I don’t see how you can make this claim when the budget balance at universities is extremely tilted towards stem. The budget for the kind of programs you seem to be complaining about come out to percents. Hard to say universities are “more interested” in very very small parts of their budget. What is happening now though is the federal government holds back billions of dollars in medical research grants, punishing, in some cases even killing patients, over “ideological” issues.
Then you’re not paying attention. The US is currently experiencing the largest wave of mass protests in its history. The corporate media is simply ignoring it. Practically every trump administration action has triggered nation-wide protests.
I haven’t really had this issue. UV’s recommendation is to mount the uv.lock and install those manages package versions to the container’s global pip environment. We haven’t had much issue at my work, where we use this to auto-manage python developer’s execution environments at scale.
Nice tricks! I wasn't aware of the cache mounts, so I was building with UV_NO_CACHE=1. Cache mounts should also come handy when installing OS packages in multi-stage builds.
I still couldn't find the "global pip environment" part, unless by that you meant the "active pip environment", pointed by VIRTUAL_ENV during image building.
Mounting uv.lock doesn't actually work if you have intra-repository dependencies. UV can't deal with packages that lack metadata (because it's not mounted): https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/15715
Reinventing? No. Using? Yes, for a lot of good reasons.
LLMs are expensive. Spending tokens to do something in bulk that is well suited to existing tools and algorithms, is wasteful and slow. And the main reason is that, using LLMs, the original author indicated only a 60% success rate for the task. Why spend many times more time and money and energy just to use an LLM on a well-understood preparatory task that it sucks at, when you can get much better results more inexpensively with off-the-shelf tools, and feed their results to the LLM for its unique value.
It’s basically impossible to make a career as a scientist these days without constantly promoting yourself and your work unfortunately. It’s very tiring and makes it difficult to focus on science. This is one of the reasons I changed careers.
Unfortunately science is unavoidably a political hot topic. Climate change denialism is the norm in the United States, we've somehow decided Tylenol causes autism in the past week, etc.
If you think either of those represent any meaningful portion of science you need to re-evaluate your understanding of science because it’s based on a layman’s perspective.
If you’re not actually involved in science you only see the scientists making news, which disproportionately selects for politically intersecting areas of research.
When I was working at a major US research university in the early 2000s, it was a big deal if the scientific publications got any mainstream press at all.
Countless papers push the boundaries of science in major journals and conferences every year and you never hear about them because they have no political implications and usually no immediate practical applications.
That's true, but the other professions don't tend to be associated with (or clearly vindicate) the “above-the-crowd/holier-than-thou” attitude – and I say that as an ex-scientist, for the same reason (among others) as the poster above.
Pilots use iPads for all of the charts and checklists. Even having two iPads (one as a backup) is much lighter and thinner (and easier to update) than the paper copies it replaces.
IIRC the rules system for magic the gathering: Arena is generated by a sort of compiler fed the rules. You might not even need a modern coding assistant to build out something reasonable in a DSL that is perfect, then have people (or an LLM after fine tuning) transforms rule books into the DSL.
Tho tbf there are plenty of cards with what are essentially footnotes. They say reading the card explains the card but that's not always the case, sometimes there's nuance because mtg has so many fucking crazy interactions and the whole stack thing.
I haven't played in a month or two but now I'm getting that itch again aha. When's bloomburrow 2, enough of this UB crap.
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