maxander

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by maxander 6y ago
Location: Boston, MA Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: Python (e.g., numpy/scipy, scikit-learn, pytorch), Scala, C#, Haskell, Git, Bazel Resume: https://maxalex.github.io/resume.pdf Email:
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by maxander 6y ago
The odds that they would happen simultaneously if they’re completely unrelated seem astronomically small, certainly? Both are noted as being related to “ongoing migrations,” though AFAICT not related ones. I would bet there’s a human facto
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by maxander 6y ago
> They should be trying to grab as much energy as possible, for whatever is it they want to do (as should we) and we should see at least some galaxies going partially dark. This sort of reasoning was developed in the late 20th century, w
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by maxander 6y ago
The article buries a slightly chilling angle on the phenomenon: > At a military base in Wyoming, Airmen in charge of launching America’s nuclear arsenal loved to eat acid between shifts. Monitoring the nuclear arsenal is a boring job and
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by maxander 6y ago
I get why everyone is wondering whether this is autogenerated jargon, but I think the basic thrust of this is that machine learning algorithms work better as they use larger and larger vectors for representation. I'm pretty sure is ju
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by maxander 6y ago
What could NK conceivably offer China that would pay for getting into a shooting war with another superpower? If China does support NK in such a situation, that support would be limited to things which are entirely deniable- material and pe
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by maxander 6y ago
Even assuming the estimate of risk given there is correct, and even ignoring the evidence for persistent damage not infrequently arising from non-lethal cases, it’s really odd to me how cavalier people are about that 0.5% risk of death. Th
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by maxander 6y ago
A PhD isn’t a “now or never” thing either- it’s difficult to imagine that a year or two at Google would make the poster a less desirable candidate.
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by maxander 6y ago
> This is a particularly sci-fi element. I don't think it's immediately obvious how to separate the universe into "meaningful" computation and the sort of computation a stationary rock is "performing" as its
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by maxander 6y ago
The kicker is that if their demo examples had been something like that, or e.g. students downloading copies of free lectures, or etc, the RIAA would have much less of a case. No actual code would have had to change. If you have a tool which
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by maxander 6y ago
Presumably, making it more targeted means they can use more , potentially to the point that the effect on the tumor would correspond to a lethal systemic dose using a course of normal doxorubicin. The patient wouldn’t feel any better whil
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by maxander 6y ago
"Algebraic reasoning" in this context is a (AFAIK) sort of fuzzily defined thing, but it's a reference to generalized algebra- of which the "algebra" high-school students encounter is a specialized part. Arithmetic
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by maxander 6y ago
I would bet they just used SSDs and made sure that the workload they were giving these servers wouldn’t tend to hit the rewrite limit over that time period. (Even then, I’d bet the expected writes-per-time was the source of the “five year”
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by maxander 6y ago
I also don’t believe that a blogging platform like Substack would do anything to actively antagonize a superstar blogger like Scott, who obviously has a significant following of blog-readers independent of them.
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by maxander 6y ago
Interesting to speculate on the “extremely generous” offer from Substack. They’re obviously willing to devote a decent amount of dev time to making Scott comfortable, and I’m sure they have a good idea of how having SSC on board would prom
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by maxander 6y ago
From the results: “Of 50 patients treated with calcifediol, one required admission to the ICU (2%), while of 26 untreated patients, 13 required admission (50%) p value X2 Fischer test p < 0.001.” Which sounds like as strong a signal as a
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by maxander 6y ago
> Art receptions are generally a breeze. Tech conferences are the worst. I and some friends had the funny realization awhile back that the sort of scene where people have colorful hair, tattoos, unusual piercings, etc etc, seems to attra
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by maxander 6y ago
I don't think any modern cognitive scientist believes that the statement "language is the stuff of reason," even allowing for poetic flair, is meaningfully true (and I'll leave aside that humans are, obviously, much more
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by maxander 6y ago
At various points, thinking about what I wear to events where well-worn skinny pants are advantageous, I've thought about hip-pouches as a solution to the pocket problem. I've generally found that this runs into an inevitable qua
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by maxander 6y ago
Hook your thumbs through your belt loops. Same effect, slightly less slouchy, and more panache.
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by maxander 6y ago
In many COVID19 patients suffering from severe symptoms, the virus has already been cleared out of their system- but the extreme immune response itself (cytokine storm, etc) continues to cause damage, with lethal potential. Interesting par
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by maxander 6y ago
It would be interesting to see how well this translates between small, long-lived dogs and the very large but significantly shorter-lived dogs- particularly how the differences there compare to those between other mammals. There’s obvious r
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by maxander 6y ago
A big part of the "DARPA formula" that doesn't seem to get much treatment here is consistency . DARPA is going to spend a few billion this year, and it spent a few billion last year, and it spent a few billion twenty years
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by maxander 6y ago
I don’t know the details of how durable a uranium warhead core is (and I suspect it’s very highly classified) but they’re pretty precisely machined bits of metal. Even a 3%-yield fizzle should be more than enough to de-rate one. At that p
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by maxander 6y ago
I could imagine a wider “targeting” beam, fired so that a satellite overhead of the target site could catch neutrino scatter from the warhead. I don’t know what ridiculous engineering would be required to get sufficient neutrino collection
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by maxander 6y ago
Since it seems like the upshot of all of this is that Katcher is claiming to have discovered a set of signalling molecules which, when injected, rejuvenate tissue and presumably lengthen life, it runs into one of the most fundamental object
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by maxander 6y ago
I don't have access to the article right now either, but I would like to note to the "this enzyme is going to eat all our stuff!" commenters that, in general, most enzymes don't work very effectively in ambient condition
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by maxander 6y ago
"An enzyme decomposes 90% of plastic in 10h" is more succinct and readable than the real article title, and it's not wrong. A depolymerase is a kind of enzyme [0]. [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/depo
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by maxander 6y ago
The famous Douglas Adams quote is relevant: "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just
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by maxander 6y ago
There were theoretical reasons to suspect that the Large Hadron Collider, by ramming particles together with sufficient force, could create microscopic black holes with approximately the mass of an atom. This turned out not to occur, but y

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