stanford_labrat

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by stanford_labrat 27d ago
hilarious. i also made a pivot to life sciences from a hard math field and my experience was the exact same. i make more money trading options and have way more fun! in a way - it is "real" science in a way whereas the modern Life
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by stanford_labrat 1mo ago
yeah, especially given that the bulk of that is supposedly Anthropic which is just paper gains that could evaporate when traded publicly. everyone's a genius in a bull market, my fund is up 145% ytd after the big 50% drawdown this June
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by stanford_labrat 2mo ago
Well right now this would be highly implausible (still possible though). But what I garner is that AI/robotics led wet lab work is in progress. And hacking the AI running the wet lab to make a virus is definitely plausible as that seem
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by stanford_labrat 3mo ago
impressive to me, but sadly i feel a little misleading since this is only the data-science part of life sciences. every few weeks though i test claude and chatgpt on their scientific reasoning and it has definitely improved over time. in my
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by stanford_labrat 3mo ago
i'm very late but i just wanted to give you kudos for a succinct yet spot-on comment on the state of funding. you captured everything i've been trying to put into words and failing miserably at.
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by stanford_labrat 3mo ago
the recent drama about science funding to me highlights one of the main problems with our grant-based distribution system: which is that it is unsurprisingly very frail to fast-moving changes in government and society at large. science as a
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by stanford_labrat 5mo ago
The stem cell field is also quirky. IMO it is one of the most cutthroat, competitive, ruthless fields of life sciences that is new enough in history to still have a bunch of pioneers fighting to be the figurative Oppenheimer. One PI’s fraud
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by stanford_labrat 6mo ago
> They're in a sticky spot where their most successful customer is one that they will never see another dime from, and there's not really a way around it. naive question: why has no one made an app with the reverse incentive st
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by stanford_labrat 6mo ago
sadly no, this is not a thing and it's critically needed. top on my list of things to do if i were a billionaire: launch an institute for the sole purpose of reproducing other's findings.
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by stanford_labrat 6mo ago
the problem is two-fold in my opinion. firstly, there are basically no legal repercussions for scientific misconduct (e.g. falsifying data, fake images, etc.). most individuals who are caught doing this get either 1) a slap on the wrist i
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by stanford_labrat 7mo ago
sadly it looks like seanhunter was correct, shame.
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by stanford_labrat 7mo ago
every few months i like to ask chatgpt to do the "thinking" part of my job (scientist) and see how the responses stack up. at the beginning 2022 it was useless because the output was garbage (hallucinations and fake data). nowaday
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by stanford_labrat 7mo ago
i am very glad to see others (presumably non-scientists) in this thread dunking on the false paradigm that "peer review = true". anyone who peddles this notion is naive or a moron. while the author is correct that the for-profit p
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by stanford_labrat 7mo ago
some added context (both my parents are/were in the Foreign Service): your location is assigned based on a competitive bidding system where you select from a list of cities to do your next tour. some countries/cities are obviously
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by stanford_labrat 8mo ago
the small molecule is SW033291, papers are required to publish this specific detail but second order news sources tend to avoid the technical details.
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by stanford_labrat 8mo ago
at the dissolution and decentralization of empires feudalism in it's many forms historically seems to be the most common outcome. i would say that we firmly live in the American Empire with techno-feudalistic tendencies, but a historic
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by stanford_labrat 8mo ago
my own institution launched an internal investigation into a professor who i know for a fact committed fraud and was "unable to prove intentional wrongdoing". academic institutions have taken the "this never happens because w
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by stanford_labrat 8mo ago
the greatest travesty of modern science is that fraud is not illegal. in every other industry that i can imagine, purposely committing fraud has been made illegal. this is not the case in modern science, and in my opinion the primary driver
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by stanford_labrat 10mo ago
I think about this quite a lot. I’ve come to the conclusion that in the past acting with integrity was rewarded and lacking integrity was punished. In 2025 it seems integrity is meaningless, “winning” is all that matters. Particularly, you
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by stanford_labrat 10mo ago
chatgpt making targeted "recommendations" (read ads) is a nightmare. especially if it's subtle and not disclosed.
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by stanford_labrat 1y ago
My portfolio was +94% in 2024 and +52% in the past 6 months (I took a massive haircut thanks to April's tariff saga and by having biblical levels of greed...lesson learned). How do I declare for the inaugural Hedge Fund Draft?
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by stanford_labrat 1y ago
yup, anecdotally the majority of postdocs these days are internationals who are willing to work 60+ hour weeks on $50k a year, for the infinitesimal chance to land a R1 tenure-track faculty position. americans have no interest in getting a
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by stanford_labrat 1y ago
Painkillers like ibuprofen are NSAIDs which inhibit the enzyme COX1/2, reducing prostaglandin production. Prostaglandins are an inflammatory hormone that do a variety of things, but specifically PGE2 plays a role in muscle stem cell ac
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by stanford_labrat 1y ago
I've always thought of these VC fueled expeditions to nowhere as the opposite. Wealth transfer from the owning class to the middle class seeing as a lot of these ventures crash and burn with nothing to show for it. Except for the found
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by stanford_labrat 1y ago
I’m sorry who is who in this analogy. Because if internet/tech is the gun then the clear solution is “not giving your children guns”. Bad modern parents just give their kids an iPad.
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by stanford_labrat 1y ago
On the topic of hammers: "if you don't hold the hammer at exactly 2.6cm from the end of the handle and strike the nail with 6N of force at an angle of 58 degrees then of course you won't get a good nail strike into the wood.
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by stanford_labrat 1y ago
Just like AI seems like it's being used as a convenient scapegoat for the layoffs and trimming following the end of ZIRP, now we see it also being used to blame for the failures of our modern education system. Mostly which are that our
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by stanford_labrat 1y ago
Love this quote and tell it to friends often. I strive to be the clever and lazy officer. It was also eye opening to meet the first hardworking+stupid individual of my career and see just how much damage they really could do.
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by stanford_labrat 1y ago
this is not a good measure because attainment is measured in graduation and not academic standards. the standards HAVE dropped and kids are forced through with relatively meaningless degrees.
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by stanford_labrat 1y ago
i think the total reduction was about 2/3 if memory serves? so 1 in 3 is that number you'd be looking at for "actually useful". heavy air quotes on that.

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