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I've been hearing some form of it since I was an undergrad. I just submitted by packet for full professor. There have been some spectacular strides, but we've been through multiple…

Doing hard things is hard.

Like many conspiracy theories, yours seems to require holding two contradictory pieces of information as true.

There has been a shift - an understandable one, and one I by and large support (absent some edge cases) - to move away from causal language for observational studies.

They are studies, and frankly, without something like this, doing things like the appropriate power calculations and risk assessments for larger studies would be hard to do.

One of the things I have found so alarming about a lot of recent revelations is just how cheap congress goes for.

In many places, you need to add lizards to that list.

This is one of the things that is oft repeated by my vector disease colleagues -- your infection may not be caused by the tick you found, but by the tick you didn't.

When we had to have a frank discussion about whether to fail someone who obviously used an LLM for parts their dissertation.

While large social media sites have captured lots of traffic, etc. I've had small websites for a local wargaming club, a very modest blog, etc. for decades requiring little or no t…

All humanity will benefit, but some humanity will benefit more than others.

One reason I don't read HN as much as I used to is because I can't help translating numbers like that into the amount of research that could be accomplished with the same amount, a…

WSU faculty here. The Cosmic Crisp is under license to Washington state growers for ten years, starting in about 2019, so it will be a few years yet.

Yeah - this scenario presupposes that if I need my car fixed I'm going to wait for you to give me a call back, rather than continue working down my list.

Have your estimate be off by enough to annoy me a time or two and you'll also blast through my continuing to be a customer.

Using AI tells me you don't care about the quality of your service.

This is very variable based on field. HN is heavily biased toward ArXiv-friendly fields.

bioRxiv is already housed at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, which is an independent non-profit.

Given the last two years and what has been done to science funding, having a load bearing thing like ArXiv not housed with the U.S. government is, I think, pretty self-evidently a …

Every university I've worked in has been dominated by this paradigm, has an office set up to support it, and a bunch of policies around what it means for your doctoral supervisor t…

Nowhere in deciding to attack Iran was "maybe this will help wind, solar and electric cars."

AI so often doesn't actually increase productivity - it just shifts the burden of work from the person creating to the person who has to check and evaluate that creation. In this c…

They did really well with people returning to the hobby, especially during the pandemic.

From someone who has been part of the hobby for a long time, I think a couple of reasons: 1) Total Warhammer, Space Marine, and an otherwise highly successful video game licensing …