armedgorilla

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by armedgorilla 14d ago
A theory behind busting trusts is that monopolies stifle innovation, and thus growth, in the long term. When it comes to "competing with China" (which, to be naive, I'm not sure the meaning of), many nationally competing firm
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by armedgorilla 1mo ago
From Moby-Dick, about spending three years at sea (Chapter 35): """There you stand, lost in the infinite series of the sea, with nothing ruffled but the waves. The tranced ship indolently rolls; the drowsy trade winds blow; e
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by armedgorilla 7mo ago
Thanks John. Neat to see you on the HN front page. One LLM feature I've been trying to teach Alltrna is scraping out data from supplemental tables (or the figures themselves) and regraphing them to see if we come to the same conclusion
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by armedgorilla 8mo ago
You know who viewed the writing of history as political entertainment? Ancient Romans! In SPQR, Mary Beard elaborates that much of what we "know" about ancient Rome was recorded by men with political projects. Sometimes it was to
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by armedgorilla 1y ago
I'm in the same boat. Since they decided to bundle in their AI features with their core product (at only a 30% price increase!), I've been looking for an exist route. But finding a single collaborative text editor + database desig
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by armedgorilla 1y ago
For both workflow languages, they are both better for building a singular reproducible workflow that can be published with an academic paper. For us, I'm looking for a workflow language that can treat the pipeline as a testable, deploy
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by armedgorilla 1y ago
At a previous Biotech, we used Cromwell/WDL because the DSL was the most intuitive to our bioinformatics scientists. But seeing as that doesn't work as nicely on AWS (and is also supported by an organization that is imploding), we
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by armedgorilla 1y ago
I run a small software team at a small biotech working on diseases with small patient populations, and the answer is yes x 1000. The issue is that in drug companies, software isn't the product, so SWEs will never make as much money nor
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by armedgorilla 1y ago
Fortunately we have troves of her handwritten documents; all of her poems were first printed posthumously. To me, she's using the punctuation as pacing or tonal markers as opposed to ligatures ("I'll clutch— and clutch— &quot