For 30+ years, particle physicists' predictions for where breakthrough discoveries are waiting have been wrong. False promises based on such flawed predictions erode trust in physics - and science in general. Particle physicists should fix this problem.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/opinion/particle-physics-large-hadron-collider.html …
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Replying to @skdh
1) I recently visited a "big" high energy accelerator (don't want to reveal since I actually admire people working there). I was taken aback at shoddy data preservation practices. It is astonishing that data from experiments that cost billions of dollars are never logged
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Replying to @AnimaAnandkumar @skdh
2) Instead of preserving raw data for future analysis, only functions of data are stored. These functions are computed using decades-old Fortran code and no one truly understands what is going on. And how were these functions designed? more sociological phenomenon than scientific
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But isn't it just impossible to store the raw data because it's too much too quickly? That was my understanding of the situation. And what about the codes is it that they don't understand? Not sure I can follow.
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The amount of raw data generated per second is staggering. IIRC the ALICE experiment uses custom ASICs to (lossly) compress the collisions data before transmitting it/storing it.
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From my understanding there was a lot more downstream processing before storing the data. And it was worrying that no one seemed to understand what precisely the legacy code was doing
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