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by starwind 5y ago
so would Dracula but I'd still rather have the light after work
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by starwind 5y ago
My first programming gig was as a student assistant in college where I was writing Matlab for psychiatrists and neuroscientists. The studies they ran rarely had more than 30 people, and their subjects usually ended up in multiple surveys be
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by starwind 5y ago
AFAIK, anti-hydrogen is very stable on its own and only gets annihilated because it quickly comes in contact with matter. > In November 2010, the ALPHA collaboration announced that they had trapped 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a
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by starwind 5y ago
> the track record of using AI to generate pharmaceuticals to do good has been "mixed", except really it's just been a bust. Researchers have only been using AI for drug development for like 6 years, I think it's way
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by starwind 5y ago
This doesn't square with my experience in defense. I worked in software and we saw plenty of combat and aftermath footage and were always aware that the design decisions we made and the tools we built meant life-and-death for someone.
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by starwind 5y ago
sadly, yeah, the big contractors work for anyone its legal to work for. I'll just make sure I don't end up on a program working for scumbags. If I get canned cause I won't work for someone, I get canned and life goes on. My s
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by starwind 5y ago
I was a reviewer for a book on ethical machine learning that wasn’t published. I’ll never forget, the author stated “don’t work on anything that could cause harm.” Here I am reading this while working in defense being like “that’s a lazy an
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by starwind 5y ago
I worked in defense too, might go back. When I get calls I'm like "I don't do work for the Saudi's or the DEA" and half the time the recruiter is like "Uh, I said this job is for Raytheon." "Yeah, but
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by starwind 5y ago
Thought you were talking about this at first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ca4tfXefk
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by starwind 5y ago
Am I the only one bothered that the M1 "Max" was apparently not the best Apple could do? In what would is the "Ultra" version of something better than the "Max" version? MAXIMUM MEANS AS GREAT AS POSSIBLE!!! An
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Box of human heads stolen in Denver, Colorado(9news.com)
7 points by starwind 5y ago|4 comments
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by starwind 5y ago
Apparently they were intended for medical research
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by starwind 5y ago
I got fired from one job after my manager told me to fake results and I didn't. I went into a job interview a few days later and I summed it up as "they were asking me to do things with the data I wasn't comfortable with.&quo
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by starwind 5y ago
They lack the technical capabilities. "As evidence of the State Armament Programme’s implementation until 2015 showed, the Russian defence industry still had not made the leap from ‘dumb-iron’ equipment to twenty-first-century sophisti
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by starwind 5y ago
“Obsolete” is about all the Russian defense industry can produce. Russia’s defense industry has struggled to produce modern fighters and equipment. Russia touted the new Su-57 fighter and T-14 Armata tank but have hardly delivered any. Most
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by starwind 5y ago
Unlikely. The Russian’s have struggled logistically almost from the start. Within a day-or-two of the invasion there were numerous reports of Russian tank units walking around on foot looking for diesel. This is consistent with the convoy l
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by starwind 5y ago
"Improvements in command, control, joint action and coordination have also been made, as demonstrated in both Crimea and Syria, and during a number of large-scale exercises training for joint combined arms operations. A costly programm
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by starwind 5y ago
See "Surnames and social mobility in England, 1170–2012" https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/60593/1/__lse.ac.uk_storage_LIBRAR...
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by starwind 5y ago
Unrelated but can anyone recommend a good, more technical introduction to CRISPR? I read Isaacson's book and I really enjoyed his technical discussion but I really wanted more
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by starwind 5y ago
Yes he could have. This would be a bad strategy. Not only would he have to worry about his other investments getting hurt, there are a lot more stockholders in Russia today than there were a decade ago, and Putin ultimately relies on a reas
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by starwind 5y ago
This comment kicked off one of the most interesting internet threads I've read in my life
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by starwind 5y ago
I came here to also say In-Q-Tel. Great people
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by starwind 5y ago
Probably massive amounts of data but it depends on how far off the simulation is from reality and the expected cost of collecting that data vs running the simulation a few billion times. Not far off and you want perfect results? Go with act
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by starwind 5y ago
Warning: arguments over monetary policy are generally much more subtle than “hawks vs doves.” If you want a book that covers different views of monetary policy, you need a textbook that's likely to be math-heavy and assume a background
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by starwind 5y ago
Getting a standing desk with a riser for my monitor really helped my back pain and doing planks and push-ups to strengthen my abs and back fixed my posture and eliminated the rest of it. When I sit down, I also kind of switch it up. Desk ch
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by starwind 5y ago
That's where my grandparents are right now. They retired in their early 60s, and they have a solid income between ss, pension, and 401k, but their healthcare takes up more-and-more of that money and they still struggle with their healt
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by starwind 5y ago
The guy was a director-level and had been a software engineer. I had just been fired/laid-off from my last job for not faking results, so I walked in and gave him an updated resume. He asked what happened and I said they pressed me to
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by starwind 5y ago
I majored in math and took a course on waves through the physics department. Everyone struggled with why imaginary numbers would show up and I was just like "we took the square root of this negative number, and the reals aren't cl
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by starwind 5y ago
when I did my math degree in college the profs and grad students called them "complex numbers." I think they know there's a problem so they want to get the students who would go on to teach used to not calling them "imag
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by starwind 5y ago
I initial wrote this as the same comment but you didn't ask how to secure your identity in your question so here's a bonus on how to mitigate your risk if you care: Deal with a broker that will back you up. Here’s Schwab’s policy

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