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by woofie11 6y ago
I know at least one professor where one person generated the data. Another person cleaned the data. The professor got her faculty position by taking the cleaned data, running a regression on it, and publishing the first result. The original
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by woofie11 6y ago
Isn't there a time limit on deleting / editing comments?
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> Many companies are only willing to enter into research agreements with a lab providing that lab is willing to sign an NDA. This would prevent companies like Google, NVIDIA, Apple, and Facebook from working with research labs. This is e
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by woofie11 6y ago
My opinion is that it'd be better to handle that from the other side: incentive structures. If I generate a useful data set, I should get the equivalent of citations/publication/career credits for any work from that dataset.
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by woofie11 6y ago
Don't think $90k. Think $300k. There are plenty of top people glad to be academics for $150-$200k, and beyond that, you don't get an increase in quality. On the other hand, you avoid a lot of problems with misaligned incentives at
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by woofie11 6y ago
Basic set of checks-and-balances: * Preregistration and adoption of open science practices * Public access to research results, methods, and data, with some exceptions (such as PII) * Federally-funded universities can't use NDAs or non
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by woofie11 6y ago
I'm in electronic engineering, but most of the experience is from computer science departments. There are programs like Caltech where students do rotations and aren't admitted into a lab. But for example, at the MIT Media Lab, a p
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by woofie11 6y ago
Nope, Moore's Law is over. We run into wavelength-of-light issues around 400 nanometers. There's really no practical way to go beyond that. I can provide tons of citations from top engineers stating we're done here. You might
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by woofie11 6y ago
> If someone had a good idea for improving the error terms in the Davenport-Heilbronn theorem, clearly understood the related literature, and brought this to my attention -- then I'd cheerfully work with them, even if they were an u
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by woofie11 6y ago
Paying $40,000 to watch a professor give a dry Powerpoint talk over a box in Zoom ain't the deal universities think it is. I can get a better education with a textbook and a Youtube for free, let alone real online courses. Universities
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by woofie11 6y ago
I think you define "centrist" differently than I do. Your definition seems to be "split the left-and-right down the middle." That's not the one I've heard or used. That's okay; words are used differently i
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by woofie11 6y ago
I think you lost the thread of conversation somewhere. The original question was: "It's generally easier to play the role of the Very Reasonable Person Who's Just Asking Questions when you're defending the status quo; an
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Why do you believe [insert minority] coders aren't qualified?
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by woofie11 6y ago
This is exactly it. Every conservative I speak with thinks I'm Joseph Stalin, and every liberal thinks I'm Adolf Hitler. I've stopped talking to people about these things. What's amazing about it is you can voice disagre
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by woofie11 6y ago
1) You don't need to agree. 2) Each of those is an essay or two to justify. Of course they're not specific. This isn't a political essay. I'm giving examples -- enough to understand the gist, not the nuance. 3) In modern
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by woofie11 6y ago
Sure. Charter schools: They work great with proper checks-and-balances. They should be not-for-profits, follow extensive transparency laws, have salary caps, and strong civil rights protections. They should compete with public schools witho
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by woofie11 6y ago
Not always. I've used the "Very Reasonable Person Who's Just Asking Questions" to ask some very, very uncomfortable questions. Here's one you can try in the current political climate: "Why don't you have A
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I don't think you understand the point of centrists. Centrists agree that choices need to be made. Centrists think that some of those choices should go in one direction, some in the other, and most in a direction not presented by eithe
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by woofie11 6y ago
The majority of online courses suck. But a minority are far better than in-person. Toss digital scaling in, and it's not a question of if, but when and how. There are real problems people haven't solved, but most of those have to
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by woofie11 6y ago
One of which is constantly spreading rumors about Stallman.... ESR basically wanted to take credit for RMS' work and co-opt the movement. It was some pretty nasty stuff.
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by woofie11 6y ago
You mean live in a small, dark, windowless room for a few years, with little privacy even if I want to go to the bathroom? No thanks. I did the "travel the world at other people's expense" thing for a bit too. My experience i
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by woofie11 6y ago
What position of privilege might that be? Choosing a life with essentially no income or luxuries so he can do what he believes is right?
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by woofie11 6y ago
You'd be surprised just at how much overlap there might be. I'm a parent, and I still have a nice collection of board books left over from toddlerhood. Obnoxious is injecting 3-word snide comments when people want to have serious
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by woofie11 6y ago
Impatience wasn't the excuse. People are plenty patient. Game theory and organizational dynamics are more of an excuse. It turns out democracies don't work like that. I'd recommend The Dictator's Handbook to understand w
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Looking at the news, it doesn't look that way to me. It looks like years of supporting corruption mean its time to pay the piper. Police officers are in a world of hurt right now, largely because of how police unions have acted.
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by woofie11 6y ago
You can form one. Generically, it's called a political party, but there are special-interest groups like the NRA representing gun-owners, or the PTA, which represents families. I don't think anyone is arguing there shouldn't
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by woofie11 6y ago
No. The role of the unions is to protect the collective group of members. That's different from protecting individual members whenever possible. If a teacher's union protects bad teachers who aren't teaching kids, or a police
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How? In my town, there was nearly universal support for reducing police budgets among citizens. The budget went up by millions. How, concretely, should I use democracy to address that? Not the idealized model of democracy where laws that th
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by woofie11 6y ago
I'd love to have this sort of i18n for Python or JavaScript, and a good kid-friendly environment. Scratch does i18n well. Text-based programming doesn't. There's a gap in age between programming and English fluency. What&#x27
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Not quite. Most wars are avoided since one side or the other backs down. If it's obvious you'll lose, you don't go to war. The US projects a lot of power worldwide because of its superior military. It's sufficiently supe

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