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by dekhn 4mo ago
I've seen this a few times- for example, my manager at Berkeley Lab was a PI but only had an undergrad degree. This is very rare, however.
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by dekhn 4mo ago
If I type your first query into Gemini, it immediately spits out a long and plausible answer. What exactly are you saying it's refusing? Can you give a screenshot or example?
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by dekhn 4mo ago
then there is some detail missing from your report- for example, if leadership asked you to take down the repo (perhaps because another team was building/releasing/launching their own) and you refused, then you weren't fired
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by dekhn 4mo ago
I'm not 100% sure what your point is here, but the point I was making is that even in theory if you have a "firewall", your contract with Google (that you signed and agreed to) says that Google owns your code output even if i
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by dekhn 4mo ago
The Register is a tech paper that is modelled on various British tabloids (daily mail, the sun). Sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's real news and occasionally they even break a new story.
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by dekhn 4mo ago
how did you get from "raising your voice in a meeting" to "toxic assholes" and "racist slurs". Those are very different.
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by dekhn 4mo ago
Google has multiple orgs on github: google, google-cloud-platform, chromium, android, flutter, angular, tensorflow all have their own top-level orgs because google ships its org chart ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conw
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by dekhn 4mo ago
yes, many engineers (especially at google) are armchair lawyers and have all sorts of opinions about contracts and licenses.
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by dekhn 4mo ago
There are more than a few plausible scenarios here. I've been inside google and I've seen other "i was fired" posts before. almost always, there is some additional context which gets left out. For example, I could see
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by dekhn 4mo ago
The policy was always crystal clear, but at the same time, tons of people found it confusing. "I wrote this at home on my personal computer in my free time? Why does google own it? how can that be legal" came up a lot. People
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by dekhn 4mo ago
A long long time ago, Google management cared more about its employees. I saw folks with cancer who were not fired (even though they couldn't work) to keep them access to healthcare. And a coworker whose parachute did not deploy and
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by dekhn 4mo ago
Something in the explanation is missing here. It's still not clear to me from any of the provided context whether you got approval to release this. At least from my understanding of your role, if you had approval and used an official
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by dekhn 4mo ago
I believe it's an official or semi-official Google github org. Typically at Google there is some process you are supposed to follow when opensourcing your code, and a repo like this exists specifically to get more people to use the AP
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by dekhn 4mo ago
rate = distance / time
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by dekhn 4mo ago
AlphaFold is based on deep learning and it's not brute force.
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by dekhn 4mo ago
To me the magic Noam moment was when he came to my team and said "that cluster has a bad node in it, but this other one doesn't" and we had to spend like a week tracking down a single bad processor out of thousands.
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by dekhn 4mo ago
It's entirely possible he got in a flame war over political issues with other Googlers and Google asked him to leave.
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by dekhn 4mo ago
Judge also consulted with various teams at places like Google; I worked with one of the guys who provided details that later showed up on the show (as well as many plushies). He didn't watch the show because "it hit too close to
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by dekhn 4mo ago
What you're describing about gender is.... not really scientific. It was basically declared by fiat by researchers. It's not an authoritative definition and many people disagree with the concept, at least when it gets conflated
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by dekhn 4mo ago
At this point you should just go to grad school in a molecular neurology program. You clearly have the passion for this sort of research, and it would probably be useful to immerse yourself in the process to get more experience and judgemen
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by dekhn 4mo ago
That's the dream (all science communication should be based in the raw scientific data as published in the literature) but it's not how things work now, nor is it even practical. Instead, we rely on experts (authorities) because
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by dekhn 4mo ago
Most scientists who are not experts in their field don't read the literature for a field directly. Instead, they synthesize their opinions about the field by consulting experts, and weighing various sorts of evidence. In my case, I w
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by dekhn 4mo ago
My estimate of the quality of the evidence is based on daily discussions with people who work in that field and reading summary articles in major journals. I typically don't read raw scientific articles directly- those are aimed at pe
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by dekhn 4mo ago
My opinion is that amyloid-as-cause moved from a majority to a minority view over the past few years, but it's not yet reflected in the literature (the entire amyloid establishment isn't going to give up its dominant position easi
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by dekhn 4mo ago
No, he's not (I work in pharma at a company that does basic and applied research on Alz). It's more correct to say there are several camps, but the camp promoting amyloid plaques as the causative/driver for Alz has struggled
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by dekhn 4mo ago
In some ways physics is different from biology and medicine, I do think outsiders to physics can pick up and contribute a bit more easily (although it depends on field). Biomed just has an absolute insane amount of ambiguous knowledge that
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by dekhn 4mo ago
If I had to choose between Derek Lowe (author of the anti-amyloid-research article who is also highly experienced and skilled in pharma) and Scott Alexander/David Schneider-Joseph (psychiatrist and AI engineer, respectively), all my pr
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by dekhn 4mo ago
I think you misunderstood my point. Results in extremely ill patients don't correlate well with results in mildly ill patients (in cancer), so the signal you get from extremely ill patients is not predictive- it may be a drug fails in
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by dekhn 4mo ago
You are explaining clinical trials to somebody who works in pharma (speccifically a company with many cancer drugs that already got approved). I'm pretty familiar with the area already- for example, I know the drug thalidomide, which
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by dekhn 4mo ago
Most of my career success has been based on my tendency to be relentlessly proactive and it does not surprise me in the least that frontier models would start to pick up on these strategies (I'm pretty sure each of the individual thing

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