puzzled by where the 700TB were hiding. "You could store a hell of a lot of FASTQ reads in 700TB of DNA... hey, wait a second..."
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by apathy 15y ago
The version of Detexify for the iPhone is friggin' awesome. I remember once upon a time it was faster for me to write out an equation than to typeset it. Then I met detexify and Mathematica. Both are brilliant, one is free :-)
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by apathy 16y ago
> If bike lanes really are that dangerous, we need to get rid of them. That's correct. This is precisely what Forrester has been saying for years. Bicycle lanes that co-exist with vehicular traffic are simply too dangerous. Separate
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by apathy 17y ago
Cut it out, you're disturbing the programmers who think they're designers. Why would anyone use a vector layout? You can charge more from clients who are already feeling the pain, so let them have a go at it first :-)
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by apathy 17y ago
They're on your tabs if you use a recent version of Chrome, which I find useful.
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by apathy 17y ago
People who like to see at a glance where a bookmark goes often care. Bad titles are one thing, but not even knowing what's at the other end of the link is really irritating. Likewise, it's nice if you use browser tabs. It's so simple to a
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by apathy 18y ago
Perforce: like Subversion, but slower and more expensive. The article contains some sprinklings of truisms but is mostly a naked grab at a dwindling market through FUD.
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by apathy 18y ago
Do you have line-of-sight to anywhere with better service, and/or some friends who like to tinker and would go in on a t1?
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by apathy 18y ago
Remember that 'Black Swan' article from a few days ago? Minimize your downside extremal risk exposure, and maximize your upside extremal risk exposure (20%, Lively, etc.)? Well, the writer of this piece apparently didn't. The instant any o
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by apathy 18y ago
Which is long for "not much, but it sounds good". Maybe they can tack an '-omics' on to the end of it somehow.
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by apathy 18y ago
Damn, beat me to it. That was a hell of a punch line, too. True pioneer FTW!
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by apathy 18y ago
electrolytes, mostly
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by apathy 18y ago
The real value of the rest of science then becomes asking good questions. It were ever thus. Oddly enough Picasso appears to have been one of the first to recognize the relevance of this in the computer age -- " Computers are useless. T

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