oh i completely agree that a binary distinction between 'tools' and 'science' is not useful. it's also extremely hard to be a good scientist without being very good at 'tools'. however, editors at peer-reviewed academic…
yes, in 2020 you mostly cannot do science without software, electricity, desks and chairs and buildings, printers, pick your own irreplaceable tool. yet building these things to enable research is emphatically not…
most of anything is 'uninspired garbage'. not sure what it's to do whether a particular phd should be awarded. no-one is proposing that numpy isn't useful or people developing / maintaining tools aren't doing gods work.…
> The scientific method is based on building on the shoulders of giants. > The whole of the process is science no. scientific research is proposing a useful model of an observable phenomenon. this is what you train for…
props to your work and similar to numpy, i assume it has been immensely useful for loads of people. but 'building the underlying infrastructure that tons of people use' is not science. in my department we had to fail a…
oh i completely agree that a binary distinction between 'tools' and 'science' is not useful. it's also extremely hard to be a good scientist without being very good at 'tools'. however, editors at peer-reviewed academic…
yes, in 2020 you mostly cannot do science without software, electricity, desks and chairs and buildings, printers, pick your own irreplaceable tool. yet building these things to enable research is emphatically not…
most of anything is 'uninspired garbage'. not sure what it's to do whether a particular phd should be awarded. no-one is proposing that numpy isn't useful or people developing / maintaining tools aren't doing gods work.…
> The scientific method is based on building on the shoulders of giants. > The whole of the process is science no. scientific research is proposing a useful model of an observable phenomenon. this is what you train for…
props to your work and similar to numpy, i assume it has been immensely useful for loads of people. but 'building the underlying infrastructure that tons of people use' is not science. in my department we had to fail a…