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by pcrh 3y ago
Maybe someone can explain this to me.... If the company was worth zero before the new round of investment, then surely the investors would not put any money into it? So, if on the other hand it was worth something , then it's worth wh
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by pcrh 3y ago
The "capitalists" in this story don't come out smelling of roses either.
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by pcrh 3y ago
What a nest of vipers! And that twist in the end.... >The hedge fund that bankrolled P.&I.D.’s defense in London, VR Capital, stood to make a profit if the verdict had gone its way. After the bribery allegations came out, the fund to
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What Is the Loveliest Language?(economist.com)
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by pcrh 3y ago
While it is no longer in the EU per se, the City in London may be one of the few places in Europe that is directly comparable to, and competitive with, the US in terms of job opportunities in software and fintech.
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by pcrh 3y ago
Agreed, especially as articles titled "no evidence..." usually contain evidence in favor of the proposition (except that there is also evidence against it). I get similarly annoyed by the use of the term "significant" in
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by pcrh 3y ago
Indeed it would! Is anyone here going to try to do that? As an observer is needed to assess the LLM, perhaps the easiest test is copy-paste between two instances and then ask chatGPT, or whichever LLM, "who were you talking to?".
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by pcrh 3y ago
You really have to question this kind of research when it concludes that hearing loss is "linked to" dementia. Sure, it's plausible that people with dementia will have more trouble interpreting sound, as they might for any ot
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by pcrh 3y ago
The current complaints about E-cars appear similar to those that surrounded ICE cars in the 1970's and 1980's. Such complaints were then mostly eliminated by Japanese manufacturers, leading to them replacing European and American
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by pcrh 3y ago
>Anti-BDS laws These would seem to contravene the First Amendment.
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by pcrh 3y ago
Yes, I'm sure you could know exactly how the well-studied synaptophysin, synaptobrevin, neuroligin and PSD95 cooperate to control neurons in a day or two. Particularly in the context of schizophrenia. Easy as pie. Edit: Here's a f
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by pcrh 3y ago
The person you linked to is a plastic surgeon at UCLA. So I presume they get $300k for their role as an academic, and the $3M through clinical work.
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by pcrh 3y ago
The drop-out rate for PhD programmes is about 20-50%.
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by pcrh 3y ago
$1M/yr for clinical scientists is not uncommon. Take a look at this public list of senior researchers in the U Cal. system. https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/university-of-cal...
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by pcrh 3y ago
There's no shortage of dodgy science in commerce.
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by pcrh 3y ago
It's broadly true that most research is eventually subject to attempts at replication. However the replication isn't explicitly attempting to reproduce the exact prior research, but to build on it. If the foundation established
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by pcrh 3y ago
For the typical reader of HN, phylogenetic trees would be far easier to figure out in a few days than how neurons work, especially as "how neurons work" isn't even established.
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by pcrh 3y ago
My response to climate change skeptics is to point out that CO2 is firmly established as a "greenhouse gas", so increasing its levels in the atmosphere will increase temperatures, regardless of any other measurements, theories,
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by pcrh 3y ago
"Data training expert" sounds very much like what an currently academic does. For example, we have a set amount of historical data from, for example, the Middle Ages, and this data has been repeatedly re-analyzed, sometimes with t
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by pcrh 3y ago
How so? Does he control the tech in some way? Patents?
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by pcrh 3y ago
>xenoestrogens Yes, I appreciate the risk of plasticisers, and these should be addressed. However, by the time an item made of plastic has become a "microplastic", these plasticisers have been leached out.
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by pcrh 3y ago
I'm not an insider in this field.... But is Sam Altman really that critical? Or is it more a case that people follow where he leads (i.e. there are others equally technically competent).
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by pcrh 3y ago
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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by pcrh 3y ago
By the time plastics have become micro- or nano-particles, any diffusible components such as plasticizers have been thoroughly leached out.
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by pcrh 3y ago
In this case they directly injected the nanoplastics + α-synuclein into the brains of one group and as a control injected only α-synuclein. However, mice that have human α-synuclein have been around for decades, and nobody has (so far) noti
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by pcrh 3y ago
I've quickly scanned the paper. It convincingly shows that nanoplastics can promote aggregation of α-synuclein (a key protein in Parkinson's pathology) in vitro and in cultured cells. Note however that many substances known to be
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by pcrh 3y ago
It's even more mysterious once you realize that metamorphosis is a later evolutionary development. Early insects hatched out as miniature adults and molted as they grew, as do arachnids and crustaceans today. So to evolve a larval stag
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by pcrh 3y ago
>The parish minister and provost of Vestur-Skaftafellssýsla, Jón Steingrímsson (1728–1791), grew famous for the eldmessa [ˈɛltˌmɛsːa] ("fire mass") that he delivered on 20 July 1783. I looked this up, and found this: "In h
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by pcrh 3y ago
Is there documentation for this? Icelanders are Christian (since when, I'm not sure), and would more likely pray. Also I don't think there is a history of human sacrifice in Norway/Denmark/Scandinavia.
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by pcrh 3y ago
Iceland has had active volcanoes all the time it has been inhabited. Does anyone know what the "traditional" response to these sorts of ground movements was?

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