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by caddemon 3y ago
At least RTO and WFH companies can co-exist though, and there are hybrid models as well. With school parents are stuck with what their specific district wants to do, and the number of hours and days spent in school is extremely rigid. For t
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by caddemon 3y ago
Their best reported results are a hybrid effort though, here is one of the authors of the paper describing how they used programs generated by the LLM to extract their own insights that then refined future iterations of their workflow: htt
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by caddemon 3y ago
It seems this is essentially an evolutionary algorithm with an LLM generating the pool of new variations at each step. Definitely a very cool idea, but hard to evaluate the results without knowing more about that field of mathematics. Obvio
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by caddemon 3y ago
I agree a significant amount of work (and often insight too) is needed to translate an architecture idea into something that works in practice, and there are certainly plenty of ideas that are obvious in the abstract. But I also think it&#x
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by caddemon 3y ago
It's hard not to think of the beef when you think of him now though, even if you already knew some of his work. To be clear I don't think that should take away from what he did accomplish, but it's like a Pavlovian associatio
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by caddemon 3y ago
Samsung frame TV, they're about 33% off this week from the typical price. I know it has mixed reviews with the tech crowd but everyone I know that's gotten one for primarily aesthetic reasons loves it. I have an open floor plan ap
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by caddemon 3y ago
The problem is moreso trying to maximize profit after claiming to be a nonprofit. Profit can be a good driving force but it is not perfect. We have nonprofits for a reason, and it is shameful to take advantage of this if you are not functio
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by caddemon 3y ago
At longer timescales it is important to be able to recognize mistakes and reverse course, but this happened so fast I'm not sure that's the right characterization. There's no way they could already decide that firing Sam was
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by caddemon 3y ago
Wall Street non-competes are only enforced if they pay you your base salary during the period. They can also opt to not do that and waive the non-compete, in which case you can work anywhere. I think it's ridiculous that Subway has non
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by caddemon 3y ago
They make sense where there are specific internal secrets, it's not just about IC skillset necessarily. But it's true they're definitely overused.
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by caddemon 3y ago
Nicotine specifically is also more likely to be used by people with psychotic disorders than the general population, as a form of self-medicating. Many Schizophrenic people report smoking cigarettes to help their symptoms in the short term,
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by caddemon 3y ago
Psychosis is a potential symptom of lupus, albeit uncommon. Some people with lupus have been misdiagnosed with Schizophrenia, and more generally there are signs of immune dysfunction in many cases of Schizophrenia. I'm not sure about t
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by caddemon 3y ago
If someone missing a left arm managed to get really good at baseball, they could still play. A one armed dude lighting it up on the field would be drafted, because objective results. Of course this is highly unlikely because it handicaps sk
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by caddemon 3y ago
Hot take, but I don't think it should be such a taboo if individual institutions have "insular culture". As long as there is heterogeneity amongst relevant institutions, the synthesized literature can still be very productive
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by caddemon 3y ago
Who is the FTX representative at this point?
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by caddemon 3y ago
It was largely other biology professors, not admins. It's a bad look no doubt, and there are other issues with modern university admins - but this is a direct consequence of those in the field, not typical bureaucracy crap.
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by caddemon 3y ago
You don't value and promote a single or even a handful of archetypes. You value and promote a healthy diversity of approaches. Not just diversity amongst individuals but also between institutions. If MIT, Harvard, Stanford all had mean
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by caddemon 3y ago
I largely agree with your complaint but I don't think the causation is quite that simple. "Bean counters" didn't show up to a highly competitive field and decide to redefine the competition. It used to be relatively easy
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by caddemon 3y ago
Biomedical sciences are pretty bad in general. There are truly tough problems but I also think that industry is way too intertwined with academia right now, which causes cascading effects and perhaps parts of the cultural rot to spread. Obv
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by caddemon 3y ago
At least profits have some rough relationship with reality in most industries. In academia it is the worst of both worlds. You need to be a start up hype man type (or something adjacent anyway) to get the grants, but you only need to delive
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by caddemon 3y ago
Yeah any increase in funding needs to go to meaningfully different grant processes. Giving more money to the existing funding structures will not fix a damn thing. Because the present system is just woefully unscaleable. More money to curre
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by caddemon 3y ago
It's funny that you use "academia is like the mafia" as an example that we are supposed to find outrageous. The labor structure of academia has a number of similarities with how gangs operate: https://blogs.lse.ac.
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by caddemon 3y ago
I don't think it is quite that intentional, but just as human economic systems regularly create bubbles there are blind spots in the academic science collective. People desperately want to get in on LLMs right now.
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by caddemon 3y ago
This guy is a science journalist, the authors of the source research paper are more relevant if you're trying to infer anything about the material from the authors: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06668-
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by caddemon 3y ago
I've seen restaurants with great food close because of terrible business sense, and I've also seen a few closings recently of long-standing places where the owners wanted to retire and couldn't find anyone they'd trust t
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by caddemon 3y ago
The primary purpose of an internship at most major companies is hiring - you can screen candidates much better before extending a full time offer and the candidates can also get a better read on how much they'd enjoy working there. Eve
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by caddemon 3y ago
Jane Street isn't an especially big player in HFT, though even with a longer timescale your overall point still stands.
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by caddemon 3y ago
Sugar can be problematic, but those rat studies are quite contrived. They follow an intermittent fasting schedule where rats don't have access to any food for 12 straight hours of each day and then they are presented with the option fo
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by caddemon 3y ago
I don't see how this is necessary collateral damage for the prevention of drunk driving. I think most folks in this thread would agree that current implementations leave an awful lot to be desired, regardless of what they believe the b
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by caddemon 3y ago
That's a problem with specifics though, not with the general existence of DUI laws. Weed will be hard to enforce but BAC is more cut and dry, I don't see a problem with having a BAC cutoff for driving.

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