currymj

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by currymj 2mo ago
OTC decongestants that actually work, some useful info for those of us with bad sinuses. - pseudoephedrine taken orally. - phenylephrine, but only as nasal spray, not if you take it orally. - Oxymetazoline (Afrin) nasal spray and others in
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by currymj 3mo ago
unfortunately everyone is now doing this with LLMs, it actually feels like it might be on its way to being a negative signal, as strange as that sounds.
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by currymj 3mo ago
do you know why residencies value the number of research items? Why would having a large number of garbage papers be seen as a positive signal at all? Attendings and existing residents are consulted in the ranking process, they are picking
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by currymj 3mo ago
residencies have decided to outsource part of their hiring decisions to journal peer-review processes. so now for some submissions, editors and reviewers are not actually doing scientific peer review, but rather screening job candidates for
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by currymj 3mo ago
the ideas have been worked out by people more sophisticated than me, good encyclopedia article on the topic: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computation-physicalsyste...
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by currymj 3mo ago
this paper makes a lot of modest, carefully hedged, and reasonable claims. in its tone however it's written as if it's a brutal takedown of... somebody's perspective. It's hard to tell whose or what perspective exactly.
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by currymj 4mo ago
for a truly profound and powerful buzzword, you can even honestly and accurately call what you've done "neurosymbolic AI"
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by currymj 5mo ago
I believe you, but if you are ever in a position of authority, please don't expect anyone else to function well on 4 hours of sleep.
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by currymj 7mo ago
it has been known to happen. For example, spearheaded by Knuth, the community effectively abandoned the Journal of Algorithms and replaced with with ACM Transactions on Algorithms. however it's difficult. a big factor is that professor
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by currymj 7mo ago
On the whole you should rarely read papers, you want to read a whole literature in an area. Academics embedded in the field can do this easily. Academics outside of an area know to do this, and to bounce things off an expert to make sure yo
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by currymj 7mo ago
it varies enormously by field. in CS you will have intense grind weeks around conference deadlines and a more manageable but challenging pace of life otherwise. in wet lab science you live by the schedule set by your experiments, which ofte
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by currymj 7mo ago
if you think of it like a bond it’s pretty fantastic. coupon rate 3.5% and you got it at a giant discount to par even though it’s actually (according to this guy’s beliefs which proved correct) nearly certain to be repaid.
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by currymj 7mo ago
sometimes you can see them do this and sometimes you can see they just work through the problem in the reasoning tokens without invoking python.
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by currymj 7mo ago
sympy is good enough for typical uses. the user interface is worse but that doesn't matter to Claude. I imagine if you have some really weird symbolic or numeric integrals, Mathematica may have some highly sophisticated algorithms wher
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by currymj 7mo ago
there is some inevitable "insider trading" in commodities markets. for example if you're a giant agricultural company, and you want to hedge the price of soybeans, you have some extremely relevant insider information about th
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by currymj 7mo ago
I have rented an apartment in Zürich (a hotel-room sized studio as you say, though with high quality construction and amenities). it was indeed pretty frustrating to go through the apartment search, but it is possible to rent housing, as ev
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by currymj 7mo ago
Switzerland is like this and is also a real democracy. Although the food is not as good.
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by currymj 8mo ago
Anthropic already was using "Clawd" branding as the name for the little pixelated orange Claude Code mascot. So they probably have a trademark even on that spelling.
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by currymj 8mo ago
this would be a good development. seems very far off.
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by currymj 8mo ago
this is probably a net negative as there are many very good scientists with not very strong English skills. the early years of LLMs (when they were good enough to correct grammar but not enough to generate entire slop papers) were an equali
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by currymj 8mo ago
the earlier list of ICLR papers had way more egregious examples. Those were taken from the list of submissions not accepted papers however.
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by currymj 8mo ago
the harsher the punishment, the more due process required. i don't think there are any AI detection tools that are sufficiently reliable that I would feel comfortable expelling a student or ending someone's career based on their o
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by currymj 8mo ago
Especially for your first NeurIPS paper as a PhD student, getting one published is extremely lucrative. Most big tech PhD intern job postings have NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR/etc. first author paper as a de facto requirement to be cons
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by currymj 9mo ago
I recommend actually clicking through and reading some of these papers. Most of those I spot checked do not give an impression of high quality. Not just AI writing assistance but many seem to have AI-generated "ideas", often plaus
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by currymj 9mo ago
the papers themselves are publicly available online too. Most of the ones I spot-checked give the extremely strong impression of AI generation. not just some hallucinated citations, and not just the writing. in many cases the actual purport
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by currymj 10mo ago
bigram-trigram language models (with some smoothing tricks to allow for out-of-training-set generalization) were state of the art for many years. Ch. 3 of Jurafsky's textbook (which is modern and goes all the way to LLMs, embeddings et
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by currymj 11mo ago
Steam Deck is Arch-based, that's most likely why.
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by currymj 11mo ago
i would like to understand what people get, or think they get, out of putting a completely AI-generated survey paper on arXiv. Even if AI writes the paper for you, it's still kind of a pain in the ass to go through the submission proce
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by currymj 11mo ago
if you run into anyone who is serious about the "fake Nobel" complaint, just ask them why they have such a high opinion of taking money from an arms dealer, and such a low opinion of taking money from a public institution in one o
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by currymj 11mo ago
for many types of scientific computing, there's a case to be made it is the best language available. often this type of computing would be in scientific/engineering organizations and not in most software companies. this is its bes

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