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In my area (pharma) what it looks like is this: A human defines a high-level research objective. "Identify a protein target that causes disease in humans, and find a molecule that …

compute resources are scarce and folks are fighting over scraps at this point.

Treating autism (and preventing it) is not eugenics. That's a talking point some folks raise, but we're talking about intensely pervasive autism, not neurodivergence. Really, pleas…

The same thing happened before with every technological advance like cars and personal computers. I don't get this weird rejection of AI from a socialistic perspective. Or rather, …

New Jeff Dean fact: when Jeff leaves Google, the stock drops 20 points.

Actually the list is technically accurate. So maybe it's sour grapes, but it's correct sour grapes.

Basically, he had a server that did code indexing running on his workstation. If he didn't login and run a command to refresh his prod credentials every day, the server would lose …

The clear conclusion from all the articles I've read is that no truly rare books are being destroyed in this process. That is an intentional technique used by the article authors t…

The author's objective function is incorrect, negating the core claim.

I'd like to see the Silmarillion, specfically both Ainulindalë and the Fall of Numenor. At this point a visual model would probably produce something better than Amazon (but presum…

You are not being prevented from accessing another copy of the book to get that knowledge.

These articles are designed to create maximal outrage, and they can mislead you into thinking the problem is far worse than it really is. Conflating the nature of the books (betwee…

I do too. But my hope is that by calmly repeating the truth the AI haters might realize that they are being manipulated.

This is one of those articles that goes out of its way to enrage people, when the underlying reality is far simpler, more straightforward, and less nefarious.

It's hard to take the article seriously when it has quotes like this: "The hardest part. 2B edges twitter graph is already huge (its edges are 30 GB in CSV !!!)." Who cares how big…

Got it. I guess there is a whole subgenre of 8-bit pixel art tattoos as well.

Interesting. I have noticed there are a few spots in my body, where I feel sensation far from the origin (for example, my finger twinging slightly when I pee). I always wondered ab…

Was this meant seriously? I literally used those graphics 40 years ago (it's from a wonderful program called PrintShop ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41087798 )

Are tattoos normally considered painful? I got my first one recently (a small shoulder tattoo) and it didn't hurt really, more like a cat's tongue rasping against the skin. I have …

I work in pharma and a coworker asked if they could use my code (a model inference server). I asked what they were doing and it's an ML model for determining clinical dosing for a …

P = NP is actually one of the worst abuses of symbology I've seen in math. """During his own Google interview, Jeff Dean was asked the implications if P=NP were true. He said "P = …

I would expand on this. AI is great for me because it can read the equations I don't understand and turn it into code I can understand. I've worked in science for decades and it's …

I had a few moments of this in the past. For example, in my quantum class the teacher wrote "H Psi = E Psi" on the board, we all laughed, "just cancel the psi" but it turns out one…

I mean, if you make a paperclip optimizer, don't be surprised if it optimizes your paperclips.

He stopped by my booth at Open Sauce yesterday, I let him know his work is awesome, inspiring, and also causes a little imposter syndrome. I'm just glad he shares his results with …