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by bglazer 4y ago
I don’t mean to dissuade you, because simulating biology is a truly fascinating task. That said, what you’re describing would be a monumental task, not exactly a free time side project. Consider protein folding. This occurs millions of time
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Curious what you mean by “particle level”? Like simulating every molecule in the body?
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One of the bitter lessons I've learned is that when I think of something, I should always (always!) do a couple searches to see if anyone else has thought of it, before I commit to writing down my thoughts as novel or authoritative. So
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Me and every one of my friends have seen this horse named Hans, very clever, that could understand everything its trainer said. He could do arithmetic too! I don’t understand why big psychology won’t take our data seriously and finally acce
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The key difference between being banned from Facebook and being hanged by the government is that in one case you die and in the other case you are mildly inconvenienced. Like you said, you can always go to Gab.
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That’s because it literally looks like 80% of the multiple lane roads in America. There are probably >20 intersections in my city that would be completely indistinguishable. https://maps.app.goo.gl/vGr7gyiEPTfXxtY17?g_st=
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Single cell RNA sequencing is a very useful technique that relies on microfluidics. It allows researchers to isolate individual cells then "read" the RNA content of them. This lets you identify (very approximately) what behaviors
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Its not a dog whistle, its just a whistle. Judges have the politics of the politicians who appoint them; why else would the politicians appoint them? Frankly, it’s extremely naive to assume that judges are apolitical.
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Some people want to try to fix the problems with the place they live. Part of doing this is being really loud and annoying about problems
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No, the censorship is not through the “proxy of corporations”, it’s directly instituted by corporations. It’s simply company leadership deciding they don’t want noxious people in their private club anymore. Freedom of speech is not freedom
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Do you think the vaccine lowers the probability that a person will die from an infection?
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This is in Nature Human Behavior. This is a social science/psychology journal, a field which is suffering from the reproducibility crisis, perhaps worse than any other field. So, any result in this field should be viewed with significa
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This is good news. Academic publishers are parasites and anything that reduces their stranglehold on academic knowledge is good. That said, parasites are, if nothing else, resilient. So, there's a few issues that I'm concerned abo
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Can you explain what you mean with this rhetorical question?
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Unfortunately, these equations only started making intuitive sense for me once I saw them repeated many times, in different contexts. The key was being able to recognize patterns and being able to roughly predict the contents of the equatio
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Sorry for being obtuse. I was referring to a mirror. The point being that people take objection to DALLE being characterized as a mirror but it behaves similarly in this regard
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What else always produces an image, no matter what you present to it?
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I think most people would find it more difficult to draw a “serkle nufding” than a “spotted dog”. At the very least, they would need an explanation that you’re looking for whatever pops into their head for the nonsense. Again, that indicate
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I can give a random string of letters as a prompt and DALLE will generate coherent images based on that. To me, that is as clear a signal as any that there is no reasoning or even a consistent world model embodied in DALLE. It’s simply a hi
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I have seen a man working in HR.
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Yes, trying not to offend people is fundamentally important to working together. "How do I know what offends a particular person?" Basic cultural competency will dictate that there are words or stereotypes that are considered offe
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I do cancer research. You're right, the technical skills for basic wet lab stuff are not hard to learn. The hard part of cancer research is not learning how to pipette, it's learning how to ask and investigate worthwhile questions
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Are you arguing that there was some direct intervention during the origins of life? Like, an intelligent being stuck a probe into a chemical mixture and tipped it towards generating cells? Or, perhaps you're arguing that the rules of t
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How is that prevented now? Also, a relatively common form of theft now is the human driver absconding with the trailer. Also, a self driving truck would presumably be generating high resolution 3d scans of any potential hijacker.
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Covid-19 Originated in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan(science.org)
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I think what you’re describing in the last example is the MinHash algorithm edit: actually I’m not sure, sounds related though
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I think the best comparison would be to other developed countries with strong economic growth
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You might also be interested in “If I Did It” by OJ Simpson. But seriously, these are not good faith, honest accounts of what transpired. These are political actors doing politics; trying to burnish legacies that were tarnished by the blood
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This is on Eric Berg's channel. He is a chiropractor.
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What would “more foundational research on cures” look like? I do cancer research and, frankly, the work feels pretty foundational. I’m curious what you would change. Also please note that cancer vaccines have been tried but have failed for

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