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What changed that suddenly gave workers the upper hand in negotiating with company management? The whole “hat in hand bit” seems like an effort to obscure the obvious fact that individual workers still lack meaningful power in negotiating w
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You should read the introduction to the paper. Its very readable and addresses this directly. Basically the idea is that the demon is actually doing work, but the work is processing the information required to know when to open or close the
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Yep, here’s the 1985 study where they tested reciprocal skin grafts across 14 unrelated cheetahs. Genetics research before easy sequencing was super wild. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2983425/
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Fun fact about cheetahs is that they’re so interrelated that any cheetah can accept a skin graft from nearly any other cheetah. They’re so similar that their immune system can’t recognize that the transplanted skin is from a different indiv
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Honestly, it sounds like he's trying to (rather weakly) backpedal from releasing private information about some of the most powerful people in the U.S. It's an interesting question whether this is ethical. On the one hand, represe
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Yes there’s a strange double standard with the “its just words on the internet” perspective. On the one hand, it’s an Orwellian nightmare that Twitter would ban accounts for “having the wrong opinions”, but on the other hand who cares it’s
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The parent comment is just straightforwardly true though. Researchers have even quantified how many bits of information cellular sensory systems can encode. Just because cells are too complicated to fully simulate doesn’t mean they don’t ha
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Alzheimer's just had two drugs approved by the FDA for treating the disease. They're certainly not a cure, they only slow the onset of symptoms by removing plaques from the brain. The underlying factors that cause the buildup of p
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It’s actually about 3 gigabases (ATCG). There are some recurrent features of the genome whose function we’ve worked out. For example the TATA box is a classic sequence that typically indicates the start of a part of the genome that codes fo
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Indra is one of those projects that feels like it’s going to be part of a pretty crazy future. The thing about biology is that the literature is absolutely vast. Like millions of publications. Each paper describes some tiny piece of a cellu
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It’s worth noting that the reason nothing “useful” can be done with genetic information in the United States is the Genetic information Nondiscrimination act of 2008. This prevents insurers from denying coverage or increasing premiums based
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Neil de Grasse Tyson’s academic output is exactly what you would expect from someone did a phd then left research science. He has a few first author papers that have a couple dozen citations and a few papers where he’s only a contributor. H
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I’m confused by your comment. The chatgpt output is basically just a restatement of the abstract. Does it make you have doubts about my summary?
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This isn’t exactly my area of expertise, but I know some of the jargon. Anyways, grain of salt, some details may be incorrect. Brain cells, and many other cell types communicate by releasing vesicles, which are very small bubbles of the cel
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Make a list of lat/long for every person, pick the middle entries?
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Other commenters are suggesting stories about cultural values and teenagers actively wanting to be mothers. That may or may not be true. The simplest explanation is that the infant simulators just do not have an effect one way or the other.
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I should note this is somewhat outside my normal range, so actual experts may disagree. There may be a few reasons. First, as another commenter has noted many cancers manifest late in life, after typical reproductive age. This is decent evi
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Immune evasion in cancer is really interesting and particularly important because immune therapy has really emerged as a groundbreaking therapy. But, while immunotherapy excels in blood cancers, it still struggles in solid tumors. Part of
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Oh wow. Thats very well done and also an extremely alarming looking object
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I’m sorry my thoughts on the article so distressed you. Inequality in education and traffic death have been on my mind lately and this article touched on them in an unexpected way, so I posted to share my thoughts. I understand that’s more
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Probably reduce deaths if the deployed systems are sufficiently capable. This may be offset somewhat by an increase in miles travelled as driving becomes easier. Why?
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I don’t hate the US. I love living here. I think fewer of its citizens should die in car crashes and that more should be able to achieve their full career potential. Regarding free college, I think a good system would have high standards fo
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Another example that might be of interest is the use of neural networks in Monte Carlo Tree Search. In 2017 there were two papers published showing how effective the combination of NN’s and MCTS are for planning in board games. One is an al
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I’m in an academic lab right now. I have never once had to get approval from three levels of management to do any experiment, nor have I ever heard of anyone having to do that. I’m not even sure who would be three levels of “management” abo
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Nope you can just put a preprint out. Like it or not, academic labs are probably busy doing things like checking their data and doing multiple replicates varying conditions. You know, science.
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It’s not. It’s just a molecule that binds to one mutation on one protein, albeit a very important one. There are many types of cancer that don't involve mutations of this particular protein. That’s not a reason to lose hope, this is in
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Maybe I’m misunderstanding something fundamental, but I’m struggling to see the reason for this work. They have a (presumably) supervised model that estimates the likelihood that a user will like a song. Then they train an RL model using th
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I’m guessing the second. Nothing in the interview suggests that he doesn’t stand behind the data. Sounds like he’s taking a wait and see approach and it’s a very good sign that he’s offering to help other researchers try to replicate
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For what its worth, Merriam Webster traces the first use of “democratize”, in the sense of increasing availability, to 1798
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> Very few conservatives in 2023 are riled up by homosexuality. This is absolutely not the case at the populist grassroots level. There are regular panics and outpourings of hatred for pride events, books mentioning homosexuality are out

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