Really good thoughts on why the grant model in acidemia has problems and a possible alternative.
Patents vs Prizes
Why is it even a contest?
virginica.substack.com
Tim Brandis
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Really good thoughts on why the grant model in acidemia has problems and a possible alternative.
Patents vs Prizes
Why is it even a contest?
virginica.substack.com
In my day to find our files we had to issue commands in assembly and we liked it. In all seriously the file system model makes sense when you have a human comprehendible number of files to interact with. Having spent time trying to troll AWS logs you needs search tools not organization
Students who grew up with search engines might change STEM education forever
Professors are struggling to teach Gen Z
theverge.com
One always has to be careful of a opinion piece that plays to your priors as this article is but I found a fair bit of its argument compelling.
Why Degrowth Is the Worst Idea on the Planet
Despite still growing over the last 50 years, we already figured out how to reduce our impact on Earth. So let's do that.
wired.com
Was pointed to this older article from twitter. I like to think I am doing a reasonable to good job raising me son but the thought that we might become estranged at some point is a real fear. Given that context this was a good read but still a bit of a white knuckler.
A Shift in American Family Values Is Fueling Estrangement
Both parents and adult children often fail to recognize how profoundly the rules of family life have changed over the past half century.
theatlantic.com
The story we know and the story that is often the state of the art in any field is fascinating.
Out of Africa's midlife crisis
on bottlenecks, crashes and what diversity really looks like
razib.substack.com
Blame a childhood building with legos but I shudder to think how often I have fallen victim to this behavior. When faced with a problem I often look to add and rarely remove.
Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving
People tend to solve problems by adding features.
nature.com