Viewing profile — brilee

(author here) As a serial successful field-hopper, I agree that I'm not the right person to be making these estimates. But the external view is that college courses roughly expect …

I could have sworn that sickly sweet smell was the smell of various phosphine reagents? Just my vague recollection of my time in lab from 15 years ago.

Does this handle, e.g., water of hydration CaSO4 . 2H2O? states of matter H2O(g)? does it preserve subunit information, as in (C6H5)CH2COOH? Writing a parser for basic formulae is …

Great write-up, but I admit that I found the interweaving of human and AI-written content/headlines/summaries pretty distracting. I kept on wanting to scroll past, but had to keep …

AI slop

Taste is the field behind the goalposts, and we as humans are constantly expanding that field by "having taste" and developing taste as a community. https://www.moderndescartes.com…

For those commenting on cost per token: This throughput assumes 100% utilizations. A bunch of things raise the cost at scale: - There are no on-demand GPUs at this scale. You have …

Desalinated water is also less dense than normal seawater, so the water column inside the output pipe would create a pressure imbalance with the water column outside the pipe, assi…

I'm working on a startup in this space and wrote up my thoughts here: https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/study_mode/

As a former big tech engineer, I can't help but come up with a gazillion ways to work around these sorts of seemingly straightforward policies. Here's one way they could get around…