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Oh man, this reminds me of my "party trick" back in the day of saying I could tell what OS a computer was running by listening to the HDD seeking. The good old days

It was a bluesky thread I've since lost (lame I know). This article summarizes the issues well: https://residualinsights.com/all-hype-no-bite-your-brain-on-... Comes down to: - Sel…

It is worth noting that this study was tbh pretty poorly performed from a psychology/neuroscience perspective and the neuro community was kind of roasting their results as uninterp…

Nice work! Would totally have used this when I was freelancing. Honestly love the serif'd fonts, would love to see everything serif'd tbh. Also back when I had to do these (I used …

Again please read my post carefully. There is a valid critique of overhead rates, but simply doing it suddenly in this manner has little added economic benefit in the long run, whi…

1. Why should the public believe that they can fix it. Perhaps they can't, that's not entirely my point. My point is that if the government firmly believes that a change is necessa…

The entire academic industry is in turmoil, the uncertainty on how bad things could get is probably the worst of it as Universities are having to plan for some pretty extreme outco…

There is also a good case to be made that the prices being bandied around are actually much too high [1] TL;DR is three major factors: 1. The agencies that are doing the estimates …

Quite a fun paper, but very difficult to draw conclusions from. Their headline finding is that they created a map between resting state and "watching a movie". This is, for better …

To me the issue with AI generated code, and what is different than prior innovations in software development, is that it is the the wrong abstraction (or one could argue not even a…

Seeing as you're here, the reason the price is too high for us is that "SCALE" plan is too much for us and the "PRODUCTION" plan is too little. I'd happily pay $200/month for two s…

My wife studys people for living (experimental cognitive psychologist), the quality of MTurk is laughable, if that's our standard for higher level cognition then the bar is low. Yo…

I had no idea what was going on under the hood but used PGAnalyze for about 6 months after launching a new product. It was excellent at suggesting indexes and monitoring unused one…

My favorite thing about this report is on energy modelers (section 2.5). They show the (now famous) graph where large institutions (like the IEA) regularly predict that solar will …

This along with pydantic [0] means that 2/3 of my favorite python open source projects are now commercially backed. I wonder how long FastAPI will last? As an aside, what is the is…

I should have been more nuanced I suppose. There is a time and place for these kinds of image "enhancements", they just don't belong in ESRI's scientific GIS platform. Folks don't …

This whole concept is so reckless in realms where the image content actually matters and people keep doing it anyways. You cannot CREATE information. You can infer it in certain si…

While I agree that these theory based papers are useful, and are often the precursor to experiments, I believe the general understanding of "study has found X" in pop culture is th…

We have Hasura on top of our postgres DBs

We can likely take US candidates as well. We may be open to other candidates from the North American time zones on a case-by-case basis