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by dekhn 11mo ago
I mean, if you're an academic and you don't care if anybody uses your technology, that's fine, I guess, but the folks publishing these papers want the industry to use their ideas: "In the agricultural sector, labor short
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by dekhn 11mo ago
I understand the desire of academics to help agriculture, but they really need to check in with the field before coming up with prototypes like this, because they are duplicating existing things (ag companies already do this), making hardwa
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by dekhn 11mo ago
How exactly did you get to "a woman wasn't smart enough to figure something out, which makes me a little suspicious."? It sounds like you're saying I think she wasn't smart? I am merely reporting the facts as they
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Her name is listed in the acknowledgements and she has a paper in the same issue as Watson&Crick. Also, there's evidence now that her data had already been shared in a departmental seminar when Wilkins shared it with Watson &
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by dekhn 11mo ago
I'm not sure what your point is. This discussion is about medical researchers making decisions on thousands or millions of patients in aggregate... what you're describing is a common thing (don't know how bad a tumor is unti
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by dekhn 11mo ago
OK good luck when you get real sick! Because that's what you'll be depending on.
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Depends on how you interpret: "First do no harm". Is that an obligation to minimize the harm to an individual patient? Or is the goal to maximize the health of many patients? Like I've said elsewhere, medical reasoning is
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by dekhn 11mo ago
What if you had stats that showed that (the fully inform) policy produced more negative results? Would you insist on fully informing if the outcome was, on average, worse? If so, why?
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by dekhn 11mo ago
This is a "why don't you just" answer. The reason the establishment does this is that we know the outcome of telling people is worse than not telling them. This is an expensive lesson learned over over a century of medical
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by dekhn 11mo ago
In the US, depending on your health plan, the fastest way to see a doctor is Urgent Care. They will typically see you nearly immediately, and send you to the emergency room (with paperwork already handled). You will still be charged, alth
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Medical reasoning is complex. It typically needs to consider second and third order effects (typically, how the public responds to a policy needs to be considered when updating the policy). It can't simply attempt to maximize the glo
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by dekhn 11mo ago
There have been court cases, but in most cases, they weren't simply "innocent farmer happened to grow IP-infringing crop simply due to being near a farm that used GMO crops and cross-pollinating by accident".
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Sure car tires can run- if they're huaraches.
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Literally decades: the login page looked like that when I joined google in 2007.
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Do you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doebley ? See also https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/science/25creature.html for the story of how maize was traced back to teosinte
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by dekhn 11mo ago
From what I've read, the articles about Monsanto suing innocent farmers is misleading.
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by dekhn 11mo ago
My first one- a Gateway 486/66- started with 4MB RAM (in 1993). It could run linux, X windows, emacs, and G++ in a terminal all at the same time, but paged so badly the machine was unusable during a compile. I spent $200 to double it
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by dekhn 11mo ago
See also: a number of the predecessors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csound
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by dekhn 11mo ago
We've seen this same cycle before from Google and Microsoft. Google built shipping-container-like-boxes and microsoft put their boxes in the ocean. The early PR is always "this is great" and after a few years they quietly s
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by dekhn 11mo ago
The traits he picked- hope I get this detail pedantically correct: had only two alleles, each allele had an obvious phenotype controlled mostly by that gene, the two phenotypes were binary (no intermediate "half-wrinkled-half-smooth&qu
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by dekhn 11mo ago
He did nothing, or net-negative. Same as Google; it was totally unclear how this guy got promoted to the level of power he had based on his history. [Now I remember- he came in with the metaweb acquisition at a time when search was going a
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by dekhn 11mo ago
We have seen some suggestion that the classical molecular dynamics force fields are sufficient to predict protein folding (in the case of stable, soluble, globular proteins), in the sense that we don't need to solve chemistry but only
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Right now techniques that exist and used now are mostly around target discovery (identifying proteins in humans that can be targeted by a drug), protein structure prediction and function prediction. Identifying sites on the protein that can
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by dekhn 11mo ago
(as an aside, this is a common thing that comes up when you have a good model: do you make a server that allows people to do one-off or small-scale predictions, or do you take a whole query set and run it in batch and save the results in a
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Wegener was technically a meteorologist but his PhD was in Astronomy and he had lots of training in physics. He (among others) noticed that the shapes of landmasses seemed to complement each other. He had a great deal of observational evi
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by dekhn 11mo ago
It's hardly a conspiracy to use strategy and intelligence to maximize the probability of achieving the outcome you desire. He doesn't have to care much about prizes or money at this point: he won his prize and he gets all the hard
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by dekhn 11mo ago
If there's one thing I wish DeepMind did less of, it's conflating the protein folding problem with static structure prediction. The former is a grand challenge problem that remains 'unsolved' while the latter is an impr
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Another way to interpret this (and I don't mean it pejoratively at all): Demis has been optimizing his chances for winning a nobel prize for quite some time now. Releasing the data increased that chance. He also would have been fairl
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by dekhn 11mo ago
I'm confused by your statement "We can now see that NIH scientists that approve drugs are allowed to approve drugs where they have a patent and commercial interest in the drugs they are approving, which is mind-bendingly wild that
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by dekhn 11mo ago
At the time Google+ was started and shortly after, leadership (larry page at that time) focused the attention of the company on it. There was a social bonus (that you'd get if you integrated your product), there were large changes to

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