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by timkam 6y ago
I agree, and I hope to see more fully open review approaches in the future, where everyone who is interested can see the reviews and the reviewers' names. The Journal of Open Source Software has this: https://joss.theoj.org&
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by timkam 6y ago
I somewhat agree, but many traditional publishers have an optional "pay for OA" model and more and more funding providers require OA. For journal publications, we (in the EU) almost always have to pay. However, MDPI is particularl
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Interesting. This reminds me of the story of Siraj Raval, a formerly highly influential YouTuber on machine learning and blockchain topics: https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2019/10/16/why-siraj-ravals-... Some
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I agree. Covid-related work that is disseminated in "non-medical" venues presents most likely toy examples, which is okay as long as the authors clearly state the limitations and do not try to push their research directly to the p
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I agree and I really don't understand how mature researchers can engage in this type of guesswork. If we are in a simulation, our observed universe is also a simulation. Even if the real world revealed itself to us Matrix style, this &
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by timkam 6y ago
Am I the only one who finds it strange that a preprint gets that kind of news coverage and the authors of the preprint are the only ones who are interviewed? Even if it wasn't a preprint, I suppose it's good practice to ask indepe
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by timkam 6y ago
Humans are social beings. An abstract concept that is named after its human creator establishes an immediate link to this person. My guess is that many people like this, because it adds a social dimension to otherwise "dry", techn
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I fully agree. As I understand it, the user was a teenager who did not know better and thought they made a sincere effort to contribute. Young and/or inexperienced contributors are prone to make somewhat similar mistakes, albeit usuall
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What worsens the problem is that publicly funded research often solves toy application problems (at least in CS); academics know that they need to "apply" their research to get funding/citations/publications with relativ
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by timkam 6y ago
These insights may be trivial, but still important to experience first hand and early in life (let me highlight that I was never an excellent or successful musician, though): * Having solid basic skills in a profession is crucial; in contra
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Most people who like books, films and TV, consume these media types passively, i.e., they are less immersive and hence perhaps less dangerous. With _creating_ music, I'd argue the situation is similar to martial arts: it requires disci
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by timkam 6y ago
Marvel's "Knull" is a fun example that the website is actually "catching": https://www.svt.se/kultur/starka-reaktioner-pa-nya-marvelsku... See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by timkam 6y ago
No longer a Software Engineer, but still in "IT" in the broader sense. * Left SE job for a PhD in CS, roughly 50% of a good SE salary here in Northern Europe * Do some Product Management/Innovation advisory on the side I left
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by timkam 6y ago
Can anyone point to a more nuanced perspective on this? Ideally not only with regards to OpenAI; it is still quite common that research published in some of the "top" venues does not disclose the underlying source code. Anecdote:
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by timkam 6y ago
This certainly depends on what the code does and on the use case, i.e. on how critical reliability and performance are. 10k code in a simple web application prototype that will be trashed in 3 months is not "a lot", because it&#x2
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by timkam 6y ago
I know it's just an example in the article, but the study about real-life likeness of social networks in fiction literature seems to miss a point. Wouldn't a good writer in many cases abstract away some of the complexity of real-l
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by timkam 6y ago
I agree, but both from a technical and a social perspective, a) Norway is in a stronger position to mitigate the economic impact of the crisis and b) Norwegian politicians will have a harder time to spin up an austerity narrative.
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There are additional relevant aspects: 1. A main aspect of the response, i.e., the issuing of "recommendations" instead the implementation of outright restrictions seem to have been caused by legal concerns, which means this is pr
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I think we can learn from the OS community, but this requires changing the incentive system of academia. Two ideas: * Research papers should be living documents that are properly versioned; updates should get reviewed again. This obviously
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The same statement should apply to research papers; I am happy that the EU is pushing for this as well, with considerable success.
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Masks directly help prevent spread, the app does not. It's essentially a decision-support system, and I agree with Schneier that on an individual contact tracing-level, it's probably not a good one. But _perhaps_ it helps if it&#x
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by timkam 6y ago
In many experimental sciences, a lot of research projects now require an effort that a few authors cannot handle. There are some discussions if this means that instead of being creative, people are merely scaling up, which is probably true
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by timkam 6y ago
It's hard to disagree with the statements you make in this comment, but this does not answer my question. To say "free software is important" is one thing; another thing is to say "if a GPL-licensed software includes a c
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by timkam 6y ago
I would assume many GPL-licensed applications are GPL non-compliant. From a user's perspective, what are the most relevant problems when this is the case? (Excluding problems of philosophical nature that only free software geeks care a
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Observations from overseas (Sweden): possibly because college/university is typically (almost) free of cost and because of Sweden's culture of continuous education, there is an increase in university enrollment applications: http
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Isn't this the report of the case study that was discussed with much controversy in German media, in particular because the researchers hired a high-profile marketing agency for promotion and held a press conference together with the p
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What I get from this article is that OpenAI is in many aspects similar to other research organizations, but with more resources and better PR. I think this article is reassuring for anyone doing AI research outside of the big labs. However,
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An observation from inside academia: there are some (potentially many) researchers who use the opportunity to push obscure models and simulations of their research sub-subdomains, even if they have no knowledge about public health, epidemio
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I agree, not necessarily because publishing in a journal one is involved in is uncommon, but rather because putting one's work there although this work is disputed in the community clearly signals that one has not managed to build cons
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by timkam 7y ago
Right, so I suppose that the numerous gateways zoom and others need to offer are an additional problem which implies that these services have to do "something fishy" on the signaling server. Generally, WebRTC traffic does not need

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