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Re:Canada's Muzzled Scientists Can Speak Freely Again by gaius on Sunday November 15, 2015 @09:53AM (#10569740)
A "data scientist" is not a scientist.
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Re:Canada's Muzzled Scientists Can Speak Freely Again by yummyfajitas on Sunday November 15, 2015 @10:05AM (#10569770)
In your mind, what is the distinction between the two?

I don't see any way to draw a strong distinction between what I did during my physics days and what I do today. Different math, sure - PDEs vs statistics. But then again the math changes when you go from quantum physics to statistical mechanics also.

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Re:Canada's Muzzled Scientists Can Speak Freely Again by gaius on Sunday November 15, 2015 @01:00PM (#10570369)
You tell things to your hairdresser, and you tell things to your priest, but that doesn't mean your hairdresser is bound by the conventions around the confessional, does it? So you did some maths for a guy and signed an NDA, don't make it something that it's not.
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Re:Canada's Muzzled Scientists Can Speak Freely Again by yummyfajitas on Monday November 16, 2015 @06:24AM (#10573818)
Um, you dodged the question. I didn't ask "what's the distinction between a hairdresser and priest".
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Re:Canada's Muzzled Scientists Can Speak Freely Again by gaius on Monday November 16, 2015 @11:58AM (#10575508)
Umm, not at all. You are not a "muzzled scientist", a million of us have signed NDAs without making a big song and dance about it.
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Re:Canada's Muzzled Scientists Can Speak Freely Again by yummyfajitas on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @06:57AM (#10580495)
The question which you have failed to answer is "what is the distinction between data scientist and scientist"?
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