monkeyelite

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by monkeyelite 1y ago
> you have this idea that PI's hate their work / are gaming the system. That’s actually not what I said. > If the PI chooses use some funds from a grant to carry out speculative research. Good. GOOD. That is what scientific
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
No it’s really not that nuanced. Society should ban things that are obvious traps and cause massive costs to society. Banning gambling doesn’t mean hunting down gamblers, it means stopping them from being in the App Store listings and showi
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
Yes it existed before. But Do you dispute that far more people in the US are participating now? Ease of access and advertising matter.
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
> Perhaps ban advertising Yes. Ban the phone apps and had the ads. Advertising works people, that’s why they pay for it!
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
That makes sense. I guess seeing the full lifecycle is always how I think about software I work on. I can do a better job of communicating that’s what I’m doing and why the approach I’m using (of doing less) actually helps us to be able to
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
> spotting what comes next and knowing how to solve it faster This is such a strange mindset to me. Part of staff engineer is learning you don't need to solve tomorrow's problems. You solve it with the constraints you understa
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
> convincing others to fund it is harder. Yes, we are in agreement. That's why promoters are so valuable. > in the same way a PI doesn't spend their days doing lab work. This large workforce of Phd's protecting the time
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
> Please. PLEASE. I am begging you. Learn about a subject before forming an opinion about it. I actually lived it, so thanks for your understanding and consideration. > Getting money to fund an idea is not lesser than, it is often the
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
It’s scary that: 1. Our top researchers are wasting their time and energy promoting projects for grants. 2. Any attempt by the public to oversee or guide these grants is thwarted by smart people. 3. If you try to learn more about where the
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
I agree, we should use policy to prevent bad outcomes.
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
Professors have told me it doesn’t matter which administration is in - they just need to rebrand their project to meet funding requirements. Isn’t that a scary thought? We have no visibility and they are skilled enough to transform into any
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
I agree with you that it means large amounts of agreed upon science would not fit that definition of science. Don’t you agree that’s an interesting and consistent observation though?
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
Of course the intent is not malicious. As a student you want someone who speaks your language and someone who understands you. And similarly for professors. The absurdity is Americans assuming people won’t express in-group preference.
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
Even the undergrad is like this. I was shocked to learn it wasn’t a historical study of economic theory and instead a technical course in stats and modeling.
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
This. It’s not useful to capture the smartest people if we deploy them to spend 50% of their time promoting projects for grants.
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
> the majority of all economists are Republican Of mainstream politicians they are most aligned with Obama or Clinton. The Trump movement since 2016 has taken republicans away from mainstream Economics.
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
I think you may be imagining a disruptive person who can’t work with others, and then associating it with a political position.
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
Framing DEI skepticism as an inability to work with minority or protected groups makes me think you don’t understand the position well.
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
> Executives are almost solely focused on financial rewards. This is not true at all. Far more important in upper management is ego - they will lose money to improve their legacy or beat a competitor. > If you have salaries, you have
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
CEOs are also employees. This is a weird thing where you have invented enemies in your head you’ve never talked to. Yeah capitalism is sad in a lot of ways - particular the modes of possible value. But we are actually talking about working
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
No. opposition is not the right model It’s just business. You have something they want, they have something you want. Try to take advantage of places where your incentives aligned and watch out when they are not.
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
Yes. It’s not the way you detect cats in a photo. But detecting patterns in images is a very common problem.
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
This is absolutely true. And the mistake I see from PhDs who want to switch into industry, is looking for work around the exact subject they did their research on. Rather they need to identify a useful industry area and demonstrate how thei
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
How do you think sum types are implemented in functional languages?
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
I think it’s going to be even worse - companies are going to go to ChatGPT with lawyers and say you are making false/unfair claims about our product. We should be able to give it this copy with correct information to consume.
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
All of those never-ending exponential graphs about Covid were wrong though.
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
And what that means is the usefulness of LLms in recommending products is about to jump off a cliff.
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
Ok. I think this is becoming a pretty strained argument. Leftists don’t generally like mainstream economics and subscribe to more niche segments. That’s ok - and there is a lot to criticize. But it’s also wrong that freakeconomics is peddli
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
I wonder if his prominent online persona made him more likely to be targeted. People at the SEC are very likely to be in the age range who is familiar with him. Not to suggest he is or is not guilty but that being loud often makes others wa
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by monkeyelite 1y ago
Would you say freakeconomics is presenting heterodox economic theory? And if so how?

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