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841.
by roughly 2y ago
Starting from the beginning of the book, I came across this gem of a sentence, when speaking about math compared to science or engineering: > Because of this, mathematicians are in a weird and, I’d say, unique position of always having t
842.
by roughly 2y ago
Literally a White Elephant
843.
by roughly 2y ago
> Have you considered having empathy for people with different views than you? This is an interesting response in a thread defending an abortion ban.
844.
by roughly 2y ago
To expand on this, just to push off the inevitable: it’s not just about abortions, it’s about women’s healthcare overall. It turns out there’s a whole shitload of grey areas, doctors aren’t willing to go to jail, and it puts women’s lives i
845.
by roughly 2y ago
It won’t necessarily convey all the different views, but The Order of Time by Carlo Roveli is an absolutely beautiful walk through the various interpretations of time down to the quantum level. The nature of time is not fully understood and
846.
by roughly 2y ago
> Bodily autonomy should be a universal right. No one should be able to control what adults do with their bodies, IMO. It may lead to some dark places, but that's freedom I guess. I agree with you, but this is one of those things wh
847.
by roughly 2y ago
Which is funny, because what they’ve created so far can write shitty poetry but is basically useless for any kind of detail-oriented work - so, you know, a bachelors in communications, which isn’t really the definition of “economically viab
848.
by roughly 2y ago
ChatGPT is going to kill them because their doctor is using it - or more likely because their health insurer or hospital tries to cut labor costs by rolling it out.
849.
by roughly 2y ago
Another joke: the only thing the passengers on the Niña agreed with the people who arrived on the Pinta about was that the people on the Santa Maria needed to go back to where they came from.
850.
by roughly 2y ago
There’s a joke that basically goes the first generation are immigrants, the second generation are Americanized, and the third generation have opinions about immigrants.
851.
by roughly 2y ago
The Economist is a pro-market publication, so yes, this is absolutely triumphalism on their part.
852.
by roughly 2y ago
I live in a city that tourists visit in America, I'm not getting starry-eyed on account of some old buildings.
853.
by roughly 2y ago
The typical iPhone Mini product cycle: Make iPhone Mini -> Mini only accounts for 10% of sales -> Cancel iPhone Mini -> Notice that 10% of iPhone customers haven't updated for 3 or 4 cycles -> Make iPhone Mini -> Suffer
854.
by roughly 2y ago
A lot of the charm of this kind of triumphalism wears off when one spends time in those other rich countries. It becomes rather sharply obvious on one’s return what America has traded off while min-maxing its GDP score.
855.
by roughly 2y ago
Yeah, this is wildly optimistic. From personal experience, I'm skeptical of the quantity and especially quality of published documentation available, the completeness of that documentation, the degree to which it both recognizes and co
856.
by roughly 2y ago
What’s fun is that you can skip step 1. The LLM will happily critique its own nonexistent output.
857.
by roughly 2y ago
> A more holistic approach to health care would be beneficial. I've commented on this elsewhere, but with psychedelics in particular we wind up in a weird space around our normal approaches to health - for instance, there's a l
858.
by roughly 2y ago
Ironically, our sort of monochrome minimalist white marble aesthetic owes itself to a misreading of Greeks and Roman design. The more we dig up, the more we find how colorful classical antiquity was.
859.
by roughly 2y ago
This is not a serious proposal. It's a cool little sports car looking design. It looks very future-y. It's the kind of thing someone would step out of in a sci-fi movie. That's how you know it's not an actual well-though
860.
by roughly 2y ago
The author discusses the perceptual allowances for different kinds of inputs (the noise in images, etc), and it's a really interesting point that helps sketch some boundaries around where the LLM/Diffusion model paradigms are usef
861.
by roughly 2y ago
> ends up at the same point as a completed folding simulation. Well, that's the hope, at least. > Or more representative sequences and enough variants by additional metagenomic surveys, for example. Of course, this might not be e
862.
by roughly 2y ago
Yeah, this is what I mean by "a shitty answer fast" - structure prediction isn't a canonical answer, but it's a good enough approximation for good enough decision-making to make a bunch of stuff viable that wouldn't
863.
by roughly 2y ago
Eh, in many cases for actual customer-facing commercial work, they're sticking remarkably close to stuff that's in genbank/swissprot/etc - well characterized molecules and pathways, because working with genuinely de novo
864.
by roughly 2y ago
It also proved that deep learning models are a valid approach to bioinformatics - for all its flaws and shortcomings, AlphaFold solves arbitrary protein structure in minutes on commodity hardware, whereas previous approaches were, well, thi
865.
by roughly 2y ago
Yeah, the first sibling who joined after me texted me immediately when they saw my fake name there :-D (Although that turned out not to be the biggest family scandal that was turned up by the genetic testing - the cautionary click through o
866.
by roughly 2y ago
I’m in a weird spot with 23andMe - when I signed up, I used a fake name as a fig leaf in case they decided to sell to insurance or whatever. Since then, several members of my immediate family have all signed up, so “the child of X and the s
867.
by roughly 2y ago
This is I think a thing that is difficult for Americans to understand, because the only Americans who have a thousand years of family history in the place they currently live are also asking museums for their stuff back.
868.
by roughly 2y ago
> Because sometimes consumers can and will reject a higher price Often times this is because they don't have enough money because some jackoff keeps cutting their wages.
869.
by roughly 2y ago
> There are some really nice graphs in first year economics that explain this. Yes, and they’re bullshit, as are the ones that suggest firms price competitively, that markets tend towards competition and not consolidation, that governmen
870.
by roughly 2y ago
> Unions by definition are exercising market power to withhold labor and force a higher than market price on said labor. Thus, they are causing dead weight loss to society and making everyone worse off in the base case. Well, everyone ex

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