danieltillett

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by danieltillett 6y ago
There was no golden age of the past and the future is what we make it. We can sit around thinking everything is going to shit, or we can get on with making things better. I prefer the later.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Millions of people die from diseases like malaria and HIV every year. Wallowing around in self pity because of COVID-19 is not going to change a thing. Life has been getting better every year I have been alive. Billions of people have been
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I hope you are right or there is something very broken with us as a group.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I have pretty much moved on from HN. It used to be the place to learn first hand from people doing amazing things in tech, these days it seems to be a nest of negative nut jobs whining about how hard their life is while holding 6 figure des
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Or sell her a lifetime plan of size x that justifies the hassle of dealing with a PO.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
1. Get off Twitter... 2. See step 1.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Not very closely based on my personal experience. I am not sure that science needs more of the activities on your list.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
It doesn’t matter if the average quality of the grants goes down (it would actually be a good thing if it reflected less time being spent on grant writing), what matters if the average quality of the science goes up. Grants are a means to a
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by danieltillett 6y ago
The same approach can be applied to tenure. Set a basic threshold that someone needs to meet, then run a lottery to chose who gets tenure. Would end an amazing amount of unproductive gaming of the system.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Having personally read through a large number of grant applications I would say 25% is about accurate. It really doesn’t change anything if we were to raise the threshold to say the top 50%. The key to success is to remove the human element
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by danieltillett 6y ago
You can limit how many grants people are allowed to put in. This already exists with the current broken system.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
This problem has been solved long ago. Screen all grant applications to weed out the flawed approaches (the bottom 25%) and then run a lottery on the remaining. If there is nothing to game, the gaming stops.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
But this hypothesis is not going to get you sexy headlines and your next grant funded. If we don’t fix the problems with grant funding and the resulting imperative to publish or perish we are going to kill science.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Seems like one of the better ideas I have seen for a startup.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I am going to be blunt. If you can’t get the people you used to work for to hire you or recommend you to their contacts then you are going to fail. Get on the phone to everyone you have ever worked for (assuming you left a good impression)
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Wait until you are 69.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I am most sure if NYC and SF are too hot at the moment. It really is hard to say what will happen as the banking system is so different today than in the past. I do think we will see continued leaking of all the new money that is being prin
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Don’t be silly. I am talking about treating pets for the diseases they have, not having people torture my pet.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Test on pets. Seriously our pets get all the same diseases we do (as always there are some exceptions). Millions of pets every year get cancer (just one example) and we make almost no use of this resource. The other approach is to start tes
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Does this correlation still hold if you look at men below a certain age? Since prostate cancer increases with age then you could get a bias towards the more healthy as the non-prostate cancer peers die earlier of some others cause.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Pancreatic cancer is a really, really hard cancer to treat due to the way it tends to wall itself off from the rest of the body. It is near impossible to get any drug to the cancer.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Adverse selection.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
The thing about the last two is we are in the middle of them rather than being history. Every moral panic that descended into darkness started out in the light.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Or it is more reasonable to assume the findings are wrong. At this point I think we can conclude that any analysis involving race is wrong.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Does any have a reference for the evidence of high intelligence make the police more likely to leave the job early? I wonder what a police force recruited only from the intelligent would be like? The great thing about IQ tests if you are sm
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Doesn’t even matter if this is intended, it is the outcome. 2020 really is the year of peak stupidity - I hope 2021 is an improvement.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Bipedal locomotion is more efficient in that it takes less energy to cover a certain distance on two legs than four.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I have serious doubts about Sylvester’s claims - people just don’t live to 130.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
The young have lots of passion, but they can be distracted by the next shiny thing. Managing passion is easy compared to managing the stubbornness gained from experience.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
The poor family through hard work and saving became a moderately wealthy family over time.

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