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You perform chemical fixation and heavy metal staining, then some form of serial sectioning. You can either image the sections themselves or serially image the block face. The sections can be imaged with TEM or SEM in high vacuum, the block
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The physical process of cutting. We're physically sectioning 3 dimensional blocks of tissue.
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> I've also witnessed first-hand how people that manage to publish well adopt monopolistic strategies, sabotaging interesting grant proposals from other groups or stalling their article submissions while they copy them. This is a pr
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This exchange is a great example of two people arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty! You're clearly both right, in your own way.
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I don't think this criticism is valid at all. What you are saying will occasionally happen, but mistakes already happen today. Standards for quality, client expectations, competition for market share, all those are not going to go down
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You know, you can just talk to me about my wording. Where do I meet those gullible venture investors?
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I'm not entirely sure what you're arguing for. Current AI models can still get a lot better, sure. I'm not in the AGI in 3 years camp. But, people in this thread are making philosophically very poor points about why that is s
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I'm very familiar with the allegory of the cave, but I'm not sure I understand where you're going with the analogy here. Are you saying that it is not possible to learn about dynamics in a higher dimensional space from a lowe
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Well, AI clearly is the next crypto, haha. Apologies for the wording but I think you got it and the point stands. I'm not a native speaker and mostly use English in a professional science related setting, that's why I sound like t
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No looping, but you can unroll loops to a fixed depth and apply the model iteratively. There obviously is memory and learning. Neuroscience hasn't found the magic dust in our brains yet, either. ;)
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If it works as advertised, yeah, it's cool, it's useful. But I just can't muster the excitement about this sort of thing anymore, the way I used to be able to. This is a toxin. It's going to make our teenagers sad to the
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My suspicion is that you're leaving some important parts in your logic unstated. Such as belief in a magical property within humans of "understanding", which you don't define. The ability of video models to generate nove
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I truly think you haven't really thought this through. There's a huge amount of circuitry between the input and the output of the model. How do you know what it does or doesn't do? Humans brains "just" output the ne
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I don't buy that at all. They've literally shipped a broken, useless product that this amateur could do better (yes, as a demo). All the hard scalability stuff, they've already done before. Gmail exists, the Gemini API exists
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Yeah - The thing though is, you could build the same thing better in a day's work by using OpenAI's API, or Gemini's for that matter. I wonder if there isn't a deeper, more worrying (for Google) reason behind that - that
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Have you tried the Gemini Gmail integration? I have that enabled in my GSuite account. It's incredible how bad it is. I've seen it claim I've never received mail from a certain person, while the email was open right next to t
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The borderline conspiracy theories on this are odd. If you're a manager, having a remote team is just harder. It can still work well with a certain type of people, people who are self directed and take pride in their work, but let&#x27
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If you're into that exotic hobby long after ICE cars are obsolete, you'll need to purchase synthetic fuel for it or purchase the equivalent amount of CO2 direct air capture. Sounds okay to me.
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As long as you're scanning over a perfectly flat, if tilted (relative to the microscope's focus plane) 2d plane, you don't need to autofocus much. Just measure the focus at a few points and fit the plane, then run the scan an
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Wow! Will need to find high res versions to print.
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But that's really not how it is - LLMs have their uses, obviously, but they really fall apart as soon as you're trying to do something even just slightly off the beaten path. As such, they're certainly still useful for answer
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Oddly, this is partly by design. EU SME funding programs have "non bankability" as a criterion (or variations on that, it changes every few years). What that means is that if you have alternative sources of funding, even just pote
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> The EU doesn’t take decisions directly about which projects to fund, but instead delegates it to more knowledgeable organizations. They very much do. They invite volunteers to review applications and serve on juries for EIC and ERC, bu
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HN just loves novelty, once crypto made mainstream news HN fell out of love. The pattern has applied to Tesla/Musk, cryptocurrency, language models and probably much more I'm not aware of.
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> Surely at some point you stop spending it on yourself Only for a limited definition of "spending on myself". Self actualization is where desire truly is boundless. 10B is not a lot of money if your goal in life is now to end
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Not really, no. First: Human desire literally knows no bounds, yesterday's luxury is today's basic necessity. If the prices for many products go towards zero, they'll become uninteresting and new products will be invented for
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That's the argument for universal basic income in a nutshell. I'm not so convinced, I think this comes from the limited mental model of thinking of the economy as a system for making widgets. Rather, the economy is what happens wh
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Don't ask me, go do your own research if you really want to learn about this. It's a complex topic. I agree that nuclear should have it's place in a modern energy grid for the time being, but the skepticism towards renewables
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If Germany gets this right, then, very little gas. The role of gas peaker plants in a system dominated by PV and wind is as a dispatchable backup for weather patterns in which storage is insufficient. By building out storage, load shiftin
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Photovoltaics and batteries have been on a multi-decade exponential decline in cost. The world is installing about twice as much PV capacity every day in 2024 as it did in all of 2004. (1) The dynamics are so crazy, anything you've r

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