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by craigyk 12y ago
I might agree with "What if there's a limited social capacity to do science? but "more fraud and bad science" seems (to me) to be excaerbated by increased pressure for limited funding, rather than the opposite.
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by craigyk 12y ago
Nothing wrong with creating rounder wheels; especially for training. I was at a conference where a panel of scientists were discussing how they manage research in their labs, and how to promote better productivity from their students with a
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by craigyk 12y ago
an excellent suggestion, also possibly a bidding process... but I'm sure none of the US tech companies will champion this option because there is already room to do this unofficially within the current program... 50,000+ yearly visas g
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by craigyk 12y ago
But why expand the H1B program vs. a more open immigration policy in general, or removing H1B lock-in restrictions? So are you claiming that companies are paying an extra 30K for all their H1B employees on top of giving them a salary that e
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by craigyk 12y ago
I agree with you; your second point is a good one. It's easier to increase the size of the pool rather than figure out how to better select within the current pool size; and if your concern is truly just getting "the best",
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by craigyk 12y ago
Absolutely. But I think that testing is still the bigger problem; a lot of scientific software is used in conjunction with other scientific software, and the interfaces themselves are also usually undefined and untested. So something as s
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by craigyk 12y ago
I've long suspected that the efficiency of the private sector is greatly exaggerated. In the minds of the public, the huge percentage of businesses that fail, often from strategic missteps or inefficiency, don't seem to get facto
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by craigyk 12y ago
New features for numerical computing? I am intrigued... for me that essentially means operator overloading, including []. I think that would open the door for implementing a numpy like module for Node. Is that the plan?
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by craigyk 12y ago
So many things to fix in science this doesn't even make my top 5. Anyways, deciding how to show data is a great avenue for scientists to expose their inner artist. I wish more papers and presentation took pride in how well they read,
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by craigyk 12y ago
I agree. Neuroscience isn't my specialty, but I don't remember hearing about research showing that the brain does not use feedback... Overall though, I think there is a lot of truth to his message.
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by craigyk 12y ago
When the G5 Powermac came out I gave some serious thought to putting that money toward stock ($3k at ~$15/share). I needed a computer too badly though... I did end up buying at 280, 320, 500 though. Sold it all off just before the la
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by craigyk 12y ago
> By 'write-only visionary', I mean someone who no longer has a working feedback loop telling them they're sometimes wrong. well put. kudos. i hope you don't mind as I'm sure I'll repeat this in the future
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by craigyk 12y ago
IMO, interface wise. Also, I think the way they handle installation using linking is actually quite elegant and accessible. I wish more systems utilized FS tricks instead of proprietary DB's / manifests etc.
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by craigyk 12y ago
why is that statement irrational? GPL3 was intentionally changed to be more viral. I think it's creators have even used the terminology themselves. Calling GPL3 software infected seems like perfectly fair turnabout.
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by craigyk 12y ago
I'm going to guess he means they work via chemistry and exploiting heat in the system ie brownian ratchets.
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by craigyk 12y ago
Premature optimization is also not a true waste of time (IMO) if it's part of the learning process. Man, did I ever 'waste' a lot of time on optimization when I was first learning to code (in C), but: a) I learned what the lo
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by craigyk 12y ago
"decimate", so they reduced it by 10%?
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by craigyk 12y ago
My largest ZFS pool is currently ~64TB ( 3 X 10 3TB (raidz2) ) The pool has ranged from 85%-95% full (it's mostly at 85% now and used mostly for reads). Resilvering one drive usually takes < 48 hours. Last time took ~32 hours. Some
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by craigyk 12y ago
I think having your own private "home" space, with access to a shared area for collaboration beats dumping everyone in an open space with the private spaces for occasional use. I've been in both, and typically if you are gett
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by craigyk 12y ago
I've wanted to do this since I saw a picture of a glowing tobacco plant in my biology textbook back in 1995. I've since done quite a bit of research on it, and there are some pretty serious obstacles. I assume you want to use luc
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by craigyk 12y ago
success = hard work * luck 0.0 < hard work < 1.0 0.0 < luck < inf you should be proud of yourself, but not be so judgemental.... after all you were lucky enough to have a grandfather to serve as a good role model. I'm sure
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by craigyk 12y ago
IMO, the worst part is that they added a ffmpeg 'compatibility' shim that claimed ffmpeg is deprecated. Disgusting behavior. Almost made me dump Ubuntu from all our servers... especially since we use ffmpeg (after playing with b
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by craigyk 12y ago
I like its target audience, but am I supposed to just forward this to my superiors? Can't imagine they won't feel at least a little insulted, even if it's a concept they need to understand.
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by craigyk 12y ago
yup, but Go sure would be nicer if they added some good pattern matching...
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by craigyk 12y ago
What? IME Apple devices are extremely polite about refusing/deactivating IP addresses that are already in use.
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by craigyk 12y ago
I think he meant that you can overload operators in python and not javascript... but yeah I agree with you. At the end of the day javascript is still just as, or more, dynamic than python.
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by craigyk 12y ago
I agree with you. There is a lot to like in Go, but even I can see (and I've only been programming for ~10 years) that it ignored a lot of good stuff from other languages. They keep saying they would add generics if they feel they cou
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by craigyk 12y ago
a good piece. one that I suspect resonates with more people than care to admit.
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by craigyk 12y ago
well in Swift I think concurrency is expected to rely on system libraries whereas in Go they are built-in and even have special syntax. If Swift ever gets a good macro system, though, I'm guessing one could create nice syntax to use s
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by craigyk 12y ago
maybe it is accompanied by improvements in LLVM? Or optimizations in LLVM that are more feasible with Swift (it has immutable values).

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