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by ak_111 2y ago
It is a bit interesting and telling though how no one ever says they went sober and regretted it, or an ex-teetotaller saying they picked up drinking and it was the best decision they ever made and wish they did it sooner.... but you almost
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by ak_111 2y ago
Where did I make assumption that majority of obesity drug users don’t put this effort? I was more saying majority of those who try what the poster tried end up not needing the drug. These two statements are very different and it is a common
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by ak_111 2y ago
No for example they might have severe food addiction that it makes it hard for them to reduce food consumption otherwise.
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by ak_111 2y ago
This is quite snarky. I was giving kudos because the commentator first exhausted all the lifestyle options that extremely often work in reducing obesity to ensure their issue is more than just lifestyle choice then finally taking the drug,
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by ak_111 2y ago
Which studies? I find it hard to imagine that it has been proven that for most people having a low-carb unprocessed meal once a day, no alcohol, and 5-mile daily hikes as the original poster does would would not eliminate sever weight iss
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by ak_111 2y ago
The difference in Terence Tao's brain architecture to most humans is extremely minimal, even non-existent.
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As an outsider can anyone enlighten me how this squares with the news that models that adapt similar LLM architecture can obtain silver medal in mathematical olympiad?
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by ak_111 2y ago
"Why do we find it acceptable to help people who struggle with alcohol abuse, or nicotine addiction, or opioid addiction, but not to help people who struggle with food abuse?" I think it is because if 90% of the population did hal
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by ak_111 2y ago
Are you suggesting Humans can't do formal reasoning? Because you can easily teach a four year old not to make illegal moves in chess with very little instructions, and by 10 geniuses like Terence Tao were discussing open math problems
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by ak_111 2y ago
The contrast in discoveries made in 'core' physics in the first 25 years of the last centuries compared to this century is quite insane, it was never going to be sustainable. If it did sustain we would be colonising a new galaxy b
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by ak_111 2y ago
I am more interested in how it occurs in the hard sciences. How can a scientific result accumulate a huge amount of citations without its effect not being replicated in many different contexts.
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What I don't get is that people claim that the incentives are skewed because highly cited paper get you the top jobs. However, assume that a significant subset of the citation are citing because they require the fraudulent result, then
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by ak_111 2y ago
Actually not sure about LibGen in its current manifestation, but the wikipedia page clearly traces its origin and earlier iterations to Russia
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libgen and z-library must be Russia's greatest philanthropic contribution to the rest of mankind (despite all the other dodgy stuff it is involved in, which I am not belittling). It was a no brainer for them from a strategic point of v
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by ak_111 2y ago
He mentions that he posed to O1 the same challenge he posed to a previous GPT (which he also previously blogged about), so I am wondering how much O1 benefited from potentially "seeing" this discussion in its training set (which p
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by ak_111 2y ago
This thread is making me panic that I don't understand handling time in programming and now I am paranoid that one day it will bite me hard. What is a good primer in understanding most of the serious issues raised in this thread and ho
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by ak_111 2y ago
You say you haven't understood his position, you mean from reading this blog post which isn't supposed to be even an overview of his position? Instead he has written an entire book elaborating on his view, which seems to be a well
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by ak_111 2y ago
I think it is not necessary improvement to the quality of the screening process, just that it is more widely available?
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Note that Indonesia's high speed rail is being built by China, so it is more accurate to remind everyone that this is China's century. On the other hand, for the sake of balance it is also important to remember that the grass is a
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50% of those places are using excel and outdated tech because they have 0 budget to spend on tech no matter how good the replacement (in fact even if it is cheaper, approving the alternative is too painful a process), "their problem&qu
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by ak_111 2y ago
"...Some cell biologists and biochemists who used to work with structural biologists have replaced them with AlphaFold2 — and take its predictions as truth. Sometimes scientists publish papers featuring protein structures that, to any
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After academic conference, I got held up at US border (Twitter thread)(twitter.com)
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Tbf Replit is an online IDE for full stack development, that means that almost any idea you work on Saas dev tooling could be construed as a competitor.
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Is there any reason why its been reposted now? Have Replit been in the news recently?
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Am actually interested in this question in a non-snarky way. Many years ago, I taught lots of programming workshops in academia and managing the student environments was always a pain. So when I heard of replit and similar tools it always s
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by ak_111 2y ago
Another relevant Arabic saying: ham-eeha, haram-eeha. The guardians are the thieves.
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Shows you the total lack of imagination in public policy that is the UK. Currently there is no apprenticeship route in archaeology. Simultaneously there is something like millions of objects uncatalogued at the British museum (note catalogi
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by ak_111 2y ago
I have a meta question here, am always curious when seemingly competent engineer such as yourself put up with this kind of management. It is unbearable to work for someone who doesn't appreciate your work let alone belittles truly hard
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If you work in this space would be interested to know what material impact has alphafold caused in your workflow since its release 4 years ago?
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Discovering underlying principles and predicting outcomes is two sides of the same coin in that there is no way to confirm you have discovered underlying principles unless they have some predictive power. Some had tried to come up with othe

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