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by biofox 10mo ago
I ask for confidence scores in my custom instructions / prompts, and LLMs do surprisingly well at estimating their own knowledge most of the time.
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by biofox 10mo ago
There has certainly been an overreaction, and it continues to be the case even after efforts have been walked back. I have yet to hear a good justification for why people who are not interested in programming should be encouraged to become
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by biofox 10mo ago
Flaky when under pressure? Irritating results? Sites look and feel better without it? Sounds appropriate to me.
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by biofox 10mo ago
R and Matlab workflows have been fairly stable for the past decade. Why is the Python ecosystem so... unstable? It puts me off investing any time in it.
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by biofox 11mo ago
The red queen effect. We'll end up all driving flood-lit bulldozers.
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by biofox 11mo ago
The most egregious example is old CGA games that were written to work on composite monitors. Without the composite display, they appear monochrome or cyan and magenta. https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7229541/2
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by biofox 1y ago
I hate that languages have become fads. The concepts have not changed, but there is a constant churn of languages. I don't have to relearn natural language every 5-10 years, but for some reason I'm expected to when it comes to pro
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by biofox 1y ago
>Never underestimate the value of play! I don't. It's my boss who doesn't see the value :(
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by biofox 1y ago
For those wondering, here's the excerpt: "There's been a big debate about the very use of the word Anglo-Saxon, so much so that people in our field of scholarship are not using the word [...] because of the connotations that
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by biofox 1y ago
Nope. He's typing that from an old Amiga over a 600 baud connection.
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by biofox 1y ago
Just read his post where he describes receiving his diagnosis and initial treatment. https://itila.blogspot.com/2015/08/unexpected-signs-of-malig... Now I feel emotionally exhausted. I really hope I live long enou
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by biofox 1y ago
Key sentence: "Analyzing fairness ideals, we find that MBA students are less likely to be strict meritocrats than the broader population"
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by biofox 1y ago
"Error: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this project." :(
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by biofox 1y ago
They also make for great retro PowerPoint backgrounds :)
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by biofox 1y ago
That's absolutely horrifying! Glad to hear you've managed to move past it, as it would have absolutely broken me. My home was searched by the police for something much less serious (buying lab equipment, completely legally), and t
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by biofox 1y ago
> [Maxwell] entertained guests at parties with booze, cigars and sailboat trips. Scientists had never seen anything like him. > “We would get dinner and fine wine, and at the end he would present us a cheque – a few thousand pounds fo
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by biofox 1y ago
It's a somewhat selective history. Off the top of my head: Kepler developed his ideas while at the University of Graz. [16th century] Galileo built his first telescopes while a professor at the University of Padua. [16th - 17th century
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by biofox 1y ago
Agreed! Skipped it, as it's one that divides the fandom, but it hits all of the notes for a slow, cerebral, sci-fi thriller.
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by biofox 1y ago
Similarly, in the Star Trek universe, the original films captured all of the local optima: Wrath of Khan - Star Trek does a Shakespearian tragedy. The Voyage Home - Star Trek does a family-friendly time-travel romp. The Undiscovered Country
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by biofox 1y ago
I'm a neuroscientist by training, and that doesn't match my understanding (although the definitions might have changed). Inflammation would be an instance of nociceptive pain, and an NSAID would alleviate it by reducing the inflam
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by biofox 1y ago
If you contextualise the outmoded ideas as part of the Great Conversation [1], and the story of how we reached our current understanding, rather than objective statements of fact, then they becomes a lot more valuable and worthy of study. [
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by biofox 1y ago
Two more examples of exchanges that were kept secret: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_telephone_exchange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_telephone_exchange
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by biofox 1y ago
This is an impressive feat of cataloguing! Considering the telecom system is at the bedrock of almost all modern technologies, it really doesn't get enough love or attention in the public mind. The dull derelict-looking, and often graf
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by biofox 1y ago
I used to follow dozens of blogs back when most sites supported RSS. I love reading thoughtfully crafted content, but I don't want my inbox filled with email alerts, and I don't have time to check every blog's website to see
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by biofox 1y ago
How is turning it into fuel pellets not recycling? It's giving it a second life, rather than going into a landfill.
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by biofox 1y ago
And those grant awards need to demonstrate how they benefit the USA. Many are (were) related to disease surveillance in developing countries to prevent pandemics, or collaborations with countries that are more advanced than the US in niche
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by biofox 1y ago
>If you don't need statistics, you did the wrong experiment. ~Psychologists >What are statistics? ~Computer scientists
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by biofox 1y ago
This has been repeated in several places, but it's not entirely accurate. Having looked through a partial list of the studies that were cancelled, many of them seemed to be looking at the effects of sex hormones (e.g. on memory or woun
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by biofox 1y ago
The design is sound, just not the order of assembly shown. For the bench, the lower bricks are suspended by the upper ones, so would need to be assembled separately before connecting to the legs.
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by biofox 1y ago
This is a great example! In the UK, most GPs use SystmOne. Some screenshots: https://support-s1.ardens.org.uk/support/solutions/articles/...

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