VeninVidiaVicii

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by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago
Am I crazy or shouldn’t “districts” actually be composed of groups of people who are affected by legislation? An orthogonal approach could offer some solutions — such as degree of connectedness, approximated by number of roads. So, if we ju
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by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago
Is this why my M1 MacBook Air can run the same R code at least 10x faster than my giant Linux tower?
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by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago
I share the sentiments — I happily pay for all kinds of digital subs, but YouTube really rubs me the wrong way. Yes, it feels like they’re trying to trick me into a sub, and yes I realize if I do it, the tricks will go away. I just don’t fe
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by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago
Thanks for assuaging my FOMO a bit. I think one of the most frustrating parts is that everyone in my lab looks to me when they see this stuff on Twitter and all I can really do is shrug.
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by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago
I can’t believe it’s only been 1 month. It feels like 3-4 somehow.
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by VeninVidiaVicii 3y ago
Again, frustrating. I’m an antibiotics researcher with oodles of data and I need ChatGPT plugins/API to make any real progress. (I’m kind of in this intellectual space on my own, so other people can’t really help that much) I’m not sur
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Bookmarklet to Block Verified Accounts on Twitter(gist.github.com)
3 points by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago|0 comments
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
Anyone know if there’s some kind of API calls I can use to block the blues? I think this is a fabulous idea.
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
Yeah, same for my prokaryotic molecular biology class. The questions were 100 percent theoretical, and you were even allowed to take the test at home. After the first one, it made sense why — the questions are totally ungooglable, and worki
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
Hard to refute -- I use a pretty vigorous spin-brush-dryer on my hair every day for ~5 minutes, which only does the top and front. I just noticed recently that the sides have grown out beyond a few mm, and they are much grayer than the top.
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Why academia can feel toxic(thiscomplexlife.wordpress.com)
1 points by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago|0 comments
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
It seems to be worth saying, considering the climate. Recently I was a teacher assistant in a genetics lab, and an undergrad student lodged a complaint against the professor for talking about some of this very same stuff, ie, biological det
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
The weird thing about NM Spanish aspiration is that it occurs intervocalically. My mother in law drives me crazy with this and says “coha” instead of “cosa”, for example.
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
This is my dialect! We’ve always attracted linguists because of our unique mix of cultures. For instance, we have lots of words for turkey - guíjalo/guajalote (and various combinations of the two), pavo, ganso real, cócono, and yes, ev
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
Yeah maybe, but chaining a bunch of joins together when exploring some new data is a thing I do all the time. Then, 4-5 warnings push my results off the screen. It’s infuriating.
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
I have some concerns about the direction that certain packages within tidyverse, particularly dplyr, are heading. One issue I've noticed is the increasing frequency of warnings, such as when performing left or inner joins. These warnin
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
Interesting take — I also think these arguments come from a place where people have (subconsciously?) come to terms with doing something monotonous or repetitive to survive.
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
> Passing a federal privacy law would end surveillance advertising at the stroke of a pen Unlikely—breaking the laws would likely just become a business cost, and make everything even more expensive for everyone.
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
Public conceptions of medicine are strange, especially in the US where almost everyone conflates physicians and surgeons.
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
> For example, what about patients who lie or are too stupid to answer correctly? I can only speak from my work in the emergency department, but this is a leading cause of misdiagnosis among (human) doctors. In fact, a lot of diagnosis r
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
I switched from Mac to Surface in 2017, and was moderately happy. I bought an M1 air when they came out, it’s essentially a different kind of product. Surface and M1 Macs aren’t even in the same universe of utility.
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
The quote you’re thinking of is from computer scientist and researcher Stuart Russell: "The point of [AI alignment] is to ensure that the machines we create will be aligned with human values. And the reason we have to worry about it is
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
I find your observation about the two camps in computer science quite compelling, and it got me thinking about another analogy that might further illuminate the LLM debate: the evolution of cities. Urban development can be seen as a balance
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
Great read. Adding a bit more — I think these are hinting at the reasons GPT seems to be getting worse. Our expectations realign after the failure modes become excruciatingly obvious after some use. For instance, asking it about differenc
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
It's really interesting to think about how we struggle to express the idea of the future having a causal impact on the past. I reckon this is because our language and our understanding of time are limited. Our brains like to process ev
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
Can it tell me how many jelly beans are in a jar?
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
They’re both extremely resilient to forgery, which makes them great stores of value — and also great modes to launder money.
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this whole AI phenomenon has been the overzealous censorship. Here I tried to make a slide deck: Acinetobacter baumannii essential gene network. >Sorry, we couldn't generate a presentation due
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
The most straightforward way to answer the question is that off-target is kind of field lingo for “some other gene got targeted” and results in unexpected cell death. Imagine in bacteria, if I guide the CRISPR components to a gene that meta
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by VeninVidiaVicii 4y ago
I’m a bacteriologist who uses CRISPR every day, and the biggest problem with CRISPR editing in eukaryotes is off-targets effects, ie, cutting a gene you didn’t mean to. In fact, there’s still a lot about CRISPR we don’t understand at all, l

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