YossarianFrPrez

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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
I half-expect some sub-branch of the abrahamic religions to issue an edict against AI, arguing that it's a false idol. (Not that I am arguing for this.)
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
Very interesting to hear your thoughts and experience. I wonder if we really shouldn't make a bit more out of the fact that there are different types of startups: those that pick off low-hanging fruit really well, those that combine no
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
PG is remarkably consistent in his advice; much of his writing is about developing a nose for "what's missing" and having the chops and resources to attempt a solution. Also, I think 'Google' in this instance is mor
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
The Great Green Wall is ambitious in scope, but composed of relatively simple parts: capturing rain-water with berms, planting the right kinds of plants in the right order, and creating a system of ecologically sound incentives for people t
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
In some sense, the introductions of scientific papers are supposed to be / are the original 'verification blockchain' albeit one done with human minds and messy research projects.
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
This is probably preaching to the choir, but in my experience, the best prompt depends on the type of task. The thing that varies is the amount of background knowledge needed to explain the context of what you are asking Chat GPT about. For
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
It's not that they've removed the bar exam and changed nothing else. From TFA: >The Oregon Supreme Court on Tuesday approved an alternative licensing program that bar exam reformers hope will spur further innovation in other st
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
It's also worth mentioning that many in the academic pipeline leave for Tech or Finance. My point is that the grad students are the ones who go on to become the professors who direct the research our society relies on.
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
All issues are definitely influenced by systemic incentive issues for sure. But is not graduate school in some broad sense competing with the likes of startup accelerators et al.? Don't get me wrong, I think that's a good thing in
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
I've talked with many professors on the selection committees. They want the best, especially for competitive programs. All of the researchers I've talked with are keen on training the next generation of researchers.
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Ah for sure. I'm not suggesting that it be seen as an investment, or a gift for anything other than undirected basic research.
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Yeah, that's why I'm suggesting people donate to departments or labs directly. Who knows how well universities are really run?
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
Interesting point; thanks for providing the opposite opinion. It's not that no one is applying to grad school, it's that brilliant, creative people with good job prospects are being "pre-diverted" away from the sciences.
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
Funding for the sciences is always welcome; it's going to be interesting to see what SETI does with this money. Seeing this news makes me wish more donors donated to science at the department level, or to every lab in a given departmen
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
Does anyone know the Waymo equivalent? Also, this isn't best metric as "miles" in a city != "miles" on a freeway.
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
This pairs well a paper comes from the Dunedin longitudinal study, which has been following ~1000 people who were born in 1972/1972 in one area of New Zealand: "Deep-seated psychological histories of COVID-19 vaccine hesitance and
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
I don't know about Autumn Glory specifically, but Bi-Rite often has cool, tasty, and slightly unusual apple varietals for sale.
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
How cool! The paper was last revised on Arxiv over the summer; this blog post announces that MetNet3 is now powering weather predictions across google devices and services. (I'll bet it gets picked up and used for electricity demand fo
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
While Michael Lewis never says it outright, the picture painted in his book Going Infinite suggests that SBF has a few things going on. Self-delusion and rationalization, ego, etc., but he also might be on one or more neurodivergent spectra
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
This was a fascinating read. The well-meaning and hard-working author went through several iterations of trying to make a profit on 'academic-knowledge-graph-adjacent' products, but things ultimately fell through. The article desc
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
I'm curious to know how the soundwaves can be used to cause cavitation at a precise depth, while not causing cavitation along the entire wave pathway. Can anyone explain?
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
I am a graduate student and I TA for various professors' undergraduate classes in a STEM, but not engineering, field. After spending about a decade outside of academia, I wonder about the phenomenon of class attendance dropping off as
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
Once you've learned what you can from online resources and textbooks, doing projects -- from Kaggle, etc. -- is a good way to practice applying what you've learned.
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
I second this; there's a lot one can learn about how to think about problems from Norvig's Pytudes.
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Ah, got ya. Thanks for the information.
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If I understand things correctly, the problem with magnetic confinement (e.g. Tokomaks, Stellarators) is that once you have heated a plasma such that it is "fusing," how do you get the power out with out cooling the very plasma yo
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
I'm willing to bet most graduate student stipends fall below the living wage estimate for the place they are living. It's a terrible and negative incentive to go into the sciences, especially compared with Tech wages / salari
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
This is very cool; I like it a lot. It's visually striking, and if it's sonically striking / it works, I could see it in people's homes or in concert halls. The article says it's "lighter, easier to move, and m
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
Ah, I see, one interesting part is how the LLM generates a summary of the shown "cards" and weaves a narrative together. Interesting and unconventional use of an LLM. .. It seems to me that the only thing that "works" ab
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
If you are interested in this, there are two related books -- American Nations [1] which was inspired by The Nine Nations of North America [2] as well as the data presented in the link above -- that explore geographic variation in American

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