From a Wash Post article on evidence humans were in N. America earlier than previously thought. I myself have a mixed-feelings middle-ground view on peer review, but I'm in a very different field.
"The peer-review process is designed to help validate scientific claims, but Lowery argues that in archaeology it often leads to a circle-the-wagon mentality, allowing scientists to wave away evidence that doesn’t support the dominant paradigm. He says he isn’t seeking formal publishing routes because “life’s too short,” comparing this aspect of academic science to “the dumbest game I’ve ever played.”"
Last week I attended the 6th Perspectives on Scientific Error Conference at @TUEindhoven
I learned so much! About #metascience#preregistration#replicability#qrp questionable research practices, methods to detect data fabrication, #peerreview, #poweranalysis artefacts in #ML machine learning...
I'm impressed by the commitment of participants to improve science through error detection & prevention. Thanks to the organizers Noah van Dongen, @lakens@annescheel Felipe Romero and @annaveer
Currently I have snapshots going back to mid 2022, which are being pruned according to a schedule, but I've already exceeded 5TB of storage.
I'd like something that'd perhaps slightly less convoluted, but also doesn't break the bank. I'd love to use straight ZFS #replication but that is priced out of my budget.
The Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most famous and compelling psychological studies of all time, told us a tantalizingly simple story about human nature....
Dear friends of #BSDCafe and #Fediverse, pgbouncer is now up and running. You probably won't notice any changes as we didn't have performance issues related to the database, but this is a more suitable and efficient approach.
In recent days, I duplicated the jail containing Mastodon (the operational one) to support sidekiq and serve as a backup for the rest. For this reason, you shouldn't have noticed any disruptions because while I was making changes to the primary jail, BSD Cafe was still operational using the secondary one (on another host).
I'm seriously considering conducting an experiment and replicating this jail (along with the reverse proxy) on a different continent to speed up user access in that location. Currently, everything is in Europe (Helsinki), so I might replicate somewhere in the Americas.
I'm not sure if this would yield tangible benefits since the database, Redis, etc., would remain in Europe. Multimedia files are already on a CDN, so they are georeplicated.
“I’m a proud member of [actors’ union] SAG-AFTRA. As you know, we’ve been on strike for three months now. And one of the burning issues is #AI,” Fry said before playing a clip of his voice narrating a historical documentary. Only it wasn’t Fry’s voice. It was an AI #replication of his voice.
“I said not one word of that — it was a machine. Yes, it shocked me,” Fry said. “They used my reading of the seven volumes of the ‘Harry Potter’ books, and from that dataset an AI of my voice was created, and it made that new narration.”
#OpenZFS#replication is an incredibly powerful tool in every sysadmins' tool belt. Join us on Wednesday, September 13th as Klara co-founder Allan Jude and ZFS Expert Jim Salter examine how to reliably replicate data using ZFS send and receive.
Our field experiment on code sharing behavior in the social sciences has been published in PLOS One 🥳 (co-authored by @laura_schaechtele and Andreas Schneck).
Update. For the same reasons, experiments on rare and expensive pieces of equipment carry intrinsic incentives to ensure #OpenData. Failing to open the data essentially rules out #replication.
It seems like an oxymoron, but could non-disclosure agreements help the replicability of research?
[Detail in a reply. Those more versed in intellectual property law might be able to tease out how this proposal is different from a material transfer agreement - Matt]
The Stanford Prison Experiment was massively influential. We just learned it was a fraud. (www.vox.com)
The Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most famous and compelling psychological studies of all time, told us a tantalizingly simple story about human nature....