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by bglazer 1y ago
$200 million in total, approximately the cost of two (2) F35B fighter jets https://cr.usembassy.gov/sections-offices/aphis/screwworm-pr...
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by bglazer 1y ago
I think this happens to some degree with venture firms taking multiple bets on multiple companies working in the same area. The individual companies are still hamstrung, though. Why would ten companies all take the same bet on a speculative
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by bglazer 1y ago
The problem with private R&D is that it's quite difficult for any individual company to fully capture the benefits of research. There are lots of ways this happens. Company does innovative research then gets copied by other firms
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by bglazer 1y ago
Just for reference, the NSF funds nearly all research thats not biomedical in the US: engineering, physics, material science, etc. Its budget was $9B. The NIH, which accounts for nearly all biomedical research, had a budget of $48B. Lockhee
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by bglazer 1y ago
Stop posting LLM slop
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by bglazer 1y ago
Assuming you’re asking in good faith, I’ll try to answer. I have two core principles that motivate my beliefs about government policy regarding trans people. First, I don’t fucking care which bathroom you use. It’s none of my goddamn busine
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by bglazer 1y ago
In peripheral blood samples. That's important because they show that some of the epigenome changes are concentrated in specific biochemical pathways related to cancer. But, they don't find pathways specific to blood cancers, so I&
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by bglazer 1y ago
> “Why should I be bothered to read what nobody could be bothered to write?” Well said
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by bglazer 2y ago
Yes, I suspect that engineering the loss and hyperparams could eventually get this to work. However, I was hoping the model would help me get to a more fundamental insight into why the training falls into bad minima. Like the Wasserstein GA
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by bglazer 2y ago
Yeah I’m a computational biology researcher. I’m working on a novel machine learning approach to inferring cellular behavior. I’m currently stumped why my algorithm won’t converge. So, I describe the mathematics to ChatGPT-o3-mini-high to t
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by bglazer 2y ago
Is this really a “fight to the death”? Hamas already accepted a cease fire. In fact it seems that only the Israelis want a “fight to the death”, given that they broke the cease fire and seem to have no intention of resuming negotiations. Gi
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by bglazer 2y ago
Which ones?
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AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds without being taught(nature.com)
6 points by bglazer 2y ago|0 comments
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by bglazer 2y ago
Are you posting chatgpt output as comments?
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by bglazer 2y ago
Thanks for the sincere reply. However, I feel that you avoided the question. There are plenty of projects, actually an infinite variety of things that are fun to build. I make generative line art with a pen plotter. It’s great. But why this
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by bglazer 2y ago
Since no one has asked, why build this? What’s the use case?
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by bglazer 2y ago
This is true, but lacks specificity. Do you think CISA would recommend sharing details of imminent military operations via signal?
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by bglazer 2y ago
Just thinking outside the normal options, you could try to apply for PhD programs. They typically pay doctoral students, albeit not very much (~$30-40k), which could lessen the financial burden. With a little creativity in your application,
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by bglazer 2y ago
Over the last week I tried to use a combination of Claude and OpenAI o3-mini to do a direct conversion of about 500 lines of uncommented academic modeling code from Matlab to Python. I can’t stress enough how badly these models performed. N
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by bglazer 2y ago
Graphics Server Protocol Forgive me for doing this, but I used an LLM to find that. They’re exceptionally useful for disambiguation tasks like this. Knowing what an acronym refers to is very useful for next token prediction, so they’re q
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by bglazer 2y ago
Are we talking about AlphaFold? It did not use RL, right?
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by bglazer 2y ago
Yeah copilot is very good for matplotlib. Clunky interface with lots of repetitive code, but also tons of examples on the internet means that I almost never write matplotlib code by hand anymore.
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by bglazer 2y ago
I really don’t think this is generally true. Assuming you’re single with no children, there’s effectively no cash assistance available where I live. You might be able to get public housing and food welfare (SNAP), but you would have effec
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Do Prediction Technologies Help Novices or Experts More(newthingsunderthesun.com)
1 points by bglazer 2y ago|0 comments
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by bglazer 2y ago
The “royal we” is common for single author academic work. I’m honestly unsure why. StackExchange seems to think it refers to both author and reader together. I think it conveys a sort of distance from the author, giving the writing less of
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by bglazer 2y ago
First the rate was negotiated on a per institution basis with the government. It’s based around a mountain of oversight and compliance. Ironically all that compliance work contributes to the need for more administration. Second, modern rese
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by bglazer 2y ago
No they’re cutting payments for indirect costs down to 15%. They’re not requiring money be spent on research instead of admin, they’re just giving out less money. This is not and was never supposed to increase American research productiv
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by bglazer 2y ago
They are currently on their way to Mar a Lago to ask Trump to roll back the drug price negotiation provisions that were instated by the Inflation Reduction Act https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/phrma-prepares-meet-tru
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by bglazer 2y ago
This ends with America’s domestic biotech and pharmaceutical industry functionally disappearing and being shipped offshore, similar to many previously American led industries. This is already happening [1], and will only accelerate as acade
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by bglazer 2y ago
This article gives off really strong chatgpt vibes. Bullet points! Confidently stated but quite vague statements! Integration, key innovations, more bullet points! Distinct lack of personal viewpoints or unique opinions! Very long! Maybe I’

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