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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
It's a simulation (following the theme of the OP submission), so these outputs are assumed to be the same quality. The point is even if you assume the quality is the same, the structure of the faculty hiring network alone will drive faster/further diffusion from prestigious institutions.
Comment · 3 years ago
While I think simulations and models are interesting, this model is just way too simplified to give any real insight. Here's an example of a leading scholar in the field -- Allie Morgan -- developing a simple model on this exact question!
https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epj...
> Title: Prestige drives epistemic inequality in the diffusion of scientific ideas
> Abstract: The spread of ideas in the scientific community is often viewed as a competition, in which good ideas spread further because of greater intrinsic fitness, and publication venue and citation counts correlate with importance and impact. However, relatively little is known about how structural factors influence the spread of ideas, and specifically how where an idea originates might influence how it spreads. Here, we investigate the role of faculty hiring networks, which embody the set of researcher transitions from doctoral to faculty institutions, in shaping the spread of ideas in computer science, and the importance of where in the network an idea originates. We consider comprehensive data on the hiring events of 5032 faculty at all 205 Ph.D.-granting departments of computer science in the U.S. and Canada, and on the timing and titles of 200,476 associated publications. Analyzing five popular research topics, we show empirically that faculty hiring can and does facilitate the spread of ideas in science. Having established such a mechanism, we then analyze its potential consequences using epidemic models to simulate the generic spread of research ideas and quantify the impact of where an idea originates on its longterm diffusion across the network. We find that research from prestigious institutions spreads more quickly and completely than work of similar quality originating from less prestigious institutions. Our analyses establish the theoretical trade-offs between university prestige and the quality of ideas necessary for efficient circulation. Our results establish faculty hiring as an underlying mechanism that drives the persistent epistemic advantage observed for elite institutions, and provide a theoretical lower bound for the impact of structural inequality in shaping the spread of ideas in science.
Comment · 3 years ago
This massive labor shift toward service work has been well underway across the US. See, eg, this excellent case study of how Pittsburgh's aging, shrinking cohort of unionized steel workers (with good health insurance) has been demographically offset by a growing (precarious, non-unionized) medical and care industry. Now the largest employer in Pittsburgh is the university medical center, and the largest sector is care workers.
https://shop.nplusonemag.com/products/the-next-shift-by-gabr...
This pattern isn't unique to Pittsburgh, of course, and has played out broadly across the US.
Comment · 3 years ago
that's great, thanks for sharing! (though I'm not enough of a domain expert to know if it's accurate)
another solution to this would be if Science Advances were to require submissions to provide a "Significance Statement", like PNAS does, which would be essentially at the level of readability you provided.
Comment · 3 years ago
Well, to answer one part of the question, the chief risk manager quit early last year and wasn't replaced until just over a month ago
Comment · 3 years ago
It's worth keeping in mind that Stephen Wolfram likely didn't write this himself.
I know people who work at the company, and they sign agreements that any intellectual property (including mathematical proofs) they generate are owned by Stephen Wolfram. Anything Wolfram puts out, like blog posts, scientific articles, and books, are likely to be partly or wholly ghost-written.
Comment · 5 years ago
I love this! Relatedly, here is a plug of an interactive unfolding of 4d polytopes into their 3d faces that I made recently: https://sam.zhang.fyi/html/unfolding/index.html
Comment · 5 years ago
Not sure why you're downvoted, since what you're saying is true. See, eg, this article:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-supermanagerial-reic...
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm guessing it's more likely, All You Need is Love, the Beatles song.
Comment · 6 years ago
You literally threw it into a fire?
Comment · 6 years ago
Crabby comment incoming:
I love Richard Feynman as much as the next person (minus his famous misogyny), but this post is basically contentless. It's literally a motivational poster. Like why not post an essay or video instead.
Comment · 6 years ago
The article links to the study. The issue was more than certain people sat downwind of others indoors, rather than where the air came from. Let me know if you read a different conclusion from it.
Comment · 6 years ago
One key result of this evidence is that we should take all the money going into deep cleaning, and spend it on higher quality masks for everyone. Also perhaps makeshift ventilation systems (being careful not to replicate that Hong Kong restaurant) or outdoor tents where feasible.
Annoyingly, the National Academy of Scholars was named in a way that collides in the namespace with the (actually reputable) National Academy of Sciences (publishers of PNAS).