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by ylem 6y ago
This is actually being done in some journals--with registration of studies. I have arguments at times with people about Scientific Reports--I think that as long as the results are technically correct, I think we really need to encourage pe
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by ylem 6y ago
There were some interesting talks on neural differentiation applied to physics at ICLR. You probably saw: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01563 Very fun!
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by ylem 6y ago
Really cool! What problem are you working on? I live on the experimental side. At least in condensed matter, there are people having fun on the theory side as well.
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by ylem 6y ago
I agree with you on UQ. For example, I have seen a couple of talks in my field of neutron scattering, where people are using denoising autoencooders to remove artifacts and fit data. It's also clear that no one has any idea how this
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by ylem 6y ago
There are a lot of cool advances in AI and physics. In my particular field of condensed matter physics, a number come to mind. One is trying to automatically extract synthesis recipes from the literature. Imagine that you want to see how p
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by ylem 6y ago
Shameless plug--The American Physical Society has a topical group on Data Science. Since our annual meeting was cancelled due to Covid, we've been running a free series of webinars on data science and physics: https://www.y
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by ylem 6y ago
I agree with you on being interviewed. Bringing someone onto your podcast is more of an implicit endorsement unless you actively push back on their other views. If you don't know about those views, you should have done your research.
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by ylem 6y ago
You mean submit a paper?
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by ylem 6y ago
Who?
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by ylem 6y ago
He raises a good point that appearing on a podcast is a red herring. Suppose he actually just discussed say physics on the podcast? It would be more a question of what he said. Or, if he just said, "whoops, I had no idea who this guy
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by ylem 6y ago
Alexander?
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by ylem 6y ago
Sorry to hear that. How much power did he actually have to damage someone's research career?
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by ylem 6y ago
I asked this earlier, but are these out of context questions? I am not familiar with the guy: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...
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by ylem 6y ago
Are these comments taken out of context? https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...
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by ylem 6y ago
He seems out of step with scientific consensus--but he wasn't removed as faculty, but rather from an admin position.
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by ylem 6y ago
Maybe I missed something. Did anyone threaten his tenure? I would distinguish say an admin appointment from a research appointment.
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by ylem 6y ago
The materials project has experimental and theoretical structures. On the experimental side, how does it compare to ICSD? How up to date is it in comparison? I love the API for the materials project!
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by ylem 6y ago
I think that's where commercial programs make their money--in phase identification. JADE comes to mind
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by ylem 6y ago
There's the classic, Protein Data Bank. A number of people in the field saw it as a moral imperative. It's interesting how open different disciplines are to openness
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by ylem 6y ago
I was just using it today for a quick calculation!
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by ylem 6y ago
Isn't this a one year experiment due to Covid?
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by ylem 6y ago
Why do you think this is a bad idea? Shouldn't it be a data based decision? https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaat7550
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by ylem 6y ago
Thanks for the excellent response! I have looked at this in the context of physics GREs and it doesn't seem to be terribly predictive--but I think that graduate admissions probably has fewer candidates than undergraduate admissions.
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by ylem 6y ago
Ok, so you think that say some state schools it might work ok, but not at say Stanford or Harvard. What about say folding in AP exam scores?
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by ylem 6y ago
These are all excellent points! But, I think this is the discussion we should be having. I doubt we can get the data, but universities have data on both the performance of students they have admitted (along with their schools) as well as
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by ylem 6y ago
I'm a bit confused, but isn't this a one year response to the effects of Covid? I saw that there were difficulties even with AP exams this year.
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by ylem 6y ago
This is an excellent question--that should be answered by data. Is there a thresholding effect? It could be that say there's not much difference in a hundred points in the SAT. But, maybe GPAs actually are more predictive. I assume
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by ylem 6y ago
It's often good to question assumptions. I happened to do well on SATs/ACTs, so I could be biased in their favor. But, I was curious--what is the actual predictive value of SATs/ACTs on college outcomes such as say GPA or g
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by ylem 6y ago
Dumb question, but are GPAs useless? I mean a plot of say high school GPA vs say college graduation rate or college GPA would be rather informative.
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by ylem 6y ago
I used Visual Group theory as the basis for some workshops. It's a really good read.

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