@jimbob @mccarthymg @djnavarro But... you need to have a well written manual and you need to be able to understand it... which is not a given (and that's why we need to also train people on his to do that)
to celebrate selling out the first print run of How Integers and Floats work, we're giving away 500 PDF copies of the zine!
use code BUYONEGIVEONE at checkout to get a copy for free. (no need to enter your real address)
As usual this works with the honour system, this code is for you if $12 USD is a lot of money for you!
Wow it transports 20 people. ooooh I have an idea, what if we connected a bunch of these together... in a long chain and put them on tracks to make them more energy efficient (and to meet power needs) then ran them along the most popular transportation corridors in major cities! They could even go in tunnels in places like NYC to reduce traffic!
Golly Elon is on to something this time!
#statstab #198 Bayesian mixed effects (aka multi-level) ordinal regression models with {brms}
Thoughts: Useful tutorial also for frequentists, as it covers checking multiple links at once in {ordinal}.
#ordinal #brms #clmm #probit #cloglog #r #cauchit
https://kevinstadler.github.io/notes/bayesian-ordinal-regression-with-random-effects-using-brms/
@eamon Why opening them at all? I just mass select and delete!
Luckily, my work email is only maybe 40% junk?
@capbri I agree. Help pages are mostly unhelpful unless you are an R expert. Even after many years of using R I find them often obscure, therefore I tend not to use them.
What a massive, cool project. Such huge many lab collaborations are becoming more and more common and I am HERE for it.
@jeffowski #AI is an academic field of endeavour first. Just because there is some grifting and questionable actors now does not mean you can write it and all people involved in it off like that.
That is like saying Physics is a scam because people were pedding perpetuum mobila, writing of medicine because people are peddling miracle cures or writing off Computer Science because of the dot-com boom.
I find it concerning and unsurprising that The Nobel Prize team called out their own sexism, likely without realising it:
"This morning [the Nobel laureate] celebrated the news of his prize with his colleague and wife Rosalind Lee, who was also the first author on the 1993 'Cell' paper cited by the Nobel Committee."
Ah, the yearly week of the Nobel Prize for Men has started.
These guys did great work, surely. Also lots of non-men have done great work. I've followed this in the past and been so bitterly dissappointed by the lack of anything but old white guys. We'll see if this year is better, but so far 0 for 2 awardees.
There is no such thing as a backdoor for good guys. Once you place a backdoor, you compromise the safety and privacy of all your users. A third party or bad guys will get access to it and abuse it further. The concept of a "backdoor for good guys" is fundamentally flawed and dangerous. It sets a dangerous precedent. Security and privacy should be absolute. There's no safe way to create a backdoor that can't be exploited by malicious actors. #privacy #security #infosec
re: rant on why Nature journals suck
I wish I knew the magic thing to say.
I think students are very susceptible to the strong cultural bias that views Cell/Nature/Science (with PNAS off to the side) as the epitome of scientific publishing. I still regularly hear trainees say something to the extent of "I could really get that job if I had a Nature Neuroscience publication", even after I show them how individual paper metrics seem decorrelated from journal impact factor.
The only trainees that don't seem to care as much about journal prestige are those that want to go into industry instead of academia.
@zandawala @kofanchen @albertcardona @tdverstynen @ekmiller I don't work on connectome but I think everyone who's tried to publish a paper has at some point been in the same situation. And of course we all feel bad if our work is criticized. My thinking is that good peer review should point out flaws in the work, but it should also provide solutions, and we should be more critical with our own work.
One of the things I learnt from teaching is that if you comment on a student's work saying "this is bad" the student will come back complaining, and rightly so. If you say "this is not good because of X and Y" and explain what should be done to make it better, than the student will be absolutely fine with it.
Sometimes the solution might just be acknowledging the shortcomings of the technique that you're using, that does not mean it is not useful.
Think for example of single cell transcriptomics; I could write a book about what's wrong with it, that does not mean I think it's completely useless. However, when I use it, I try to be mindful of those shortcomings in my conclusions.
I think every paper should have a limitation section after the discussion, rather than trying to hide those somewhere in the text where nobody's going to look.
That said, there are also bad reviewers who don't take time to write meaningful reviews, and that's where editors should step in.
Generalizable Morphological Profiling of Cells by Interpretable Unsupervised Learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.24.614684v1?med=mas
Heads up to Kia owners/potential buyers: Today, a group of independent security researchers revealed that they'd found a flaw in a web portal operated by the carmaker Kia that let the researchers reassign control of the internet-connected features of most modern Kia vehicles—dozens of models representing millions of cars on the road—from the smartphone of a car’s owner to the hackers’ own phone or computer. By exploiting that vulnerability and building their own custom app to send commands to target cars, they were able to scan virtually any internet-connected Kia vehicle’s license plate and within seconds gain the ability to track that car’s location, unlock the car, honk its horn, or start its ignition at will.
https://www.wired.com/story/kia-web-vulnerability-vehicle-hack-track/
@elduvelle Graph at the end... sounds like you want to ditch PPT for #Quarto (which is a good idea anyways)!
A potentially controversial take on bioscience faculty job applications. If you have a partner who also needs a position, the right time to share that info is AFTER you have a WRITTEN job offer.
Once you have the letter, if the department doesn't find a position for you SO, you get to decide if you can live apart or if your partner can take a non-tenure position or pivot careers. Don't let the department make those decisions for you!!
@PhilippBayer oh, I've been there; I've deleted those entries at the very bottom. Nobody complained
Senior lecturer at the Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE) and Edinburgh University.
Undergraduate Programme Director, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE.
I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. I study #heterogeneity in #pituitary (and other) cells.
I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.