neuromantik8086

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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
It's a Russian conspiracy.
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
I look forward to seeing something on Facebook's Twitter account ( https://twitter.com/facebook ).
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Maybe you should ask Ethan Allen [0] or the New England Federalist Party [1] about patriotism. I'm sure they'd proffer some good insights. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haldimand_Affair [1] https:/
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Another problem is that librarians themselves sometimes don't have the technical (in the sense of computing literacy; "technical" is a bit of loaded term in libraries because it can refer to collection maintenance [0]) skills
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
As an aside, it's not super well publicized, but anyone in NYC can access Lynda.com for free via the NYPL.
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
As someone who works in an academic library (which has very different needs from a public library), while I would disagree that libraries need "disruption" (which conjures up imagery of a librarian shushing me in the stacks for ta
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
It's also worth pointing out that there are multiple types of neurons, so I suppose that you could argue that some of them are more "software-like" while others are more "hardware-like", as well as glial cells that
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
I don't answer that because low-level biology wasn't my realm of expertise even when I still worked in neuroscience. For that I'd defer to the people who wrote this: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/S
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
From a former neuro person: The physical world is not an abstraction- it's material. If you talk to anyone with any reasonable level of knowledge about neuroscience, you aren't going to find anyone who finds the Cartesian dualism
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
I'm guessing a better understanding of BDNF and other growth factor proteins would help.
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Academia does have Retraction Watch [0]. Unfortunately/fortunately, it operates outside the system. [0] https://retractionwatch.com/
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
The PhD first really became a requirement for professors wanting to teach at SLACs around the 1940s. Prior to that point, it wasn't that uncommon for you to find teachers that "only" had BAs. This transition (a BA being the
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> I felt this, but was surprised that while there were a few genuine genius-level people in my program, the vast majority spent most of the effort trying to look like a genius but were far from it. An astounding amount of time is wasted
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> Still plenty of stuff to complain about, but the job market looks far different than in the natural sciences or humanities. Yup. Economics [0] and comp sci are basically the only doctoral programs worth going into at this point (at le
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
When you say "data science" does that encompass traditionally educated statisticians and business intelligence folks? If you only count the practitioners out there who self-identify as data scientists you get a pretty incomplete
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
The academic route is basically a form of modern-day indentured servitude, which is another way in which wages for American students who decided upon pursuing a PhD for "the life of the mind" rather than economic reasons are depre
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Just as a PSA for anyone considering quitting academia who happens to be on this thread, here are some good posts about how to do that: http://www.paullitvak.com/2013/05/16/why-social-science-grad... http:&#
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Probably not far from the truth (see comment above; URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17594196 ).
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> This is a bit of a tangent but it seems to be a common trend now among labs to arrest trainees (particularly phd students and post-docs) in their positions as long as possible I've witnessed this as well. One of the worst offense
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> Now I work with finance and blockchain people, and it's a saner and more honest world. Crazy, I know! You're not alone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12807488
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
> driver by reputation ("publications", "impact factor") and where the bad eggs can't even be fired ("tenure") From personal experience, I've always felt as though the existence of "rock star&
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Most incoming grad students enter PhD programs with incorrect assumptions about how grad school works. A decent number of those incorrect assumptions involve the grad student role itself. For instance, I knew of a research assistant heade
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
This isn't actually a particularly new idea- Barbara Oakley's Coursera course ("Learning How to Learn") actually cites another researcher (name forgotten) in the same field working with similar sets of theoretical assump
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Saying that 6502 is useless is a bit harsh- I wouldn't call it an employable skill, but it's great for hobbyists who are into retrocomputing (like me). You could deep dive into x86_64 or ARM, but in the general case you would neve
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Define "better". On what metrics are you evaluating Wikipedia? Factuality, writing quality, etc? Wikipedia's process has driven away some of the most knowledgeable subject-matter experts into creating rival publications li
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
A little bit of Easy 6502 [0] but mostly Richard Haskell's Apple II-6502 Assembly Language Tutor [1][2] along with Virtual][ [3] . Basically I'm trying to use assorted manuals I could find in my childhood home's basement, mo
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
I feel like 6502 assembly is probably better for beginners, but that might be because that's what I'm trying to teach myself...
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
A budget? Singularity was basically born of not-invented-here syndrome in the neuroscience community and doesn't have nearly the amount of resources that Facebook is able to devote to this problem. If that were to change (i.e., Greg
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
Nassim Taleb is basically a stopped clock. He's pretty big on pointing on how we're all prone to find illusory correlations (not his discovery) and he's a great promoter for Kahneman and Tversky, but there are other areas wh
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by neuromantik8086 8y ago
https://xkcd.com/927/

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