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by a_bonobo 2y ago
Well when I did the reviewing for my PI I rarely got close supervision :) It was more like, 'here's my review', followed by 'I sent it on thanks'
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
and since a lot of those tools are incremental improvements they disappeared again, imho - what's the point for 2% higher accuracy when you need a GPU you don't have? Not many DL based tools I see these days regularly applied in g
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
You just unlocked a memory for me - I distinctly remember playing this with my friend on his computer and we were just completely stuck at the ship, with no way forward. We must have missed the reporter!
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
> They read as if written by a ghost. It is almost impossible to spot the lie in Sebald. One of his final essays, “Campo Santo,” (2003) makes an unlikely pivot in its final moments to speak of the modern world, meditating on the place of
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
I've played with Cursor, it felt like all it has is a simple wrapper around Claude. It repeats what I've been doing manually before, namely copy pasting small code blocks into Claude and asking it to fix it. Cursor doesn't ad
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
There are not many jobs out there that pay you a few million dollars for two years of work, so yes! Downside: among the usual US-specific stuff, as a felon it's much harder to receive most countries' permanent visas. It's a c
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
I remember criticism back from when this paper first came out: it went something like 'all this shows that using maths it is possible to construct a world where most published research findings are false.'
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
Talking with some Chinese colleagues in the past, they were talking about having a 'base' salary which was not enough to have a family on. For every published paper they'd get a one-time payment. So you'd have to get a b
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
My experience is that the 0% interest on credit time for large companies enabled open source to thrive: open source maintainers were flush with cash and time. Large companies with ample cash let their staff do anything to keep them happy (a
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
You should send that teacher an email today! They don't hear often from their past students
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And that's what I love about the robot stories. He sets up the law of robotics, just like Agatha Christie and friends set up the detective fiction commandments, and then Asimov sets about finding all the loop holes in the laws of robot
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
I've heard this many times before (I think Charles Bukowski used to preach this?), and I have to say I disagree. Famously Douglas Adams had to be forced to write every sentence in the Hitchhiker's Guide. He certainly didn't h
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
OP is weird, their second post says that they 'exclusively use Chromium for web dev now as Firefox simply cannot keep up' - who knows what Google Chrome does with your data, you don't even get to opt out.
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
We also use Keeper via SSO. We had Lastpass before and switched for obvious (breach of their vault) reasons. It's OK? It does its job.
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
You can get government subsidies in Germany using snake :) News in German from a week ago, 180,000 Euros in Government subsidies to develop a modern Snake: https://www.iphone-ticker.de/spielefoerderung-in-der-kritik-...
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
Yes but you still need the journal's stamp of approval for your CV - in my past life having the paper on biorxiv did not count towards anything. The number of papers per year in the top 20% of journals in the field was one of two metri
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
For AI journals it might even be the opposite: researchers running these tools pay OA fees for the submission, the journals make bank, the universities rise in research rankings due to more papers published, everybody is happy. Who needs r
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
Japan, having ~the highest average age, should be on the top of the list but is not: second-highest bin. Australia is the skin cancer capital of the world ('Approximately 2 in 3 Australians will be diagnosed with skin cancer before the
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
It's actually a different system - Japan's network was privatised and split into competing companies with all shares publicly traded (bar some exceptions), the Deutsche Bahn was privatised into a single, state-owned company. As
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
True! How about, 'it's a flat hierarchy now, but you're also all managers'. That would be a nice consensus of the previous nonsense into new nonsense.
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
I work in a place that used to be 'flat' for exactly the reasons in OP's article, then it turned out to be all unplanned chaos with way too many projects being picked up not going anywhere. Now it's all too hierarchical
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
>The Cuckoo's Egg - Cliff Stoll This is such a nerd-snipe book, I absolutely loved it. A personal account of one of the first cases of (attempted) military espionage via the internet? A system administrator thwarting intruders with
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
Is it a classic or a modern sabbatical? In a modern academic sabbatical, researchers generally visit a different university and work on a problem adjacent to their regular research interest (there's a whole paper about this phenomenon:
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
They do not mention that OpenAI lobbied heavily for this act to be watered down. https://time.com/6288245/openai-eu-lobbying-ai-act/ >Still, OpenAI’s lobbying effort appears to have been a success: the final dr
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
and attracting other researchers so your competitors can't pick them up to potentially harm your own business
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
Yet the CEO made 34 million dollars last year https://www.ajc.com/news/business/delta-ceo-ed-bastian-saw-h... That includes a 20 million dollar bonus ('one-time enhanced award'). One wonders for what?
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
DNABERT-S came out half a year ago: seems like xBERT is still useful in genomics/DNA? https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08777
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
Yes, but they are pretty. Case in point: the maize genome Circos plot popped up in Jurassic World, they just overlayed an image of a Triceratops https://circos.ca/images/mastheads/
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by a_bonobo 2y ago
Was it really trained on BIG-Bench, or was it trained on an article or forum post about BIG-Bench that mentioned or reproduced the canary string?
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>"There are many groups for whom hotels as the only option simply doesn't work," she says. "While the hotel industry has done legwork to be accommodating to families, the room layouts and prices don't work for th

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