biophysboy

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by biophysboy 7mo ago
I think the perfect set-up is hybrid, with 1-2 days office / 3-4 days home. Virtual meetings are significantly worse than in-person. But obviously the commute determines whether this is "on net" worthwhile.
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by biophysboy 7mo ago
There are other public healthcare models besides Beveridge though. Some countries do the payment & financing via gov, but the actual service is a mix of public/private. Not a perfect solution, but in my opinion better than what we
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by biophysboy 7mo ago
There are a lot of HN users that think they are better at science because they know about p-hacking and the limitations of animal models.
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by biophysboy 7mo ago
Wow, is that what preview means? I see those model options in github copilot (all my org allows right now) - I was under the impression that preview means a free trial or a limited # of queries. Kind of a misleading name..
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by biophysboy 7mo ago
Yes? Earnings matter to investors
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by biophysboy 7mo ago
Thanks. I don't think this DoD invented the term. I was trying to verify my own impression that they use it more often in public comms.
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by biophysboy 7mo ago
Thanks for replying - so its used as a generic catch-all term internally? Did previous DoD secretaries use it in speeches? I thought they used bureaucratic terms like service member. I guess that doesn't work in casual conversation...
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by biophysboy 7mo ago
?? I am genuinely asking ... nevermind, another person answered
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by biophysboy 7mo ago
Hundreds of companies have filed lawsuits against the admin over the tariffs.
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by biophysboy 7mo ago
How often was the term used before last year?
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by biophysboy 7mo ago
What does effective weapons mean in this particular instance?
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by biophysboy 7mo ago
Am I too much of an idealist to hope that AI leads to less buggy software? On the one hand, it should reduce the time of development; on the other hand, I'm worried devs will just let the agents run free w/o proper design specs.
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
Many tech execs operate under the thesis that china & the democratic party are existential threats that warrant a surveillance/military/police ramp up. Meanwhile, many tech employees are credulous and frequently adopt self-ser
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
That's the key: use AI for labor substitution, not labor replacement. Nothing necessarily wrong with labor saving for trivial projects, but we should be using these tools to push the boundaries of tech/science!
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
To be fair, the healthcare employment flows are small (1.6M) compared to the total employment stock (160M+ people). And you would expect the healthcare labor supply to increase to match the bulge created by the baby boom. I don't think
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
Why do you think I care about your journalism opinions?
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
Not all the legacy newspapers are failing; NYT is doing well. There are other news sources beyond legacy newspapers, broadcasters, local news, and social media. There are wire services (AP, Reuters), insider access journalism (Axios, Punchb
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
If its any consolation, I think CBS news will fail miserably. The new captains are at the helm of a sinking ship, which has been taking on water for decades. Maybe a cynic will say "this was the plan", but if it was, its not a ver
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
Yeah I might be nitpicking. I agree with you. I get frustrated when people conflate a neutral scientific method with a neutral scientist: that a scientist cannot explore political/ideological topics with robust methods because its bias
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
I know what you are saying, but I'm arguing that science is great because it produces better output than the people that make it as long as they stick to good methods. As for reproducibility, its my opinion that it has more to do with
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
If any of you here feel like you've lost your identity, I would highly recommend watching the recently released movie "No Other Choice" by Park Chan-wook.
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
You can believe in a phenomena and still do good science. It all depends on if your exp design is free of bias. Randomizing, blinding, instrumentation, pre-registration, statistical rigor - there all sorts of ways to do this. I say this bec
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
A lot of low wage work isn't physical
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
Looking at the paper, the effect is significant but weak (5-7%), even with the conditionals that magnify the effect. I would be curious to see the effect if this experiment were performed on a slightly different categorical variable (e.g. h
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
I see. To clarify, it parsed numbers in the pdf correct, but assigned them the wrong meaning. I was wondering if codex is better at interpreting non text data
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
Does it get numbers right? One of the mistakes it made in reading the paper was swapping sets of numbers from the primary/secondary outcomes.
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
This is what I think: - Alex Karp genuinely believes China is a threat - I think China is an economic threat, especially for tech - An AI arms race is itself threatening; it is not like the nuclear deterrent - Geopolitical tensions are very
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
Its rhetoric - he gains your support. He doesn't want to shut it down.
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
This matches my experience using LLMs for science. Out of curiosity, I downloaded a randomized study and the CONSORT checklist, and asked Claude code to do a review using the checklist. I was really impressed with how it parsed the structur
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by biophysboy 8mo ago
The link is described in the first line of the article.

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