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Promethease (1) is a great site for doing this. You upload a genome (which they promise to delete), and download an HTML interactive report. The report spans thousands of studies, …

I have used Nebula. Did a group buy of the kits with several friends to obfuscate shipping address. Signed up via a protonmail address, and accessed the site only through VPN. Then…

Yep. Standard clickbait formula, stir up emotions, add no new information. So easy an AI could do it.

Which is a bit surprising, given that RL is the most likely path to the scary AI future everyone loves to blog about.

An article criticizing the US with a .cn domain. Chinese propaganda.

"Average % Revenue growth in pre-seed companies" is a very noisy metric. Example: Suppose you had one company doing $10 in sales a year, now it's doing $100 per year. 900% growth! …

An AI model that can only repeat its training data would be no better than normal text search. AI models are useful precisely because they can interpolate - make guesses that incor…

All these AIs are doing is sampling from some continuous space. Every answer is a "hallucination". AIs are useful because many (most?) of those hallucinations happen to be useful.

Selling it as "free up the parents to do other things" is not going to fly. But enhancing the baby's experience or learning is fine. An AI-powered rocker that plays soothing music …

If you rented out that house, what would you charge? Would you charge 3k, and lose 2k / month? That doesn't make sense; so how are landlords surviving in your market then?

No opinion on whether the US did it. But Hersh's essay indicates there were last-minute changes to the detonation method. That adds risk, which could have manifested as failure of …

When the evidence is thin, it's best to avoid committing to a belief either way, despite the temptation. Related Paul Graham essay, "Keep your identity small": http://www.paulgraha…

Apple hasn't cut employees so far. But nothing is stopping it from announcing layoffs tomorrow.

If you want zsh that acts like fish, try "fizsh".

This is the right question to ask. Caffeine causes mood swings, anxiety, and poor sleep. After over a decade of regular caffeine use, I stopped it entirely last year. The benefits …

Referential humor should stay on Reddit. It's chuckle-worthy, sure, but this forum is one of the few places we have for serious discussion. When people upvote jokes, the high-value…

Laying off X% of your staff can be required to raise capital. Gotta show the investors you aren't being frivolous. You can, of course, hire the same people back (assuming they are …

Sounds right. Around 2.2 million, your money starts to generate more income than your labor can, unless you have an exceptionally high paying job.

Businesses solve the problems people have right now. It is good at scratching itches. Academics solve long-term problems. They do not need to chase profits, so they can tackle bigg…

This is one of the great disconnects between computer scientists and biologists. Computers are man-made, and fundamentally knowable - answers will be definitively, provably, right …

People often refer to the Scandinavian countries or Japan as examples of low ethnic diversity and high trust. Are there any quantitative studies on this topic? It would be a strong…

It is a fair point though - there's no utility in training an openly available model from scratch. Finetuning is far more practical.