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dluan

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About dluan

experimenter, YC W13

equal parts biochemistry, synthetic biology, game theory, and economics.

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    It'd be interesting to use this technique to create a running tally across all models of which models are censored on what topics

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    Comment #49106242

    China actually started piloting the "industry Phd" in 2025, and took inspiration from Japan, Germany, and UK where some programs do industry experience as part of Phd training. A l…

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    Comment #49066706

    It was actually after that VR experience with large black circle that now when I look at photos of the inside of Hagia Sofia I get a little heeby jeeby creeped out lol.

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    Comment #49066665

    VR is fine when it's small cute bunnies or little golf balls that I can kind of immediately get a sense of scale for. Massive thing that tricks my brain like the edge of a gas gian…

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    Comment #49066642

    I have no idea, on screen or even in movies it's totally fine, but I think just in VR where it's so immersive, and then being confronted with a thing that my brain doesn't really k…

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    Comment #49064694

    I remember like 10 years ago when Occulus first came out there was that space simulation demo where you could go around the solar system in VR. You could also "fast travel" by zoom…

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    Comment #49027950

    So this is the dogpile.com of the askjeeves, alta vista, and lycos approach? Time is a flat circle?

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    Comment #48967069

    waic go brr

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    Comment #48570833

    The arrogance and ignorance so voluntarily put up on display is mind numbing. Not only have I worked as a science funder for the past 15 years as the founder of Experiment.com and …

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    Comment #48569268

    America is facing a multi-generational technical decline never before seen that will do irreparable harm across all fields of research, let alone the human cost especially borne by…

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    Comment #48568732

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48412491

    Now China has invested heavily in their homegrown industry and all of their cigs are currently 10 years ahead of the rest of the world. Chunghwa thins are the new frontier, with th…

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    Comment #48396961

    was this article secretly written by regexp

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    Comment #48263573

    This has been a meme in Chinese tech/startup world lately, as it's now the main problem they are trying to solve. They largely consider 1 to 100 solved, and have set their sights o…

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    Comment #48133233

    > "The codebase is otherwise largely the same. The same architecture, the same data structures."

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    Comment #47960420

    biology is a monad?

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    Comment #47931096

    This is obviously 青.

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    Comment #47887946

    For some context, just presented by Matz at RubyKaigi 2026. It’s experimental but he built it with help from Claude in about a month. Successful live demo. It’s named after his new…

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    Comment #47598163

    Mid 30s, also have kid and sleep loss but not as bad as before. I actually noticed serious mental decline when I was burned out in my late 20s. There were real physical symptoms li…

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    Comment #47597305

    I feel like now that I'm older, my brain just can't fully understand it say as quickly if I were younger. Makes me wonder if younger more plastic brains can adjust to having to jug…