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My wife is working on her PhD in microbiology now, using OpenAI to implement her research ideas. Genetics is just too much data, and she eats through tokens lik
by thisisnotauser 2mo ago
My wife is working on her PhD in microbiology now, using OpenAI to implement her research ideas. Genetics is just too much data, and she eats through tokens like nobody's business. I thought I was careless with them, but she barely lasts a full day before exhausting her quota. There's definitely a lot of value there, but dealing with the data problem is a big obstacle in biology. I can only imagine what she could get done with more capacity, though...
- AgentMatt 2mo agoWhat makes it so token hungry? Is she directly using the LLM for genome analysis rather then having it write the data analysis algos?
- doc_ick 2mo agoLikely not using / managing context windows properly and then having it re-read data it’s already gone through
- tossandthrow 2mo agoWe so don't know what plan she is using. Eg.a 20usd/m plan usually don't cut it for professional work.
- ed_elliott_asc 2mo agoThis absolutely terrifies me, surely one misread piece of data or a hallucination here or there and a little “oh sorry about that, I guessed at this portion of the data to save time” and the data used is useless?