sito42

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by sito42 5mo ago
Research artifact = pdf should have died a long time ago. AI just makes is obsolescence more obvious.
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Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals(experimental-history.com)
399 points by sito42 7mo ago|148 comments
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by sito42 7mo ago
> Now people barely bring it up at all. It’s like a lion has escaped the zoo and it’s gulping down schoolchildren, but when people suggest zoo improvements, all the agenda items are like, “We should add another Dippin’ Dots kiosk”. If yo
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by sito42 1y ago
> As much as people like to use NumPyro and sometimes even PyMC to generate JAX code, I think it may be easier in the end to just write JAX directly. That way, nothing gets between you and JAX and you don’t have to figure out how to filt
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by sito42 1y ago
> There are self citations and citation rings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenfactor and other such indices are much less game-able Peer review (as currently practiced) and closed access are the problems, not th
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by sito42 1y ago
Author reputation and citation patterns provide plenty(?) of signal without journal/reviewer/editor endorsement. But you could still imagine introducing “badges” that provide similar additional signal to what publication in a top
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How to be a scientist in a post-journal world(thescientistpapers.substack.com)
2 points by sito42 1y ago|5 comments
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by sito42 1y ago
> The defining - and best - feature of preprint servers is that they do not try to litigate the rigor of the science in a paper, or try to decide whether it will ultimately prove important, before posting it. They just post it. We should
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Data-Driven Mechanism Design: Jointly Eliciting Preferences and Information [pdf](cowles.yale.edu)
2 points by sito42 1y ago|0 comments
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by sito42 1y ago
at this stage I get very few false positives and it's so much easier to configure and use than pyright
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by sito42 1y ago
astral bags another one
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by sito42 1y ago
Most scientific "products" are not bound books or pdf. The software, datasets, proofs, algorithms, etc contained within them (or in the dreaded "replication materials") are usually more valuable than the text that scient
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by sito42 1y ago
I don't understand why this framework has become so popular. You can't instantiate or program around `FlowSpec`s. The type safety is terrible (you're supposed to just haphazardly assign to `self` whenever you need to persist
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Scientific Publishing: Enough Is Enough(asterainstitute.substack.com)
2 points by sito42 1y ago|0 comments
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Caoimhín Ó'Raghallaigh demonstrates how the Hardanger d'amore works [video](youtube.com)
1 points by sito42 1y ago|0 comments
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by sito42 1y ago
Closing in on alpha https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/milestone/22
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Dataframely: A polars-native data frame validation library(tech.quantco.com)
39 points by sito42 1y ago|8 comments
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by sito42 3y ago
numpyro is an underrated library that runs on jax which makes it easy to put on the gpu. They have a nice suite of examples. https://github.com/pyro-ppl/numpyro