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by a_bonobo 3y ago
Great reply, here's an example from my own work: I want the user to be able to ask technical questions about a set of documents, then the user should retrieve a summary-answer from those documents along with a source. I first need to f
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
Perhaps Mozilla has figured out that you can't corner the market if you focus on nerds with privacy concerns; these people (which are also the majority of posters in this thread) are a vanishingly thin slice of the cake. They're t
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
I quit my research career for exactly this; I was close to burnout. I left the academic sector because I realised it's internationally toxic; there's no solidarity among academics. They'll can your grant application, they&#x
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Exactly! It's a fun natural development -those US breathless sales-based self-improvement books like 4-Hour Workweek, most books that Cal Newport publishes, are often blog-post level ideas inflated into a book for sales. It's only
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
>I don't think anyone with even the slightest awareness of scientific philosophy or history actually thinks that though. I don't know, this whole 'marketplace of ideas' thing is still very popular in politics and medi
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In my experience with internal data, sometimes it will say that it doesn't know when it should know.
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I concur - the most interesting research in this space comes from inside large companies like Bayer who likely have decades of datasets. Random example: https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/621
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
There's a similar O'Reilly book, Data Science at the Command Line, which I can also recommend: https://datascienceatthecommandline.com/ Buffalo's book is great and I generally recommend it in my bioinformatic
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Imagine being her child; imagine growing up knowing that in all likelihood, you only exist because your mother wanted to stay out of prison.
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Fun link: Theme Hospital is the follow-up to Theme Park, Theme Park was co-created by Demis Hassabis, Demis Hassabis founded DeepMind, DeepMind was acquired by Google, DeepMind has been incorporated into Google Health, surely Simulated Hosp
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
Commitment from the individual, and commitment from your organisation! I work in a relatively 'flat hierarchy' so there are few organisational structures and proceedings that keep projects on track. It's only me that keeps
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I can't see how this is different from langchain's pandas or Python agents https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/modules/agents/toolki...
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Addendum: To train an LLM you want 'diverse' training data, right? Not just Reddit posts but also technical manuals. In protein space I'm confident we've sequenced the majority of what is out there. For the majority we d
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
Happy to see Stanislaw Lem on this list! He was obsessed with humans not having the capability of seeing or understanding aliens. His Master's Voice is about a SETI-like project that found a recurring signal, and the international effo
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
we've gotten pretty good at predicting proteins from genome assemblies, but we don't have the manpower to manually curate that data. Swissprot, the project that manually curates and scores protein sequences, has about half a milli
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
There's a LOT of interesting stuff happening with large language models in biology: Transformer trained on human genomes, learns to identify different genomic elements like enhancers without knowing what enhancers are https:/&#x2
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
In Bullshit Jobs, Graeber wrote that the great job loss due to automation already happened; it was just swallowed by a ballooning middle management class. That ballooning happened for power reasons, higher up managers signaling their status
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
Yes, there used to be Plan S by the EU, 'all research has to be open access' - which led to an explosion in publisher's prices as people were forced to pay them! Nature used to be Closed Access only, but once Plan S came aro
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
Exactly!!! And there's very little 'regular' scientists can do about this. It's a system upheld by senior academics' conceptions, funding agencies, and university management staff.
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>Dependable Drew, an ear to listen, a shoulder to cry on I used to be the same as a student - always trying to fix all those broken people around me, somehow attracting mostly mentally-ill friends, visiting too many in psychiatric wards.
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
Ah but you see, it takes a few years before a new journal even has an impact factor, the sole number with which it is evaluated. To have a high impact factor means that other journals have cited your journal for years in high numbers. It&
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
The problem is that academics are evaluated based on the impact factor of the journal they publish in. If I submit a grant application and I have five papers in Nature, I will get the job. If I submit the application with five preprints on
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
Yeah that's the problem! The ML people and the biology or agriculture people don't talk, they're not in the same building. A biologist might see the ML-person's work only after it's published.
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
I've seen both in bioinformatics, because the field is so wide now. 1) Bioinformatics as tool-building, algorithm-dev: you're right, you don't need to know much biology there if the problem is defined well. 2) Bioinformatics
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Before globalization, you company's funds would stay in your local community. Success of the company would mean more funds in your community, which would mean a safer or better living environment for you. Nowadays, of course, most of t
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
I recently read Between Silk and Cyanide, the autobiography of the guy who made the codes for the OP's SOE. https://www.amazon.com.au/Between-Silk-Cyanide-Codemakers-19... He's the guy who came up with the idea of
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
I deactivated my Twitter account (set to private), from time to time I take a peek and it looks like the new algorithmically generated timeline really seems to push these garbage listicle tweet-threads.
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What really blows my mind about driving is that with a little bit of training, we get a feel for how big the car is. You can squeeze into a tight parking lot and you won't scratch your or the other car! By feel! We can somehow transf
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
I have been writing prompts for a GPT-based document 'digester' for business-internal people who can't code but do have the right background knowledge. Every day I have to expand the prompt because I found a new spot where I
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My bet is that (previously discussed by others and here) that they have cascades/steps of models. There's probably a 'simple' model that looks at your query first, which detects whether your query could result in a probl

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