neuromantik8086

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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZL3YFWiayU
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> I can understand this, since most of it was probably written by PhD students; ... many of them without a CS background. Of the top 4 contributors to scikit-learn, 3 have computer science graduate degrees and 1 has a degree in physics,
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
So basically what we're seeing is publish or perish on steroids by your assessment?
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Try to hustle your way into a Research Software Engineer [0] role somewhere. The role isn't formally acknowledged in the U.S. (outside of Google) but you can usually find them posted on university job boards as "Programmer/A
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
The high cost of college here is honestly more about amenities than anything else. Whenever the discussion of making college tuition-free comes up in the U.S., people nearly always point to Europe as an example of an area where free educat
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Yup. The stats at the bottom of this page are fairly depressing: http://homepages.rpi.edu/~newbeh/WhyFundScience.html
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
I'd speculate that part of the reason for why the U.S. is as dysfunctional as it is is that it still has yet to find its cultural bearings, and many people don't have the same sense of place that Europeans have. When you go to a
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
That's a pretty gross oversimplification considering the dominance of Arabic as a scientific language during the Dark Ages (when Europeans preferred burning people to actually thinking). The word "algebra" is definitely not
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Latin arguably still ia the lingua franca of science when you look at specialized vocabulary (species taxonomies are the most obvious manifestation of this). Otherwise we'd be calling the outside of the brain "brain bark" in
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Looks like academic institutional repositories and figshare are doing the heavy lifting here. It's still neat to see Google aggregate everything, but it's not that different from what they do with other services relying on these
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Dat's pretty cool, but it's not the only game out there. The efforts of git-annex/Datalad [0], Academic Torrents [1], Quilt[2], DVC[3], and Pachyderm [4] are also notable in this space. My hopes are broader in the sense th
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
I'll admit my ignorance about the details, but I do stand by my belief that non-profits are not always necessarily beneficial for society- I don't think that's particularly controversial. In many cases, there's a substa
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Didn't know that, but admittedly even my notions of how non-profits are structured is only slightly deeper than the popular notion of what non-profits are supposed to be. I mostly just wish we'd all disabuse ourselves of the noti
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> Bankruptcy isn't a bad idea for universities. It's important to note that the way university finances / endowments are structured, as well as the demands of alumni make it so that bankruptcy isn't really that simple
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
As a corollary, the only cultural differences that have actively disappeared have usually been due to decidedly non-Internet causes (e.g., students being hit with a ruler if they spoke Cajun French in Louisiana after World War II, non-Amish
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> That sounds like an interesting and varied role. It is, and it doesn't get as much formal recognition in the research world. Some folks are trying to change this [0], but unfortunately for the moment research software engineers o
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Well, that's how things work in Human Resource Machine [0] so it probably works well in reality too, right? [0] https://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
This is why I wish attempts at standardizing ways to express DAGs in YAML/JSON/XML like CWL [0] and WDL [1] had more steam to them. If these standards took off, you'd be able to take your workflow and execute it on another b
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
As a somewhat related addendum, some of the worst pipelines I've encountered have been in scientific computing. Conceptually, DAGs are quite simple but for some reason things always end up gummed up in implementation, which is partial
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> There's a bunch of different tools to do the same job Yup. Almost, too many tools, in fact. https://s.apache.org/existing-workflow-systems
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Meh. I put more faith in our corporate overlords developing decent wireless internet service via 5G over NYC Mesh really taking off.
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> So for those students who aren't going to an IVY on a full or partial ride, or those going to med school, I say do some research before committing to a private school. It's worth pointing out that certain colleges within Corn
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> Machinarium --> Anything else notable? --> Still cute ass heck Is this a Freudian slip from one of those robosexuals?
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> Faculty must be allowed to do research 90 % of the time God no. This is exactly the problem that most undergraduate campuses in the US are grappling with right now. Pedagogy (you know, the purported reason for the existence of univer
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
When I graduated from undergrad, Mechanical Turk was just starting to make inroads in social psych research. One of my friends was actually one of the first students to manage a survey for the social psych professor using MTurk. It's
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
The problem is that there are too many scientists chasing too few dollars- something's gotta give, and on the extreme side of things you end up getting fraud / faked data. This could be mitigated by open science practices and ref
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Maybe they purchased real estate in NYC and are charging companies to rent space there. Historically that's how the Cooper Union has been tuition free (since they own the space under the Chrysler Building) [0]. [0] https://
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> The HPC community is already used to GPUs — getting people to switch from GPUs to FPGAs requires larger benefits. It's worth pointing out that some scientists haven't even made the leap to CPGPU computing yet and are still re
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> I find it fascinating how difficult it is to find geological data. Discoverability for openly released scientific datasets is a huge problem in general. While some enterprising folks have worked on adding parsers for scientific data f
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
This project isn't really what you're looking for. ROMs are more program than data, and Academic Torrents in particular is scoped to scientific datasets. What you're describing is more akin to Olive, bwFLA, or the Internet

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