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by manimino 4y ago
Promethease (1) is a great site for doing this. You upload a genome (which they promise to delete), and download an HTML interactive report. The report spans thousands of studies, and it will tell you about any rare genetic disorders or int
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by manimino 4y ago
I have used Nebula. Did a group buy of the kits with several friends to obfuscate shipping address. Signed up via a protonmail address, and accessed the site only through VPN. Then deleted my data after downloading all of it. I believe it w
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by manimino 4y ago
Yep. Standard clickbait formula, stir up emotions, add no new information. So easy an AI could do it.
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by manimino 4y ago
Which is a bit surprising, given that RL is the most likely path to the scary AI future everyone loves to blog about.
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by manimino 4y ago
An article criticizing the US with a .cn domain. Chinese propaganda.
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by manimino 4y ago
"Average % Revenue growth in pre-seed companies" is a very noisy metric. Example: Suppose you had one company doing $10 in sales a year, now it's doing $100 per year. 900% growth! When you average 900% with the rest, it will
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by manimino 4y ago
An AI model that can only repeat its training data would be no better than normal text search. AI models are useful precisely because they can interpolate - make guesses that incorporate information from many examples. And this interpolatio
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by manimino 4y ago
All these AIs are doing is sampling from some continuous space. Every answer is a "hallucination". AIs are useful because many (most?) of those hallucinations happen to be useful.
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by manimino 4y ago
Selling it as "free up the parents to do other things" is not going to fly. But enhancing the baby's experience or learning is fine. An AI-powered rocker that plays soothing music till the baby sleeps would be great. People a
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by manimino 4y ago
If you rented out that house, what would you charge? Would you charge 3k, and lose 2k / month? That doesn't make sense; so how are landlords surviving in your market then?
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by manimino 4y ago
No opinion on whether the US did it. But Hersh's essay indicates there were last-minute changes to the detonation method. That adds risk, which could have manifested as failure of some detonations.
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by manimino 4y ago
When the evidence is thin, it's best to avoid committing to a belief either way, despite the temptation. Related Paul Graham essay, "Keep your identity small": http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
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by manimino 4y ago
Apple hasn't cut employees so far. But nothing is stopping it from announcing layoffs tomorrow.
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by manimino 4y ago
If you want zsh that acts like fish, try "fizsh".
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by manimino 4y ago
This is the right question to ask. Caffeine causes mood swings, anxiety, and poor sleep. After over a decade of regular caffeine use, I stopped it entirely last year. The benefits were tremendous. The "decaf" subreddit is full of
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by manimino 4y ago
Referential humor should stay on Reddit. It's chuckle-worthy, sure, but this forum is one of the few places we have for serious discussion. When people upvote jokes, the high-value expertise people freely share here gets drowned out, a
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by manimino 4y ago
Laying off X% of your staff can be required to raise capital. Gotta show the investors you aren't being frivolous. You can, of course, hire the same people back (assuming they are still willing to work there).
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by manimino 4y ago
Sounds right. Around 2.2 million, your money starts to generate more income than your labor can, unless you have an exceptionally high paying job.
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by manimino 4y ago
Businesses solve the problems people have right now. It is good at scratching itches. Academics solve long-term problems. They do not need to chase profits, so they can tackle bigger ideas. The risk is higher, but the rewards to humanity as
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by manimino 4y ago
This is one of the great disconnects between computer scientists and biologists. Computers are man-made, and fundamentally knowable - answers will be definitively, provably, right or wrong. Biology is different. Sure, at a molecule level, y
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by manimino 4y ago
People often refer to the Scandinavian countries or Japan as examples of low ethnic diversity and high trust. Are there any quantitative studies on this topic? It would be a stronger argument if a clear trend was observable over many countr
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by manimino 4y ago
It is a fair point though - there's no utility in training an openly available model from scratch. Finetuning is far more practical.
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by manimino 4y ago
That description just sounds like regular news and social media.
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by manimino 4y ago
I enjoyed doing this through the Coursera deep learning specialization: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning The lectures take you through each major paper, then you implement the paper in the homewor
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by manimino 4y ago
It's not really that binary, though - job or death. There's an awful lot of space in between the two. There's this conveyer-belt view of life: we are supposed to go directly from birth to school to job to kids to bigger job t
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by manimino 4y ago
LANL definitely needs and uses generalist engineers. I interned there as one, many years back. Standard CRUD-app stuff to help the lab do its main goal of nuclear stockpile stewardship. But it will help if you enjoy research culture. The lo
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by manimino 4y ago
It's hard to remember now, but the US's war on Iraq was declared with widespread popular support. Many people today seem to feel that Taiwan and Ukraine are interests worth using military force to defend. I do wonder how well that
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by manimino 4y ago
There is a lovely game called ELIZA that is about using chatbot AIs for therapy. It is also about tech ethics and startup culture. It's made by Zachtronics. It presents a realistic vision of AI-driven therapy, and leaves it up to the p
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by manimino 4y ago
This is a fantastic idea. I would buy it for my kids so they could learn to manage money.
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by manimino 4y ago
This depends heavily on how good you are at setting boundaries. How good are you at saying no to your boss and teammates? Depending on culture (yours and the company's) this can feel impossible. Being unable to say "no" is al

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