The original grant notice is a good thing to read. They properly justify the cuts, and I think it's something that a lot of people would agree with - why is up to 70% of grant money being sent to "administration and overhead" at giant private universities? My small LLC is currently applying for an SBIR grant, and we were capped to 40% unless we provided a big justification - which we can't, because we're too small to justify anything like that. Meanwhile, big organizations and universities can throw their weight around and bully the government into handing them more money to do who-knows-what with. Maybe build a nice shiny new sports center with.
This is a good reform - even though it will cost my LLC about $75k in indirect costs that we might have been able to bill (40% -> 15%). I'm more confident in my ability to reduce our indirect costs and compete on a level-playing field with everyone else.
This is such a wasteful way to think...do economies of scale not apply to universities at all? They're allowed to just bill as if there is 0 savings to be found in bulk construction and administration?
Generally, no, they don't bill at 0 savings. The rate is set on a per-institution basis. The rate setting process incorporates the documented economics of scale that that institution is achieving already. This is why schools have different rates; the more resources (instruments, facility use, computational, etc.) the university provides at no/low-cost to the researchers, the higher the rate.
If the rate wasn't set in this way, the overhead would be well above 100%, as it is in most labor-heavy businesses like consulting and law.
Not using any menubar stat programs currently, but have done so for exactly this reason in the past. Even if nothing is misbehaving, they’re helpful for keeping a pulse on your machine and for getting a feel for which programs are heavy on resources for no good reason.
It used to be that noise from hard drive activity and fans spinning up were a pretty good proxy for this, like how my iMac G5 would do its best impression of a jet engine whenever a flash ad banner appeared on screen. These days on M-series Macs though a random browser tab can be keeping a whole core pegged in the background and the only reason I’d notice is if I happened to touch the bottom of the laptop and notice it’s slightly warm.
Nope, it’s a genuine question. Maybe the answer is that we are stuck with these providers. But the question is asked with the sincere hope that someone has a Linux laptop that meets the above criteria.
Recently started using replit and I'm pretty impressed. I'm using it to generate a static marketing website for a side project I'm working on and have been pretty happy with the results. It generates simple code that I can easily debug, and also has a pretty complete ecosystem that the AI can fully access, including configuring deployments and debugging server errors. It's the latest thing I've come across that's genuinely impressed me
I probably wouldn't use it full time as an IDE, but I have been using it as a second programmer to push out features, while I work on other corners of the codebase
I'm kinda tired of seeing the first comment to a totally unrelated topic be, "you know, LLMs these days can actually..."
Where is the creativity? Are we doomed to solve every problem, technological, social, and political with an LLM now? Is this the slow descent into Idiocracy?
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-0...
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