dawnchorus

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   by dawnchorus 9mo ago

   >most people would agree that being able to solve new difficult problems is a much more economically valuable skill than being able to quickly solve moderate problems that have already been solved Do most people agree with that? I agree
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   by dawnchorus 2y ago

   Honest question... I've had several ideas sort of like this over the years in areas/industries where it hadn't been done yet, but I'm always somewhat scared of running into copyright law issues. In other words, the data
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   by dawnchorus 2y ago

   This is a good point. However, the same point could also apply to both tenure decisions and academic hiring...in other words, it is difficult or impossible to tell who is the most promising young researcher. Therefore, rather than do real
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   by dawnchorus 2y ago

   As a former postdoc in the physical sciences (who is now out of academia mostly for family reasons), I don't like the constant argument I hear about whether competition is good or bad in research and especially academic research. I thi