contemporary343

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by contemporary343 9d ago
"I was shown a prompt and told the internal research model had simply been given the problem statement. Levent had been told by Sebastien “very little human input” had been used. This turned out not to be true. Over the course of the c
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by contemporary343 9d ago
"I was shown a prompt and told the internal research model had simply been given the problem statement. Levent had been told by Sebastien “very little human input” had been used. This turned out not to be true. Over the course of the c
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Evaluating the impact of USAID defunding on mortality up to 2030(thelancet.com)
9 points by contemporary343 1mo ago|0 comments
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Intelligence is not the main bottleneck(writingruxandrabio.com)
5 points by contemporary343 2mo ago|1 comments
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by contemporary343 3mo ago
If you haven't read it already, it's really worth digesting the arguments Vannevar Bush made regarding funding basic science in 1945 (Science: The Endless Frontier) which resulted in the NSF as we know it being founded: https:&#x
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by contemporary343 3mo ago
I think it's also a way to reduce funding to universities (which are politically disfavored), since other things like arbitrary reductions to indirect costs didn't work. It also defies both congressional will in the appropriations
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by contemporary343 1y ago
A prescient document that I have come back to many times in my own scientific career. It is striking how little those in power now seem to actually understand what was so clear in 1945: "To create more jobs we must make new and better
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by contemporary343 1y ago
Actually overheads for many universities were sometimes higher in the late 1990s (and there were some minor scandals associated with this). And remind me again, what fraction of our GDP is indirect costs to universities? (< 0.1%). And wh
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by contemporary343 1y ago
In light of all of their actions, I really, genuinely do not understand what DOGE team members' mental model of the world is and what they view their purpose as. None of these actions align with any publicly stated goals, or even the p
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Trump appointee details DOGE's haphazard dismantling of USAID(lubbockonline.com)
19 points by contemporary343 1y ago|0 comments
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Doge seeks to cancel lease on nuclear waste storage facility(talkingpointsmemo.com)
58 points by contemporary343 2y ago|23 comments
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Q1 GDP Forecast -1.5%(atlantafed.org)
8 points by contemporary343 2y ago|1 comments
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Abrupt USAID contract terminations costing lives(nytimes.com)
15 points by contemporary343 2y ago|1 comments
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by contemporary343 2y ago
Definitely seems like a drug problem to me. He seems strung out of his mind if this article's sourcing is correct: https://www.wired.com/story/katie-stephen-miller-elon-musk-t...
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by contemporary343 2y ago
“We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services,” they wrote. “We will not lend our expertise to carry out or legitimize DOGE’s
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Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections(krebsonsecurity.com)
18 points by contemporary343 2y ago|2 comments
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Musk's DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS(washingtonpost.com)
122 points by contemporary343 2y ago|39 comments
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Mass federal layoffs hit veterans particularly hard(rollingstone.com)
17 points by contemporary343 2y ago|1 comments
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by contemporary343 2y ago
Are you familiar with how organizations have annual budgets? Doing it with zero notice in the middle of a fiscal year will be chaos. This is purely an attack. Notice how no one is going after the F&A (indirect) rates for DOD R&D con
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by contemporary343 2y ago
The worst part is that it is immediate and retroactive to ongoing grants. This will immediately cause every single academic and medical research center to have an unsustainable deficit. It will simply cost too much to actually have research
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DOGE staffer resigns over racist posts(wsj.com)
145 points by contemporary343 2y ago|105 comments
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by contemporary343 2y ago
This is truly unconscionable and completely indefensible. All the Musk defenders have to realize that mass firing and zero base budgeting is fine and well for a private company like Twitter. But not for governments. Even if you don't b
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The cool technologies that could protect cities from dangerous heat(nature.com)
4 points by contemporary343 2y ago|0 comments
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by contemporary343 2y ago
This is a great entrepreneurial story too. Colin began this company out of his PhD research at Stanford a decade ago. A long, steady grind and finally out to production. Kudos to him and his team - a very rare accomplishment, and inspiring
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David Sacks, Chamath all in for Trump in 2024(puck.news)
1 points by contemporary343 2y ago|1 comments
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by contemporary343 2y ago
Worth remembering that ~2/3 of U.S. students in college are in public colleges and universities, not private ones like Vanderbilt. Prices have gone up there too (especially since state governments subsidize their public universities si
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by contemporary343 2y ago
I’m really not sure why this got flagged. It seemed like a well sourced and technology-focused article. Independent of this particular conflict, such automated decision making has long been viewed as inevitable. If even a small fraction of
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'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza(972mag.com)
1418 points by contemporary343 2y ago|1433 comments
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by contemporary343 3y ago
If you insulate it in vacuum with an IR transparent window (unfortunately $$$) you can get substantially cooler than ambient: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13729
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by contemporary343 3y ago
We've been pretty satisfied with Room and Board furniture, which is typically made in the US. While a bit more expensive it's not really that different from the $3K garbage price point and seems to last (so far).

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