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by ke88y 3y ago
> Is this « dev »? Then what’s the point of discrete maths? You can probably retire on a 6% coupon if you save a lot, but you'll have a much more comfortable retirement if you can clip a 15% coupon on those same savings. Discrete
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by ke88y 3y ago
The article starts with a "folk theorem" which is more of a tautology/definition suited to the author's priors. It meaning hinges on the meanings of at least a half dozen very fancy sounding but conveniently undefined te
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by ke88y 3y ago
In classic LessWrong fashion this post entirely ignores everything human about society while simultaneously making a complete mockery of rationality. Consider the Folk Theorem. It's not a theorem. It's an arbitrary definition pret
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by ke88y 3y ago
> I'll choose not to use this technology, thanks. Roads are public. I have been rear-ended by another driver in a completely unavoidable situation (for me -- the other driver should've been paying attention; I saw the collisi
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by ke88y 3y ago
Yeah. The recent GPT hype reminds me a lot of a Reply All episode on old school text generation using Markov Chains. I think it was haikus. Sooo much ascribed meaning, and equally ignoring the "misses".
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by ke88y 3y ago
> Do you mean basic science research? No, I mean actual diagnosis and treatment. > Evaluating academic medical research is considered a core competency for physicians. But it's a very different activity from diagnosis and tre
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by ke88y 3y ago
You could try to apply for grants. 20K+ chats sounds like a large number -- you must live in a 1M+ person metro area, right? It would probably be fairly easy to get a four figure grant from one agency or another. You could frame it as &quot
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by ke88y 3y ago
However useful his advice might be, Andrew Huberman isn't a doctor (of medicine). Summarizing academic research is almost entirely unrelated to the practice of medicine. Medical diagnosis and treatment are different from more typical u
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by ke88y 3y ago
> they can't do mathematical calculations Tell me you never taught service courses for pre-meds without telling me you never taught service courses for pre-meds ;) > They hallucinate, They're incredibly good at being conv
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by ke88y 3y ago
> The goal of a PhD education is to learn how to do research, first and foremost. This is vague to the point of meaninglessness. To wit, consider the following questions: 1. What is "Research"? (In PhD school the de facto ans
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by ke88y 3y ago
> in fact our program recently paid for students to attend a multiple day seminar about how to get jobs outside academia. Consider that preparing you for jobs outside of university should be the goal of your education , not relegated
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by ke88y 3y ago
> There's a regular story told in physics departments that if you leave you can't get back in. At least in CS, becoming a Professor of Practice is both higher prestige and a much lower barrier to entry than becoming an Associ
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by ke88y 3y ago
> If you're basing your success off of gaining entry into those schools I have to guess you grew up in a very closed off, extremely wealthy area. Either that or a middle income/upper middle income immigrant community. Often t
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by ke88y 3y ago
> Compliance can be easy if you're designing a form of Faraday cage. Just make sure the car captures enough of the noise within its frame and you've got a pretty good start. Your car will comply with most (far from all) EM re
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by ke88y 3y ago
> On the other side there are levels for unwanted radio emissions, how do the cars pass them? How do cheap cell phone chargers pass them? Or is nobody looking at this? Regulators do pay attention to automotive components. I'm sure
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by ke88y 3y ago
The unemployement rate is around 3%-4%, and at least 99% of people don't have degrees from elite universities.
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by ke88y 3y ago
>> Middle class people aren’t the secretary to the prime minister. > That sounds quite normal, actually. ?!?! > Unfortunately, people sometimes confuse the middle class with the middle income segment of the working class, w
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by ke88y 3y ago
> better soft skills This is starting to happen in CS -- the level of technical competence remains fairly high, but the faculty ranks are swelling with "doesn't play well with others" types. Most of our PhD interns with
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by ke88y 3y ago
> The 19-year-old graduated valedictorian from his high school of 700 last year, did extracurriculars and scored in the 99th percentile on the SAT > Stanford, MIT I see this attitude often and... I just don't get it. It seem
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by ke88y 3y ago
Shockingly, even the smallest micro-states participate in surveillance of non-citizens. > San Marino Is 23 square miles of land with a population of 33K and is land-locked by Italy. Even still -- as a tiny micro-state land-locked by a
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by ke88y 3y ago
We are already on an irreversible course to 2C.
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by ke88y 3y ago
But we're talking about the labor market around the widget, not the TCO of the widget. Automotive is a prime example: the added complexity increases lifetime maintenance costs, but at the same time the labor share of captured value has
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by ke88y 3y ago
My thesis: a combination of lower-cost deskilling and automation of labor management will have far more pernicious wage effects than higher-cost complete automation. Both white collar and blue collar skilled labor will be impacted. A few ot
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by ke88y 3y ago
Every sentence of this piece screams "journalist who doesn't know what they are talking about". But my favorite bit is this: > Replacing a screenwriter with AI to “save money” is like cutting out your daily Starbucks but
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by ke88y 3y ago
> But red teams for AI are humanities departments This is both not true and also a weird take. It's not true in the sense that every red team I'm aware of has been: (1) run by technical people, usually with CS degrees, usuall
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by ke88y 3y ago
> You'd be surprised what a conversation with someone who knows someone can yield. This is definitely true. But it's also true that key decision-making processes at large corporations -- particularly those that are publicly t
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by ke88y 3y ago
> Rather than conjecture, why couldn't they just phone up each packer and ask if that's what's happening? Why do we need pontification in this case when we could just go look? We know meat packers do this. The question i
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by ke88y 3y ago
I'm not a clueless wet-behind-the-ears engineer, and, sorry, but I don't buy it for a second. These systems are heinous cash grabs.
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by ke88y 3y ago
Work. They could, but why?
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by ke88y 3y ago
Saying it goes to "recreation.gov" misses the point. It goes to Booz Allen Hamilton. Booz are effectively stealing insane amounts of taxpayer dollars to run an extremely simple CRUD website. And no, it's not "actually co

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