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by j7ake 4y ago
Is it possible to generate AI art but also provide a list of citations (maybe weighted) as metadata to help figure which original images most contributed to the generated image? I feel this would help a lot with giving artists more credit w
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by j7ake 4y ago
Quanta magazine has consistently great content. What’s their business model? Can I subscribe to a print magazine delivered to me periodically ?
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by j7ake 4y ago
In many hard sciences, 6 years is graduate school.
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It would depend on the details. If black kids are dying because the car accelerates in school zones and swerves directly into black kids at high speeds, you can imagine that would obviously be not okay no matter what the statistics are. My
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by j7ake 4y ago
“Autonomous miles without accident” is not the only metric. What matters is also how the algorithm fails. To give an example. If you have autonomous miles without accident that is two times better than humans, but every accident tends to in
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by j7ake 4y ago
For technical audiences like hackernews I would expect more textbooks than non textbooks in their library.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Certain books need to be physical. Flipping back and forth through a calculus book is much faster than through smartphone. Smartphone books only work for books that are meant to be read from page 1 to end.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Author says 20 hours / week of research, but computer work counts as half was because they are not deep thoughts. So for computational heavy research, this would mean 40 hours per week. Taking the statement further, experimental resear
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by j7ake 4y ago
Great, now I will never be able to read Marcus Aurelius again without associating it with this satire.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Long postdocs are a modern phenomenon due to the oversupply of biomedical researchers. Historically people did shorter PhDs and skipped postdocs. There are stories of old timers saying they got their faculty position based on just one or tw
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by j7ake 4y ago
For scientists there absolutely is ageism. A 40 year old postdoc is going to raise a lot of flags. Old scientists are expected to be in professorship positions, where most of the work is management and big picture rather than boots on the g
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by j7ake 4y ago
Yeah you’re right. My point is that the technical bar for entry is low, and can be attained maybe by spending one year in a top lab. You then skip the hazing ritual that is the PhD and postdoc and directly start your own small lab. Spend yo
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by j7ake 4y ago
Are you up to date with the current state of Alzheimer’s research ? Much of it has been shown to be fabricated ie average alzheimer researcher has probably made zero impact. https://www.science.org/content/article&#x2
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by j7ake 4y ago
You’re overestimating the technical skills needed to do cancer research: there’s a reason why many wet labs allow high school students to come and help with research. It’s mostly grunt work and whatever technical skills can be learned by a
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by j7ake 4y ago
Regarding the last point in working at Jane Street versus research on fusion/cancer: You could maximise more good by first working at Jane Street in your 20s, retire by 30, and then set up your own smal fusion/cancer research lab
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by j7ake 4y ago
Sounds like a wide selection of magazine subscription like Nature, Science, quanta magazine, nautilus, natural geographic, wallstreet journal, and maybe the economist.
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by j7ake 4y ago
You won’t beat them by absolute number of hours. However, you can surpass your peers by having more focus, being more organized, and thinking outside the box. Anecdotal evidence: PhDs with children often are just as productive if not more t
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by j7ake 4y ago
Even if you live in Japan you’re going to be spending an hour or so standing on the metro or bus.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Which cities handle peak demand such that everybody gets a seat on the metro or bus?
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If you can create (3) later then that’s great. A lack of (3) is not sustainable because you are unlikely to get paid, and your peers ignore your work and ideas, which can be demoralising. I think one can get used to not getting paid (if you
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by j7ake 4y ago
The three balances one must make with their career is: (1) doing things you enjoy, (2) doing things you’re good at, and (3) doing things other people want. Having only 1 or 2 of these 3 can be OK, but not ultimately fulfilling or sustainabl
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by j7ake 4y ago
I would recommend “news and views” from nature or review articles in general for a broad summary of a field.
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by j7ake 4y ago
It is difficult to evaluate a single paper without thinking how this paper fits in the broader context and field. Evaluating a paper involves having spent several years reading many papers and understanding where the field is and where the
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by j7ake 4y ago
I feel like this man is as close to being a monk for computer science as one could ever be. I envy his daily routines and discipline that keeps him going well beyond typical retirement age. I can only hope to have a sliver of his discipline
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by j7ake 4y ago
When people used to live in small villages and interacted with no more than 50-100 people in a life time, what was valued is completely different from what is valued today. Back then they valued honor and integrity. Now what matters is firs
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by j7ake 4y ago
The life of women in the upper class were objectively better than the male serfs. The major form of oppression back then was by class, then by gender. It is of course better to be a male aristocrat than a female aristocrat (measured from to
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by j7ake 4y ago
They weren’t ignored. For most of recorded history the basic unit was the family. The men were in charge of public affairs of the family, while women were in charge of private and domestic affairs. It was only recently the basic unit has be
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by j7ake 4y ago
Opening up immigration for young people abroad to aging countries would also rebalance the age distribution. Uk seems to be going backwards on that front.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Public servants should be banned from getting a job at a related private company for a period of at least 5 years. Otherwise the public servant isn’t serving the public, but the corporations.
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by j7ake 4y ago
When I say rstudio I guess I am implicitly saying also devtools, tidyverse, and ggplot2 because Hadley Wickham works at Rstudio. I guess it is indeed true that Rstudio is much bigger than the IDE.

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