Erick Peirson

Software architect with an historian's mindset. Staff DevOps engineer @fiddlerlabs. View my own.

[Erick Peirson @undercaffeinatd]

A major through-thread of my scholarly and professional career has been a deep fascination with data and its epistemic, social, and technical dimensions. As a PhD student and post-doc I examined the co-evolution of scientific data and theories in the past…https://t.co/WAnJ8A7R8r

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Come join me! https://t.co/20ow0QM83N

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"[Software development is] a study in entropy, and it is not getting any more simple." https://t.co/ivtoblqrlZ

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Do you #DevOps? Come and join me in making #AI transparent and trustworthy. Remote friendly! https://t.co/I2gsPMr0U7 #MLOps

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Bittersweet farewell to my phenomenal colleagues at Algorithmia as they take the next step on their journey with DataRobot. Deepest gratitude to @doppenhe, Kenny Daniel, @atnowell, and countless others for the opportunity to learn and grow in ways that I…https://t.co/sV4QcboGVc

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[DataRobot @DataRobot]

@DataRobot is acquiring @algorithmia, enhancing the leading #MLOps architecture for the enterprise. Welcome to the DataRobot family, Algorithmia! Learn more: https://t.co/SfkLuMLTVS

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@scott_bot @eumanismo @zotero @Zoe_LeBlanc @espejolento @umblaetterer @goebel_m @jenniferisve @christof77 Yikes, Tethne lives? Yep, sure does. Would be cool to find a maintainer for it, if folks are still interested

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Come join me! My remote-friendly team is looking to fill an intermediate-level software engineer role. Please reach out if you have questions.

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Come work with me! https://t.co/DCCFrgUekv

[arXiv.org @arxiv]

We are so pleased to announce arXiv's new executive director. Welcome, Eleonora Presani @elepre17! https://t.co/LCd9OiiEwe

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Academia has an infrastructure problem. https://t.co/Nt0nzMWmc7

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@bearore @EvoMellor @BrianNosek @arxiv @OSFramework @PeerCommunityIn @anglejournal *sigh*
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@jeremyphoward @arxiv_org @IEEEorg @TheOfficialACM With all due respect, it's time to dispose of the premise "arXiv publishes X for $ N." As a former member of the arXiv leadership team, I would strongly assert that not only is the premise false, it is deeply harmful.

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@dginev @sunk818 @jeremyphoward @arxiv_org @IEEEorg @TheOfficialACM Indeed!

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@sunk818 @jeremyphoward @arxiv_org @IEEEorg @TheOfficialACM Includes deferred cost of investment to prepare for increased growth, regulatory environments, changing user needs + scholarly norms, technology changes, etc. The business model was designed for a skeleton crew to operate a static service in an unchanging environment.

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@lisalibrarian @kboughida Administratively Computing & Information Science, but reports to GM at Tech

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@dpsSpiders @beckettws @rdmpage @AlexHardisty @cabbageleek @EvoMRI @GerardMeijssen @ORCID_Org @SiobhanLeachman @wikidata @aguentsch @RogerHyam @emhaston @GBIF @npcrowe @mrdietrich @MLaubichler @jldamerow This is crucial, in my opinion, and one reason why I am skeptical about large centralized solutions.

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@beckettws @rdmpage @dpsSpiders @AlexHardisty @cabbageleek @EvoMRI @GerardMeijssen @ORCID_Org @SiobhanLeachman @wikidata @aguentsch @RogerHyam @emhaston @GBIF @npcrowe @mrdietrich @MLaubichler @jldamerow Sure, so long as the size of the solution reflects the magnitude of the research goals. It has been my experience that in an academic context the cost of infrastructure is underestimated by one or more orders of magnitude. Solutions become problems rapidly.

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@jeremyphoward @arxiv_org @IEEEorg @TheOfficialACM My main concern here is that general acceptance of the "success" of that operating model obscures the real financial requirements of arXiv and other services like it.

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@jeremyphoward @arxiv_org @IEEEorg @TheOfficialACM Highlighting brilliant work and encouraging investment is excellent. The problem is assuming that arXiv's historical $/e-print reflects actual costs in the long run. Cornell runs arXiv on that budget by deferring significant costs. Those costs will come due.