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by dguest 6y ago
I told a doctor I'd received a few vaccinations but forgotten to bring the card, and they just added them with no other questions. I'm pretty sure that was true, but it's definitely not a very bulletproof set of credentials.
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by dguest 6y ago
What field is this? In the physics papers I've worked on we generally try to state all the assumptions we made when we rule something out, but we do sometimes miss things, and I suppose that in some fields the preparation might me me
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by dguest 6y ago
You can't ever prove that switching to X doesn't change the result. All you can really hope for is putting smaller limits on the amount by which something could be improved. For one dumb example: if you wanted to see if rats can
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by dguest 6y ago
Zenodo is great! In theory you could also upload a docker image to Zenodo and give it a DOI, but it doesn't seem to have an especially elegant way to pull this image after the fact.
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by dguest 6y ago
I couldn't agree more. The defense of images over instructions to build them has often been "scientists don't work this way", but to me that's either overly cynical or an indication that something is rotting in acad
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by dguest 6y ago
My field is doing something similar. Reproducible science is definitely a good goal, but reproducible doesn't mean maintainable. Really scientists should be getting in the habit of versioning their code and datasets. Of course a docker
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by dguest 6y ago
I've described academia (to my friends who work in software) as a company where the most coveted promotion will land you a job in marketing. It does indeed come with a lot of freedom, but the relatively flat structure means that there&
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by dguest 6y ago
Cases where data augmentation works always pose a fun challenge: clearly if there's some way to manipulate the data which shouldn't alter the algorithm output, there's also some way to make the ML invariant to that manipulati
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by dguest 6y ago
I don't know why the scrolling on businessinsider.com is broken for me, but this worked: https://apnews.com/668bb0219afcc086376c9d56685ab9d0
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by dguest 6y ago
I'd like to see a similar approach to what happened with tobacco: test apps for spyware, put warning labels in big letters (or simple icons) right up front, teach kids about the dangers in school, but ultimately let everyone decide wha
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by dguest 6y ago
I assumed that they must come down to nest, of course, but this quote > They mate on the wing. And while young martins and swallows return to their nests after their first flights, young swifts do not. As soon as they tip themselves free
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by dguest 6y ago
> There are good arguments to be made for everyday use of Fahrenheit over Celsius. The 0-100 range in F cover pretty much all of the temperatures one is likely to experience in the USA. You're mostly right, but there are plenty of p
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by dguest 6y ago
Just to illustrate the third point: Our company's video conferencing software has multiple "modes" for a conference call, which the moderator could configure. Hardly anyone ever changed the mode, but at one point while trying
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by dguest 6y ago
Can you elaborate? Do you mean curating papers via pull request? If that's your question, the answer is that there's absolutely nothing in the way technologically: academics could easily form shoestring "journals" around
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by dguest 6y ago
Apparently it's been moved up to 100, and 80 is still preferred [1]. I have a personal bias toward 80 because I like having multiple buffers side by side (100 would also work). I always assumed that the hard limit on column length wa
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by dguest 6y ago
I'm just excited that hyperphysics is still going strong. It looked outdated in 2010!
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by dguest 6y ago
Or release a ball bearing on one side of a U-shaped track. The ball ends up on the bottom of the track, where did all the potential energy go?
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by dguest 6y ago
This is the gist of the last reason they list in the article. ("Threats to public health.") But yes, to me it's weird that it's not the first. People dislike following lockdown rules already, imagine if we start rewardin
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by dguest 6y ago
> It’s not gonna help us understand dark matter In case anyone wants a quick link to the LHC dark matter program, check the ATLAS [1] and CMS [2] summaries. TL;DR: The LHC has ruled out a good chunk of a few popular dark matter variants
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by dguest 6y ago
I guess the line of reasoning above is that anyone concerned with remaining competitive in the global market should care, because (again, following the reasoning above) the general population is what decides on economic policy in a democr
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by dguest 6y ago
In my field you're describing "playing the game", ironically. In academia the aim is to get a proof of principal, write a short paper, and move on. If you care about reusable code you are building a foundation for someone els
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by dguest 6y ago
Like some people have said, learning physics is mostly learning how to think like a physicist. You can probably get the basic ideas from Wikipedia articles and popular books, but you won't really "get it" without some work. I
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by dguest 7y ago
I'd imagine the flexibility you get from 3d printing could have a double edge: on one hand anyone can fork the design, which gives enormous potential for iterative development; on the other hand forks lead to a lack of interchangeable
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by dguest 7y ago
There are factories that specialize in small batches. Just some quick searching seemed to suggest that you could be getting O(1000) parts a day at a cost of a few thousand dollars (for the initial setup) plus a few dollars a part [1]. I&#x2
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by dguest 7y ago
> May I ask what your field is? Collider physics. I'm guessing that a lot of the less applied sciences are the same way: we're looking for fundamental laws so it's more about convincing people that your result is valid tha
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by dguest 7y ago
Anyone can put a paper on arXiv. The bigger problem is that most journal editors will be skeptical of citing arXiv. If you're collaborating with more traditional academics it can be a challenge to even submit a paper with such citati
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by dguest 7y ago
What branch of physics? There are hundreds of published null results looking for dark matter or Supersymmetry, for example. Instead of documenting a failed search, the papers focus on what versions of the theories the experiment excludes to
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by dguest 7y ago
In point 3: did you try to contact the authors of the paper you were trying to reproduce? I don't know organic chemistry, but in my field the authors are often willing to discuss their results, especially if it might mean more citation
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by dguest 7y ago
I guess it depends on what you want to do. If you're trying to make sense of a given countries response, (cases) / (population of administrative region) seems like a decent metric. Also since policy tends to follow administrative
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by dguest 7y ago
The situation around weather apps really confuses me: my understanding is that most weather predictions come from massive networks of weather stations and very complicated and expensive simulation, both of which are publicly funded. This i

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