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by azan_ 8mo ago
I don't know why someone going on a vacation would have moral high ground over someone that HAS TO travel for his work. If you are scientist you absolutely have to fly a lot to visit lots of conferences, disseminate your work, provide
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by azan_ 8mo ago
> I think a broad tax would just make it more difficult for middle and lower class to fly. Tax the business/first class and frequent flier, but don't push people who can already barely afford to fly out. No, it's the other
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by azan_ 8mo ago
> Suggesting that we should leave such things to the sole discretion of the economy and taxes describes a strange unhuman-like society that we don't live in. Well, the choice is: either we leave it to economy and taxes which work, o
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by azan_ 8mo ago
I've found one very interesting thing from these trackers - namely how even small amount of alcohol destroy sleep quality metrics. One beer is enough for my sleep scores to drop by like 20-30% and it's consistent and reproducible
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by azan_ 8mo ago
> It's sexism in action; the woman gets punished while "boys will be boys." Prove me wrong. Epstein died in his cell. If Maxwell preferred death to punishment she could've also killed herself. Also it's well docu
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by azan_ 8mo ago
> The Economist tries hard to normalize GMO food, without ever raising the issues and addressing them. And you also did not raise any issue, just asserted that there are some. GMO is amazing.
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by azan_ 8mo ago
Come on, if the first thing that comes to your mind is something responsible for 1% with projection of 5% emissions then it’s clear that you don’t really care about actual solutions but prefer to parrot current rhetoric from social media. W
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by azan_ 8mo ago
No, it's not. The comparison makes zero sense and is fuelled by social-media sentiment, not facts.
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by azan_ 8mo ago
USA burns orders of magnitude more per capita. And if you take historical emission (and you should!) then the disproportion is absolutely absurd.
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by azan_ 8mo ago
It's not a great idea to blame AI, which is small addition to the global emissions. I suggest focusing on what's really important, not what's currently trendy.
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by azan_ 8mo ago
I tend to agree, but keep in mind that most likely you just don't even bother reading the shittiest of the shittiest papers just based on title and abstract. And for every good article there are like 10 unindexed shitty ones.
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by azan_ 8mo ago
It's ugly and slow, I see no reason why I would want to "upgrade" to that.
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by azan_ 8mo ago
Surely you must realise that calling things like programming or different types of office jobs (which are almost replaceable even today) "manual search jobs" is absurd?
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by azan_ 8mo ago
Well, maybe ask people that claim that HFT is bad and that it's travesty that great minds work on that (if my claims are unverifiable then it obviously follows that their claims are also unverifiable).
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by azan_ 8mo ago
There are much much more great minds working on new medicines than on HFT. Also HFT is good, it makes world better place!
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by azan_ 8mo ago
You keep repeating it, but it’s obviously wrong in practice. I guess you can make an argument that sending WhatsApp message or generating video is just a search job but that’s not a great argument for why humans wouldn’t get replaced - it d
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by azan_ 8mo ago
It’s not anymore (actually google is awful now) and people are still using it
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by azan_ 8mo ago
Keep in mind that they make large profit on inference. Not enough to make up for losses on training but it won’t be a problem for Chinese labs which will just steal their weights.
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by azan_ 8mo ago
There's story of how Tao almost failed at university due to playing so much Civilization
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> But I genuinely want to know a true account of what it took to get him there. I guess it's being one of the biggest geniuses in the history. Why people find it so hard to accept that there can be HUGE differences in intellectual c
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by azan_ 8mo ago
Pharma is famous for being bad investment unfortunately.
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by azan_ 8mo ago
That's completely upside down take. The problem with peer review is not that it does not allow good papers to get published (that rarely happens, almost all good papers get published!), but that shitty papers get published!
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by azan_ 8mo ago
MDPI is gamed by design, I think that while Elsevier is awful, MDPI is even worse with 100s of special issues where you are guaranteed to land publication in journals with quite nice IF (which is inflated by publishing large proportion of r
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by azan_ 8mo ago
What's unscientific in that?
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Why do you think it's inaccurate?
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by azan_ 8mo ago
Please just read this article - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar... It's funny that you instantly assumed that authors are stupid and did not think about this obvious pitfall. It&
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by azan_ 8mo ago
I wonder if I'm alone in being optimistic about this. I believe that the gigantic inflow of money into hardware will lead to large increase in production capabilities, accelerated progress and perhaps even new, better architectures.
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by azan_ 8mo ago
The impact of AI on environment is overblown.
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Approx. 5% of all cancers in US are caused by CTs
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That’s completely and 100% false. It’s much easier to characterize things on MRI and MRI is indeed phenomenal for cancer! The problem is with screening, not actual staging or follow-up, and whole-body screening in ct and pet/ct is even

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