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Re: Bursty work

kevindoylejones — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:51:51 -0000

Bursty is a bonus, but it can fit on the balance sheet until you take in the cost of discovery, cooperation and coordination, to use Coase's still helpful transaction theory.

Re: Bursty work

mndoci — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:55:58 -0000

Absolutely. I am looking forward to seeing more scientists start these cool projects, especially when we have the tools now to run them in a very distributed way

Re: Bursty work

pedrobeltrao — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:41:48 -0000

For science I think this "bursty work" is an excellent concept. To establish collaborations we are still very limited on the people around us in the institutes, the contacts we make in meetings or from our current/previous supervisors (real life stuff). I was just trying to set up a bioinformatics/evolution project in Google Code and in just a few weeks I got at least two other researchers interested in collaborating and a few others asking questions and correcting a few mistakes. I think trying out research ideas this way is very different from having a group leader thinking about a project and trying to sell it to the next PhD student or postdoc coming to the lab.

Re: Bursty work

mndoci — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:17:29 -0000

If my coding skills were worthy, I'd be there in a heartbeat (esp for 6 hour startup). But, hopefully, this winter will get on track (I keep saying that :) )

Re: Bursty work

Bryan Zug — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:16:15 -0000

http://www.saturdayhouse.org/

http://blog.sixhourstartup....

Re: Bursty work

Bryan Zug — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:15:17 -0000

So when are you coming to saturdayhouse or six hour startup ?

;)