photochemsyn

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by photochemsyn 1mo ago
How would it help the world for Aaron Swartz to download 3.5 million research and primary source PDFs? Example 1: antibiotic and antiviral production technology for developing countries. Even if we limit ourselves to out-of-patent molecules
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by photochemsyn 3mo ago
This is such a ridiculously complicated subject, there are people who spend ten years in training just so they can handle the complexities of individual instances of this kind of health issue. Why would a corporate media outlet try to weigh
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
Ancient Greek philosophy on mind-body developmental balance can help. A physically fit human with no intellectual development and a propensity to follow orders might be the fascist reinterpretation of the classical Spartan ideal, but this
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
Notice I was sure to include ‘revival of corporate R & D divisions’ in the argument? Bell Labs is the archetype - if corporations can do a better job of applied R & D, let them. If corporations are upset about publicly funded rese
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
If every drug created with taxpayer dollars at government-funded research institutions was open-sourced, there would be a collapse in monopoly control of drug manufacturing and that would lower prices significantly. The question is then, if
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
We can’t tell if reported anecdotal behaviors of given LLMs are due to (1) one’s engagement history with that particular LLM provider or (2) ongoing variations in the secret system prompt all commercial LLM providers insert or (3) some othe
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
This is an explainable marketing strategy if the target audience is made up of the military procurement sectors of governments, and is not directed at the mass market tech consumer. The end-user product - monthly subscription to an LLM pro
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
“Fable was the strongest model on the market” - explain why anyone should believe that claim. I’ve been trying to track LLM code generation adoption in the critical infrastructure world - as far as I can tell, it’s nill. Zero. Nada. Nobody
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
I’ve never used Claude. Why not? Because Claude’s free tier was even worse than Grok! DeepSeek’s free tier is much better. Also, the fact that Claude was hyped on HN like Rust and Go made me suspicious. Why the hard sell and the non-stop
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
If you’re going to get a CS degree, do it in a master’s degree program. Get your undergraduate degree in anything else that involves at least some mathematics, I’d recommend physics, chemistry, molecular biology, planetary sciences - proba
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
The foundational problem with cancer is that multicellular organisms rely on tight control of the cell division cycle and there are hundreds of ways that can go off kilter. The record of understanding and treatment is impressive, certainly,
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
Here’s a counterargument to your thesis (Eva Cockcroft, 1974) which essentially rejects the premise of hippie communes, even on the internet: “In rejecting the materialistic values of bourgeois society and indulging in the myth that they co
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
None of the LLM safeguards designed to prevent users from developing any four-little-ponies-of-the-apocalypse (nuclear, chemical, biological, cyber) capabilities are all that coherent. It looks more like performative liability avoidance th
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
Abstract expressionism and its cousin, pop art, played an interesting role in Cold War-era cultural propaganda games: https://www.artforum.com/features/abstract-expressionism-wea...
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
It’s rewarmed rhetoric from the late 19th/early 20th century, most effectively pilloried by Joseph Conrad in “Heart of Darkness” in the character of Mr. Kurtz: > “ ‘He is a prodigy,’ he said at last. ‘He is an emissary of pity and s
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
Really? People will just have their AI build OCR apps for converting handwritten notes (with equations) into LaTex, transcription apps for spoken language-to-text for understanding foreign language speakers, custom audio apps for recording
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
Select the more options pulldown menu, click on projection, select ‘natural Earth’, no spinning.
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
It’s worth looking at sectors where LLM code generation hasn’t been very visible, such as certification-accredited flight-control, braking, train-control, medical, or nuclear-control source code involving real-time embedded operating system
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
I really haven’t trusted Nature and Science for about two decades. These are captured entities. The value of a publication in Science or Nature is questionable. This is a consequence of the corporatization of science in academics. “Nature
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
If corporations really thought LLMs were a great cost-savings tool, then the obvious target for replacement are not the lower-paid staff, but the higher-paid staff - the ‘product managers and stakeholders’. That justifies token burn, repla
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
The moral of the story is that they should have followed in the footsteps of the Sackler Family and Purdue Pharma, who found a legal way to push opiates on people using shopping mall pain clinics and shady doctors as the sales and marketing
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
Our autonomous client-assistance system is managed by a teenager that usually makes good decisions but sometimes makes bad decisions and so all the teenager’s decisions are checked by a minder before being implemented. Unfortunately the mi
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
It won’t help you with technical details of setting up an insulin production pipeline because that’s unsafe; apparently this could be hijacked for bioweapons production. Indeed this is the problem for a huge swath of technical protocol pla
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
After looking at the paper, this looks like the core result: “We collected a total of 9.3 g freshwater along with 0.343 g of sea salt from the ABF-STIC with a 9 cm2 surface area over the course of 9 hours. This is equivalent to generating 1
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
There are two driving factors behind ultra-processed food tech: shelf life and addictive potential. Shelf life extension is easier to understand: Preservatives targeting mold/bacteria growth: potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate, calciu
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
No mention of ‘static’ vs. ‘dynamic’ is a bit disappointing in reference to the weights. Because you could argue that every neuron in your nervous system can be modeled as a collection of weights, firing likelihoods, receptor sensitivities
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
This does reveal the weakness of AlphaFold approaches for answering questions like “what is possible in the protein folding space if you use the 20 canonical amino acids” since the data used to train AlphaFold is limited to existing experim
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
Replacing the CEOs and shareholders with AI is the way forward. Just have to take the capital away from the current capital owners and give the new AI C-suite team control of it. All major decisions go to the employees for votes (but I’d
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
Reminder that the US Chemical Safety Board does great investigations into these kinds of accidents. Here’s a famous one from 2007 involving methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl (a gasoline additive) at T2 Laboratories in Jacksonvil
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by photochemsyn 4mo ago
I find using the LLM to generate different git repo skeletons for the same class of project using the 4-5 different programming languages I’m familiar with is really interesting and helpful. Then I ask it to explicitly describe its design

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