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by nmrm2 11y ago
"The code is bad therefore it's not science" is a questionable and even arrogant attitude. In more cases than not, the software is doing something that was previously done by hand by some grad student or support staff(1). If
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by nmrm2 11y ago
As far as I understand, the reason this is a problem is because the FAA requires English language proficiency. Within that context, this is an anecdote about the ineffectiveness of the FAA at enforcing its regulations, which is troublesome
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by nmrm2 11y ago
The US has the same caveats, it's just that the limitations of free speech are decided in case law instead of specifically codified. > For the prevention of disorder of crime There are all sorts of types of speech that are crimina
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> those who claim that charter schools get to pick the good students and leave the bad ones with the public schools are simply wrong no, they aren't. Sorry, this isn't a matter of opinion, it's a matter of fact. Every s
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Regarding this aside about bias (which, truly, is merely an aside and by far not the most important point of ANY of the posts I've made in this thread): 1. Just because X (here, income distribution) creates a bias that we have to corre
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Even today, after a century of spreading of Buddhist ideas here, it's cultural impact in the popular culture of West is negligible. The reason for the global proliferation of christianity is super duper ironic in light of the
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> I never said that charter schools was performing better I was saying that my SONS school was performing better despite being a lottery. Your comment started with "Again this is simply wrong", without specifying "this&
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> a lottery This is exactly what I meany by quasi-selection. The dat are absolutely clear on this question -- lotteries create a very nearly insurmountable selection bias. > public schools in NY are zoned so you have to live the
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Right, but the definition of a minimum viable product is also fanstastically more complicated today than it was forty years ago...
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by nmrm2 11y ago
3 is crucially important -- and the religion thing is really unimportant compared to the larger problem. Charter schools, in many states, occupy the absurd position of being able to claim that they out-perform local schools while selecting
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I think we were talking past one another, and I misinterpreted what you meant by "a field were the very purpose is writing" to mean "the purpose of academia is writing". Sorry for the confusion :-)
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by nmrm2 11y ago
>Not really sure what you take issue with. Yeah we're talking past each other. My point is that writing isn't the primary purpose of most academic work, and even when publications are the primary measured output, it's ra
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Academic writing isn't a field; or if it is one, then it's not one of the (many) fields that's being discussed in this article.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> because of the stranglehold journalistic publications have on the dissemination of scientific work... But they don't . There are media for longer form presentations of ideas -- dissertations, books, and lecture notes (a.k.a. ea
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> a field were the very purpose is writing This is true of vanishingly few academic disciplines.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Like so many things in life, this is so much easier said than done. The city that I live in has occasionally street cleaning days during which you can't park on certain streets, and in the winter it can be extremely difficult to find a
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by nmrm2 11y ago
ResearchGate is the LinkedIn of Academia -- a spammy and creepy service that will inevitably begin selling its users the ability to spy on each other.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> The lesson of the USSR seems to have been... ...that victors write the history books. Seriously, the notion that there was a single cause for the decline of the USSR -- and that this cause corresponds exactly to the ideologies at t
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by nmrm2 11y ago
The German number is measuring the cost . The US is measuring the amount that universities charge . Those are two very different things. The actual cost is probably still substantially smaller in Germany -- IMO higher ed is one of those a
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Who measures softness/fuzziness of a field? There's an absolutely unambiguous distinction between the "hard" and "soft" sciences Social scientists hold themselves to fundamentally different standards on
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> because they cannot get any other funding Really? I seriously question that "because". If I had FU money I would definitely start my own lab and pay for research out of pocket. Science is fantastically fun if you don't
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Comparing MacArthur Genius Grants and similar awards to venture capital isn't particularly apt. YCR or the fellowship might be slightly more comparable, but still pretty off mark. To the parent: MacArthur Genius Grants have been given
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by nmrm2 11y ago
IME the (alkaline) apple bluetooth mouse really is awful, and I really wanted to like the apple mouse (I really want to like anything I over-pay that much for). I ended up buying a $20 logitech bluetooth mouse because the apple mouse discon
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> and I do know that it's come up with a few tenure committees If you're saying what I think you are, then that's exactly what I meant by the sex appeal comment. Regardless of how it's talked about, people aren&#x27
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by nmrm2 11y ago
You're fooling yourself (or someone is fooling you). The small numbers just don't make sense. $1k-10k is such a miniscule portion of the total cost of even a grad student+. No PI with even the vaguest hint of a conscience is using
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Crowd sourced scientific funding is a fine way of supplementing existing infrastructure and it's good for funding small side-projects that augment existing grants / research groups. It's also a good way for amatuers to get a
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> they design a model... pump random data into it and see how different changes effect the model ?!?! This is such an odd way to demonstrate results about a model. For hypothesis testing or preliminary research, sure. But as a result?
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by nmrm2 11y ago
This isn't strange at all. I interact with scientists fairly regularly and very few are fans of science fiction in any sense of the phrase. Most scientists are normal people with an aptitude for a certain discipline, enjoy working on i
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I think the parent was complaining that things which definitely have nothing to do with STEM fields (sci-fi and star wars) were interspersed with things that are germanely related (computer parts and tech magazines). You wouldn't fault
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by nmrm2 11y ago
No. By this logic, giving any organization power is giving power to the people, because all organizations are "essentially groups of people". But that's clearly fallacious -- in all but the most bizarre cases, the local war

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