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by avs733 1y ago
It’s also easily abused…the parent post is a pretty solid example of how that happens. More than any individual action by the administration, decades of reinforcement and reification of this thinking in a major segment of society is what is
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by avs733 1y ago
I honestly don't know but I assume so. They technically call it 'fringe benefits'. My university has four categories of fringe benefits: Full Limited Partial Grad Health The only things it specifies are that partial includes
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by avs733 1y ago
From a university grants perspective that likely includes benefits. Grant hiring math is Salary + benefits = cost Where benefits = salary *~.4
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by avs733 1y ago
> The guidance said that in the event of a request that “violates or doesn’t follow proper procedures”, employees were to contact Dorothy Aronson, the NSF’s chief information officer. “Do not give any indication that the request will be
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by avs733 1y ago
That is a good observation
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by avs733 1y ago
No, the two sides live in different information spheres. This story will percolate up to many democrats who will be furious that Russia is “helping” “doge”. Separately, it won’t (or will be dismissed as “overreacting” or “lying”) by republi
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by avs733 1y ago
The best outcome for them and other potential powerful forces is an America so roiled by internal conflict that it can’t now or ever do anything. Yeah Trump winning seems to help them in Ukraine but their need is disruption as much as diffe
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by avs733 1y ago
Sometimes getting caught isn’t a bad thing. If you are trying to seed division between to groups, acting in a way that divides them - e.g., getting caught helping one side - is more effective than what you gain by not getting caught. I stru
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by avs733 2y ago
monday morning: manager: "the auditors found all of our money missing" ::silence:: manager: "they are clearly doing an amazing job, and you are all fired for allowing such fraud waste and abuse"
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by avs733 2y ago
>A real efficiency audit might need a lot of access to look for signs of hidden activity, but they’d never need to hide traces of what they did In fact I would imagine they would do exactly the opposite because they would look at the m
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by avs733 2y ago
I'm going to take a contrarian perspective to the theme of comments here... There are currently very good uses for this and likely going to be more. There are increasing numbers of large generative AI models used in technical design wo
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by avs733 2y ago
Same, and I had completely forgotten it existed. It feels even more prescient now than a decade+ ago
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by avs733 2y ago
They actually do. Most universities have a foundation that runs their endowment and a delegate (or multiple) research corporations each with its own rules and policies and procedures. As to the separation of research and education, where we
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by avs733 2y ago
A working theory is a grudge from a long time ago over not buying land from trump. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/nyregion/trump-columbia-u...
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by avs733 2y ago
>It's a really bad concept in any space. I struggle with this because it feels like so many 'rules' in the world where the important half remains unsaid. That unsaid portion is then mediated by goodharts law. If the other
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by avs733 2y ago
The quotation marks in this article are under a heavy load. Blaming people you just fired for a mistake you made firing people is as timeless as it is pathetic.
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by avs733 2y ago
> but on behalf of the common folk universities have been failing their core mission - to provide the people with a quality education. I see this a lot and it’s a concerningly reductive argument. Say what you want about a lot of colleges
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by avs733 2y ago
Given the (highly memed) state of dental health in the UK it seems reasonable they would be responsible for this.
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by avs733 2y ago
My hope, and the hope of the six other parent friends I just sent this to, is that this will still be up in a few years. Made my and several friends evenings. Thanks.
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by avs733 2y ago
You aren’t wrong but there is no evidence of that here, at least for now.
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by avs733 2y ago
Not a bad thought…wish water fountains here were reliable
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by avs733 2y ago
And to further this point - the fbi is domestic counter intelligence agency who they would work with.
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by avs733 2y ago
While the question is not unreasonable, it is worth remembering that the FBI is not just a criminal investigation department. They also are the nations internal intelligence - I.e. anti foreign intelligence- leads.
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by avs733 2y ago
I’ve made it a game to find and report new ones on my longer runs. There is one near me, in a relatively upscale area, that has repeatedly been taken down and thrown into a culvert. There are currently two old flock cameras still on the pol
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by avs733 2y ago
>I enjoy the product, but wish they'd spend more time making the core elements of the product work. I think it might be worth stepping back and thinking about what the core elements of the product is. Not just with X, but with with
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by avs733 2y ago
The immediate reaction here is customer data but I think it’s worth a reminder that this data has significant implications for non customers as well. I nearly cut contact with my mother over he wanting to use 23andme for genealogy purposes.
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by avs733 2y ago
I…uh…just posted that comment.
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by avs733 2y ago
I’m wondering if I could get vc funding to use ai to generate popover video ads specifically to do training injection attacks against LLMs. I have this imagine of Claude suddenly randomly asking if I want to go buy a coke.
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by avs733 2y ago
To put rough numbers to this: 1.5B transistors in a current intel core chip 300 die per wafer 150 wafers an hour That means each litho tool prints 6.75 x 10^13 “transistors” per hour. In more useful units, that’s 18.75B transistors per seco
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by avs733 2y ago
This is such a good analogy. Implant and thin film deposition never gets any respect…

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