neuromantik8086

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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> They're also roughly 100 years old (depending on definitions). They're reinvented and reshaped their business many times. "Two new broom handles, two new brushes" but it's still the same company, as they say. I
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
It's actually the norm in the U.S. ...
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Europe also more generally has much higher salaries for postdocs and grad students from what I've seen floating around listservs.
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
This is also a major obstacle towards open science, and one that the open science community seems generally unaware of. Every day there seems to be another journal article extolling the virtues of data-sharing and imploring other researche
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
It's also worth pointing out that Red Hat (and Big Banks) have been desperately trying to train new mainframe operators with limited success due to the shift to distributed, to the extent that they've even been giving money to se
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
My impression is that POWER is more suitable for certain types of scientific computation that require high degrees of precision rather than for general purpose enterprise use. POWER9 is the only CPU architecture out there that has support
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
True, and your overall point (that it is better than the alternative; i.e. viXra) stands. It's really one of those things where ymmv depending on the field- I just happened to notice a somewhat disheartening tendency for those sorts o
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> It's worrying that academia is slowly turning into a rigid "appeal to authority" church Seeing as how academia literally started out as an accessory to the various Christian denominations for educating priests, I don&#x2
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> Peer review is a base level quality check Ideally this is true. At the worst though, you'll end up with a peer reviewer that gets pedantic or one who's a member of a citation cartel [0] that demands that you cite his/he
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> It doesn't really save anything. It doesn't save time? Oil? I don't understand your reasoning here.
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> in coastal cities I've never heard this being proposed- most vertical farming startups with any true prospects tend to be just outside the cities, but substantially closer than other farms. The chief advantage in vertical farming
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Did it ever occur to you that maybe I was one of those people living in a rural area at one point, and that's exactly why I have the attitude I have? I moved to one of the coastal cities in large part because I got tired of fighting w
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
That's why I'd be in favor of making vertical farming more prevalent- by making farmers physically closer to the coastal cities they serve the rural areas will be starved economically. At this point in time, it's my convicti
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
I don't have a super great understanding of real estate, so my example might be over simplistic and flat-out wrong. This article has better explanations for why vacant spaces remain vacant in NYC (although it applies more to commercia
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
You're conflating the financial district / midtown with the entire island. Trust me, up here in Northern Manhattan (which is like, you know, almost half of the island) there's a pulse.
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> And, this feels like an issue that will naturally fix itself over time, as landlords realize what they're asking for isn't reasonable. Except it won't, exactly because landlords are rational actors. Let's say the u
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
At the same time, as hardware and software formats become more standardized and less "Wild West", I would argue that digital preservation might become easier going forward, since most preservationists won't need to deal with
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
It's worth pointing out that there's a simulator for ENIAC written in Go out there too, for the ultra retrocomputing inclined: https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/eniac/
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
I'd agree with that. Whenever people cite Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg as college dropout successes, they tend to overlook the substantial cultural and social capital these leaders had already accrued as students at Lake
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
My mom is a music teacher, and she finds that she often will get new students who were previously self-taught with blind spots. Ideally, one of the main perks of school, which is difficult if not impossible to get with auto-didacticism, is
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
I'd add: -. To easily identify a group of friends/peers with common interests and culture. Probably not worth the egregiously high tuitions now, but I've talked with several other alums from my college and we agree that easil
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> At the same time, economists usually aren't very wealthy people.. maybe they are overly sceptical of new developments. That's a risible critique of expertise with little applicability to Nouriel Roubini in particular. Last t
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> Reporters can't be this dumb. Have you ever actually dealt with reporters before? From my time in science I can attest that yes, reporters very much are this dumb at times. That's the issue with anyone who's too much
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Not if programmers demanded the same salary universally, regardless of cost of living expenses- that's a big if though.
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
I mean, scientists for the Manhattan Project were remorseful after the fact at least. In general though, scientists are primarily driven by curiosity with little regard for the safety of themselves or others. If IRBs didn't exist, I
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Or like, the mission of any academic library for that matter? Historically, Google owes its entire existence to an NSF grant that required heavy collaboration with Stanford Libraries, which is why academia to this day holds certain privile
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Maybe it's time to reboot Babylon 5.
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
"import pypeln as pl" could cause quite a bit of confusion in Poland I would imagine.
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
This perspective reminds of a few answers to the Quora question "Do programmers who write bad code know that they are writing bad code?", which I was looking at last Friday when dealing with a particularly poorly coded app. For f
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
This too: https://github.com/common-workflow-language/common-workflow-... Also, whenever these conversation of flow-based / piplining tools come up, I always like to point people to Common Workflow Language to rem

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