The nih's run of good Basic science is over and may never come back.
The nih's run of good Basic science is over and may never come back. Government has this pesky thing called accountability that it needs to satisfy. There is no way to hold a scientist accountable when the fruits of 'basic science' are not provable for decades or centuries. It's just too easy for a snake oil salesman to extract funding from clueless program managers (the smartest PhD students are not the ones becoming program managers). As for smart PhDs leaving academia... They are. Getting a faculty position is basically a crap shoot that requires politicking, landing a lucky project, getting a high impact factor publication, or all three. The labor market was so saturated by decades of encouraging more people to be PhDs (it kind of became a dumping ground for students who didn't want to med school or look for a job) that the distinction between a good scientist and a bad failed to be the standard academic metrics. Good scientists who diligently pursued difficult research were more likely than not rewarded with little because such projects might not be doable in a five year PhD or a two year postdoc. The other route out is fraud. Edit: oh, I see, you're in the MSTP. Please consider Upton Sinclair's quote: "it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it"
Posted by dnautics on May 11, 2015, 4:54 PM
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C++ is the "just here to deliver" language.
He is not weirdly political, he has just more normal views, I know that is something hard to grasp for some tech bro.
Of course you don't have a right to murder anyone.
Unify Control and Container nodes, allow children to pick the behavior
I was talking about this the other day with someone - broadly I agree with this, they're absolutely fantastic for getting a prototype so ...
In theory you could express most things as a flowchart but the complexity of doing that quickly escalates.
It's not really hard to onboard new engineers with Scala, Clojure or even Ruby backgrounds.
Very understanding (or even no) partners is probably a large percentage of it!
The nih's run of good Basic science is over and may never come back.
The nih's run of good Basic science is over and may never come back. Government has this pesky thing called accountability that it needs to satisfy. There is no way to hold a scientist accountable when the fruits of 'basic science' are not provable for decades or centuries. It's just too easy for a snake oil salesman to extract funding from clueless program managers (the smartest PhD students are not the ones becoming program managers). As for smart PhDs leaving academia... They are. Getting a faculty position is basically a crap shoot that requires politicking, landing a lucky project, getting a high impact factor publication, or all three. The labor market was so saturated by decades of encouraging more people to be PhDs (it kind of became a dumping ground for students who didn't want to med school or look for a job) that the distinction between a good scientist and a bad failed to be the standard academic metrics. Good scientists who diligently pursued difficult research were more likely than not rewarded with little because such projects might not be doable in a five year PhD or a two year postdoc. The other route out is fraud. Edit: oh, I see, you're in the MSTP. Please consider Upton Sinclair's quote: "it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it"
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