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by nextos 3y ago
I have witnessed first hand how many old PIs use PhD students and postdocs to come up with ideas and draft grants. Obviously as ghost authors. After discussion with other colleagues, this seems much more common than what I thought. Arc is i
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by nextos 3y ago
Another crucial factor is the principal investigator (PI) culture which has, at least in most sciences, turned professors into rent seekers. Nowadays, professors tend to play a middlemen role. Apply for grants, advertise results, and claim
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by nextos 3y ago
This is a very contentious statement. I studied CS at two very different EU universities and there was a massive focus on theory plus programming. All courses had huge coding projects where we had to build real end applications, including
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by nextos 3y ago
> [...] literally has no idea how to solve a problem, program a computer to do it > [...] but I bet if a hospital interviews a doctor, they can at least count on basic knowledge of anatomy Does the same situation arise if you pre-filt
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by nextos 3y ago
I am referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stein%27s_example . See also https://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~rjs57/SteinParadox.pdf .
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by nextos 3y ago
Bayesian statistics, the way Andrew Gelman practices it, comes naturally when you are interested in generative models of data. You can still use maximum likelihood estimates, but these become fragile when you have hierarchical / multil
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by nextos 3y ago
Do you know the exact model that is supported? Acer Aspire 1 A114-61-S94P (Acer P/N: NX.A4DEB.002) currently retails for €250, and it looks like a great device for many usecases. But it has 8 GB RAM / 128 GB eMMC. Other posts sugg
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by nextos 3y ago
Sadly support is fairly good but IMHO not there yet for a daily driver: https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support . Microphone and external displays are not working. Plus, you rely on macOS for firmware updates. An
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by nextos 3y ago
Sure, not justifying code without comments. But keep in mind Ruby is a bit like Lisp, where there is a strong tradition of building DSLs. Hence, lots of Ruby code is a sequence of trivial declarative blocks that look like natural language.
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by nextos 3y ago
This was a great time, and I indeed miss XMPP, with proper federation to lots of different servers, including Google Talk, and Jingle videocalls! Modern XMPP is really great, Conversations is a fantastic client, supports E2E encryption, is
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by nextos 3y ago
I am European, and I wish this was not true, but you are so right. It happens everywhere, SMEs, mittelstands, corporations... Even at top EU universities, in many fields, most professors are managers that despise technical know how! I have
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by nextos 3y ago
Instructions are misleading. If you click on the Issuu see full screen icon, you can read the whole book online.
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by nextos 3y ago
Aviation is great because the industry learns so much after incidents and accidents. There is a culture of trying to improve, rather than merely seeking culprits. However, I have been told by an insider that supply chain integrity is an und
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by nextos 3y ago
rsync + btrfs works incredibly well IMHO. I have three drives in different locations, and periodically rsync my home to each of them, then take btrfs snapshot. rsync lets you exclude things in a finegrained way, similar to .gitignore. So I
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by nextos 3y ago
> This is illegal in France What is illegal in France? >Are there public web sites which you can use to get an analysis? For example, Promethease. Takes you from a SNP array to results in a few minutes. > How to "bootstrap&quo
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by nextos 3y ago
Yes, he wrote Turbo Pascal while he was studying at DTU in Copenhagen.
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by nextos 3y ago
I think so, as cheese that is in practice lactose free due to long fermentation does raise IGF too.
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by nextos 3y ago
What I would like to know is how big the effect size is. NYT published a detailed article and it looks much more cautious than other news outlets: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/science/longevity-drug
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by nextos 3y ago
No, these were part of a conference held at Tubingen in 2020.
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by nextos 3y ago
I meant the presenter is discussing ML from a Bayesian point of view, which is interesting, but not something you need if your aim is just to understand deep learning.
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by nextos 3y ago
That is not completely true. There are RNNs with transformer/LLM-like performance. See e.g. https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM . They are less popular, and less explored. But an interesting route ahead.
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by nextos 3y ago
Use nitter to go around X authwalls: https://nitter.net/suhail/status/1728676402864812466
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by nextos 3y ago
This presentation from Deep Mind outlines some foundational ML books: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lPePNMGMEKoaDvxiftc8hcy-rFp... For the impatient, look into slide #123. Essentially, the recommendations are M
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by nextos 3y ago
A closer library is Infer.NET: https://dotnet.github.io/infer . It includes a really mature compiler that generates very efficient message passing and variational inference, with support for online inference, which is the ma
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by nextos 3y ago
I agree, lack of standardization discourages freedom of movement. However, it is also necessary to make sure data privacy is factored in.
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by nextos 3y ago
Yes, this is a huge problem. In fact, when looking into Swedish jobs, you are usually advised to try to get a personnummer ASAP to make your relocation as smooth as possible. Denmark also has similar problems with their digital ID. Any unus
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by nextos 3y ago
Not affiliated in any way, but I have always found https://d2l.ai a pretty good mix of rigor and working code.
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by nextos 3y ago
That's true. What they need is what they had started doing, i.e. breaking down Google into Alphabet and letting some companies within the conglomerate act like startups. Why was this effort unsuccessful? Perhaps they were unable to get
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by nextos 3y ago
For each 25mcg of vitamin D, get 200 mcg of K2, as typically sold by e.g. Thorne. Scale these to the desired vitamin D IU amount. Aside, 0.5 mg of boron and 250 mg of magnesium. Since you will take magnesium as a salt, not in pure form, it
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by nextos 3y ago
Magnesium + boron + K2 make calcification a non-issue if you take moderate doses per day (2.5-5k IU, or even more).

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