meow1032

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by meow1032 6y ago
I have a feeling that the lack of faith that Americans have in their government ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy. I work closely with a lot of government employees, and it really seems like 95% of the work is about avoiding "bo
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by meow1032 6y ago
> To the larger point, scientists are not programmers. They got into their programs to do research. I would say most research, to an ever growing degree, is so heavily dependent on software that it's tough to make that claim anymore
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by meow1032 6y ago
There are lots of great computational biologists, but being a computational biologist doesn't necessitate being good with computers. Plenty of PI's rely pretty much exclusively on grad students and post-docs to run all their analy
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by meow1032 6y ago
It's not about being an expert at everything or hiring more people. These aren't particularly hard problems, it's not difficult to find biologists who are incredibly adept at using python, R or C. It's about thinking abo
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by meow1032 6y ago
I don't disagree completely with this, but just want to point out that it's kind of a bad smell to have computational biologists who are - as someone in the article puts it - computationally illiterate. I have met lots of these ty
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by meow1032 6y ago
It sounds like what you're suggesting would be functionally equivalent to PI-led replications, which I would agree is a good idea. There are still some practical problems though. 1. Studies can be much more expensive than most people t
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by meow1032 6y ago
> academics ultimately rely on universities for their income Sort of, a huge portion of income is from grants, particularly after the first few years from being hired. More importantly, a huge portion of the University income is from gra
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by meow1032 6y ago
> What might work is that we require replication work for a PhD I don't think this will work. All it will do is devalue the value of replication studies because only PHD students do replication studies. It's also not in their b
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by meow1032 6y ago
Not OP here, but my issue with the recommendations are that they've pretty accurately listed a whole bunch of mostly structural problems with academia, but all of the suggestions boil down to "we all just need to try harder".
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by meow1032 6y ago
> One silver lining of living in these United States is that you can be assured that complex technology picked up by cities and counties (and often even states) will be implemented carelessly and wielded by only the hammiest fists. This
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by meow1032 6y ago
According to Nate Silver, these data come from smaller labs and in total account for a low proportion of tests: https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1283144803476283392
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by meow1032 6y ago
There's no battle, both links say pretty much the same thing.
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by meow1032 6y ago
Your link suggests that the statement is true, but you probably already know that and are posting in a bad faith effort to mislead people.
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by meow1032 6y ago
As someone who works with a lot of state IT people, if they don't know how to hire programmers, they probably don't know how to manage programmers. In a bureaucracy, if the administrators are making these kinds of unrealistic hiri
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by meow1032 6y ago
Here's a link to the actual source, rather than that garbage news article: https://nihrecord.nih.gov/2016/07/01/much-biomedical-researc...
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by meow1032 7y ago
I think "zip" breaks this rule.
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by meow1032 9y ago
Thanks for the response, I'm more on the research side of things now, so I don't have a current use case, but thinking about moving back to industry, and it's something that I remember having trouble with when I was last in i
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by meow1032 9y ago
It's been a while since I've done database stuff, so maybe this is a naive question, but how do you find the reusability of using primarily SQL/redshift to answer these sorts of questions. I remember getting these sorts of qu
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by meow1032 9y ago
If the point of the quote is to say that "sometimes the more expensive option is better value" it's accurate, but also is obvious, and doesn't really mean anything. To be clear, I don't think it's strictly wro
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by meow1032 9y ago
This quote gets posted over and over ad nauseum on reddit and HackerNews and always seems to just get accepted as truth, but realistically the entire theory depends on the relative numbers between the two things being compared. The theory m
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by meow1032 9y ago
I guess I meant in regards to studies that suggest psychology studies are underpowered (there have been quite a few in recent years), reporting often says that the studies have been disproved, which most of the time isn't statistically
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by meow1032 9y ago
In addition to the earlier points, I find a lot of the reporting on the misuse of statistics in psychology misuse statistics. It's a narrative, so "psychological studies are underpowered" becomes "ARE ALL PSYCHOLOGY STUD
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by meow1032 9y ago
As someone who studied Psychology and CS, and is somewhat good at math, it's not necessarily a bad thing that psychology students don't take a lot of math. I'd say maybe 10% of students who take psychology actually go on to d
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by meow1032 9y ago
One thing I'm confused about is why most of the criticism has come on the Positive Affect paper and not the original "The complex dynamics of high performance teams" paper, which the most of the math is drawn from.
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by meow1032 9y ago
With Gelman in there too? Definitely fear.
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by meow1032 9y ago
I can't help but feel that if Taleb put a little more effort into fleshing out his arguments I'd enjoy his writing a lot more. In most of what I've read from him, it always feels like he's more concerned with trying to m
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by meow1032 9y ago
That was a bit of a different story since his parents took out loans in his name.
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by meow1032 9y ago
I think they acknowledged this in the last couple sentences. The article is talking less about what is good or bad reporting, and more about what is a sustainable financial model for good reporting.
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by meow1032 9y ago
>You could fairly say that only a few of the prominent labs from the first neural-net boom lasted long enough to still be prominent labs now in the second neural-net boom (though even then there are several: Hinton, Bengio, Schmidhuber,
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by meow1032 9y ago
http://www.dataversity.net/brief-history-deep-learning/ Neural Networks weren't really thought of very highly until CNNs started winning image recognition competitions in the early 2010's. I think most people

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