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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
> Right on up to professorships, this is how science really works. Why I am making my exit from academia and research entirely as soon as I finish my PhD. The system is filled with wonderful, intelligent people but sadly simultaneously r
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
So I'm a biomedical scientist (in training I suppose...I'm in my 3rd year of a Genetics PhD) and I have seen this trend a couple of times now where AI developers tout that AI will accelerate biomedical discovery through a very spe
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
yes by text they might have missed nothing...but what's missing here is that Chapelle is doing his "white-man voice" which is kind of a big detail.
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
And at some places like Hinge, they'll identify your type so well that your "standouts" page (the one you have to pay to message people on) will be composed of 100% people you would probably like to speak to while your free f
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
My guess is that time would be the first little work-break from the post-lunch session. About an hour after lunch and you take a little break pause so you swipe on Hinge to see if you got any matches.
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
My family has lived in 4 states and 3 countries and the only time we ever homeschooled…was in NJ back in the early 2000s.
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
sure, here's a link of a conversation from today 12/9/24 which has multiple incorrect: references, links, papers, journal titles, DOIs, and authors. https://chatgpt.com/share/6757804f-3a6c-800b-b48c-ffbf1
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
I don’t recall that it ever mentioned if it did or not. I don’t have the search on hand but from my browser history I did the prompt engineering on 11/18 (which perhaps there is a new model since then?). I actually repeated the prompt
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
I recently (in the last month) asked ChatGPT to cite its sources for some scientific data. It gave me completely made up, entirely fabricated citations for academic papers that did not exist.
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
When I was going through school the gifted program allowed for kids to skip 1 grade in math and 1 grade in science. I think this was reasonable and didn’t lead to much bullying. Also helped that we had a large gifted program. A math class m
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
this is all my opinion as a 3rd year phd candidate who is thoroughly disillusioned. in STEM science there are two types of labor: thinking of experiments to do, and actually doing experiments. doing experiments is high-skill, manual labor.
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
the irony for me at least, is that even at hyper liberal institutions all my colleagues (students, post doc, faculty even) entertained the idea that a lab leak was possible. just when it came to the media this hypothesis was labeled as a co
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
my very first exposure to this was paying for parking. i worked at a large private university which had a beautiful but very big campus. ofc for some reason the institution decided that employee's had to pay for their own parking, whic
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
you'd be absolutely right that the global warming justification is a retro-active "find a problem" situation. the true motivator lies in the technology that Colossal is attempting to accomplish the mammoth cloning with. as it
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
Seeing my fellow grad students cheat, then brag in the public student lounge to multiple people about having the highest score on the exam by “oh I didn’t even understand that question I just copied the answer key and I still got the highes
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
Ironically enough, our lecture halls were simply not big enough. The space capped out at around 300-600 people and for popular topics such as programming 101 every semester would easily have 1500+ enrolled.
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
username...checks out
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
AFAIK Fractyl's "drug" is not gene therapy but a surgery where they remove part of the lining of your colon. It is not currently possible (nor will it likely be) to use gene therapy for obesity treatments. The technology is n
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
For those not aware: Metformin is a popular (unapproved?) nootropic.
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
apologize for the tangent but my cousin and her husband (both asian american, both harvard alumni) chose to move back to our hometown in Seattle so they could send their kids to lakeside, the same school bill gates went to. i assume to incr
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
break us colleges into tiers based on academic rigor. assuming you met XXXX standardized test score you are automatically sorted into one of the appropriate schools at random on your 18th birthday. no take backs, safety schools permitted.
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
> We'll be able to print and grow organs in mass. I'm a PhD candidate doing my thesis work on stem cell models and tissue engineering for organ transplant...I think this technology is certainly a large leap forward but I think
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
i'm a 20 something former semi-pro athlete with grade 4 osteoarthritis in my knee. pain was massively bad but over the past 2 years has improved significantly. here's what i did: 1) mindfully progressively overload the leg muscles
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
the number of bad bathroom hygiene at my current workplace makes me very glad to be living right across the street where i can go use the facilities whenever i please in the peace and quiet of my own bathroom. underrated perk for sure!
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
yeah i agree, if it wasn't clear what i meant to say was that i functionally didn't have a smartphone until high school was over, and as a result i think i was socially excluded from a lot of things - the social groups from hs see
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
n=1 but i didn't have a smartphone until halfway through senior year of hs (2013-2014) whereas most of my peers had one from 2010 onwards. i wouldn't say socially stunted but popularity wise i would say not a full member of the so
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
imagine being a medieval peasant conscript and seeing that guy from the first few seconds of the first video charging at you, knowing full well he's from the warrior class and trained his entire life for the job of fighting. terrifying
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
Fighting static positions is what you do when your opponent is literally your neighbor occupying slightly different dirt that touches yours. Which is not the case with China and the US. When you switch from land to water tooling your milita
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
even small funds, this was the investment thesis at the hedgefund that my dad worked for circa 2006-2008. they promised super dampened volatility but, as you might guess, they went belly up during the great recession. The cause? Someone, so
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by stanford_labrat 2y ago
Because in reality the two party system is not accurate. It’s rich versus poor, those with power versus those without. Nobility versus peasants. That’s just how it works.

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