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by randcraw 1y ago
IMHO, this article makes grand claims but doesn't substantiate them. In what way is ML-based biology any different from the myriad statistics-based mechanistic models that systems or computational biology has employed for 50 years to m
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by randcraw 1y ago
A good start for this debate would be to reconsider the term "AI", perhaps choosing a term that's more intuitive, like "automation" or "robot assistant". It's obvious that learning to automate a task
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by randcraw 1y ago
Yes, but I have no personal knowledge about radical prophylactic prostatectomy. You might start here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361217707_The_role_... I've read very little about choosing radical p
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by randcraw 1y ago
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/prostate-cancer/detectio... You have a direct genetic history of prostate cancer, thus you are at higher risk than most men. At age 57 I had no family history and no sympt
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by randcraw 1y ago
> I don't think it's possible to generate an acceptable story without reasoning. If I look back at any article, book, movie, or conversation that I liked, it always had this essential ingredient: it had to make sense, AND it ha
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by randcraw 1y ago
> It's got me wondering: do any of my hard work actually matter? I recently retired from 40 years in software-based R&D and have been wondering the same thing. Wasn't it true that 95% of my life's work was thrown away
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by randcraw 1y ago
A great way to realize your dependence on external brains in order to think is to turn off not just your AI tools but your _network_ and THEN code, or write a document, or read a technical paper. I realized that I can code in recently learn
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by randcraw 1y ago
Will an engineering team ever be able to craft a thing of wonder, that surprises and delights? I think great software can do that. But I've seen it arise only rarely, and almost always as originating from one enlightened mind, someon
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by randcraw 1y ago
I think you don't look down at the product of AI, only the process that created it. Clearly the craft that created the object has become less creative, less innovative. Now it's just a variation on a theme. Does such work reall
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by randcraw 1y ago
This article resonates with me like no other has in years. I very recently retired after 40 years writing software because my role had evolved into a production-driven limbo. For the past decade I have scavenged and copied other peoples&#
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by randcraw 1y ago
Some people like to play a musical instrument, others to compose music. Those who play range from classicists, who have limited ability to improvise or interpret, to popular or jazz, or composition, where creativity and subtle expression i
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by randcraw 1y ago
> (1) the huge majority of what people are calling AI these days is in fact machine learning. [...] > (2) machine learning does not create any new knowledge. It rearranges information you have already obtained [...] I do wish more fol
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by randcraw 1y ago
I've found my ability to recall names (or proper nouns) to decline as I entered my 60s more than any other cognitive facility, both names of people as well as objects that have one-off names, such as 'Montessori' schools or &
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by randcraw 1y ago
Art of the bribe, actually.
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by randcraw 1y ago
Here's the FDA announcement: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-anno... Fact is, pharmas already pre-screen immune response in vitro using various stat and ML algorithms, a no-brainer tha
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by randcraw 1y ago
I hope this is an April Fool's joke. I just retired after 19 years in the pharma industry. Animal testing is essential for new drug safety assessment because off-target damage to tissues cannot be detected using any method other than
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FDA to stop animal testing of new drugs(axios.com)
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by randcraw 1y ago
It's likely that the people who like impartial news the least are those who want a reporter to digest the raw data for them and then summarize it. They don't want to have to hunt and gather raw news from multiple sources or filte
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by randcraw 2y ago
Yeah. BigCo administrators universally point to business intelligence arising from competitors as the 'second pillar' in justifying policy, especially related to internal corporate organization or HR standards.
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by randcraw 2y ago
Your junior doctor sucks. I visited a endocrinologist who did the same thing repeatedly during a routine visit. Uninspiring was an understatement. The ability to iteratively observe and inquire to explore the state and the limits of the p
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by randcraw 2y ago
I wore Levis 501s and 505s for decades then gave up about 15 years ago due to their severe drop in denim quality and jump in price at my main source (Kohl's). I find they wear out in less than a year now. I switched to All American Clo
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by randcraw 2y ago
If GenAI search results or summarizations can't be verified by citing their essential sources, how can they ever be deemed trustworthy and free of legal liability for fabricating falsehoods? Somehow this Achilles heel must be eliminat
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by randcraw 2y ago
I think the replacement for developers won't be CTOs but program managers -- folks with business degrees (or none at all) but who understand the company's needs for the software and can translate them into prompts to build the pro
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by randcraw 2y ago
Over the past 40 years I've become aware of a LOT of people who had difficulty staying engaged in self-paced learning sessions, especially pre-recorded. Without the dynamics -- questions and interactions -- that other students can pos
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by randcraw 2y ago
The only 'exercise' I've heard of that offers measurable improvement is "N-Back", kind of like the old TV game "Concentration". The app is available on most smartphones.
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by randcraw 2y ago
I like my computer to be secure when I'm not using it. Powered down is secure.
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by randcraw 2y ago
You know, at this point I've seen so much self-promotional material arising from Google in the form of bold claims and titles in research papers that I no longer take immediate interest in them but instead wait for other more trustwort
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by randcraw 2y ago
Vance didn't believe for a second that Zelensky was grandstanding. He was trying to manipulate his video audience into believing that Vance wasn't grandstanding by accusing Zelensky of misbehaving as he was obviously doing himsel
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by randcraw 2y ago
That, and Trump is incoherent. He has been for a couple of years now, unable to put even two sentences together that make any sense. He speaks entirely in applause one-liners. I think his dementia is significant now. If he were left alo
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by randcraw 2y ago
If there was ever proof that Trump is just a troll, this is it. Annoy the room just so you can't be overlooked, no matter how much you deserve to be.

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