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by timr 2y ago
So far, there there are multiple replies to my comment arguing with me about something I didn't say (i.e. "the cited studies don't have anything to do with making mice transgender"). So yes, both sides are so eager to sc
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by timr 2y ago
...I didn't say they did? Not sure why you're arguing with me. I just said that there's no "confusion" between these things and transgenic mice.
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by timr 2y ago
Our political discourse is especially stupid right now, and it is bi-partisan.
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by timr 2y ago
There's absolutely no problem with research on transgenic mice. Certain groups have been trying to claim that the US president confused "transgenic" and "trans(sexual|gender)" in his speech last week, but that is in
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by timr 2y ago
I had a similar experience -- took physics at a community college when I was in high school. The 'up-side' of the overproduction of PhDs is that many people from elite backgrounds end up teaching at community colleges. The only ne
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by timr 2y ago
Yeah, there's a physical copy of my dissertation somewhere in the library system of my old school [1]. On a whim, I went to find it a few years after graduating, and it was (is?) in a special section of the library where there's n
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by timr 2y ago
I get what you're saying, but later in life I went to university, where I had access to better libraries, for which the quality and quantity of information is (to this day) greater than you can obtain on the internet [1]. Things like
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by timr 2y ago
You're focusing on the trees and missing the forest. Please go back and re-read my original comment. Small waste: the few hours/days of lost productivity while offices are re-opened. Big waste: the empty offices that were sitting
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by timr 2y ago
> This waste could have been avoided, is the thing, and anyone who cared about running and knew how to run an organization well, might have. Sure, by not having the vacant offices in the first place. Different ways to achieve that goal i
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by timr 2y ago
> An organization allegedly about reducing waste is creating it instead The point you missed in the parent comment was that this is temporary . I don't have a strong opinion on the matter, but if the way we discover that government
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by timr 2y ago
Yeeeeah, he says that "they're quite safe", but it's in the context of a wider conversation focused on people with metabolic syndrome. I wouldn't be eager to extrapolate from that comment to "let's put thi
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by timr 2y ago
He's praising them for people with clear metabolic syndrome, and I'm reading between the lines as someone with prior knowledge. As a simple example, while it's probably good to inhibit gluconeogenesis in people with elevated
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by timr 2y ago
They might be branded that way, but that's not what they are. They have dramatic effects on the metabolic pathway and insulin response that need to be carefully considered if you're not actually diabetic. I recommend that you list
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by timr 2y ago
"Irreparable harm"... IF AND ONLY IF the case is decided in favor of the plaintiffs, and there is determined to be harm from the behavior. Neither of which has actually occurred yet. All the judge has done is to decree that: a)
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by timr 2y ago
You remember that, because it was last Friday. It was also discussed in this article. Judges of different political persuasion are ruling differently on the same issue (in different cases), and the headline is misleading -- the opinion of a
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by timr 2y ago
It's the opinion of a single judge, before a trial has occurred. It has some meaning, but just last week a different judge said the opposite in a related case (as the article notes), so clearly, opinions will vary. Must we have blari
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by timr 2y ago
I don't know, but this temporary restraining order doesn't tell you anything new about the question.
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by timr 2y ago
Yes. That's what I said -- one of the requirements of a temporary order like this, ahead of trial is that the potential damages are irreversible. It's not a judgment on the case itself.
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by timr 2y ago
Fourth option: the articles are basically flamebait, as this one happens to be. Nothing of substance has occurred here; a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order for a couple of weeks until the case can move forward.
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by timr 2y ago
> We CANT test you effectively on your programming skillbase. So we test on a more relevant job skill, like can you have a real conversation (with a whiteboard to help) about how to solve the problem. Except, that's not what happens
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by timr 2y ago
Deleted because article has been flagged down.
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by timr 2y ago
Inappropriate tools are always an option? I can cut a cake with a jackhammer, but.... Anyway, like I said, there are certainly good applications of LLMs, and this is probably one? I wouldn't describe "do market research on prices&
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by timr 2y ago
> (1) that delta will decrease quickly Is your data pipeline o(n^3) in the number of tokens? If not, then no, it won't.
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by timr 2y ago
> I think an LLM would be great for "take this json and make it a pandas dataframe", but a lot less great for interact with this billing API to produce auditable payment tables. Yeah, it's great....so long as you don'
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by timr 2y ago
> If you then scale the setup up by 1000 (=> getting 5kg as expected value), then the variance scales to 1000^2 * 0.04 = 40000 g^2. They didn't "scale the setup". They made a small-scale measurement, then extrapolated f
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by timr 2y ago
You're talking about reduction in statistical variance due to replication of measurement (and then averaging). I'm talking about what happens when they extrapolate from that value by a huge factor (which is what they've don
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by timr 2y ago
To their credit, they do discuss this in the results. I suspect the reviewers had the same concerns. Their response is not especially convincing, IMO, but they do at least discuss it.
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by timr 2y ago
I couldn't begin to tell you [1]. It's not a 25% variation, once you've extrapolated from the samples by 10,000x (or whatever). The 25% inter-sample error was on a few replicas of teeny tiny measurements. The post-extrapolati
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by timr 2y ago
This paper came up as a pre-print. You can't make the extrapolation that the headline is making - they're using gas chromatography to estimate quantities from 1-2mg samples, and then extrapolating to get to these scary sounding wh
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by timr 2y ago
Right. So, the basic principle is: if you think you're doing something valorious and can rationalize the result, you can ruin the lives of whomever you like. This doesn't seem to be a huge leap from the rationalization for "d

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