What I've personally seen of scientists is a frantic determination to publish papers anywhere and everywhere, no matter how well-founded the results in those papers are. The IPCC-gate is merely a symptom of a deeper problem within scientific research.
They're trained for years on a publish or perish doctrine. Either they have enough publications or they get bounced out of academia at some threshold (getting into a PhD, getting a post doc, getting a teaching position, getting tenure,...). Under that pressure you end up with just the people who churn out lots of papers making it into positions of power. In some fields you're also expected to pull in significant research funding and there are few opportunities to do some without corporate partnerships. So if you're going to fund students to publish papers, you need to accept limits on what you can publish. The only alternative is to leave the field.
There's no shortage of problems with the research community these days.
The madness would ensue when we try to find people to review it. I've seen some pretty loony reviewers comments and I can only imagine what they would come up with if we gave them code.
This raises the question in what programming language the scientific code should be published.
Should there be a universal language, so that stronger guarantees are obtained on the reproducibility of the work?
Of course, this is a difficult topic since a lot of scientific programs are specifically designed for (specific) clusters.
Good luck. Even within single small research programs I haven't seen consistency in code. Heck, my master's used Scilab on the cluster which called C when it needed to be fast, Matlab for prototyping and trialing different methods and visualization, Python to mate the Matlab engine to stuff and for some low-level processing, some declarative optimization languages,... Even within my one little topic it would have been a huge waste of time and effort to choose just one of these tools and try to make it fit everything. I may have had 10-50% overlap in languages with people in my lab, at most, and there were people in my program that could not have used my tools for their work.
Enforcing a single language (ignoring who could possible police it) would result in a huge loss of productivity. Sometimes the point of research is to show something is possible, not to provide iron-clad proof for the 6 o'clock news bites.
My mom's definitely going to end up with one. She has a netbook which results in regular "service requests" for us and complains for weeks every time Facebook changes anything. Her iPod Touch she loves and uses all by herself. If she asks for help with it, it's always like "someone told me you do X, can you show me how?" Since she's confident and motivated she remembers those tricks much better than where her files magically hide on her netbook.
You definitely got the strategy right, I just thought I'd add some tactical-level details. It's been my experience that repetition and detail get better results with men. Sometimes it seems like mine's programmed to a "tell me three times" protocol which ignores potentially ambiguous hints.
I personally don't care for flowers or chocolate for Valentine's day. While I love chocolate, the stuff stores stock for Valentine's day tends to be of low quality, and in tacky, heart-shaped boxes.
I agree, Valentine's day chocolate is generally awful. If you want to do it right, go to a real chocolatier and get a box of their specialty. It will cost you a lot more than the crap at Walmart but it will actually be worth eating and show that you put some thought into it. For flowers, at least make sure she isn't allergic or sensitive to scents first. A migraine would be the worst Valentine's day gift ever.
There are huge chunks of crown land in many parts of Canada where any citizen can backcountry camp for free and unregistered. Unfortunately, they also tend to be in places you wouldn't really want to spend March. It'd be an unpredictable time to pack for a month, given that you could have a spring melt or -25C. It'd be a lot more comfortable in a heated yurt or tentipi in a national or provincial park, perhaps with some cross-country ski trails for entertainment. They'll claim they want your name but I've never shown any ID when checking in.
Actually, that sounds kinda fun. I'd never be able to carry enough books and wine for a month in the backcountry.
Toyota's smarter than that, they'll weigh the cost of the recall against lawsuits plus loss of good will decreasing future sales (relative to the good will that's a sunk cost either way).
Frankly, it can be Woz, hell, it could be the entire Apple team - I don't see why toyota should treat him as anything but just a normal customer... unless the Prius runs on Apple software and hardware.
Because there's a large number of people who trust him more than Toyota? We know he's got brains and we're pretty sure he doesn't have much to gain from making Toyota look bad. Plus, right now anyone who can clearly reproduce and detail these issues should be getting some satisfaction from Toyota, not just fed a telephone script.
is that dealing with people is hard. In other news water is wet and snow is cold.
I'll get this english thing eventually, it's only my first language.
Never having been taught anything useful about a language is a pretty good excuse for errors. Most of the strong English speakers I know do have it as a mother tongue but speak a related language too. The other are old enough that the curriculum wasn't diluted to just reading when they were in school. Actually studying grammar and structure seems to make a difference.
Sometimes my club feels like a drinking club with a public speaking problem, at least after we finish the regular meeting and head to the pub. We're also ultra-geeky: IP issues and ISO standards are regular topics.
From TFA: "Although [men and women] are on average the same, the people at the very top and the very bottom of the IQ bell curve are more likely to be men."
Broth is mostly made from boiling bones which are generally a waste product, especially these days when few people bother making "real" stock or dishes like ossobuco. Some of the meat rendering waste is just bits that were too fiddly to be worth trimming properly or paying a real butcher to handle. Stewing these bits and the bones into a broth used to be standard practice and is still the base of the sauces at any decent restaurant. It's the same as boiling your turkey carcass and making sure all the meat has been cleaned off, it may not be efficient in effort but it is efficient in meat per animal.
Swapping out some meat broth with vegetable broth (say, court bouillon) would reduce the amount of meat required and produce something between beef tenderloin and tempeh. There aren't a lot of cheap tender meats out there, unless you count saturating chicken with water, salt, and corn starch. Fast food restaurants seem to have figured out that people don't like chewing; this will just let them not chew at home for cheap.
But yes, "IT guys" is the correct term for all of us: Programmers, admins, security specialists, tech support
Not quite all of us: calling women "guys" isn't correct. I'm used to being the only woman in the room (or sometimes building) but it's hard to trust someone's designs and fixes when they're that imprecise.
And how is this different from any other country? 50% of people are BELOW AVERAGE on ANY measure you care to choose.
Even assuming it's a 1-dimensional measure, that's not true in general. It's true in many cases since symmetric distributions are common, although it can happen with non-symmetric distributions, but there are plenty of cases where it's not. If 95% of people love TV, giving it an approval rating of 90%, and 5% of people hate it, rating it 0%, then the average rating is 85.5% but only 5% of people are below that average. Alternatively, how about number of toes? The average is very close to 10 and there's no way 50% of people have fewer than 9.99 toes. Unless you mean average as median but usually it implies the arithmetic mean.
You can't full-text search a library book, nor can you jot notes in it. Electronic books allow for both: the computer can generate an exhaustive index before you're done reading the first page, and the notes can be stored separately from the text, each section of the notes referring to a section of the text.
I'm taking it you're not a kinesthetic learner? Half the usefulness of taking notes for me is in taking them. I'll remember better than if I never look at them again. But I do need to put some effort into a filing system for those I will want or at least use single logbook. I also happen to be better at remembering about where a section was in a book and flipping to it than coming up with a search term. To each his own.
Your iPod Touch or Archos 5 probably has a lithium battery. Lithium batteries have a finite shelf life, and the replacement every couple years is indistinguishable from a monthly fee. Granted, this fee is less than the fee for battery + phone service, but it's still present.
It's far less than the monthly fee for a data plan in Canada (~$50, nearly the cost of a new battery each month) and it assumes I keep using the device past the life of the battery. That's almost $2000 over a typical 3 year contract. There's also no reason I would amortize the cost of the batter over the lifetime. Why not see it as a cost incurred once each few years if I decide it's worth getting it running again? I'm not claiming it on my taxes so I don't amortize the purchase price either. It's the sneaky recurring fees that gradually get increased (cable, cell phone,...) that I try to avoid.
I think you nailed the problem with the article right there: they're trying to present characteristics in some people as universal trends. The telephone wouldn't have replaced the telegraph if telegraphs were more convenient, fashionable, accessible,... We may see smaller markets for the items on the list but we're not all going to suddenly become identical drones with exactly the same wants and needs.
Too bad you digressed into presenting your habits as the one true way. Even if all your arguments are true, it's still not the right choice in some circumstances. Mp3 players may be more convenient, cute, whatever, but some people keep buying record players.
You've got a while to wait: I'm 26 and still like making notes on what I'm reading during a meeting. I also go to the physical library for paper books, wear a real watch, turn my cell phone totally off overnight, use a real alarm clock to wake up to the radio, and refuse to pay a monthly fee for my mp3 player with apps. Oh, and paper books don't break when you fall asleep reading then drop them.
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They're trained for years on a publish or perish doctrine. Either they have enough publications or they get bounced out of academia at some threshold (getting into a PhD, getting a post doc, getting a teaching position, getting tenure, ...). Under that pressure you end up with just the people who churn out lots of papers making it into positions of power. In some fields you're also expected to pull in significant research funding and there are few opportunities to do some without corporate partnerships. So if you're going to fund students to publish papers, you need to accept limits on what you can publish. The only alternative is to leave the field.
There's no shortage of problems with the research community these days.
The madness would ensue when we try to find people to review it. I've seen some pretty loony reviewers comments and I can only imagine what they would come up with if we gave them code.
This raises the question in what programming language the scientific code should be published.
Should there be a universal language, so that stronger guarantees are obtained on the reproducibility of the work?
Of course, this is a difficult topic since a lot of scientific programs are specifically designed for (specific) clusters.
Good luck. Even within single small research programs I haven't seen consistency in code. Heck, my master's used Scilab on the cluster which called C when it needed to be fast, Matlab for prototyping and trialing different methods and visualization, Python to mate the Matlab engine to stuff and for some low-level processing, some declarative optimization languages, ... Even within my one little topic it would have been a huge waste of time and effort to choose just one of these tools and try to make it fit everything. I may have had 10-50% overlap in languages with people in my lab, at most, and there were people in my program that could not have used my tools for their work.
Enforcing a single language (ignoring who could possible police it) would result in a huge loss of productivity. Sometimes the point of research is to show something is possible, not to provide iron-clad proof for the 6 o'clock news bites.
My mom's definitely going to end up with one. She has a netbook which results in regular "service requests" for us and complains for weeks every time Facebook changes anything. Her iPod Touch she loves and uses all by herself. If she asks for help with it, it's always like "someone told me you do X, can you show me how?" Since she's confident and motivated she remembers those tricks much better than where her files magically hide on her netbook.
You definitely got the strategy right, I just thought I'd add some tactical-level details. It's been my experience that repetition and detail get better results with men. Sometimes it seems like mine's programmed to a "tell me three times" protocol which ignores potentially ambiguous hints.
I guess a migraine is an excuse to spent V-day in bed. Honestly though, I'd much rather get an ironing board.
I personally don't care for flowers or chocolate for Valentine's day. While I love chocolate, the stuff stores stock for Valentine's day tends to be of low quality, and in tacky, heart-shaped boxes.
I agree, Valentine's day chocolate is generally awful. If you want to do it right, go to a real chocolatier and get a box of their specialty. It will cost you a lot more than the crap at Walmart but it will actually be worth eating and show that you put some thought into it. For flowers, at least make sure she isn't allergic or sensitive to scents first. A migraine would be the worst Valentine's day gift ever.
There are huge chunks of crown land in many parts of Canada where any citizen can backcountry camp for free and unregistered. Unfortunately, they also tend to be in places you wouldn't really want to spend March. It'd be an unpredictable time to pack for a month, given that you could have a spring melt or -25C. It'd be a lot more comfortable in a heated yurt or tentipi in a national or provincial park, perhaps with some cross-country ski trails for entertainment. They'll claim they want your name but I've never shown any ID when checking in.
Actually, that sounds kinda fun. I'd never be able to carry enough books and wine for a month in the backcountry.
The OP's point was closer to "if Fords were free, how many people would bother to buy Hondas?"
Toyota's smarter than that, they'll weigh the cost of the recall against lawsuits plus loss of good will decreasing future sales (relative to the good will that's a sunk cost either way).
Frankly, it can be Woz, hell, it could be the entire Apple team - I don't see why toyota should treat him as anything but just a normal customer... unless the Prius runs on Apple software and hardware.
Because there's a large number of people who trust him more than Toyota? We know he's got brains and we're pretty sure he doesn't have much to gain from making Toyota look bad. Plus, right now anyone who can clearly reproduce and detail these issues should be getting some satisfaction from Toyota, not just fed a telephone script.
As noted above, he already told /.
>> An example of this type of organization would be Manav Sadhna in India
Great, you can spend your vacation voluntarily training up the guy who your company will outsource your job to.
But then you'll know someone working there and can networking your way in! Initiate brain drain, phase II.
is that dealing with people is hard. In other news water is wet and snow is cold.
I'll get this english thing eventually, it's only my first language.
Never having been taught anything useful about a language is a pretty good excuse for errors. Most of the strong English speakers I know do have it as a mother tongue but speak a related language too. The other are old enough that the curriculum wasn't diluted to just reading when they were in school. Actually studying grammar and structure seems to make a difference.
Sometimes my club feels like a drinking club with a public speaking problem, at least after we finish the regular meeting and head to the pub. We're also ultra-geeky: IP issues and ISO standards are regular topics.
That's what she said! Uh, you said. Hmm, works either way.
IQ tests are mostly multiple choice. Coloring the bubble more darkly doesn't get you extra points if you're right.
From TFA: "Although [men and women] are on average the same, the people at the very top and the very bottom of the IQ bell curve are more likely to be men."
Broth is mostly made from boiling bones which are generally a waste product, especially these days when few people bother making "real" stock or dishes like ossobuco. Some of the meat rendering waste is just bits that were too fiddly to be worth trimming properly or paying a real butcher to handle. Stewing these bits and the bones into a broth used to be standard practice and is still the base of the sauces at any decent restaurant. It's the same as boiling your turkey carcass and making sure all the meat has been cleaned off, it may not be efficient in effort but it is efficient in meat per animal.
Swapping out some meat broth with vegetable broth (say, court bouillon) would reduce the amount of meat required and produce something between beef tenderloin and tempeh. There aren't a lot of cheap tender meats out there, unless you count saturating chicken with water, salt, and corn starch. Fast food restaurants seem to have figured out that people don't like chewing; this will just let them not chew at home for cheap.
But yes, "IT guys" is the correct term for all of us: Programmers, admins, security specialists, tech support
Not quite all of us: calling women "guys" isn't correct. I'm used to being the only woman in the room (or sometimes building) but it's hard to trust someone's designs and fixes when they're that imprecise.
And how is this different from any other country? 50% of people are BELOW AVERAGE on ANY measure you care to choose.
Even assuming it's a 1-dimensional measure, that's not true in general. It's true in many cases since symmetric distributions are common, although it can happen with non-symmetric distributions, but there are plenty of cases where it's not. If 95% of people love TV, giving it an approval rating of 90%, and 5% of people hate it, rating it 0%, then the average rating is 85.5% but only 5% of people are below that average. Alternatively, how about number of toes? The average is very close to 10 and there's no way 50% of people have fewer than 9.99 toes. Unless you mean average as median but usually it implies the arithmetic mean.
You can't full-text search a library book, nor can you jot notes in it. Electronic books allow for both: the computer can generate an exhaustive index before you're done reading the first page, and the notes can be stored separately from the text, each section of the notes referring to a section of the text.
I'm taking it you're not a kinesthetic learner? Half the usefulness of taking notes for me is in taking them. I'll remember better than if I never look at them again. But I do need to put some effort into a filing system for those I will want or at least use single logbook. I also happen to be better at remembering about where a section was in a book and flipping to it than coming up with a search term. To each his own.
Your iPod Touch or Archos 5 probably has a lithium battery. Lithium batteries have a finite shelf life, and the replacement every couple years is indistinguishable from a monthly fee. Granted, this fee is less than the fee for battery + phone service, but it's still present.
It's far less than the monthly fee for a data plan in Canada (~$50, nearly the cost of a new battery each month) and it assumes I keep using the device past the life of the battery. That's almost $2000 over a typical 3 year contract. There's also no reason I would amortize the cost of the batter over the lifetime. Why not see it as a cost incurred once each few years if I decide it's worth getting it running again? I'm not claiming it on my taxes so I don't amortize the purchase price either. It's the sneaky recurring fees that gradually get increased (cable, cell phone, ...) that I try to avoid.
Certainly you are 26. When it became standard for a "real" alarm clock to tune radio? Mine still does "riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing" and nothing more.
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It's hard to grow old.
Guess as old as the texting twihards make me feel, I'm not there yet. I'll be getting off of your lawn now.
funny how there are different types of humans.
I think you nailed the problem with the article right there: they're trying to present characteristics in some people as universal trends. The telephone wouldn't have replaced the telegraph if telegraphs were more convenient, fashionable, accessible, ... We may see smaller markets for the items on the list but we're not all going to suddenly become identical drones with exactly the same wants and needs.
Too bad you digressed into presenting your habits as the one true way. Even if all your arguments are true, it's still not the right choice in some circumstances. Mp3 players may be more convenient, cute, whatever, but some people keep buying record players.
You've got a while to wait: I'm 26 and still like making notes on what I'm reading during a meeting. I also go to the physical library for paper books, wear a real watch, turn my cell phone totally off overnight, use a real alarm clock to wake up to the radio, and refuse to pay a monthly fee for my mp3 player with apps. Oh, and paper books don't break when you fall asleep reading then drop them.