biophysboy

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by biophysboy 2mo ago
It annoys me that the default AI mode is so tedious and longwinded. I read a lot of nonfiction - the house style of AI is basically marketing copy.
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by biophysboy 2mo ago
Do you have tips for generating clean productive output per dollar?
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by biophysboy 2mo ago
TCJA made changes to corporate capital gains, no? As for tax hikes <90%, this hasn’t occurred in income; the opposite has occurred. You could make the case that it hasn’t been worth it for the poorest brackets though, given other coincid
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by biophysboy 2mo ago
Well there are much simpler “algorithms” that do not use reinforcement learning and do not have the same emergent issues at stake here (addiction, ragebait, etc). The argument would be that algorithmic curation makes you an editor, not a pa
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by biophysboy 2mo ago
bls.gov/ces is the main page for this survey and has a plot. The error updates annually. Their handbook has a Reliability section where they detail sampling/nonsampling error.
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by biophysboy 2mo ago
God help us if they ever become one
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by biophysboy 2mo ago
Based on the discussions in this thread, they aren’t alone
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by biophysboy 2mo ago
It’s common in scientific/stats publishing to have the headline state the avg/median, the main text plot the errors, and the supplementary give the explicit numbers. They have a big page about std errors.
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by biophysboy 2mo ago
Based on their July 2026 report, there were tiny increases in several sectors. The big declines were in service providing, leisure and hospitality, and government (bc of a summer decline in local gov education).
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by biophysboy 2mo ago
The bureau of labor statistics publishes confidence intervals in their reports
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by biophysboy 2mo ago
What do you mean by scientist-heavy orgs solving everything in token space? I feel like they use them to make or run tools almost exclusively.
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by biophysboy 2mo ago
There’s definitely didactic art made post 2016, but I wouldn’t write everything off beyond that date forever. Online review aggregators are less reliable for recent movies, so you might want to find individuals that you trust for >2016 r
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by biophysboy 2mo ago
Counterpoint: my entire physics phd cohort is doing great now and it didn’t ruin our lives. I think better advice is “do you want to work in this specific lab for 5 years?”, not “do you really want to do physics”? Talk to the lab members, l
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by biophysboy 2mo ago
As many others have said here, you should just think about transactional vs analytical as well as single user in-process vs multi-user client-server when making choices. That said, I do think duckdb has a wider range of use cases than peopl
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by biophysboy 2mo ago
You can have multiple read only processes. But yes, concurrent read mode and write mode is blocked
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by biophysboy 2mo ago
I think you would magically see more (edit: wealthy) people collect an income
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by biophysboy 2mo ago
People need to stop conflating evil intentions with evil capacity. It is done regularly with Elon, Thiel, etc. As arrogant as they may be on X, they are drooling imbeciles when it comes to politics. Remember Blake Masters? Remember the Wisc
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by biophysboy 3mo ago
Low effort products will be used by low effort companies. In the case of restaurants, this might not necessarily be bad - I’ve been to amazing taco/burrito shops w abysmal menus. But if I went to a “high end” place with an AI menu and
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by biophysboy 3mo ago
I did the same research in elementary school! My parents were my seed investors. They asked for 25% of equity - all I ended up giving them was some collectible artwork for the fridge.
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by biophysboy 3mo ago
Isn't it just a different form of private capital designed for the later stage of a tech company? I'm not saying its good, but I am not remotely surprised by tech's transition from growth/disruption/hiring to cost-c
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by biophysboy 3mo ago
Do you remember some of the studies this book cites? I always thought the drug development lag times and success rate made patents necessary. Do the authors make exceptions for rare disease or CNS therapies?
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by biophysboy 3mo ago
Give me a break - tech is not remotely interested in comprehensive “systems” thinking about the problems that motivated these age verification policies
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by biophysboy 3mo ago
I agree with this (I want to be a parent very soon). I think I'm trying to articulate that while its possible to make a quiet place for your kid at home, they still live in a very internet-driven world. I actually am curious about your
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by biophysboy 3mo ago
In my opinion, none, but many parents disagree. Also, its more about the secondary effects, where all of their friends at school are talking about internet things they are unfamiliar with.
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by biophysboy 3mo ago
Its a tragedy of the commons situation. The benefits of being offline are dampened by the kid being out of the loop
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by biophysboy 4mo ago
Bell labs and IBM made gobs of money in their respective hey days
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by biophysboy 4mo ago
Yes exactly. It’s like advertising a car by saying “it uses gasoline!” Obviously gas helps the car go, but the user of the car just wants to go places cheaply and reliably
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by biophysboy 4mo ago
Thats very interesting to me that Watterson remembers his childhood as a difficult time. Calvin’s moments of sadness/anxiety/anger are a big part of why I found those comics so relatable and endearing as a kid.
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by biophysboy 4mo ago
Two things can be true at once: one group cut funding early 2025, and another group added funding later. The former group, DOGE, was less responsible, and the latter group, USDA, is more responsible. I do not know why I have to ignore the f
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by biophysboy 4mo ago
The argument is not that cutting funding caused the problem; the argument is that you have to use money to solve the problem.

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