Prove to me this isn't another dud — European brain project, etc.
‘I want science to happen faster’ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/05/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-scientist-jeremy-freeman …
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you should work for Facebook's PR team
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in the US, at least, hiring career programmers at market rates is really hard with standard funding mechanisms
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it's helpful to have extra-academic orgs like Allen, Simons, Janelia who can hire these ppl. Cool w/me if FB plays too
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everything they do is blustery, but their money is still green, and a welcome infusion.
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oh certainly — I just didn't like the titular rhetoric
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Yeah, me neither, but I think I've just learned to tune it out over the years. Prob would've pissed off earlier-career-me too
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not sure I'm pissed off as implies angry, I'm just like not down with it. But I see what you mean. Mellower with experience.

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speed and similar pressures on science do cause serious problem, eg, replication crises tho... So I'm weary and wary.
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engineering is great but it's not how we do science. In eng a bridge built quickly is still a bridge, as otherwise its rubble.
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Yes, but "postdoc" is not a career with stable prospects. Need long term funding to provide staff with good stable careers.
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and you think our saviour is Facebook funding?
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Unless it's run by real lab scientists with firsthand knowledge of how science works, probably not.
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Ahhhhhhh so we are in agreement — you aren't convinced by the guy in the article claiming Facebook will save us?
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Correct. I don't see how FB will be the savior of science.
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