stevenbedrick

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by stevenbedrick 9mo ago
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I did want to point out that a big part of what made it possible for Word to displace WordPerfect in the legal world was, literally, the fact that Word implemented full support for WordPerfect
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by stevenbedrick 11mo ago
It seems to me as though you're reading a lot in to that second paragraph. Are you disputing the basic facts outlined, about "masked agents roaming the streets kidnapping people in broad daylight"? Because that is, in fact, a
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by stevenbedrick 1y ago
It really depends on the specifics of the clinical situation; for a lot of outpatient radiology scenarios the patient and radiologist don't directly interact, but things can be different in an inpatient setting and then of course there
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by stevenbedrick 1y ago
Umberto Eco gave a pretty well-reasoned definition of Facism, and I think it's pretty straightforward to apply this definition to the situation in London (and DHH's commentary thereon): https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by stevenbedrick 1y ago
I’ll second this sentiment on all counts. Definitely give the book a read before making any judgments about the author and her situation.
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by stevenbedrick 1y ago
Two points. First, the danger is very real, as the specific administrative mechanism for those final determinations involves political appointees outside of the regular scientific or program review processes, so who knows what they will or
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by stevenbedrick 1y ago
Totally agreed, but I will just add, to your first point, it’s fine for priorities to change, but we do also have well-established statutes that define how changes in administrative rules are supposed to be implemented (eg the Administrativ
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by stevenbedrick 1y ago
To do those things, I do the same thing I've been doing for the thirty years that I've been programming professionally: I spend the (typically modest) time it takes to learn to understand the code that I am integrating into my pro
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by stevenbedrick 1y ago
At least one county prosecutor in WV is, in fact, discussing investigating routine miscarriages: https://www.wvnstv.com/news/local-news/prosecutor-warns-of-p... From the article: > State law does not require a
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by stevenbedrick 1y ago
Excellent point; the administration has a serious and well-publicized antipathy to mRNA vaccine technologies in particular, and has begun to suppress research in that direction. Given that mRNA vaccines are one of the biggest advances in va
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by stevenbedrick 1y ago
In the case of this specific post, it is unfortunately very appropriate to bring him up: his administration is enthusiastically setting back the US’s ability to study, treat, and cure cancer by years and possibly decades; his cuts at th
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by stevenbedrick 1y ago
In case anybody’s interested, Malka Older has a really enjoyable series (two books so far) of short novels set on habitats in Jupiter’s atmosphere (so not breathable atmosphere, but also not vacuum). They’re solid mystery stories with fun c
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by stevenbedrick 1y ago
Ages and ages ago a group of colleagues of mine did a study of faxing Arabic-language prescriptions- the low resolution of the fax machine, as well as the textured appearance of the forgery-resistant paper that prescriptions had to be print
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by stevenbedrick 1y ago
There is indeed a lot of evidence of this but you've got the direction backwards- it's not that women avoid studies, it's that for a long time studies specifically excluded women. Ditto for people of different races. This is
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by stevenbedrick 1y ago
Without getting into the question of what it means for the pandemic to be "over", I think it's relevant to point out that at least some of the cancelled grants are not studying COVID per se, but rather are studying things rel
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by stevenbedrick 1y ago
First of all, I don’t accept the a priori premise that cutting is needed. But if I did want to cut, I would want to have an actual plan for how to figure out what could be cut and what tradeoffs were involved, and then to execute that pla
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by stevenbedrick 1y ago
I’m here to say that the cuts to the NSF, NIH, DoE (both energy and education) and IRS are not overhyped at all; if anything they are badly underhyped. What is overhyped is the actual “savings” that they are producing with all of this.
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by stevenbedrick 2y ago
Presumably a lot of the funds in the terminated grants were for running programs that had other direct costs beyond pure headcount… That’s the thing that isn’t being reported well, IMHO: federal grants aren’t just gifts that the government
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by stevenbedrick 2y ago
Those are fair questions! My answer to the first one is in three parts: 1. In absolute terms, the amount of money we're talking about (e.g. NSF+NIH) is a drop in the bucket compared to $2T; it's been well-covered elsewhere, but sc
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by stevenbedrick 2y ago
The teams I mentioned all support dozens of investigators and their associated labs, they are shared resources. That’s part of the point of centralizing overhead costs at the university level via an indirect cost mechanism- if every lab had
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by stevenbedrick 2y ago
Ok, I’ll bite. My university has a team of experts to help students with academic writing. Another that helps us figure out how best to organize our classes in the online LMS that we use for distance education, and to ensure that we all are
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by stevenbedrick 2y ago
For what it's worth, and in case anybody's interested, the "shrimp treadmill" was funded by NSF, not USAID, and was exactly the kind of basic science research that the NSF is supposed to fund. Here's an article from
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by stevenbedrick 2y ago
I certainly can't (and wouldn't want to) dispute what your lived experience has been, and I am sorry that you've found yourself in those kinds of situations and interpersonal dynamics. That sucks and is not how things should
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by stevenbedrick 2y ago
I can only speak for my own experience, but this is 100% not what I have seen (as an NIH-funded white male PI, and one of many at my institution and in my field). I just submitted an R01 last week, and can firmly say that there is no "
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by stevenbedrick 2y ago
Thank you for writing this- it aligns perfectly with what my own experience, as a white male in academia, has been with these issues. When I talk to people outside academia about “DEI”, it’s clear to me that whatever they think that term me
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by stevenbedrick 2y ago
Not to be confused with the Thrax toolkit for finite-state grammar engineering: https://www.openfst.org/twiki/bin/view/GRM/Thrax
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by stevenbedrick 2y ago
This is exactly correct (I worked in AAC and BCI for years, and still collaborate with the group that I used to work closely with). To elaborate a little bit on your excelelnt answer: In addition to being enormously expensive and requiring
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by stevenbedrick 3y ago
I think at this point in the discussion we are getting to a very interesting question: about the meaning of the word "wisdom". To my eye, Devereaux is using the word in a way that sounds a lot like how it is conceptualized in Acko
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by stevenbedrick 3y ago
To add to the excellent resources that have already been posted, Chapter 9 of Jurafsky and Martin's "Speech and Language Processing" has a nice overview of attention, and the next chapter talks specifically about the Transfor
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by stevenbedrick 3y ago
I would be very curious to understand a bit more about why you think that formal higher education in the humanities is not "good for America". Speaking as an academic researcher in a STEM field, I strongly believe the opposite to

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