bongoman37

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by bongoman37 2mo ago
Bacteria is plural, bacterium is singular.
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by bongoman37 1y ago
Many of the Persian Gulf GCC nations essentially had a form of generous UBI since the early 80s. It has certainly made people far less enterprising and productive. Inflation hasnt happened since they import the vast majority of their requir
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Former Staffers Say India's Biggest IT Firm Was Gaming the US Visa System(bloomberg.com)
16 points by bongoman37 2y ago|0 comments
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by bongoman37 2y ago
Nontrivial to use. Still need to pass it to someone to convert fiat to crypto. Bitcoin is a public ledger, would be even easier to tie to him in some ways.
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by bongoman37 2y ago
In our area, the teachers union straight up released a pro-Hamas, anti-Israeli resolution despite no one asking them for their opinion. And we're in a fairly dense Jewish area.
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by bongoman37 2y ago
You'd probably have admins and technology suck up most of the funding. At least in the US, funding and outcomes don't have that much of a correlation. DC area schools have among the highest levels of funding per student and the wo
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by bongoman37 3y ago
There are action models based on LLMs like Gorilla LLM or autoGPT that take a natural language input and convert that to API calls that could do all sorts of things from sending emails to performing stock trades.
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by bongoman37 3y ago
I think we need models to safeguard against models and then maybe hard coded rules to safeguard against those models missing out on things. It would be exceedingly hard to verify what all could be maliciously encoded in a billion parameter
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As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do(nytimes.com)
4 points by bongoman37 3y ago|0 comments
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by bongoman37 3y ago
Yea, he casually added that term as if people wouldn't notice it. High earning, attractive, middle aged men are often targets for sexual harassment by women but it is not taken seriously at all.
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by bongoman37 3y ago
Why is this about individuals at all? As a former academic I feel academia has a higher principle to uphold its principles about assigning credit where it is due and so on. Right and left are largely meaningless terms, we should be striving
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the US government is poised to withdraw longstanding warnings about cholesterol(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by bongoman37 3y ago|0 comments
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by bongoman37 3y ago
Its just incalculable what the ROI on this kind of a mission is. It is amazing that US and tech was in the state it was in when the planets aligning themselves happened and we were able to send these out there. A decade here or there and th
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by bongoman37 3y ago
Outside of a few places like the US, people care a hell of a lot about the genetics. Try putting Africans in India, or Japanese in China, and so on, there is no such thing as the melting pot in the vast majority of the world.
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by bongoman37 3y ago
I think it is also about seeing the most difficult cases and having them stick in your memory as a med student. I have friends who practice medicine and they show the same behavior even when there is no monetary incentive at any stage for t
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by bongoman37 3y ago
We knew smoking was bad for a long time. It took time to push through tobacco industry's lobbying and massive amounts of advertising convincing people against what they could evidently see in front of them. I don't think tattoo in
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by bongoman37 3y ago
Microsoft culturally is extremely averse to using customer data for doing these kind of things. I was once talking to a Microsoft exec and he said that once the idea of using contextual ads in Hotmail was brought up (similar to Gmail), and
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The Green Card Game(thegreencardgame.com)
2 points by bongoman37 3y ago|0 comments
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FDA Approves First Gene Therapy for Adults with Severe Hemophilia A(fda.gov)
12 points by bongoman37 3y ago|1 comments
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Y Combinator(en.wikipedia.org)
11 points by bongoman37 3y ago|3 comments
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Same as how homeopathy, flat earthers, etc can exist. Also people like to have something to call themselves special. This provides a group in which you can show off your 'knowledge' and gadgetry and so on.
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Yea, me too. Slaved away in academia for peanuts for 6 years. Then the first job I was offered outside academia paid 8x what I was making and 3x of of the best academic positions I was being offered at the time. Never looked back.
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by bongoman37 4y ago
I know people in the Bosch product design team, there are certainly women there.
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by bongoman37 4y ago
I remember seeing experiments that Facebook had done around changing someone's feed to have more depressing content and concluding that it was possible to change someone's mood by that. Online content definitely impacts mental hea
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Just one look at any Indian dating site will dispel this notion. They have elaborate caste and subcaste categories to filter your partners by.
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Actually caste is far more tangible than something like skin color. It is encoded into birth certificates etc in India and is immutable. You can change religions but your caste carries into the new one.
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Ultra-processed food consumption, cancer risk and cancer mortality(thelancet.com)
2 points by bongoman37 4y ago|0 comments
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Greek–Turkish Earthquake Diplomacy(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by bongoman37 4y ago|0 comments
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by bongoman37 4y ago
>>Being mildly autistic you can see why I don't date either gender with ridiculous sentiments like these being blown around. > I'm also on the autistic spectrum, and I've never had an issue finding partners, This is
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by bongoman37 4y ago
The thing with online dating is filters kill a lot of opportunities that earlier you could compensate for. Most people and women can't easily tell between someone 5'11 and 6' and subconsciously someone who is dominant is perc

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