
If we want to do science better, it would help to know how we do it now. A good way to find out is to just look.
You can find surprising things by just looking.https://meaningness.com/metablog/rational-pcr …
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Really enjoyed this one! Before reading I found the video so dull I gave up after 3 minutes. Then found myself fascinated by tiny details once you pointed them out.
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I went through parts of that literally a hundred times, and I was still discovering new things. I only wrote up a tiny fraction of them. It’s an amazing practice.
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I've never done lab work, so would never have seen them on my own, it was just 'scientist does sciencey things'. Now I'm thinking about what this would be like for tasks I have done (my previous software support job would have been an endless source)
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Stuff like deployments, recurring maintenance tasks, common requests like running reports... anything we'd have a wiki page for (with a checklist). Other visual stuff like having a bright red command prompt for the production server, and green for dev...
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... or for a GUI we'd make red background with PROD written on them. If something was particularly bad if it went wrong we'd get a second person to check the steps.
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One thing we'd go back and forward on was how much detail to put in the wiki steps. Not enough and a new person has no hope of following them, too much and you can get stuck in following-the-steps mode without developing an understanding of what you're doing.
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Replying to @drossbucket @Meaningness
Tangentailly related: I sometimes think about what cultural resources I would like to hand down to my children some time in the future so they will have an easier time figuring out themelves, society and life in general. Writing a wiki for that might not be a bad idea.
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