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by gaurav_v 2y ago
Which school was this, and when did you attend?
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by gaurav_v 5y ago
Trisk Bio | Software Eng, Hardware Eng, generalists, ops | London, England | Full-time | ONSITE We are looking for: hardware and software generalists; general generalists; mechanical, fluidic, and biochemical engineers; biologists; bioproce
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by gaurav_v 5y ago
There is a very good book on the origins of life on earth by Eric Smith, called "The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth." Here's a YouTube talk with some of the arguments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cwvj
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by gaurav_v 8y ago
Gallistel wrote a book 'Memory and the Computational Brain,' in which he argues that neural storage and computation via synaptic strengthening alone is implausible, and that the brain must have a real read/write memory. He p
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by gaurav_v 8y ago
Indeed. There is even stronger recent evidence for the role of RNA in intracellular storage of behavioral memories: http://www.eneuro.org/content/5/3/ENEURO.0038-18.2018 Not to mention quite strong but now f
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by gaurav_v 8y ago
Indeed. Eva is a spectacular scientist, and one of the pioneers of this field.
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by gaurav_v 8y ago
Yes! That is the paper I had in mind! Thanks.
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by gaurav_v 8y ago
I didn't downvote, but the reason is likely because your comment is off-topic. The parents are talking about experiences un-learning one-sided equality that they picked up programming before learning algebra; your comment is about pro
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by gaurav_v 8y ago
There was a recent interesting paper on the arXiv which argued that the ubiquity of small-world networks was vastly overstated. Can't find the paper anymore - did anyone else see this / have a link?
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by gaurav_v 8y ago
I did some accidental market research on Snap with my girlfriend's 9 year-old cousin this weekend. She had tons of snaps, but informed me that they were almost all blank images. She and her friends send each other these blank images t
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by gaurav_v 8y ago
Could you give some examples?
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by gaurav_v 8y ago
You have excluded the sentence which immediately follows his stated income: "The median-priced home in San Francisco costs $1.5 million, and a person needs an annual household income of $303,000 in order to afford the 20% down payment
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by gaurav_v 9y ago
Interesting paper. Do you work in the area? I'm working on proving that memories are in fact stored in genetic material, as was believed back in the 60s. Drop me an email (gauravvman at gmail) if you're interested in this kind o
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by gaurav_v 9y ago
You are of course correct. Unfortunately, the OPs suggestion that 'big data' is changing science has become the common belief in many fields, particularly the most prestigious. Several groups now operate under the protocol: coll
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by gaurav_v 9y ago
The Nature of Computation is really good.
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by gaurav_v 9y ago
I'm working on extending this work, now. For those of you interested in the history of memories outside of the brain, I would suggest reading the first chapter of 'The Golem: What Everyone Should Know About Science': http:&
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by gaurav_v 9y ago
"Scope of the concept of even baby integration of a function is much much larger, and OP is talking about that." The OP said the opposite, that differentiation is harder 'more finicky.' I agree that the concept of inte
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by gaurav_v 9y ago
More like `from a computational point of view.' Analytically, integration is much more difficult and richer than differentiation!
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by gaurav_v 9y ago
Not only that; in response controversy arising from the 2009 essay he explicitly stated that "It would be absurd to suggest that women’s votes will be taken away or that this would solve the political problems that vex us." See ad
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by gaurav_v 9y ago
He clarified that he didn't want to revoke rights to vote explicitly as an addendum to the essay (see bottom): https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio... Seems like an open and
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by gaurav_v 9y ago
There is a nice book about Carlson and his invention - 'Copies in Seconds.'
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by gaurav_v 9y ago
I broadly agree with you, but I think the issue is more subtle. Ambitious people will always work very hard; the danger of working hard is that it necessitates a degree of path-dependent myopia that can lead one to miss huge opportunities.
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by gaurav_v 12y ago
This article is not exactly like the others on the front page. Quanta magazine is in general extremely good science reporting. (It's an editorially independent branch of the Simons Foundation.) The title is sensationalized, but I fou
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by gaurav_v 12y ago
The best way to network in science is to be earnest and unafraid. Earnest in that you take a genuine interest in understanding (and not just undercutting) other people's work, and unafraid in that you're not afraid to email anyone
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by gaurav_v 12y ago
Model performance is discussed in their full paper, here: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/devisag...
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by gaurav_v 12y ago
I work in a 'top' neuroscience lab in which we study the nature of neural computations theoretically and experimentally, the kind of thing that you may consider Super Duper Really Serious attempts To Innovate. The things being dis
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by gaurav_v 13y ago
I work in an area tangential to MD; I would say that a list of 'experts' would include: DE Shaw, Benoit Roux, Vijay Pande, David Baker (and associated people in their labs). You say: I'm sure I can't just email these professors and say "hey
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by gaurav_v 15y ago
Googling the cosignatories names revelas that several work for Exxon. I don't see how the WSJ didn't consider this relevant information to disclose, instead presenting them only as 'distinguished scientists.'
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Little Red (Litigious) Shoes(nytimes.com)
2 points by gaurav_v 15y ago|0 comments
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The False Ideals of the Web(nytimes.com)
12 points by gaurav_v 15y ago|1 comments

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