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Andrew Kern
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Andrew Kern
@pastramimachine
Evolution, population genetics, machine learning. rhythm section.
- Pay PhD students more
- every graduate student application season i'm reminded-- cancelling the GRE was a horrible idea
- 6yo: "so you wrote all that code for that one little picture?"
- depressing to me how biologists, because of their allergy to all things AI/ML, have basically ceded the AI+Bio space to computer scientists
- 1-3% of me very upset by Biden's anti-neanderthal comments
- shark tank but for scientific funding
- pleased to share that my nephew, fresh out of college, is making more money during orientation for his finance job that i do as a tenured professor
- The plan should be to party with other PhD students and not be an asshole
- 'i have concepts of a plan' --- my new R01 specifics aim page
- Replying to @stgoldstcancelling the GRE removed the single common data point among applicants. it had biases, yes, but they were well described an simple to correct for. now we've traded that in for even more biased 'measures' in the form of letters of rec, transcripts, essay prompts
- Replying to @sara_ib94yes and if Universities were actually serious about Inclusion they would subsidize these costs
