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by axg11 4y ago
De-extinction doesn't necessarily mean they will release animals back into the wild. Presumably a portion of animal behaviour is learned and passed down from the previous generation. Animals produced by de-extinction will be lacking th
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by axg11 4y ago
I think it's great. Too often, when a larger company acquires a smaller one, they try to erase all history and culture of the smaller company. Obviously, there is still a self-congratulatory tone to this press release, but I think it&#
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by axg11 4y ago
This would presumably only be useful if expressed in the skin?
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by axg11 4y ago
It's a testament to the immediate applications of AI/ML. In the past, supercomputers were mainly a tool for research, with expected returns from that research in the order of years to decades. Now, as demonstrated by how large lan
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by axg11 4y ago
Fair point. I was assuming the worst.
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by axg11 4y ago
Why does that matter?
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by axg11 4y ago
The title is very misleading. Google has invested in web3/blockchain companies that have raised ~$1.5B in total. Google's contribution to that total fundraise is likely _much_ smaller.
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by axg11 4y ago
Remote work is commonplace now. Perhaps in the next few years we’ll test the theory that jobs and house prices are linked. It’s now possible (for tech workers at least) to work from almost anywhere for decent wages. My hunch is that the hou
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by axg11 4y ago
You're going to be proven wrong in weeks to months. Just a couple of years ago the consensus was that DALL-E/Imagen/Stable Diffusion quality image generation was impossible. Now it's very real and quality is improving ev
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by axg11 4y ago
When was housing not an investment? Throughout history, people have always wanted to drive up the value of their land and properties. There are still plenty of places in the US/Canada/UK where housing is cheap. The problem is that
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by axg11 4y ago
I’m excited for the coming race to improve and miniaturise this tech. Apple has a great track record of making ML models light enough to run locally. There will come a day when photorealistic image generation can run on an iPhone.
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by axg11 4y ago
I've never met a manager that has expectations for email replies on weekends or frankly <24hr replies during the working week. At all the places I've worked (startups and FAANG), emails are treated as a slow communication mediu
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by axg11 4y ago
Machine Learning: - Image generation - Multi-modal AI: (one algorithm that can process text, video, images, audio, etc) Genomics - liquid biopsy / cfDNA: early cancer detection from a blood test, other diagnostics - fast (<1 hr) che
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by axg11 4y ago
That is only true because of our current tools and capabilities. With improved manufacturing techniques and AlphaFold++ I think biologics will dominate. Even still, there are ~2000 approved biologics [0]. [0] - https://purplebook
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by axg11 4y ago
AlphaFold is the best counterpoint to tech cynics. One of the largest public tech companies in the world funded a multi-year scientific project, executed the research flawlessly and moved forward an entire scientific field. They then went o
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by axg11 4y ago
If we knew: (a) the structure of every protein (what DeepMind is doing here) (b) how different protein structures interact (i.e. protein complexes - DeepMind is working on this but not there yet) Then we could use those two building blocks
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by axg11 4y ago
What don’t you understand about that? People leave all the time, before and after layoff events. You need to replace those key roles. Layoffs are not always about reducing the size of the workforce, but can also be to remove the low perform
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by axg11 4y ago
Immunity and level of exposure are very tightly coupled. Children would ordinarily be exposed to a variety of viruses from birth. Most encounters with a virus happen at very low viral load (e.g. total number of virus particles you're e
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by axg11 4y ago
They were able to shoot down _one_. This was after analysing many sorties and a bit of luck under ideal conditions. Radar has improved but so has stealth and operating procedures.
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by axg11 4y ago
Fraud and fabrication of results are abhorrent, but this is too simplistic a take. These fraudulent results didn't single-handedly spawn 16 years of fruitless research. Instead blame the incentives that create a system where nobody val
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by axg11 4y ago
The most powerful results in science are continually reproduced by being built upon to uncover further new knowledge. I'm no expert in the toxic oligomer hypothesis or Aβ hypothesis, but it appears that these paths have led to very lit
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by axg11 4y ago
This is a powerful idea. Most problems in science are incentives problems. Sadly there's little or no incentive for journals to adopt this policy.
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by axg11 4y ago
I expect this won't be the last acquisition on the health front. All tech-adjacent companies are cheap right now and Amazon is making a big push into health (Amazon Care & Pharmacy). More of these acquisitions can accelerate plans.
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by axg11 4y ago
Deep learning is one of the most reproducible areas of science. That might seem like an insane statement until you spend time in a biology (wet) lab. Experiment protocols are often poorly documented and access to materials needed to reprodu
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by axg11 4y ago
Exactly - they could think bigger than selling hardware alone.
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by axg11 4y ago
Nvidia's approach to software is really interesting, and demonstrates that they have a hardware culture through and through. They could turn Canvas into a web app and charge a monthly subscription. Alternatively they could go the OpenA
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by axg11 4y ago
That's the point! Locally, there are great options almost everywhere. In Canada, I can e-transfer (Interac) anyone and the transfer is ~instant. Across borders the solutions are much worse. Crypto is the only payment rail that can real
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by axg11 4y ago
Do you live in North America? I would challenge anyone in Canada/US that claims it's easier to initiate a wire transfer (with zero ability to track progress) vs. send USDC to an ETH address.
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With one single integration, AngelList can receive USDC from anyone, anywhere in the world. It doesn't matter if you can transfer CHF very cheaply locally.
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by axg11 4y ago
I live in Canada and recently invested a small amount in a startup via AngelList RUV. There were two funding options: (1) wire transfer, (2) transfer USDC via Ethereum network. One of these options is cheaper, faster, and more flexible than

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