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by krull10 4y ago
Light hearted fun: Upload (Amazon), Space Force (Netflix), Mr. Mayor (NBC). All involve Parks and Rec, Office and 30 Rock creators.
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by krull10 5y ago
I actually think these fees are an easy problem to solve, but they can’t be solved by academics themselves due to the incentives (i.e. publishing in these journals plays a big role in promotions and possible future grants being awarded). If
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by krull10 5y ago
https://www.sonnysoftware.com/ Great Papers alternative if one wants Mac/iOS support and relatively good (but not perfect) importing from a Papers library.
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by krull10 5y ago
This indeed! In the US the fed government wastes massive amounts of grant money covering excessive publishing and open access fees. This could easily be restricted to a small max per article that must be accepted by any journal grant funded
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by krull10 5y ago
I don’t know if they do gain of function research there, but NEIDL is in the heart of Boston. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Emerging_Infectious_D...
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by krull10 5y ago
These fees are highly journal and publisher dependent. Check out Nature journals; I believe last I looked Nature Communications was $5500!
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by krull10 5y ago
Governments shouldn’t be paying significant amounts of tax payer money in page fees or open access fees. There should be a small cap on what will be paid, a requirement work is open access and deposited in public databases, and that’s it. I
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by krull10 5y ago
Most of my biology collaborators have switched in the past 5 years to putting all their new submissions on biorxiv. It seems like medrxiv is now getting popular since COVID started too. But, as in math and physics, I guess a big problem is
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by krull10 5y ago
Keep in mind, in math and other hard sciences it is not uncommon to cite 50 year old papers which are still highly relevant today (which is less common in biology). Such papers are often behind publisher paywalls since they predate arXiv. S
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by krull10 5y ago
And this whole discussion is because they’ve announced that will be dropped with version 8. No more standalone licenses, local vaults or syncing via Dropbox/iCloud. Even this (potential) “self-hosted” option sounds ridiculous; users ar
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by krull10 5y ago
How are you supposed to assess whether a student has learned quantum mechanics, or chemistry, or calculus if any questions you ask them they can simply contact another student for help, or get someone to do it for them on sites like Chegg?
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by krull10 5y ago
Then you’re lucky to have students with a lot of integrity at your college/university. Even with a great unique exam where nothing can be looked up online, this doesn’t prevent students from copying each other, posting problems on site
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by krull10 6y ago
Julia has some young projects that look promising as future broad FEM/PDE discretization libraries, like Gripap.jl, but they are certainly not at the level of the more mature C++-based libraries you mention. For my own work I would ne
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by krull10 6y ago
If you are going to use Julia in one of the absolute worst workflows for how it is designed, you shouldn’t be surprised it doesn’t work well... That said, have you tried using PackageCompiler to add your needed libraries to the system image
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by krull10 6y ago
Seconded for macOS. I usually update when the next major release is about to be announced. By 11 months they usually finally have the bugs worked out. It isn’t always necessary for every yearly release, but once you’ve been burned a few tim
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by krull10 6y ago
I would say that is most likely due to a massively higher salary and no teaching responsibilities. Academia can’t compete on salary with industry in AI / data science.
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by krull10 6y ago
Industry is not going to fund the overwhelming majority of research areas in biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc. Data science and AI are an exception, where people in industry are much better paid, and can get access to much bett
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by krull10 6y ago
You can get bellota in the US but it is much more expensive than in Spain. Still delicious though. I think it is only in recent years that it was allowed for import though.
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by krull10 6y ago
As an alternative, don't import all of DifferentialEquations, just import the sublibraries you need. For ODEs usually just DiffEqBase and OrdinaryDiffEq are sufficient.
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by krull10 6y ago
At private schools there are no unions due to NLRB v. Yeshiva University. The SC denied faculty the right to collectively bargain...
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by krull10 6y ago
The US Supreme Court ruled in 1980 that faculty at private universities can be classified as managers, and hence denied the right to unionize. This probably isn’t relevant for GATech as it is a public school, but it does mean at many univer
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by krull10 6y ago
I’ve never heard of a reviewer writing 15K lines of code. That would be a serious undertaking for someone who is reviewing as an unpaid community service in their free time outside of doing their own research/teaching/etc. Maybe a
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by krull10 7y ago
I wouldn’t give much weight to those benchmark numbers at this point. Some of those language versions are quite out of date...
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by krull10 7y ago
I think he was an Associate Professor of the Practice -- it's not a tenured position, but more a longer-term teaching-type appointment. It generally offers more job security and benefits than an adjunct might receive, but at many unive
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by krull10 8y ago
Agreed, no meat substitute I've had tastes the same or even good, including Beyond Burgers and such. A good veggie burger, that is not trying to be faux meat, but instead is highlighting the veggies, can be great. And unlike every faux
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by krull10 8y ago
Works in VSCode with the Julia extension too.
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by krull10 8y ago
When I search Julia questions on Google I always restrict the search to the past year or six months. You are right that there is an enormous amount of irrelevant info out there from earlier versions of the language.
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by krull10 8y ago
This is something that was just heavily discussed on the Julia Discourse, with a big back and forth between individuals used to the computer integer arithmetic rules vs people wanting Python like functionality. Based on the confusion there,
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by krull10 8y ago
As a rule of thumb, it is probably a good idea to ignore Julia articles that are more than a year or so old. Anything that is discussing pre-1.0 may be completely irrelevant at this point. The language has evolved a lot, even the past few y
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by krull10 8y ago
The Julia tooling is not currently designed for repeatedly creating new REPL/interpreter instances to quickly solve one small problem. What it excels at is rapidly solving the same problem many times within one REPL/interpreter (s

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