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@veer66

Claims like "X language is for beginners" or "Y language isn't suitable for real problems" are just dressed-up versions of "X language sucks". They are pseudo-religious arguments, not technical ones. They are not useful in choosing technology to use.

A "real programmer" chooses languages, libraries, and other technical things based on utility, not holy wars (like "vi vs. Emacs", or "tabs vs. spaces").

e.g. For different problems and situations, you might choose a language because it is technically suited to a particular problem class. Or you might choose it because the group to work on the problem has deep experience with it, even though another language is slightly better suited to the problem. Or you might pick one based on a dozen other factors - and usually you will actually use more than one in making the choice.

Hollow assessments like "Python is for beginners" aren't useful. The people who make such statements are generally not particularly well-versed in the thing they are criticizing, and possibly not with programming/engineering in general.

If you want real assessments of the strengths and weaknesses of a language or other part of a tech stack, they're out there - but they will be articles and essays, not sentences.

#assessment#language#programming
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

USGS Releases Assessment Of Undiscovered Oil & Gas Resources In Wyoming, Southern Montana
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usgs.gov/news/national-news-re <-- shared article
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doi.org/10.3133/fs20243049 <-- shared publication
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sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/6 <-- shared open data
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api.sciencebase.gov/geoserver/ <-- shared spatial service
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #oilandgas #OG #naturalresources #oil #gas #fedscience #model #modeling #Wyoming #Montana #assessment #WindRiverBasin #BighornBasin #PowderRiverBasin #exploration #undiscovered #energy #energysupply #geology #structuralgeology #sediments #lithology #reserves
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Still Mad About CD Prices

This one time in maybe 2018 I pissed off a few uni colleagues. At a "senate" meeting (it deserves quotation marks at my school) some people with #psychometrics training & experience, including me, explained that a specific kind of #assessment was invalid--as in zero validity for intended purpose--so we should not use it. It literally provides no information about what it says, so we might as well roll dice or draw #random words from a hat.

The administration argued vehemently for keeping the assessment. They claimed it was valid (we showed them it wasn't). They claimed that a "caring" or "astute" instructor could glean valuable information (we showed them that this wasn't possible). They appealed to the other professors, implying that not using this assessment meant they didn't care about their students, and that voting to eliminate this assessment meant they (the eggheaded intellectuals) were being dunked on by the eggheaded intellectuals.

The measure failed and we still use the assessment. After the meeting I and someone else were bemoaning the result. I said something like "What happened in there was Trumpian." A colleague walking by overheard and angrily asked, "What do you mean by that?!"

I said, "The faculty heard from the experts telling them something they didn't like and they chose to go with the people who had no expertise telling them what they wanted to hear."

(I am sometimes not diplomatic; this makes a good story, but I really wish I had found a better way to say that.)

The person audibly huffed, actually turned on their heel, and walked away. They haven't spoken to me since.

#story#highered#university
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Ron Piggott

New #Video "2025-02-26 - An Update On My Health Care Treatment" This video is an update on my health care treatment. With my bone marrow cancer assessment on Monday I want to share the process I am facing with my viewers. The video footage is from the Moira River on February 25th 2025. It was lovely being there. youtu.be/3a5y5Zqg00k?si=pSv7DA #cancer #chronicpain #assessment

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petersuber

Update. Confirming the study above, a new study finds that when new #species are added to the endangered species list, the research documenting the danger comes much more often from low-JIF journals than from high-JIF journals. The authors call for new impact metrics to take this into account.
nature.com/articles/d41586-025
(#paywalled)

PS: There are two related conclusions here. Academic incentives for high-JIF publications lead scientists away from research that might help save endangered species. Helping save endangered species is an important kind of impact that fails to register on prevailing impact metrics.

www.nature.comWant to get a species protected? Publish in a small, niche journalStudies are more likely to influence conservation law if they are published in specialist journals — but researchers worry that their true impact is being ignored in hiring and promotion decisions.
#Animals#Assessment#Extinction
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