skwb

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by skwb 2mo ago
I did my PhD funded for 3 years off of NIH and the remaining year and so off of corporate research grants. I really valued the fact that I was working on an industrial project, and could see it come to life with real funding and real backin
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by skwb 6mo ago
Very interesting! Is there any consideration to making a navidrome plugin?
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by skwb 9mo ago
Since getting laid off in May and failing to find any jobs for ML in healthcare, I am working with a friend I met during my MPH to start a boutique consultancy to help hospitals deploy AI / health technology.
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by skwb 1y ago
The HackerNews hug of death
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by skwb 1y ago
Yes but you have: 1. specific explicit training and certifications 2. someone to yell at and who can be fired for non-performance
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by skwb 1y ago
It's hard to describe, but it's felt like LLMs have completely sucked the entire energy out of computer vision. Like... I know CVPR still happens and there's great research that comes out of it, but almost every single job po
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by skwb 1y ago
I'm a avid (hobbyist) photographer and I've noticed a TON of genuinely good 3rd party lenses (primarily Sigma and Tamron) and even 'fine' lenses at rock bottom prices (Viltrox, 7Artisans, TTArtisans, etc) for like $250.
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by skwb 2y ago
The fact that courts do strike down admins on violating the APA does, in fact, make it illegal.
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by skwb 2y ago
> Also, what would be illegal about the change? At the *very* least you should be following the administrative rules act (requiring you to solicit 45 days for comments by effected parties) before making such a dramatic change in policy.
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by skwb 2y ago
Completely off topic to the actual article - but... I really get irked a lot by seeing (overly obvious) ai generated images being used for stock photos. One of the reasons my wife and I still subscribe to a couple of newspapers is that the
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by skwb 2y ago
I don't disagree with anything you're saying necessarily, but a lot of people are conflating my statement of IRB exemption with having an explicit IRB authorization. I guess more to my point is people seem to be failing to underst
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by skwb 2y ago
I have published multiple papers in peer review journals where we were not covered by IRBs. That is not to say other research ethics standards don't exist, but that IRBs are simply one portion of the healthcare research regulations.
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by skwb 2y ago
I've worked in MRI AI both in academic and non-academic centers, including technology that has received 510K clearance. I admit it sounds pedantic, but I'm not discussing IRB *exemptions* that are sometimes required by an institut
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by skwb 2y ago
I just pointed out the numerous exemptions to IRBs for research. People can literally make a research career and never touch IRBs. The point I'm trying to make is that the blog is so narrowly defined that it doesn't match the real
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by skwb 2y ago
I mean tons of retrospective studies are literally "IRB exempt" (and highlighted as such in their methods) where no explicit consent is required or needed. Physicians doing case reviews don't need consent of the patient this
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by skwb 2y ago
My wife and I went to Tofino (on Vancouver) this last summer where you can rent a boat for a tour of the coastal black bears. Very highly recommend it.
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by skwb 3y ago
Use python and write my results in a CSV that I quickly import into R and do my fancy stats. Tbf python's stats implementations can be garbage; the last time I checked you can't do multiple levels for hierarchical regression.
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by skwb 3y ago
In one of their articles they claim that the microbiome is stable over 15 years, but this is categorized as "unpublished work" which leaves me with a large sense of doubt. I don't mind research that is in preliminary stages (
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by skwb 3y ago
I take very significant issue with the fact their appendix A and B do not link to the original literature. When I was skimming the pitch deck, I thought they had done the experiments themselves, but it just looks like they copy pasted the r
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by skwb 3y ago
Vista AI | Full Stack Developer | Hybrid in Palo Alto, but also open to remote (US) | Full Time I am a ML engineer at Vista AI, helping out in the recruiting process. Vista AI is a venture backed company dedicated to making advanced magneti
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by skwb 3y ago
I live in the Seattle area now, and I find it hilarious that the public transportation infrastructure around Climate Pledge Arena (which Amazon bought the naming rights for) is horrendously bad. My wife and I looked into taking the subway +
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by skwb 5y ago
this is where being socially awkward helps :)
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by skwb 5y ago
"cardiac MRI which is not always widely available". This is mainly because the views of the heart are super hard to get (exams are done mostly at specialized centers like Stanford)! I actually ended up doing my PhD on automating t
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by skwb 5y ago
FWIW I have seen lots of trash in Nature and Science.
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by skwb 5y ago
Nobel peace prize winners can been frankly weirdly wrong on these topics when they overextend from their own specific domain. Think back to the AIDs crisis, where Peter Duesberg, an award winning molecular biologist, thought that AIDs could
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by skwb 5y ago
> Ralph Baric invented modern coronavirology. He was Zhengli Shi's mentor, and published frequently with her in the past. He signed Jesse Bloom's and Alina Chan's letter in Science calling for further investigation of the
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by skwb 5y ago
FWIW I'm going to defer to the virology experts on this one. I know when I am out of my depth, and when to seek expert advise. https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/13942570285586391...
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by skwb 5y ago
The "viable" in the "Theories of accidental release from a lab and zoonotic spillover both remain viable" is doing a lot of legwork there.
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by skwb 5y ago
Did University of Minnesota have any type of IRB? I sorta hope this can be the "come to Jesus moment" for academic CS to implement safeguards (such as IRBs) to prevent harm.
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by skwb 5y ago
100%. PPI needs to hire a tech policy director whose knowledge can expand outside of section 230.

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