One potential concern is that we might risk producing slops—and in some way we have to review what they write and that might still place burden on the system.
I went through Astra and I think that I benefitted the most from the weekly meetings with my mentors. If I had just gotten research credits, I‘d most likely just publish work that doesn’t matter. Even if I got constructive feedback at the end, not sure if those time sunk is worth it.
Perhaps this (giving credits) might be best structured as microgrant like what Leo put out.
I wouldn’t expect this to provide nearly as much benefit as mentors, but I think having the resources to run experiments would still be valuable for learning. I don’t think the output is even that important besides the fact that people should run experiments with the goal of learning something.
I also didn’t mean to imply that the mentors would actually read the results (that would require the scarce resource that we already don’t have enough of).
One potential concern is that we might risk producing slops—and in some way we have to review what they write and that might still place burden on the system.
I went through Astra and I think that I benefitted the most from the weekly meetings with my mentors. If I had just gotten research credits, I‘d most likely just publish work that doesn’t matter. Even if I got constructive feedback at the end, not sure if those time sunk is worth it.
Perhaps this (giving credits) might be best structured as microgrant like what Leo put out.
I wouldn’t expect this to provide nearly as much benefit as mentors, but I think having the resources to run experiments would still be valuable for learning. I don’t think the output is even that important besides the fact that people should run experiments with the goal of learning something.
I also didn’t mean to imply that the mentors would actually read the results (that would require the scarce resource that we already don’t have enough of).