rorytbyrne

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by rorytbyrne 1mo ago
Does it depend on body shape/height/etc? Could “bad posture” for me “equal good” posture for someone with a longer back or narrower shoulders or something?
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by rorytbyrne 2mo ago
I’m working on “Supabase for science”: 1-click deploy of scientific databases with validation, transformation, MCP, export-for-ML, and provenance built in. https://amacrin.com
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Call for proposals, designing new kinds of research organisations(science.works)
2 points by rorytbyrne 4mo ago|1 comments
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by rorytbyrne 4mo ago
I thought the HN community might have some ideas for this. Unconventional org charts, beyond PI + postdocs + PhD students? New tech to enable fully-remote research collaboration? New approaches to funding? Under-appreciated ideas from neola
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by rorytbyrne 4mo ago
This is more on the ed-tech side right? I'm thinking more tooling to help a synthetic biologist design a protein, or a DARPA PM integrate the research activities of the labs they fund.
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Ask HN: Are you interested in building devtools/infra for science?
3 points by rorytbyrne 4mo ago|3 comments
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by rorytbyrne 6mo ago
Open Science Archive: open infrastructure for scientific databases, so that every field gets its own Protein Data Bank in 1-click. Code: https://github.com/opensciencearchive/server . Website: https://opensci
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by rorytbyrne 7mo ago
Of course it's relevant to how it's seen today. French culture nurtured the author, a French publisher published it, and France didn't ban it while other countries did. This is all evidence that the book was well-liked in Fra
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by rorytbyrne 7mo ago
Ulysses was first published in Paris during the 20 years that Joyce lived there. >I thought only the US ranks it high Joyce never even set foot in the United States... You could say this about The Great Gatsby, which US sources might ran
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by rorytbyrne 8mo ago
Why is "singing along" a relevant metric? In Dublin's best music venues, nobody is singing along because it's brand new material from brand new artists. If you're singing along to well known songs in Temple Bar then
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by rorytbyrne 8mo ago
Not sure what point you’re trying to make here in relation to startups.
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by rorytbyrne 9mo ago
A domain-agnostic, open source scientific database. “Protein Data Bank-in-a-box” https://opensciencearchive.org
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by rorytbyrne 9mo ago
A domain-agnostic, open source scientific database. “Protein Data Bank-in-a-Box” https://opensciencearchive.org
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by rorytbyrne 9mo ago
Not which parts of this are sarcastic or not, but it was probably running for a few weeks. High variance on that estimate though. I was running 5+ Claude Code instances and a similar number of vim instances.
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by rorytbyrne 9mo ago
I spotted Ghostty using 20GB+ memory a few days ago on MacOS (according to Activity Monitor). I went through all my tmux sessions, killed everything, it was still 20GB+ so I re-started Ghostty. If I see it happen again, I'll take some
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by rorytbyrne 9mo ago
Relatively speaking, no. Strength training (as opposed to hypertrophy) calls for fewer reps, around 5 per set. Many people advise spending about a year doing more sets of fewer (~5) reps to build strength, and then switch to fewer sets of m
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by rorytbyrne 9mo ago
> heavy weights with few reps (common body builder wisdom) It is strength training (not body builder) wisdom to use heavy weights with few reps. Hypertrophy (i.e. body builder) programmes usually call for 8-12 reps, which implies relativ
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by rorytbyrne 10mo ago
> Who else do you suggest and why are they better? The arbiters are just our colleagues, at the end of the day. The journal is just the organisational mechanism, one of many possible mechanisms. For example, I follow a weekly reading lis
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by rorytbyrne 10mo ago
You pay them, they give your work a stamp of prestige that is mostly unrelated to the quality of your work.
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by rorytbyrne 10mo ago
> At that point why even have a journal Great question. > the journal system isn't perfect but its the only real check we have left. I wish I could agree but Nature et al continually publish bad, attention-grabbing science, while
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by rorytbyrne 10mo ago
Haha yes I jumped off in a very different direction. The points you raised are very much valid in the short-term. But longer term, I think journals charging authors for some kind of enhanced research presentation service is actually quite v
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by rorytbyrne 10mo ago
Yes exactly. Right now they are arbiters of quality but they shouldn't be, and the move towards Open Access is changing their role.
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by rorytbyrne 10mo ago
Indeed, they are irrelevant. Right now they maintain an administrative monopoly over the peer review process, that makes them de-facto arbiters even if it's peers doing the work. Journals should either become tech companies offering (a
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by rorytbyrne 10mo ago
I disagree. We haven't chosen quantity over quality, we have decided that journals should not be the arbiters of quality. I think these new incentives are exactly what we want: 1. Journals want to publish lots of articles, so they are
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by rorytbyrne 10mo ago
https://opensciencearchive.org I’ve started building a domain-agnostic scientific data archive, inspired by the Protein Data Bank. It handles the deposition, validation, curation, storage, and searching of scientific data, with
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by rorytbyrne 11mo ago
I made a HN-like discussion forum for (meta)science. https://talk.amacrin.com/ Most (meta)science discussion is either fragmented on Twitter/Bsky, or a bit too formal. I thought a centralised place for deeper, casual d
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by rorytbyrne 1y ago
In that case are scroll bars even helpful for determining position? My terminal history is normally huge, and the log output would be some unknown percentage of the total scrollable history.
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by rorytbyrne 1y ago
Cybernetics is essentially control theory, and many of the methods in neural network research came from there. For example backpropagation can be traced back to Pontryagin in the 1950s. Training a nonlinear system to behave in a way you wan
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by rorytbyrne 1y ago
Waymo uses a bespoke 3D data representation of the SF roads, does it not? The self-driving car equivalent of an AGENTS.md file.
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by rorytbyrne 1y ago
When we use LLMs as agents, this errant behaviour matters - regardless of whether it comes from sci-fi “emergent sentience” or just autocomplete of the training data. It puts a soft constraint on how we can use agentic autocomplete.

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