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by throwaway4666 6y ago
The important part in your post is >They're often an early step I think we're in agreement here, I'm just arguing that "woah, look at all those correlations" isn't a breakthrough or 'genomic revolutio
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
I think gwern's point (whose opinion on deep learning I respect a lot more than his on genetics) is that GPT-3 is nearly not the end of the story. OpenAI released a GPT pretty much every year and each one is a spectacular improvement o
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
>Like the genomics revolution where a few far-sighted seers extrapolated that the necessary n for GWASes would increase exponentially & deliver powerful PGSes soon, while sober experts wrung their hands over “missing heritability” &a
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
Well if the paper made it to Cell at least two other people in the field are convinced.
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
>They were different species and any argument to the contrary rests on adherence to a rigid definition of species not even accepted by all biologists, let alone anthropologists. There is no single definition of species. People who study
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
At least 17Mbp (vs. ~50Mbp in Eurasians)
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
There's no evidence that any of the things mentioned came from SneerClub. As far as I know the original doxxing came from some alt-right dude with mental issues on tumblr who thought he was shadowbanned and posted in response to a SA r
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
Obligatory inconvergent plug, one of the titans of generative art: https://inconvergent.net/
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
The distinction between Neanderthals, Denisovans and Homo sapiens sapiens is more or less a legacy from a time where we didn't know how fuzzy the definition of 'species' was. For all intents and purposes all three are the s
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
>Analyses of their genomes showed that they contributed genetically to present-day people outside sub-Saharan Africa This is wrong. Recent analyses ( https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30059-3 ) hav
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
...at an 8% conversion rate, plus a $4.50 fee. Not really appealing unless you're moving large quantities of drugs.
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
>In a year of historic ironies, here’s another one: that it was the decent, reasonable, and well-meaning Cade Metz, rather than any of the SneerClubbers Okay so what's with the obsession with a niche subreddit whose sole purpose is
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
Ah, I get it. In a way, the Pioneer Fund is more of a charity.
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
I'm sorry, am I supposed to emphathize with a multimillionaire best-seller author who, instead of enjoying her wealth in some yacht somewhere (or whatever it is rich people do), decided to spend her free time riling up some trans peopl
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
We live in a prison because some folks are doing a historical reckoning about Columbus' past exactions?
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
What do these controversial opinions have to do with the NYT writing a piece about Scott's early warnings about covid, and Scott's assessment that it would damage his relationship with his patients? Are you arguing that warning ev
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
Yeah whenever people on here allude to 'what you can't say' it usually boils down to the same few very specific ideas, none of which are particularly secret, original or new. Hell, if you're a tenured professor, billiona
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
Okay so you're saying the NYT is silencing Scott by threatening to publish a hit piece about his early warning about covid? And if he didn't post that, his relationship with his patients wouldn't have been jeopardized by havi
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
What's your point? 'Think before you speak' and 'speech has consequences' isn't exactly a new notion. Under a throwaway account on here I just write whatever pops up in my mind, when I co-author a paper under m
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
I don't get your point. People are going to roast Scott because he got things right about covid? What does this have to do with his relationship with his patients?
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
Okay but what does this have to do with the thread? Scott isn't being silenced, he's shutting down his blog out of concern that his relationship with his patients may be jeopardized if they could look him up on the NYT. (Whether h
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
Lots of words and vagueness without much of a point (other than someone really didn't like being called a grifter on twitter dot com, I guess?). After reading the entire piece I have no idea what the author is really alluding to, and t
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
Sure, and how does this not describe out-of-field tech workers and PhD havers pontificating over a bunch of questions where their job and/or reputation isn't on the line? I see plenty of people on here doing it in my field, and a
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
HN doesn't like Taleb because he dunks on a demographic particularly prevalent on here: well-educated laymen, or the less charitable 'intellectuals yet idiots'. I'd be lying if I didn't also feel targeted by him b
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
The main issue I've had with SO, which while anecdotal seems to reflect the sentiment of a lot of people on here whenever the subject is brought up, is that it's infected with the YX problem. Now you guys probably know the XY prob
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
There are 'heroin alternatives' that people switch to in order to treat their addiction - mostly substances that act on the same receptors but aren't as addictive. Whether they are all cheap, legal, well-known and/or eas
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
My (admittedly anecdotal) experience with taxing an addictive/harmful thing "for people's own good" is that it just results in said people cutting their budget to afford the tax, making their life worse overall. This ran
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
Seeing how identical individuals from literally the same cell line in an exactly identical and controlled environment sometimes give different results I don't think you can ever achieve 'perfect controls' anyway. The solution
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
Disclaimer: haven't seen the video (I never click any video link, sorry), but I did read the text links provided in the thread. That said: one of the big reason to use mice as animal models is that we've obtained a bunch of pure-b
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
Yeah marketing something widely known to make it palatable and "provide liability" isn't new. See e.g. Scott Alexander's piece on literal fish oil: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/15/fis

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