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by currymj 3y ago
I don't think your last point is quite right. there is a large amount of fraud (real fraud, photoshopping images to show fake scientific results) in biology, some of which has directly led to serious pharmaceutical investments in drugs
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by currymj 3y ago
Social science is not the problem. Biology is definitely a "real" science yet the problems with fraud in biology are, if anything, worse. See the recent cases involving fabricated data in a Nature paper about Alzheimer's. ht
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by currymj 3y ago
Valve had a sequence of strange failed experiments -- the Steam Controller, Steam Machines/SteamOS, Steam Link. But somehow these all came together to make the Steam Deck which is an astounding success. I don't know if Valve are g
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by currymj 3y ago
One problem with second price auctions is their lack of what is known as "credibility". Google has both the incentive and opportunity to lie to the highest bidder about what the second-highest bid was, so they can charge more. The
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by currymj 3y ago
it’s essentially the only remaining good English language newspaper. they will never bullshit you.
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the official stance of arXiv is that it is intended for papers that are finished and ready for submission to peer review, i.e. the authors believe it's finished and publishable. in a practical sense, most people don't think of it
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by currymj 3y ago
life sciences is just as bad if not worse -- you can read news stories about many cases of outright photoshopped images in biology papers by respected researchers in major journals. physics has a good reputation, but then you hear of things
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by currymj 3y ago
The level of fraud going on in life sciences seems absolutely astounding. I used to think that fraudulent research was mainly “paper mill” stuff. But in the last couple years there are so many cases of outright data falsification from famou
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by currymj 3y ago
I don't endorse the following as an accurate history, but it is a narrative that is taught within machine learning and probably has some elements of truth to it. If you want to take a system that's working on Boolean logic, and in
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by currymj 3y ago
people already ported a lot of stuff from pytorch to jax. if you're a research scientist or grad student, to a certain extent a lot of projects are "greenfield" so it's easy to jump on a new framework if it is nice to us
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by currymj 3y ago
at least in computer science, this document is from CMU and tended to get circulated pretty widely, although probably not widely enough. every field ought to have something like it. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/grads
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by currymj 3y ago
previously the only socially acceptable legitimate career paths for new grads from top colleges were finance, consulting, medical+law+business school, PhD (for nerds), and maybe working for Congress or a policy think tank. anything else and
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by currymj 3y ago
fyi at least in STEM type fields, the top students at one of the good state schools have pretty similar opportunities to Stanford MIT etc. you can go work for big tech, top HFT and finance firms, go to top grad schools, or whatever. unlike
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by currymj 3y ago
right, this is the clear improvement. on the other hand, now it means science-oriented high schoolers lives get an extra helping of misery and stress. on top of this you also filter out anyone who doesn't perfectly stay on this high-st
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by currymj 3y ago
This would help on some level, although it would definitely make the stress on applicants much higher. E.g. there’s increasingly an expectation that students should come into a PhD program with one or more publications already under their b
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by currymj 3y ago
As of a while ago, this was a very good discussion of the situation with research on this topic: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-y...
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by currymj 3y ago
This is true, and the guy has actually now given up on most of his “you don’t need to sleep” stuff. However a couple of the scientific errors he found in the original book were truly egregious.
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by currymj 3y ago
there are certain places where a lot of dubious, predatory drug rehab facilities have popped up in the last decade, since health insurance now has to pay for it, yet it's not quite regulated like other healthcare. if you see a lot of t
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by currymj 3y ago
the criticism of the Alan Turing Insitute's past failure to become a world-leading AI research institution may be fair, I don't know if they really missed an opportunity or not. however after this, it's a somewhat confusing p
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by currymj 3y ago
you can do it but it's not great. there's no batteries-included standard argparse library and even with the new improvements, there is still some noticeable overhead of a few seconds for some scripts i've written.
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by currymj 3y ago
Gurobi (maker of a MIP solver) has a bunch of industry case studies as marketing materials on their website: https://www.gurobi.com/case_studies/ however, it's mixed-integer programming rather than SAT solvers&#x2
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by currymj 3y ago
if a small piece of code depends on a few big, complex packages then depending on how things work out, due to the JIT model, you might have needed to essentially recompile all these dependencies at runtime every time. now there are increasi
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by currymj 3y ago
if you have to solve mathematical programming/convex optimization problems, JuMP as a frontend for free or commercial solvers is hugely better than any alternative. likewise if you are solving differential equations, DifferentialEquati
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by currymj 3y ago
first, sometimes there are publication fees on the author end. on the buyer end, university libraries buy huge bundles of journal subscriptions for millions per year to give access to everyone at their institution. this is essentially enter
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by currymj 3y ago
i think the reality is that, while peer review can be helpful in various ways to a research community, the filtering function of journals less helpful for academics than it is for outsiders. (usually people in a field know which preprints a
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by currymj 3y ago
I think you are right about this -- I just wanted to draw the distinction between mathematicians and the much larger population of scientists/engineers, who really do write a lot of code which is in its way "serious computing&quot
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by currymj 3y ago
I don’t think “mathematicians” is the right category. More like scientists/engineers who would otherwise use Fortran and Matlab (both have 1 based indexing) to do number crunching. That’s actually a lot of people though writing quite a
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by currymj 3y ago
it's kind of a trade off. i've definitely found it to be a pain in the ass to rent in places with strong tenant's rights. On the other hand, I've also lived in a town with very weak tenant's rights. When the heater
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by currymj 4y ago
i think this is true internally, bad papers more often than not get ignored within a scientific community. Even if fake findings cause other researchers to go down a rabbit hole pursuing a bad direction (as has happened apparently in biolog
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by currymj 4y ago
in certain niche social circles, there is a lot of pressure to use psychedelic drugs. someone who chooses not to use psychedelic drugs might be looked down on -- presumed to be closed-minded or not very bright -- or otherwise socially exclu

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