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Sure that’s fine. They funded research that you think is wasteful and you would like to have tools to provide that feedback. The issue with this OMB change is that it is not that. …

I agree. This administration is ground zero for mismanagement of funds and outright corruption. Just look at the director of the FBI and former secretary of DHS. Both have used and…

Private citizens fund scientific research through their taxes. This has been the most practical way to fund science for decades.

Just curious if people tend to focus on e.g. OpenAI or are building LLM agnostic agents (and if so, how are you doing that?)

The paper linked in that post proposes a bottleneck at 900Kya in the ancestors of all modern humans. There is a bottleneck associated with the migration out of Africa and the peopl…

Follow up work has shown that result is a statistical artifact/does not replicate [1,2,3]. [1] https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article-abstract/229/1/iya... [2] https://academic.…

Thanks for that link. The Wikipedia article you referenced says "This view is now considered discredited by mainstream science." There are still papers being written about how thos…

Hello, I submitted this. Thanks for your concern. I've been lurking on Hacker News since ~2014 when I was in college. I made an account and started posting because people on the bo…

The data are public! Why don't you show it?

Where will these people conduct their research?

Why do you think that research universities should go bankrupt? What do you think should replace their function in society?

This is a huge cut. Back of the envelope calculations for UCLA (a big research university with public finance information): $200M cut in operating revenue. In 2023, UCLA had $270M …

This is a huge cut. Back of the envelope calculations for UCLA (a big research university with public finance information): $200M cut in operating revenue. In 2023, UCLA had $270M …