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by abought 6d ago
I'm seeing this on a current academic research project as well- it's like throwing fuel on the fire for all the best and worst parts of working with researchers. First: it's definitely become harder to get people to integrate
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by abought 4mo ago
I overlapped a bit with Chad in 2015, as he was navigating a professional transition. I wasn't in an especially high role back then- just a guy in the back of the room. In the times I saw him since, I consistently saw someone who thoug
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by abought 5mo ago
Per your comment about the effect on socialization: hang in there! That space is improving! I've never gone for drinking, and it was deeply ingrained in the social and startup experience when I was younger. This could be a bit aliena
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by abought 6mo ago
So it's down to a contest of whether to trust the government of Iran, or a cloud vendor status page? Maybe we can check something hosted in Oracle Cloud as the tiebreaker?
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by abought 7mo ago
Conferences can be truly wonderful, but not a universal replacement for publishing. If you think journals are expensive, try sending your whole lab to a conference in another country. That may not let you in. Where some of the attendees hav
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by abought 7mo ago
This is a fine example of where someone's understanding of the problem runs ahead of their understanding of the solution. A few scattered thoughts: 1. There is a difference between pre and post publication peer review. These discussion
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by abought 1y ago
At various points in my career, I've had to oversee people creating data export features for research-focused apps. Eventually, I instituted a very simple rule: As part of code review, the developer of the feature must be able to round
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by abought 2y ago
Recently, I attended an hour long meetup from a high-level AWS employee about CI pipelines using CodeCommit. Of several possible deprecation announcements, the latest of those was dated the day of the talk. (!!) In all fairness to the speak
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Russ Morash, "father of how-to television", has passed(wgbh.org)
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by abought 2y ago
A bit of an aside, but I really like "guides to things we otherwise take for granted". So few man pages are built around example use cases, but those are often what make the case for a tool! A similar spirit to projects like http
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by abought 3y ago
I think that's the rationale behind organizing separate teams as service organizations (mini contractors who serve multiple PIs). Other option is research "centers" with multiple PIs. Not an option for most fields, but a few,
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by abought 3y ago
A lot of the audience fragmented for various reasons, and even within the same discipline, not everyone has converged in a new place yet. I'm told mastodon got more CS/phys science people, and Bluesky got more social scientists. T
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by abought 3y ago
It depends. Some of the foundation-funded positions are competitive, and a few centers have surprisingly professional leadership. People are trying to organize, and- even if it's an uphill climb- there's been some improvement at t
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by abought 3y ago
Some departments are starting to hire programmers. There's an effort to define this as a (broad) job category under the heading "Research Software Engineer": https://society-rse.org/ https://us-r
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by abought 3y ago
At networking mixers I've attended, often there are a limited number of drink tickets per person and a set event duration. But the drink tickets only covered alcohol, not other beverages. In some cases, other beverages just weren'
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by abought 3y ago
Strange but true: I've been to a number of professional happy hours that offered free alcohol, but didn't provide other beverages. It got to the point that I started bringing my own water bottle to networking events, just in cas
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by abought 3y ago
The local, in-person meetup scene was an absolute treasure! It didn't really recover after COVID; I'm still trying to find where those networking opportunities moved to.
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by abought 3y ago
Location: Michigan Remote: Open to hybrid/remote Willing to relocate: No, but travel ok. Technologies: Fullstack web + DevOps. Data analysis and workflows. Python. Flask, Django, Django REST framework. Celery, RabbitMQ. Terraform, Pack
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by abought 3y ago
"Anyone in the training dataset"? A big unanswered question in the age of AI: how does a system of law work when breaking one law is bad, but the product of breaking many laws is totally exempt? We're starting to see the mild
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by abought 3y ago
I've also had luck with grocery stores. Especially the produce boxes: they have thick walls and are good for moving dishes. From their side, they are saving the hassle of breaking down and disposing boxes. So for best results, ask them
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by abought 5y ago
This looks interesting! In the past, I've been a big fan of automatic documentation generators (jsdoc, openapi, etc), because keeping a markdown file full of function names and arguments up to date by hand was painful- but I don't
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by abought 5y ago
I'd concur: the university is the wrong unit-of-ban. For example: what happens when the students graduate- does the ban follow them to any potential employers? Or if the professor leaves for another university to continue this research
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by abought 6y ago
For web development, error monitoring services like Sentry are a breath of fresh air: instantly find the exact lines of code that are causing problems, even in front end code, before anyone files a bug report. Any tool that automatically ca
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by abought 6y ago
How granular is this? Does that imply that a major news event (such as, say, a new language version) could drive perceived "popularity" simply by people reading/writing articles to evaluate it?
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by abought 7y ago
Per the budget spreadsheet linked elsewhere, preprints seem to be 20+% of site traffic, but only 0.4-1% of storage costs for the overall site. This could indicate that many preprints are posted as standalone artifacts (eg not every preprint
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by abought 7y ago
I think the best way to understand the numbers would be to look at the breakdown of costs. Two links that were shared from the twitter thread discussing this might be useful: Preprints cost (projected vs actuals): https://docs.go