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> LLM prose is annoyingly dense, and the useful information gets lost in a bunch of noise This is my biggest gripe with reading AI-generated text as well (ignoring the meta issue o…

> This feels like the early days of SEO over again There was a brief moment in the early Internet before it was all hyper-optimized... Until the parasites in the advertising indust…

> Over the last year, every Cursor/Claude/Codex project I've worked on devolves into shitty, grafted-on, duct-tape and bandaid'ed architecture I've noticed this pattern as well whe…

There's a reason games like Factorio or Exapunks are so popular among engineers! Especially if you get a little burned out and can't bring yourself to contribute to a side project,…

IMO, I don't think this will raise the bar for PhDs. In every field of science, PhD student research is largely incremental. Very rarely is a thesis groundbreaking. The point of it…

> minimize the amount of wait times between picking up people and taking them to their destination I wish elevators accounted for load. I've been to a couple of larger conferences …

Nah, people will just come up with different (probably broader) heuristics when reviewing. We have a past example of this in the US, too. Certain countries have historically had a …

> If you add a score/metric this incentivizes the wrong thing, Don't we already have all of these things because academia decided to use H-index as a metric for career impact?

It's about 30 years out of date, but there used to be the Jargon File - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File

I think it has more to do with the fact that there has to be some term to describe the concept of "model which has weights that are openly accessible" Like, that's just a logical t…

> People have tried to make businesses out of this stuff but it has rarely worked The only two startups I'm aware of who have managed to make compchem-as-a-service a viable busines…

> it appears computational chemistry is stuck in batch processing era I wouldn't call it "stuck," since it's one of the few fields where batch processing makes sense. You generally…

While they can, drones are still limited by physics. Sure, the aircraft can pull a ton of G's to defeat a missile or achieve a firing solution. Maybe it even succeeded at that. It …

> Meta didn't buy pants They also succeeded in the monumental task of making VR look boring. VR platforms are an escapist's dream: you can be anything you want doing whatever you w…

Any performance gains caused by the internal bandwidth of the card will evaporate once you spill into system RAM, because now your bottleneck is probably a slow PCI lane. And if yo…

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