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by thaw13579 4y ago
I think most of the low hanging fruit like that has been picked unfortunately. Most impactful science these days requires coordinated effort of large teams. I’m sure there are a few exceptions, but I doubt we will get anything like xerox
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by thaw13579 4y ago
Probably depends on whether the claims are substantiated with good evidence.
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by thaw13579 4y ago
In my university teaching experience, I found that everyone up the administrative chain to the top gets a cut, with the teaching faculty themselves receiving 1-2% of the annual tuition...
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by thaw13579 4y ago
Exactly my second point. Producing "bullshit" requires some internal thoughts and intentions, as the parent put it "DallE generates the images it thinks you want to see" (emphasis mine). A very big claim, which is in
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by thaw13579 4y ago
To me, Dall-E seems analogous to a film production team that produces visual imagery reflecting a script written by a screenwriter. By the above reasoning, would that team would be producing "bullshit"? I think most people would
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by thaw13579 4y ago
It seems like these “main computer” solutions always depend on ssh-ing into some other machine with a proper command line and disk access. It seems like that defeats the point though, because the advantage of a tablet is mobility, but that
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by thaw13579 4y ago
I'd be curious to learn more about this, any recommended reading?
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by thaw13579 5y ago
I suppose the M1 pro is such a variant with more ports and more memory? For the M1 itself, it seems there are interesting aspects of the chip design that limit the total memory: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-new-Mac-min
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by thaw13579 5y ago
Maybe it's too much to expect a $1K computer to do heavy video work? Even then, I've been using an M1 macbook air myself for computational work, and haven't run into any memory issues and am surprised by how much power it pr
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by thaw13579 5y ago
There's only a gap of roughly $500 between a maxed out mini and the entry studio, so perhaps the studio is the answer to what you're looking for?
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by thaw13579 5y ago
The Caltech course on algorithms is probably focused more on mathematical proofs of correctness and runtime bounds, rather than the implementation details required to pass coding interviews
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by thaw13579 5y ago
Statistically, there are more people younger than 90 than older, so I don't dispute your statement, but I don't see your point. Is this to justify them breaking isolation? My understanding of the parent is that it is rational to
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by thaw13579 5y ago
I wonder why avoid computers in early retirement? Is it burnout from the grind or a lack of pleasure in the work itself? I imaging there are a ton of cool and worthy charitable causes that would benefit from the expertise, which they coul
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by thaw13579 5y ago
It's only rational if you ignore the secondary effects on others. It could increase community spread and ICU usage and thus increase the risk of death for others who didn't make that choice. The other likely causes of death (hear
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by thaw13579 5y ago
As an odd aside, the fact that they retained the original web design brought me back to 2001 in a way that I wouldn’t have expected.
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by thaw13579 5y ago
I use melatonin gummies, which are easily divided to get a sufficiently small does without much work, highly recommended
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by thaw13579 5y ago
To be clear, there is science that is compatible with THC increasing the risk of psychosis (and perhaps that CBD is protective). I would agree that some are self medicating, but the data also shows that dosage, THC/CBD mixture, and ag
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by thaw13579 5y ago
Any chance you can please share a reference for that earlier comparable work? Not challenging your view, just curious
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by thaw13579 5y ago
I would second the recommendation, and also add one of the main arguments, which is that most people get satisfaction from being excellent at something, and what that is specifically might not matter as much as we think. So as long as you
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by thaw13579 5y ago
I think the issue with this analogy is: the new and improved Tesla Model S is hugely popular and profitable, while the academic papers that later revisit and improve upon those initial (high impact but less accurate) findings receive little
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by thaw13579 6y ago
There are far more ways for things to go wrong than ways to go right.
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by thaw13579 6y ago
Pubmed Central is a archival system made by NIH that is an example of this kind of public model: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/intro/ Most NIH funded work is required to be deposited there, but at pr
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by thaw13579 6y ago
Aside from the question of being lawful, I don't think they quite fit the bill alone for a few other reasons. First, they are not truly public or accountable to the scientific community -- while they accept uploads, they are both desi
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by thaw13579 6y ago
And further, whether to do A/B tests or not, and whether the subject consents, since the test might have negative effect
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by thaw13579 6y ago
Seems like there are several concerns: the journal, a question of whether the FB usage agreement permitted such a report from being published, and generally whether it is ethical (separate from the review board question). Some more discuss
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by thaw13579 7y ago
I wonder, aren't there problematic edge cases that depend on the data? For example, if you are computing a plane from a given set of points, there may be an edge case where the points are collinear. Assuming you always need to produc
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Mapping Brain Circuits in Vivid Color(directorsblog.nih.gov)
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by thaw13579 7y ago
True, and to add one more point, poverty presently brings a along environmental factors, such as stress, toxic exposure, poor nutrition, that tragically impact brain development and leave people with an analogous intrinsic disadvantage late
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by thaw13579 7y ago
A counter point, it seems that wealth and the power it provides already provide such a huge advantage that the effects of genetic editing may end up being a negligible. I wonder about the preservation of wealth though. As other posts have
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by thaw13579 8y ago
One book not already mentioned is Alfred Korzybski's Science and Sanity. It makes fairly broad and sweeping analysis, so there is plenty to disagree with. That said, this book opened my eyes to important concerns about language and c

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