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Not true, there is a growing class of "operator" VCs that both fund and help run early stage companies.

The obvious other factors in this reframing of equity compensation effectively render it a useless take. The disparity in expected value calculation is due to assuming you can pred…

This post is a little long winded. At times I agreed, and others I felt the author was doing a little too much hand-wringing on what-is-mine vs. what-is-the-AI's. The opportunity i…

+1. From the original post, I found this video to be particularly damning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo Does anyone have an explanation for how something like this p…

When you use a microscope to magnify something, the objective (magnifying lens) is literally taking the Fourier transform of the image. The optical system recovers up to a limiting…

I disagree, in my opinion passing the bar exam is necessary but not nearly sufficient for competently practicing law. The bar is an imperfect filter. One could study for the exam a…

While cancer is caused by mutations in the genome, these mutations in turn produce the unifying property of cancer: unchecked cell replication. Most cell types have systems to safe…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonal_hematopoiesis

Some thoughts on this as someone working on circulating-tumor DNA for the last decade or so: - Sure, cancer can develop years before diagnosis. Pre-cancerous clones harboring somat…

This is a pretty cool study with some interesting findings! Cancer immunotherapy has a long history but has become very prominent in recent years. (Fun fact: the senior author on t…

I've had an excellent experience with Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/en I used VSCode as my default IDE so the switch was very natural. I am working on machine learning in bio, and…

Strongly disagree. My son is going to be born into a county with an active measles outbreak caused entirely by misinformation and stupidity. We can’t vaccinate until 6 months. Abso…

I am curious about the same thing. I worked as a ML engineer for several years and have a couple of degrees in the field. Skimming over the document, I recognized almost everything…

There's a decent amount of cynicism in the comments, which I understand. I think this is a really cool and novel study, though. Historically, cancer was treated with therapies that…

It’s fairly common for private companies to have non-transferability clauses for both options and stock. IANAL, but this sounds pretty standard and I doubt OP will be able to fight…

Sure, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But these PCAWG results have been discussed to death since they were published, and its pretty sound science. You could also t…

Sure, a 2020 study from the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium, looking for viral evidence in thousands of tumor genomes and transcriptomes[0]. Part of a massi…

This is not true. Some cancers are caused by viruses. Many oncogenes were initially discovered in viruses. But the majority of tumors are definitely not caused by viruses. This was…

The lifespan of T cells varies from months to years (memory T cells). T cell development begins in the bone marrow and continues in the lymphatic tissue and periphery. During their…

bioscience phd student. Why is this interesting? Tl;dr from the article, they used flow cytometry to quantify different cell populations in the blood, and noted that the proportion…

Just finished assignment 2 of cs224n[1], which has you derive gradients and implement word2vec. I thought it was a pretty good exercise. You could read the glove paper and try impl…

I have had friends tell me forecasts like this with complete confidence. Just curious- what industry? What info do you know that convinced you to believe this? Eager to hear whatev…