I've thought of the same thing. Put in the charter that all administrators must be academics in good standing, where good standing means they're doing productive research, as assessed by randomly assigned peer-reviewers.
Me too. I was unwise enough to choose to do longitudinal human research. I'm competing with people whose papers require data from ten mice over a couple of weeks. Or better yet, some Excel jockeying on data somebody else spent time collecting.
I got frustrated once and explained to the project PI (a physician) on a group teleconference once what had been done, and what had yet to be done, for a paper. There was silence, then "uh, that sounds like, uh, a lot of work."
Peer review. Which is how it's supposed to be done, except that the peer reviewers know that the administrators are going to count papers, and anyway, they can't take too much time to do a good job because they have to get some papers published.
The system needs some intelligence. Academic performance should be reviewed by peers rather than by numbers. Just like performance reviews in industry, a bright person or two taking a tour is a lot better than someone looking down the columns in a spreadsheet and seeing "comrade, you haven't made your bi-daily quota!"
Statistics doesn't pigeon-hole you. It discovers what factors tend to influence people grouped with you, by how much, and how reliably. Like psychohistory, it only works on groups, the larger the better. The "pigeon-hole" is fuzzy and somewhat arbitrary. You still (maybe) have free will and are an individual... just like everybody else.
Despite driving, biking and taking transit, I didn't really know this city until I started running through it randomly. You go down a lot of little side streets you'd never see unless you were trying to keep a 30 km run interesting.
You didn't have chicken pox like I did then. I skipped two weeks of school all right. And I spent a lot of the time in front of the TV, true, mostly because I couldn't walk because I had pox on the bottoms of my feet. Oh, and in my nose and ears.
I spent almost as much time in cold baths as in front of the TV though, because the doctor said if we couldn't keep my fever down I'd have to go to the hospital and they used ice baths. Silver lining though - it washed off the coating of calamine lotion so I could apply a fresh one.'
Kids today don't know how lucky they've got it. Avoid chicken pox with a little jab. Of course, I had it pretty easy too. One of my friends' fathers had been crippled by polio.
Some risks are trivially avoidable. Being an idiot isn't "growing a pair," it's being an idiot. Not getting vaccinated is particularly stupid because you expose other people to risk, not just yourself.
I jump off mountains and travel to places where a mosquito bite can kill you. I've got all my vaccinations.
All the people who spend hundreds of billions on "supplements" every year? There are a LOT of people who self medicate. There are even more who go to doctors and tell them what they're going to prescribe.
23andMe's marketing material explicitly claimed that they were giving medical advice that could help people make decisions and live longer. The FDA's letter specifically said they'd suggested some labelling changes that could bring them into compliance.
The problem is, if a random person gets a genetic test done their report is along the lines of "such and such a variant has been associated with a 0.000000028% chance of developing such and such", etc. That's not very sexy marketing.
You'd have to write software to make the light blink, and since it's hardware you'd have to deal with a driver of some sort. I would be much easier for you to just write software that plays a sound over the speakers.
You rebutted his "coke snorting Americans" with an article that says most of the Mexican coke is snorted by Americans but the Europeans are catching up? Hm....
Dying because you smoked a cigarette after gulping down some gasoline sounds like it fits the Darwin awards criteria pretty well: removing yourself from the gene pool due to your own stupidity.
You misunderstand evolution by natural selection, just like many other people. Nobody who knows what they're talking about, from Darwin to now, ever proposed that only organisms who are not fit die. Natural selection requires only that organisms that successful reproduction be correlated with certain heritable features. Of course most survival or death is random. But not all of it. The second part is the magic.
Depends who you were, I guess. Most of the people in the old testament I thought most deserved punishment ended up fathering entire races or being selected as God's favourite. Or were God himself, come to think of it.
The middle of the road types... yeah, they got treated pretty harshly.
Your post doesn't really seem to make sense. If you've got JS turned off then yes, it's quite reasonable that if a web app wants to run the browser says "turn JS back on, here's how, or use the clunky non-JS interface". If a web app wants to install itself onto my computer it's quite reasonable (very highly desirable, actually) that the browser ask me if it's okay first.
Numbers, and damn good ones, or it didn't happen. If you want to argue that auto-installation is a good idea because Google is so good at catching and eliminating malicious software (and that includes software that does things like track my web browsing, location, whatever I might not want installed) then you'd better be able to show that they're essentially perfect at it. They're not.
Google isn't Microsoft? That's your argument? It's a poor one. Google is pulling a very Microsoft-in-the-90s move here. Convenience over security, taken to excess. It's likely to bite them in the ass, just like it did MS.
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I've thought of the same thing. Put in the charter that all administrators must be academics in good standing, where good standing means they're doing productive research, as assessed by randomly assigned peer-reviewers.
Me too. I was unwise enough to choose to do longitudinal human research. I'm competing with people whose papers require data from ten mice over a couple of weeks. Or better yet, some Excel jockeying on data somebody else spent time collecting.
I got frustrated once and explained to the project PI (a physician) on a group teleconference once what had been done, and what had yet to be done, for a paper. There was silence, then "uh, that sounds like, uh, a lot of work."
Peer review. Which is how it's supposed to be done, except that the peer reviewers know that the administrators are going to count papers, and anyway, they can't take too much time to do a good job because they have to get some papers published.
The system needs some intelligence. Academic performance should be reviewed by peers rather than by numbers. Just like performance reviews in industry, a bright person or two taking a tour is a lot better than someone looking down the columns in a spreadsheet and seeing "comrade, you haven't made your bi-daily quota!"
Absolutely. Someone else already has the patent on adjusting prices depending on someone's net usage.
Statistics doesn't pigeon-hole you. It discovers what factors tend to influence people grouped with you, by how much, and how reliably. Like psychohistory, it only works on groups, the larger the better. The "pigeon-hole" is fuzzy and somewhat arbitrary. You still (maybe) have free will and are an individual... just like everybody else.
Despite driving, biking and taking transit, I didn't really know this city until I started running through it randomly. You go down a lot of little side streets you'd never see unless you were trying to keep a 30 km run interesting.
That is one approach. You might change your mind when some unregulated company sells you bad heart medication though. Or contaminated ibuprofen.
You didn't have chicken pox like I did then. I skipped two weeks of school all right. And I spent a lot of the time in front of the TV, true, mostly because I couldn't walk because I had pox on the bottoms of my feet. Oh, and in my nose and ears.
I spent almost as much time in cold baths as in front of the TV though, because the doctor said if we couldn't keep my fever down I'd have to go to the hospital and they used ice baths. Silver lining though - it washed off the coating of calamine lotion so I could apply a fresh one.'
Kids today don't know how lucky they've got it. Avoid chicken pox with a little jab. Of course, I had it pretty easy too. One of my friends' fathers had been crippled by polio.
Some risks are trivially avoidable. Being an idiot isn't "growing a pair," it's being an idiot. Not getting vaccinated is particularly stupid because you expose other people to risk, not just yourself.
I jump off mountains and travel to places where a mosquito bite can kill you. I've got all my vaccinations.
It's okay, the light creates the clouds too.
All the people who spend hundreds of billions on "supplements" every year? There are a LOT of people who self medicate. There are even more who go to doctors and tell them what they're going to prescribe.
23andMe's marketing material explicitly claimed that they were giving medical advice that could help people make decisions and live longer. The FDA's letter specifically said they'd suggested some labelling changes that could bring them into compliance.
The problem is, if a random person gets a genetic test done their report is along the lines of "such and such a variant has been associated with a 0.000000028% chance of developing such and such", etc. That's not very sexy marketing.
You'd have to write software to make the light blink, and since it's hardware you'd have to deal with a driver of some sort. I would be much easier for you to just write software that plays a sound over the speakers.
That's stupid. If you just want to make a light blink with an LED use a USB port use a USB decoder. That's what they're for.
That sounds silly. You can "do USB" in a single chip much simpler than a microcontroller. Probably faster and more reliable too.
You rebutted his "coke snorting Americans" with an article that says most of the Mexican coke is snorted by Americans but the Europeans are catching up? Hm....
Dying because you smoked a cigarette after gulping down some gasoline sounds like it fits the Darwin awards criteria pretty well: removing yourself from the gene pool due to your own stupidity.
You misunderstand evolution by natural selection, just like many other people. Nobody who knows what they're talking about, from Darwin to now, ever proposed that only organisms who are not fit die. Natural selection requires only that organisms that successful reproduction be correlated with certain heritable features. Of course most survival or death is random. But not all of it. The second part is the magic.
Do you spell biohazard correctly, or is that so when somebody claims you're scaring people you can say they just didn't read carefully?
That's silly. If they were after radioactive material they wouldn't have opened it, and they certainly wouldn't have abandoned it.
You attitude that people deserve to be punished for what they could do... that's not silly, it's disturbing.
Depends who you were, I guess. Most of the people in the old testament I thought most deserved punishment ended up fathering entire races or being selected as God's favourite. Or were God himself, come to think of it.
The middle of the road types... yeah, they got treated pretty harshly.
Sure it is, in thousands of places.
You said something didn't exist. I gave you an example of a very real system. QED.
The subject of this thread has become very ironic.
Your post doesn't really seem to make sense. If you've got JS turned off then yes, it's quite reasonable that if a web app wants to run the browser says "turn JS back on, here's how, or use the clunky non-JS interface". If a web app wants to install itself onto my computer it's quite reasonable (very highly desirable, actually) that the browser ask me if it's okay first.
Numbers, and damn good ones, or it didn't happen. If you want to argue that auto-installation is a good idea because Google is so good at catching and eliminating malicious software (and that includes software that does things like track my web browsing, location, whatever I might not want installed) then you'd better be able to show that they're essentially perfect at it. They're not.
Google isn't Microsoft? That's your argument? It's a poor one. Google is pulling a very Microsoft-in-the-90s move here. Convenience over security, taken to excess. It's likely to bite them in the ass, just like it did MS.