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by bglazer 4y ago
You’re not the elitist, unfortunately you’re stating the truth and its academic hiring committees that are elitist. Research backs up the idea that there is a small clique of “elite” universities that exclusively hire from each other. Also,
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by bglazer 4y ago
Bird of prey simulator. I would love to "pilot" a golden eagle on the steppes as it hunts sheep on a cliffside. Or an owl using its incredibly acute hearing to locate mice in the dead of night. Or a swift flitting around the top o
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by bglazer 4y ago
Yeah strongly agree with you. Excellent examples of his technical skill. I think my point was more that the skill is not as immediately evident as compared to the Renaissance masters. It’s much more subtle.
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by bglazer 4y ago
One way to appreciate a piece of art is to recognize the technical skill that was applied in creating it. The David's veins and or Jesus's musculature and Mary's flowing robes in the Pieta are virtuosic demonstrations of Mic
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by bglazer 4y ago
I recently learned that active protection systems have really significant electronic signatures. I’m no expert but I believe that they rely on vehicle mounted radar systems to detect incoming fire. Take a look at this graphic: https:/
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by bglazer 4y ago
I’m actually ok with beatings figuratively (or literally) if someone sells me poison to give to my baby. It’s really that simple. We know how to make baby formula safely. We have known how to do that for a long time. It’s clearly profitable
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by bglazer 4y ago
Who gets to decide the limit to what the minority group asks for?
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So what you’re saying is that minority groups must accede to the demands of the majority without question or criticism?
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You’re just arguing that dominant groups should never face criticism or contend with outside perspectives? Also, if an outside group wants to participate in an activity then they should do it separately?
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Since we’re doing anecdotes, a member of my family is an airline pilot and a member of the pilots union. It has been extremely effective in negotiating better working conditions and higher pay for my family member. Keep in mind that, absent
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by bglazer 4y ago
Are there other phenomena that have similar affects on a star? Dust clouds? I’m not really familiar with astronomy but I did follow the story around Tabby’s Star, which dimmed over a very short period. People threw around the idea of a Dyso
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by bglazer 5y ago
Are you advocating for ethno-nationalism?
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by bglazer 5y ago
So I’d actually disagree. I think we know most of the fundamental principles of biology. The basic ideas underlying genome replication, RNA expression, and protein translation are very well understood. These are the core defining processe
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by bglazer 5y ago
It might be helpful to specify more precisely what's distressing to you about this.
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Is there any convincing research for how/why the inner monologue capabilities emerge? It’s extremely unintuitive, but also pretty empirically obvious, that LLM’s gain this capability just by scaling and absent any changes in architectu
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by bglazer 5y ago
The control aspects of self driving are much easier to solve. Here’s an autonomous drifting Delorean https://youtu.be/3x3SqeSdrAE The physics and control of cars are quite well understood, even in extreme conditions. Furthe
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by bglazer 5y ago
It's also extremely anxiety inducing (for some people)
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One thing that’s never considered is the possibility that the world conquering AI would lose alignment with itself diverge into two (or more) competing factions. There are basic, unavoidable coordination problems with all distributed system
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by bglazer 5y ago
“Mom do you remember the walk we took around the lake just before you died?” “Yes what a wonderful day. I also fondly remember the Adidas sneakers I wore. Did you know they’re 25% off at Target this weekend only?”
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by bglazer 5y ago
> I'm definitely awaiting for traveling salesman solver or similar, guided by NN, solving things faster and reaching optimality more frequently that optimized heuristic algos. There was a competition for exactly this at Neurips 2021
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by bglazer 5y ago
Just checked with my cancer textbook and it cites a 1990 study from the Netherlands that indicates that curing all cancer would increase life spans by a little less than 4 years. Most people who get cancer are quite old. This doesn’t lessen
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Origins of the Pandemic(science.org)
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by bglazer 5y ago
“Goodnight nobody, goodnight mush” That line from Goodnight Moon fascinated me. What a strangely beautiful bit of absurdism in a children’s book! This article really makes clear the beauty of the pacing and care for language in her work. Br
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by bglazer 5y ago
An interesting company in this space is LifeMine Therapeutics. My understanding is that they have a large collection of fungi genomes. They apply bioinformatics techniques to search for genes encoding metabolic pathways that produce biologi
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by bglazer 5y ago
3 million children lifted out poverty but chicken wings are now more expensive. Impossible to say if it was a good policy. Seriously, how do weigh the consequences of actions like this? On the one hand you have a certainty: many children pl
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by bglazer 5y ago
Right, I think it’s a bit crazy not to use a grammar as part of the generation process when you have one. My guess is that constraining LLM generation with a grammar would make it way more efficient. But that’s more complicated than just th
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by bglazer 5y ago
Points 1-4 seem to be promoting a vision of individual researchers working independently with low cost instruments. A sort of yeoman farmer model of research? Why not aggregate those independent researchers into a single place so that they
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by bglazer 5y ago
That’s not entirely correct, as I know of at least one approach to neural program synthesis that employs self supervised learning. https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08381 It’s a slightly different, easier problem: generating
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by bglazer 5y ago
While the statistics for alcohol consumption may not be as drastic as gambling, a large percentage (>20%) of alcohol revenue comes from heavy drinking. Here's a study from the UK. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3013
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by bglazer 5y ago
I occasionally have the same feelings. Like it seems like people have basically figured out everything in biology. Most papers are written with that kind of authoritative tone, which is understandable given the pressure of the publishing pr

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