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The Nippon Foundation that funds this is a strange beast, established to make it legal to bet on speed boats in Japan. A percentage of speed boat betting winnings enables the Nippon Foundation. The first two chair-people were... colorful. L
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There are ways to get fungi to make fake leather: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8950489/ There are a few US startups in this space. MycoWorks, Mylo, MycoFutures etc. pp. Some do 'proper&#x
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Yep that one! It's a bit pricy for 'private' people (I think 300 or 400?) for what you get, it's essentially a bunch of statements you click on as fast as possible, and then you get a PDF with a final report. If your emp
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One of the more interesting 'career advancement' things I've done is the Gallup Strengths thingy. At the time it felt like corporate BS, an expensive corpo version of 'which Harry Potter house are you?'-tests. Howev
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
>Very few people have access "Man is born free and everywhere is in chains" - as Rousseau said 300 years ago.
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We roughly know the space of possible mutations in the human genomes because we have so many sequenced genomes now: if we don't spot a mutation it's probably not good when it happens, survivorship bias. The problem with CRISPR is
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Drug lords are making the world better?
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Original paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/risa.14291 The Australian is Rupert Murdoch's house paper, very conservative. They have a spin.
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Worry not! People also use ChatGPT for peer review now. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183 The entire scientific publication process is garbage. I say that as someone on ~140 papers who has quit academia: we focus on wri
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So this means that any kind of online polling is pretty much dead? It's relatively trivial to get this to vote for you, detecting and typing in Captchas, making accounts etc.
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Do OP and I work in the same place? I can't stand the linkedin-depth-level of leadership anymore. Deep concepts like systems thinking are introduced, workshops are held, but nothing really of depth ever comes: concepts are introduced a
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But what is the product they're selling? The main Reka.AI page looks like a regular ChatGPT clone, an LLM you pay for by the token. How is this different from all these other companies? Pricing seems to be comparable to ChatGPT 3.5-Tur
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They also recently were involved in Evo, genome-scale modeling of DNA: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.27.582234v1 The second author works at together.ai and the huggingfaces space from together.ai
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An A is replaced by a T, or by a G, or by a C, or vice versa. The more expansive side of the coin are indels or CNVs (copy number variations), where pieces of genome are replaced by other pieces (ATGCT by ATGCTCTA for example) or just delet
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
I've run into the same problem with deploying Gemini locally, it does not seem to support System Prompts. I've cheated around this by auto-prepending the system prompt to the user prompt, and then deleting it from the user-display
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AMD GPUs are being rolled out to HPC, the interface is a far cry from CUDA but open source. It would be a risky bet, like being non-bitcoins after seeing bitcoin's price balloon.
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There are heaps BYDs driving around here in Australia. I'd say by now more than Teslas
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Similarly, for me as an R person `polars` feels a bit more like R than `pandas` q = ( pl.scan_csv("docs/data/iris.csv") .filter(pl.col("sepal_length") > 5) .group_by("speci
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by a_bonobo 3y ago
Has Facebook perhaps shifted towards a federation of communities? My Facebook feed as it used to be, general life updates by various friends, is pretty much dead. Nobody posts these things anymore. However, neighbourhood groups, Buy Nothing
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Yes, let's hope! The strategy has worked out sometimes - Google shut down 'Google Refine' 10 years ago, it got turned into 'Open Refine', last release five days ago. https://github.com/OpenRefine&#
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If you have a company building AI on top of Twitter's data, it could've been a company Twitter itself could've built. It's the feeling of lost money for them.
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The community took Mozilla's announcement of shutting down parts of the org very negatively, but your comment agrees with my feelings: they're shutting down the stuff nobody uses. Hubs is/was a private 3D world for conference
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For comparison's sake: to regenerate the data that enabled AlphaFold, you'd have to spend about $20 billion. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-023-02103-0 >A major distinguishing factor of the
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LlamaIndex v0.10(blog.llamaindex.ai)
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>Sanders started franchising Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) at the age of 62, using his first Social Security check to fund the business. That seems like not much funding! Looking at Wikipedia: >Sanders believed that his North Corbin re
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I've looked at it yes!! but there's heaps of ggplot-based libraries that I also like to use; things like cowplot, ggsignif, ggtree etc. It would be a cat-and-mouse game for plotnine to keep up with the ggplot-based ecosystem!
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The poster might have confused social sciences with psychology? >Study replication rates were 23% for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48% for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, and 38%
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Yeah that's how it ended up for me: large datasets get churned through for speed in Python, but I then usually switch over to R with the summary data because there's just way more biology-specific ecosystem in R than in Python. R&
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Two things not mentioned that I believe destroyed 'business culture' and employee motivation: - Covid. Doesn't matter what you believe in how dangerous Covid is or is not, in Covid times companies happily required their emplo
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there's a cool preprint from a few weeks ago where they sequenced a collection of 34 years worth of air-filters in Sweden: lots of mammals! eDNA, just from air. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.

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