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Does Pawsey also look after the South African SKA data? Seems a bit far for data transfer
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would also be very feasible for rich people's boats; these are often remote, and Starlink is already focused very much on that market. A lot of customers who'd easily have 75k flying around.
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How many more cases where data and AI people messed up? This is on us as a professional community of people who build the future. Is this the future we want? We seem to actively work towards it.
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and then the company goes under and you have a useless chip rotting in your brain! See https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete
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>That's the American Way! If you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half assed. - Homer Simpson
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Output also doesn't capture 'enabling' functions: as a researcher I love to help others get to their goals, I love working on tricky problems and using my know-how to feel needed. I think I'm not alone in that. Unfortuna
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Germany doesn't have a jury system either and I'm fairly sure there's no death sentence by missile in Germany
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How do you do this manual review? How can a human spot LLM-generated text? The internet is full of horror stories of good students getting failing grades due to false positive LLM detectors where the manual review was cursory at best.
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Definitely! I was in academia for ten years and SLURM is everywhere. It's free! Now outside academia, SLURM is nowhere. AWS and Slowflake are king.
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The coolest conference giveaway I ever got was from NVIDIA: the NVIDIA ruler! They look ultraslick and are very useful. Here's one on eBay: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/114530985211
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Along with that, the more expensive method that scales a bit easier is DNA methylation: most vertebrates, including fish, have a strong correlation between the percentage of their genomes that has been methylated and the age. It's like
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It might be a matter of cell count still, elephants have many extra copies of p53, one of the main cancer-suppressant genes. We have one copy, elephants have 20. So the linear correlation may still be there if you'd remove those extra
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BlueSky has for some reason far more biologists than Mastodon: Searching for 'PAG31', a currently ongoing large plant and animal genomics conference, reveals about 20 different posters on BlueSky with about 60 posts and only two
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Knowledge is free; the time of people pushing the knowledge into you is not free. (Self-taught in my eyes usually means 'i've picked out the things that interest me and then learned those' - it's the job of the the paid
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I also have the picture book and it's even meaner there. A whole page of the mom looking directly at you! It's hard to read for bed-time :)
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There's this recent cool SF novel by the Polish (and undertranslated!!!) SF author Jacek Dukaj called 'The Old Axolotl'. In it, people used gaming systems to copy their 'beings' into machines before a planetwide wip
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Bye, RStudio/Posit(yihui.org)
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'Onesies' and 'Babyrace' are also highly emotional episodes. Onesies is, hidden for children, about the inability to conceive children, not being able to deal with your relatives' children; 'Babyrace' is a
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I've also run (and even participated in!) in academia. In academia (at least the country I was in), it's very hard to move up a salary level. There's a lengthy internal, for higher levels even an external, review process with
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Nine months ago HN user genmon posted the results of his experiments to classify the BBC In Our Time podcast using ChatGPT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35073603 It's the same principle. Give the podcast text t
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I used to tutor MSc-level students and they would use this tool all the time for their essays; copy-paste a paragraph from Wikipedia, run through the tool, copy-paste. Just absolute bottom laziness. (The students all got their degrees; we
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I like the Inspector Chen Cao novels, too; they're crime novels that usually involve corruption in the Chinese Communist Party https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126606.Death_of_a_Red_He... The author Qiu Xi
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>Do we really need all those people in offices? Probably not. In Bullshit Jobs, Graeber argued that we already didn't need most of those people in offices, pre-AI. They're there as status and power symbols for the higher ups -
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The original Turok on the N64 had this too :) It just was very hard to trigger for obvious reasons, as humans and dinosaurs spawned far apart
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It is implied in OP's reply too, right? No word about 'hey we're giving powerful tech to a hyper-monopolist', it's only about your friends and the money
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Stephen Jay Gould made a very similar argument about the disappeared .400 baseball hitter: https://sabr.org/journal/article/can-stephen-jay-goulds-theo... >Gould then supposes that the decline in batting averag
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Only parts; Drosera (sundews) usually lost all of their ndh genes https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/11/2/472/5284917
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and to complete the circle, many plants - usually the parasites and the carnivorous plants - have lost some or most of their chloroplasts. Rafflesia (a parasite) might have lost the entire chloroplast: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go
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Nick Lane wrote some amazing popular science books on the history of mitochondria; - Power, Sex, Suicide for a general overview and history of mitochondria (did you know that Lynn Margulis, main proponent of the endosymbiont theory, was onc
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A lot of the interesting papers in drug discovery come from industry, clinical trials are not cheap, and much of the data you need for the early discovery phase is hidden away in corporate vaults

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