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by dguest 3y ago
Most teams at CERN don't have a professional programmer available either. In a few of larger projects (those with a few hundred active contributors) there might be one or two more tech savvy people who profile the code regularly and fi
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I know people with this perspective. It's healthy, especially in the startup world where a good fraction of companies fizzle without making a profit. I also know a lot of people (scientists, and many humanitarians, for example) who rea
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by dguest 3y ago
Correct! The parent post here isn't really productive, I also have some misgivings on this school of internet debate where a disagreement needs to start with any of: - False. - Incorrect. - Nope. Is it just me or is this needlessly smu
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by dguest 3y ago
Even with all the hype around deep learning and GPUs, the weather services are building a lot of new, CPU-only supercomputers [1]. There are plans to use more GPUs and ML in the coming years, but the weather models are real, tangible, econo
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by dguest 3y ago
Me too, and I was looking forward to the thread that talks about error bars in weather models, which is totally a thing! It turns out the ECMWF does do an ensamble model where they run 51 concurrent models, presumably with slightly differ
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It's a thing for sure. It would be great in a post-scarcity society where everyone can be funded regardless of what they do, but people are still competitive. For example: - There are still internal databases (which funding agencies ca
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by dguest 3y ago
The title here leaves off "they never touch", which is important to show evidence for for the Aharonov-Bohm effect. Having quantum particles feel the influence of gravitational fields isn't exactly news.
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In my collaboration you get to be an author on every paper (around 100 a year) just by doing any work in the experiment. I'm an author on around 1000 papers that I haven't even downloaded, much less read.
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by dguest 3y ago
I didn't get any context from this quote. Where they comparing people using emacs?
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by dguest 3y ago
Yeah, and the space ship. I was hoping they would explain why the lawn mower has a big glass shield around the bottom. I always hated how I couldn't mow the lawn in the same slacks and shirt that I wore to the office cocktail party lat
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by dguest 3y ago
Speaking of shareware: was I the only person who modded Captain Hector to take away his more powerful weapons? I feel bad now for not scraping together the 10 bucks or whatever they were asking for, but mom would have just told me to go pla
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by dguest 3y ago
I'm somehow reminded of this talk: https://idlewords.com/talks/robot_armies.htm > He picked it up and threw it, and she ran and brought it back several times until she had had enough... My roommate hadn't
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by dguest 3y ago
You can look up all the UC positions here: https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/ A lot of professors are making over 200k, but most that I knew were around 150k. (You can also find all the 5M positions, usually head coac
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by dguest 3y ago
Yeah it's too bad if people don't feel welcome, attending academic seminars outside your field can be so much fun , all the more so if you ask some questions! People look at you funny when you ask e.g. "what is an M-class st
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by dguest 3y ago
There are amazing discoveries that are that are made by relatively obscure people, but having one that is both simple and correct is extremely rare. Most of the time, it takes some development. Most of the time that means you can't d
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Sure, but there's a huge difference between the targeted "hey I read your latest paper and I had a few questions about section 2.4" and "Dear Entire Physics Department: Einstein is Wrong! Here's my book". I hon
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I always assumed it was for exactly the reasons you list. Anyone with academic credentials can submit to arxiv, but that leaves out a huge group of non-academic hobby scientists who haven't had a spare 6 years to find their way into th
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by dguest 3y ago
How easy are strings and associative arrays in Fortran? My experience working with particle physics code (which is generally C++) is that we could probably make it a lot faster if we completely banned the use of `std::map<std::string, T&
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by dguest 3y ago
I upvoted the whole submission just so more people can read this comment.
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Meanwhile in France my friend broke her arm skiing and payed with the spare change in her pockets. It wasn't enough to cover the cost of ambulance, cast, etc, but the people at the clinic basically said "whatever" and sent he
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There is also a strong selection for students who will fight to be the best, especially in ways that are easily quantified. Students like this aren't always shy about demanding a formulaic way to get an A. You can try to fight it, grad
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by dguest 3y ago
They do indeed have a lot of nice features: - Intuitive pairing interface - Built in lanyards - Excellent bass response - Standard connection protocol - Infinite battery life - Unbreakable encryption Wires can be great. Unfortunately it see
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Our software is open source already. What is ingrained is the idea among my collaborators that open data is kind of an "us vs them" problem: it's our data, and the public hasn't been demanding access, but if we gave
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I'm in a field that would have to change significantly if funding agencies demanded open access. I would love it. Right not there's basically zero funding for people who work on making our data open. It's kind of a hobby proj
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by dguest 3y ago
This is a good point, but I might replace "with all their free time" with "as a job". I love everything we can do with ML but as long as people live in a market economy they'll get payed less when they are needed le
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by dguest 3y ago
I broaden this rule to everything: - If you approach a random person on the street for help, etc, 99 times out of 100 they will be helpful or at least not malicious. - If one out of the 100 people on the street approaches you , there'
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by dguest 3y ago
Hard to establish cause and effect here.
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Why are we still talking about Freud? Some researchers studied how to be happy. Unsurprisingly they also found no support for Freudian ideas that were popular 30 years ago. The Cambridge University PR office still leads by stating Freudian
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The insulation part has a nice handwaving explanation [1]: Heat is transmitted because gas molecules bounce back and forth in a box, picking up energy on the hot side and leaving it on the cold side. The kinetic energy in any gas molecule i
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by dguest 3y ago
I think people are confusing two types of studying: - Undergrad level: Reading stuff that other people have already summarized books/blogs/etc and digesting it a bit. These days you might not really need to go to school to do th

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