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rubidium

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About rubidium

Physics, system design, lab automation, magnetic microfluidics, cell culture, genomics. These are a few of my favorite things.

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    Comment #48967727

    Yea I’m looking local hosted transcription and translation with diarization of 2 (or more ) speakers. This is to speed up collaborative technical work between two teams who speak d…

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    Comment #48965818

    Any that also support translation? How much harder/ easier of a problem is local translation compared to transcription?

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    Comment #48798221

    99% of this is the printhead and the ink formulation. Assuming you use generic off the shelf solutions for those two components you’re set. All the printer companies do their lock …

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    Comment #48745368

    I did when I was in academia. Would open each day and check what new papers were in my field. It was fun, and I learned a ton. I kept it up out of habit for a year after grad schoo…

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    Comment #47284202

    And the biggest thing is that: software the way we want is much easier. No ads. No monthly cost.

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    Comment #47153178

    You’ve not accounted for the danger of necrotizing bureaucratic systems. Put these LLM drones in enough places and everything wills stagnate. It’s effectively the start to Asimovs …

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    Comment #47113997

    I do agree my skepticism level rises extremely high in any experimental psychology experiment. There’s just so many ways to bias results, in addition to “do enough experiments and …

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    Comment #46750459

    I did daily (old station wagon in the rear facing seat), as well as school buses. Kindof liked the smell in moderation as a kid. Still in favor of EVs, just a curiosity that this i…

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    Comment #46670788

    It’s great place for grad school. Very little to do other than study and lab work. Play soccer with the grad students, float on the river in the summer, shoot potato gun cannons in…

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    Comment #46485194

    This is the attitude of someone who uses hand tools when power tools are available. Yes you loose the personal touch but also loose the potential efficiency. Still need to measure …

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    Comment #46384925

    Make a list of the most interesting companies / areas you want to work in from a scientific perspective Cold call or get introductions to their R&D leaders (principal researcher /d…

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    Comment #46093287

    Amazon prime video showed us that. First no ads. Then ad free if you pay extra. Then “ad free” except half the shows have a “this show requires ads” bs and still have ads. Scummy f…

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    Comment #45401731

    You went to the wrong university :)

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    Comment #45269512

    It’s pretty much always who you know… at least to get a showing. It’s rare in history to find counter examples. And in a LLM fueled world it’s going to be more important. Companies…

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    Comment #45239159

    You have experience in 2 very different places demographically. High altitude may be on the list of factors but I would guess it’s pretty far down. Boulder is a small college town …

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    Comment #45217981

    I’ll be concerned when ex-Yelp “growth strategists” start showing up at OpenAI and leverage the same extortionist technics.

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    Comment #45093334

    This is an engineering management hot take on how to motivate a team. It’s not realistically covering burnout, human psychology, or what makes us human and tick. It’s just giving m…

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    Comment #45048320

    When you become a good enough IC, “ As an engineer, I prefer to be managed and guided by someone who actually knows what I work on, preferably better than I know it.” is no longer …

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    Comment #45008837

    I used them in graduate physics courses 2008-2010

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    Ask HN: Bay Area biotech and life science tools. Who wants to meet?

    I’m living in the main hub of biotech tools and HN for a year. My college roommate was my early HN / YC introduction, so I’ve wandered about this digital space since 2004? or so. B…

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    Comment #44921891

    For people I talk, it is the end of ZIRP that caused it. ZIRP ended in April 2022. Even as interest rates went up the VCs still had committed funds to distribute for a year to 18 m…

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    Comment #44920385

    Biotech is facing a huge downturn right now too.

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    Comment #44896172

    Fujifilm succeeded at it (before Kodak tried). Interesting case study between the two companies.

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    Comment #44883941

    The overlap of statisticians and baseball fans is high (anecdotal). Hypothesis 1: statisticians love good data sources, and with its many games, innings, and types of hits / pitche…

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    Comment #44797924

    I have no idea why you’re using icons for 13 things. Use words.