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by pks016 7mo ago
Ghost town was the best part, for users like me. I didn't want another fb or insta. The circles and community were great.
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by pks016 7mo ago
I think Google closed Google+ because it worked as social media and they couldn't find better ways to exploit users.
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by pks016 7mo ago
Interesting but not surprising to me. Once a field expert guides the models, they most likely will reach a solution. The models are good at lazy work for experts. For hard or complicated questions, many a time the models have blind spots.
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by pks016 7mo ago
I was saying generally. I don't work in maths. PhD students do lots of other things than research. If we ask a PhD student to just solve these kinds of problems and nothing else, the student would do it without much difficulty. I guess
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by pks016 7mo ago
I don't think so. I went through the output of Opus 4.6 vs GPT 5.4 pro. Both are given different directions/prompts. Opus 4.6 was asked to test and verify many things. Opus 4.6 tried in many different ways and the chain of thought
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by pks016 7mo ago
> Funding a few PhDs for a year costs orders of magnitude more than it did to solve this problem in inference costs. I don't think PhD students are sitting around and solving one problem for a year. Also PhD students are way cheaper
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by pks016 7mo ago
Bayesian methods are not better than frequentist methods and vice versa. I use both, but mostly Bayesian. Bayesian approaches take a long time thinking, making models, choosing priors, simulations etc. but they provide a better estimate and
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by pks016 7mo ago
There are few. I use zoteroGPT to extract things(e.g. methods, sample size, species etc.) from a bunch of papers/collection. I don't use it for summary.
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by pks016 7mo ago
I tried with some my domain specific question. Claude generated the visuals but they were rough and not as helpful.
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by pks016 7mo ago
Not as cool as robotics but we use Pi zero for audio playback for songbird research.
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by pks016 8mo ago
Goodluck in North America! Most people are in headphones and give weird looks if you try doing small talks. I find it's easier to talk with older people.
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by pks016 8mo ago
I was active on FB, Insta, Goggle +, and Orkut during their early days. My brother and I were the first few people from our circle to have these social media account. Looking back, the incentives have changed. Back then, there was some open
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by pks016 8mo ago
One can dream. Capitalist society would never reduce their PhD slaves. Saying this as someone who's closer to finishing PhD.
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by pks016 8mo ago
Great visualization!
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by pks016 8mo ago
Best thing I saw this morning! I will have to check it out once I get home
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by pks016 9mo ago
I was mostly using 4o for academic searches and planning. It was the best model for me. Based on the context I was giving and questions I was asking, 4o was the most the consistent model. It used to get things wrong for sure but it was pred
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by pks016 9mo ago
Maybe but highly unlikely. I was winning till like hh:59:30 but suddenly the winning bid was like 30 dollars more than my bid
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by pks016 9mo ago
I have lost most of my bids to bots. Bots will literally bit at hh:59:59. The ceiling value doesn't work unless you bid way above the asking price.
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by pks016 9mo ago
Grading the students. Usually for bigger classes, universities (at least mine) don't provide adequate support for grading the tests.
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by pks016 9mo ago
I feel the same with experimental biology with animals. Nowadays, you need fancy computational models with loads of data to publish in good journals. The reason: because everyone else is doing it. The days of elegant, simple experimental de
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by pks016 10mo ago
Cool game. Harder for me. I have background in most of the undergrad and some grad molecular biology. Still, the hints didn't help much. The most useful hints were on function of the gene and cellular components. Also, I have been out
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by pks016 10mo ago
You don't :( You look for alternatives. You get discriminated based on wealth
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by pks016 10mo ago
Open access paradox. As an author, I hate gold open access journals. My supervisor doesn't have money (~3000 CAD nowadays) to pay for publishing. He says he would rather pay for my or other grad students' summer salary Each time I
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by pks016 10mo ago
To me LLMs are glorified google search. I use them like that.
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by pks016 1y ago
Windows 11 rant: My home mini pc is having Bluetooth issues from last 6-7 months after some update. I can't go back, tried every possible solutions. Best option: wait for them to fix it. The issue: Sometimes if the Windows boot normall
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by pks016 1y ago
Looks promising! I'll try it once I get home today. I work with a large number of audio time series data (not words and all have subtle variation). It would be interesting to see how it compares to traditional statistical methods.
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by pks016 1y ago
I also do occasional street photography. I'm opposite of your view. I don't ask for consent and take photos (even candids). People rarely have problems. If they have, they'll come and ask me not to include them in the frame.
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by pks016 1y ago
Waiting for the Bayesian workflow book!
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by pks016 1y ago
Somehow, tidyverse didn't click with me. I still use it sometimes. But now I primarily use base R and data.table
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by pks016 1y ago
I know, but that's the reality. Sometimes the garbage I read from some journals is the reason I want to quit academia. How the hell those get published!! I have stopped taking journals at face value. Many things I read from Science or

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