biomcgary

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by biomcgary 2y ago
About 15 years ago my wife needed a fair amount of dental work due to a dentist screwing up her mouth in childhood. We traveled to Brazil and got the work done by a dentist that my family knew and spent a week hanging out with my family the
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by biomcgary 2y ago
I really wish they had done an analysis of finite Planck-scale monkeys.
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Thank you for pointing out this option. Any idea why the Go stdlib doesn't offer this for Linux and macOS? I'd rather not add compiling other languages to my Go workflow.
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by biomcgary 2y ago
IIRC, purego repurposes a lot of cgo machinery, so I don't think there would be much difference. For my purposes, it doesn't matter since the ML library does several seconds to minutes of work using multiple cores per call.
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Thank you, it is nice to see an empirical observation of before and after the transition to continuous trading.
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Phoenix was the first place that Waymo offered service, which the selected for the weather, IIRC. The video highlights the spinning lidar sensors. How does that do in freezing rain? How long until a solid state lidar is a practical replacem
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by biomcgary 2y ago
I love that you chose to wrap the C++ with purego instead of requiring CGO! I wrapped Microsoft's Lightgbm library and found purego delightful. (To make deployment easier, I embed the compiled library into the Go binary and extract it
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by biomcgary 2y ago
30 seconds seems reasonable. Don't the markets themselves make a fair amount of money off of providing fast access to the HFTs? Is that the primary perverse incentive?
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Other than seemingly perverse incentives, is there a good reason not to quantize trading time?
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by biomcgary 2y ago
I'm a computational biologist working for a health prediction biotech. Genetics only explains about 20% of disease variance (on average across many disease, additional caveats apply :-).
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Is hydrogen embrittlement likely to be a problem within an engine? Or, is that primarily a storage issue?
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Is Piper currently the best open source TTS model? I occasionally review open models to see if they match elevenlabs and have been disappointed. However, Piper sounds better than the last time I listened around.
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Same here. I find that I am less likely to wake up in the middle of the night. Based on the post, my guess is that I'm less likely to wake up during REM from anxiety.
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by biomcgary 2y ago
with a specific genetic background (strain C57BL/6J) and environmental conditions. . . It is broadly underappreciated that most gene knockout experiments in mice are not replicated across multiple genetic backgrounds, which can have si
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by biomcgary 2y ago
This is part of the reason why I distinguish between free-market economics and capitalism, where the people with capital make the rules (including social capital, like current doctors). At the level of persuasion, I don't understand w
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Good clarification. Retool runs into a wall pretty quickly if you are unwilling/unable to write ANY sql or js.
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by biomcgary 2y ago
After comparing a few different products in the no-code, low-code space for CRUD, I recently adopted Retool for my company to develop internal applications. Our apps depends on postgres under the hood, so we can still run traditional querie
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Diamond eyeglasses? The lenses would still be cheaper than the Luxottica frames.
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by biomcgary 2y ago
I'm fortunate to work in a biotech startup where the CEO actively encourages people to push back on him and he seems to relish it. In fact, one of my colleague's unofficial job titles is "devil's advocate", particul
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by biomcgary 2y ago
The daily driver I am using to write this post is a Beelink with Linux installed. Very happy with it. Switched out the original 128GB SSD with a 1TB SSD. FFMPEG and light gaming run fine. My only minor regret is not starting with more memor
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Publish or perish is yet another example of Goodhart's Law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law) . Paper count is a terribly easy metric to game when used to evaluate academic output because publishin
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Isn't the comment you are responding to an example of: "When machine intelligences start inventing biological tools to overcome the limits of their silicon existence, you'll have a point"?
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Thanks for doing this calculation! It would be interesting to know if the average square footage of houses built by the company has changed. If they have increased by 25%, the profit per square foot would be roughly unchanged.
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Thanks for the insight! I have used UKB data extensively, but haven't seen much from All of US, so I was wondering if I had missed something. . .
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by biomcgary 2y ago
The biggest Obama spend was to create a research cohort ( https://allofus.nih.gov/ ). So far, it hasn't paid dividends in an appreciable way, but the UK Biobank (on which the US program is partially modeled) started in 2
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by biomcgary 2y ago
In biology, the most important step is finding the right thing to measure. Biological systems are highly contextual, so the second most important step is finding the second thing to measure in relationship to the first thing. In the case of
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by biomcgary 2y ago
The referenced study's methods did NOT account for the fact that overweight people are more likely to be consuming erythritol and/or on a keto diet. Highly likely to be confounding.
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Am I misreading the architecture diagrams or is this going to be the largest MITM scenario in history?
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by biomcgary 2y ago
As a teen in the mid-1990's, I wanted to be a physicist (hard science!), but after reading extensively about string theory, I decided to become a biologist. Squishy beats non-empirical.
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Promotes angiogenesis = makes tumor growth easier (but at least they'll be visible until the hair grows in)

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