neuromantik8086

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by neuromantik8086 3y ago
Because endowments aren't piggy banks. They're regulated by UPMIFA [1], which states that universiteis can't draw down more than 7% of the total funds in the endowment unless they can prove that it would be prudent to do so,
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by neuromantik8086 6y ago
I never answered your last question so here goes: > Are you saying that the reproductive challenge poses a difficulty to Common Workflow Language? I don't actually understand how the reproducibility challenge undermines the validity
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by neuromantik8086 6y ago
I can only speak to Spack in particular, but the main issue that I found with it was balancing researcher expectations for package installation speed with compile times. For most packages, compile times aren't a huge problem, but comp
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by neuromantik8086 6y ago
I never said that Konrad Hinsen's agenda was hidden; in fact, it's not at all hidden (which is why I linked the abstract). It's just that this context isn't at all clear in the Nature write-up, and it's relevant to
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by neuromantik8086 6y ago
There are some efforts in this vein within academia, but they are very weak in the United States. The U.S. Research Software Engineer Association ( https://us-rse.org/ ) represents one such attempt at increasing awareness ab
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by neuromantik8086 6y ago
Just as a quick bit of context here, Konrad Hinsen has a specific agenda that he is trying to push with this challenge. It's not clear from this summary article, but if you look at the original abstract soliciting entries for the chal
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by neuromantik8086 6y ago
Guix is one of several solutions that has been touted as a solution. Another one that is quite popular in HPC circles is Spack ( https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ). At my institute, we actually tried out Spa
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by neuromantik8086 7y ago
The COO majored in Music Technology at Oberlin. That's quite a bit more technical than most people realize. TIMARA (the music tech program at the Oberlin Conservatory) involves a decent amount of programming and/or audio enginee
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by neuromantik8086 7y ago
I prefer the following: "It felt like a yuppie aquarium." https://www.reddit.com/r/finance/comments/c93agd/wework_isnt...
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by neuromantik8086 7y ago
As others have pointed out, what you're describing isn't a fundamentally new idea or even that revolutionary. You're basically describing a database filesystem. Onne Gortner attempted an implementation of this concept in 20
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by neuromantik8086 7y ago
Modern services such as reddit and Twitter effectively usurp the role that Usenet/NNTP and similar distributed protocols used to fulfill, but without the advantage of decentralization / lack of large single points of failure that
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by neuromantik8086 7y ago
We wouldn't have this problem if people just used application-layer protocols and federated services like the early internet.
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Resource Public Key Infrastructure, but ISPs are too cheap to actually implement it.
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Maybe I'm being obtuse, but doesn't using a configuration management tool to deploy black-box Docker containers eliminate many of the advantages of using config management in the first place?
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
I mean, part of the appeal of the Louvre at least isn't just that you can see the art in the physical world, but that you're practically bathed in it. This sense of being overwhelmed and the serendipity factor in discovering new
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Just as a bit of a nitpick the Connection Machine: a) Wasn't manufactured by Cray. It was made by Thinking Machines Corporation in the greater Boston area. b) Didn't have anything to do with neural nets, as it was developed durin
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
I mean, a lot of the brain is devoted to sensation, so if you don't care about simulating how the brain interprets certain aspects of sensation (motion, depth, vision more generally) you could probably simulate other functions. For me
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> Science used to be culturally important in the 50s as a way to [beat the communists]. Fixed that for you
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
It's a bit different in the U.S. in the sense that, whereas in Britain and France most mid-sized cities have decent public transit and municipal services, in the U.S. only a handful large urban centers have these kinds of things. For e
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
The HBR article's discussion of incentives is not really quite what I was thinking of when I wrote my comment. Specifically, the article you cite refers to the well-known phenomenon of how introducing extrinsic rewards via positive re
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Grad students / postdocs / human lab rats aren't scum, the incentives just aren't in place to promote good behavior (such as calling other researchers out on their bullshit). If you're trying to acquire a vaunted t
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> And yes, I'm definitely interested in doing video As someone familiar with the libraries space, I'd actually be very interested in seeing a machine learning model that could deal with "cleaning up" old film (I'
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
One of the side effects of the corporatization of modern universities is that pretty much every scientific finding is accompanied by a PR fluff piece and scientific journalists usually just recycle aforementioned fluff piece. :/
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> Those fields don't even know what their best practices are "Best practices" are a chimera. The issue at hand isn't about what is "best", but whether or not a software engineer's "good enough&quo
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
I agree that science can't be bound by the rigid structures of most applied disciplines, and that the freedom to combine technologies in novel ways is a pre-requisite to novel findings. What I find objectionable is the inability of sci
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> When I see stuff around notebooks for "reproducibility", I'm a bit confused in that notebooks often don't specify any guidance on installation and dependencies, let alone things like arguments and options that a reg
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
This isn't a particularly surprising story considering the history of science. To give an example of how this sort of thing played out historically, Marshall Nirenberg was basically persona non grata (or at least dutifully ignored) at
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Scientific / conference culture has a somewhat concerning relationship with alcohol, which was a contributing factor to my ultimately leaving science. The amount of pressure to go out to a pub with your colleagues was much higher for
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Yup. And the NIH even has pretty reports to hit you over the head with just how depressing the situation actually is for researchers (especially if you're young). https://report.nih.gov/NIHDatabook/Charts/Def
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
He (or she)'s not disagreeing with the notion that unfettered funding produces innovation, he (or she)'s disagreeing with the notion that HHMI provides unfettered funding. Part of the beauty of Bell Labs was that it wasn't ne

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