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    The case for research beyond grants and big labs

    A user argues that scarce compute, expert teams and institutional gatekeepers no longer limit research as they once did.

    Dimitris PapailiopoulosDP
    1 Source, 39m ago, first seen 39m ago

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    A user calls this “the best time to be a researcher,” even as changes to familiar systems for credit, hiring and promotion cause dread. They argue that constraints such as scarce compute, time and expertise are falling, allowing one person with a good question to do work that once took a lab five years.

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    Dimitris Papailiopoulos@DimitrisPapailIt sounds insane, because we're used to a particular way of doing research: of giving and receiving credit, of counting beans, of hiring, recruiting, and promoting. And the machine god came to crush that game. The old game is dead. That reasonably causes incredible amounts of dread for many folks, who understand this as the death of research. But it's not about Research, but the way we played the game. The old game was built around scarcity, scarce compute, scarce students, scarce hours, scarce people who knew the right technique and method etc. Most of a research career went into managing and playing along these constraints. Those walls just came crushing down. One person with a good question can now do what used to take a lab and five years. You do not need permission, you do not need a big grant, you do not need a professor or researcher title, or a team of twenty experts , or one thousand gpus to stare straight into the first light of the universe. How absolutely incredible39m

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    Dimitris Papailiopoulos@DimitrisPapailIt sounds insane, because we're used to a particular way of doing research: of giving and receiving credit, of counting beans, of hiring, recruiting, and promoting. And the machine god came to crush that game. The old game is dead. That reasonably causes incredible amounts of dread for many folks, who understand this as the death of research. But it's not about Research, but the way we played the game. The old game was built around scarcity, scarce compute, scarce students, scarce hours, scarce people who knew the right technique and method etc. Most of a research career went into managing and playing along these constraints. Those walls just came crushing down. One person with a good question can now do what used to take a lab and five years. You do not need permission, you do not need a big grant, you do not need a professor or researcher title, or a team of twenty experts , or one thousand gpus to stare straight into the first light of the universe. How absolutely incredible39m
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